Samantha Rinne
Resident Genderfluid Writer/Artist
Yup it's me with another thought experiment. Because I like them.
1. It turns out all of the belief sets are wrong. Atheism is wrong because there is an immortal, but also right because this person does not fit any classical definitions of a deity (ummm, something like a human or near-human with regenerative capabilities, some sort of cosmic magic of a non-omnipotent level and/or some future tech).
2. This person's name is ummm Emily, and she looks like a girl of about 15. She goes to school, like other kids her age. But everytime she graduates, anyone who sees something funny just mysteriously stops thinking about it.
3. She may or may not have created the universe. She may or may not be part of a race or group of other immortals. Basically, this girl can be as much like God (theism) or not as the thought experiment requires. The only main requirement is that she comes from a world outside ours, has lived a long time, and...
4. She knows the Earth is going to end soon. In fact, in one week, asteroids, demons, whatever (you get to pick) are going to ravage the Earth leaving it a broken shell. Because her immortality in this world may depend on human mortality, when she leaves anyone who stays may be immortal, but will then have to live forever in a harsh climate.
5. You can leave or stay. However, it is not certain whether the place you go to is any better than Earth as it is now, nor isit certain that people living there are immortal (see above, it's possible she's some sort of life force parasite). It is only certain that the current Earth and this new world are better than the crappy ruined Earth.
6. If you wish to stay, you have to plan out how you are going to live in the world without her. Everything from figuring out food to anything you can think of you'd need in this world. Of course, rather than being ruined, the Earth may instead be destroyed.
7. If you leave, she's only taking you if you figure out how to be ready. This means determining what to do with your last week on Earth.
So this challenge has no real right answer, because her intentions and values are not known, because it is not known just how habitable this world is after the last days, and because it is not known what this new world is like.
You have options to decide the nature of this being (including whether she is a fraud or figment of your imagination), exactly how the world ends, (cool, huh?) and yor choice. But it's not reversible.
1. It turns out all of the belief sets are wrong. Atheism is wrong because there is an immortal, but also right because this person does not fit any classical definitions of a deity (ummm, something like a human or near-human with regenerative capabilities, some sort of cosmic magic of a non-omnipotent level and/or some future tech).
2. This person's name is ummm Emily, and she looks like a girl of about 15. She goes to school, like other kids her age. But everytime she graduates, anyone who sees something funny just mysteriously stops thinking about it.
3. She may or may not have created the universe. She may or may not be part of a race or group of other immortals. Basically, this girl can be as much like God (theism) or not as the thought experiment requires. The only main requirement is that she comes from a world outside ours, has lived a long time, and...
4. She knows the Earth is going to end soon. In fact, in one week, asteroids, demons, whatever (you get to pick) are going to ravage the Earth leaving it a broken shell. Because her immortality in this world may depend on human mortality, when she leaves anyone who stays may be immortal, but will then have to live forever in a harsh climate.
5. You can leave or stay. However, it is not certain whether the place you go to is any better than Earth as it is now, nor isit certain that people living there are immortal (see above, it's possible she's some sort of life force parasite). It is only certain that the current Earth and this new world are better than the crappy ruined Earth.
6. If you wish to stay, you have to plan out how you are going to live in the world without her. Everything from figuring out food to anything you can think of you'd need in this world. Of course, rather than being ruined, the Earth may instead be destroyed.
7. If you leave, she's only taking you if you figure out how to be ready. This means determining what to do with your last week on Earth.
So this challenge has no real right answer, because her intentions and values are not known, because it is not known just how habitable this world is after the last days, and because it is not known what this new world is like.
You have options to decide the nature of this being (including whether she is a fraud or figment of your imagination), exactly how the world ends, (cool, huh?) and yor choice. But it's not reversible.
