Maybe it’s all the drugs I’ve been taking (or trying not to take- and they’re all Rx, btw). Maybe it’s just that I have been living inside my own head way too much lately. Maybe I’m just a hairsbreadth from the edge of reason, but I’ve been thinking about god lately.

First, I was thinking how boring it would be to know everything that was going to happen before it happened. Imagine watching Adam and Eve in the garden all happy all the time, never doing anything but eating and sleeping and fucking. They have no struggle because their world is perfect, so they never have to do anything creative. Get fruit, eat fruit end of story. I don’t know about you, but if I were god, I would be bored to sobs after watching my creations do the same damn thing day after day after day.

So if I were god, I’d create free will. Sure, giving creatures free will means giving up some of my all knowing, all powerful god authority. But it would certainly be more interesting than watching “get fruit, eat fruit” all the time. I don’t know if I would have started the free will program with a forbidden tree of knowledge, but it does give the “1st” people (as I am in no way, manner, shape or form a believer in the biblical story of creation- this is all a thought experiment, so go with me) their first real choice- knowledge or perfection.

I think it would be one of the best soap operas ever, to create this world and then sit back and watch what happens. Sure, maybe every now and then you get bored with the story line and throw a flood into the mix just to see what comes from it. But if your goal as god is entertainment, then minimal interference would be the best way to go.

After that, I was thinking about the creating of beings to begin with. Sure, it might be fun to create your first bunny rabbit or oak tree or person, but after bunny rabbit number 1000- it would get dull. So I would pawn off the actual reproduction on the creatures themselves. And fore those creatures smart enough to figure out that reproduction leads to babies (and a whole lot of work) I’d give them orgasms so that there is incentive to have sex and make sure that they didn’t get pregnant every time they have sex.

So that is what I’ve been doing. I’ve been playing god in my head.