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The concept of DDoS-ing hell just to annoy god is funny as shit

If you're interested in one of the most interesting reads ever, there's a book called Surface Detail by Iain M Banks (Author of The Culture series of scifi books, Use Of Weapons and The Wasp Factory, to name a couple of well known titles)

It follows a couple of storylines, one of which is a War against a civilisation that has developed a digital recreation of biblical Hell to trap and punish dissidents, and the physical war that led to a back and forth of digital fighting after military accelerationism reached a stalemate.

Get in the Catholic Church. Bribe, cheat and blackmail my way into being a bishop. Borgia my way into the papacy. Surround myself with loyalists and on my first Urbe et Orbi just be like: “Psych! ‘‘Twas all a big fat lie. God isn’t real and we’re all rapists!!!. FU all!!”

By then I have obviously put the entire Vatican archive on Wikileaks and signed the entirely of church land and property and property over to local NGOs.

It's probably not wise to try and annoy a being not bound by causality, physics, or conservation of anything. Especially when said entity has previously near-eliminated our population and discarded essentially all of us to our own folly.

(Thankfully She got bored, picked the most stubborn group She could find to remember Her, spent a thousand years trying to teach them to be good, and finally said "oh fuck it, just watch Me")

When you know nothing but feel like the Greatest...

The problem is our unconscious-mind's habits & reactions.

It's much more fundamental than "the system", because if we were put on a planet with NO system, we'd create a problematic one, within months, due to unconscious-instinct.

THAT is what has to be force-changed.

"physician: 1st heal thyself"

Humankind has to force our unconscious-mind to change its instincts/reactions.

Since humankind won't do that, then universe is going to be cornering humankind into doing it, or into force-self-extinguishing.

That's the ONLY method which applies necessary & sufficient force to our unconscious-mind's habit, to MAKE it plasticize/learn, & at that level of force, it'll take 6 or so decades.

So, I don't expect humankind to outgrow our ignorance's murderousness until the 2080's.

IF humankind survives it.

There's no way of escaping The Great Filter.

Either earn surviving it, XOR whole-species DarwinAward/extinguishment.

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