A hypothetical question, especially for the atheists and skeptics in the audience...
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I don't know. They're all pretty much colossal dicks.canadamus_prime said:
They're like a collective of internet trolls that were given godlike powers. I imagine even the nicest among them might entertain his or her self by causing mass extinction.
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There was a hundred or so conflicts in those hundred years.bartholen said:
Three major ones off the top of my head
The Spanish civil war~500,000 dead/wounded
the Crimean War~500,000 dead/wounded
The balkan wars ~600,000 dead/wounded between the two
Let alone the random ones that were minor at best like the Cod war
What, OP, you're limiting us even further by asking about human history? I was going to go with the Deistic notion of the very start of the universe as the one event you could best shove the supernatural into because it's one of the big unknowns (god of the gaps, after all). Certainly a better place to put it if I'm "not allowed" to say "nothing", better than any of the supposed events from the religions humans made up, none of which are really "big enough" in my mind. But since you limit it to human history, that's out the window. Fine. Erm. I have no idea. None of them seem likely in the slightest. I guess at best it'd have to be some cosmic event that happened during human history. Perhaps observations of supernovae that may at some point have been interpreted in a religious way. Maybe the star gods are warring out there. It would be something big at least.
Genghis Kahn may have been the second coming of Jesus for all it's worth- he had the desire to unite the world as a single empire and did everything he could to make that reality happen.
And he had the divine vision to do it, so obviously there was some divine intervention going there.
And he had the divine vision to do it, so obviously there was some divine intervention going there.
A refusal to choose is still a choice. Can't deny Rush, my good man.
As for an answer, there's nothing historically I can think of I'd have to say was supernaturally inspired. To do so wouldn't so much fly in the face of reason as it would open up too much room for the entire notion of "good" or "evil" supernatural forces to basically be self-defeating notions of human whimsy and fear.
To accept that any manner of supernatural being CAN intervene on behalf of it's good graces and such would mean that it clearly chooses NOT to a bajillion-jillion more times. For every "act of god(little 'g') people pray and are ever so thankful for, there are far more instances of good people suffering to happenstance and circumstance. So their all-loving supernatural figure just left them to suffer why? "It had a plan"? No good reason and perfectly out of the character we were told to believe in. Not the act of a "good" entity. The same goes for "evil" entities from any religion orspiritual theory.
As for an answer, there's nothing historically I can think of I'd have to say was supernaturally inspired. To do so wouldn't so much fly in the face of reason as it would open up too much room for the entire notion of "good" or "evil" supernatural forces to basically be self-defeating notions of human whimsy and fear.
To accept that any manner of supernatural being CAN intervene on behalf of it's good graces and such would mean that it clearly chooses NOT to a bajillion-jillion more times. For every "act of god(little 'g') people pray and are ever so thankful for, there are far more instances of good people suffering to happenstance and circumstance. So their all-loving supernatural figure just left them to suffer why? "It had a plan"? No good reason and perfectly out of the character we were told to believe in. Not the act of a "good" entity. The same goes for "evil" entities from any religion orspiritual theory.
Always been, as in, it has no beginning. But I also haven't researched the topic enough to argue it.broca said:
I have thought about the universe as a cycle though, in regards to the big bang. Like it starts with the bang, then after it expands for a long time, it is sucked back in to create another big bang. But nothing created this cycle, so yes to your last question as well.
Yeah, but most of the others seemed pretty disinterested in the rest of the Universe. Besides Q (John de Lancie's Q) was once punished for messing with lesser beings so I don't imagine the others doing that so much.Vigormortis said:
"Human History" is pretty limiting.Schadrach said:
At most I am willing to believe some God like entity set off the big bang and therefore created earth and everything else in a very indirect bi-product sort of way.
Given the scale of the galaxy, thinking there is so God like entity that gives a shit about a bunch of nothing monkeys on a nothing planet in nothing galaxy is beyond egotistical.
If there is a God it is off far away doing far more wonderful/important things.
Most people just don't understand the scale of the universe, saying we are comparable to less than one atom in the ocean is an drastic understatement.
We are a speck of dust in infinity.
We are nothing.
Even though I am a Christian, if I had to pick someone other than my obvious choice, I would have to say the Medici family during the renaissance. They pretty much ended the medieval period that was full of suffering due to their support of the arts and education.
I'm an atheist and I can answer this.
The Undertaker's undefeated streak at Wrestlemania could be considered evidence for the supernatural. I mean, come on! No mortal human being could POSSIBLY achieve over twenty consecutive wins at wrestling's grandest event! Makes me question sometimes if there's some dark, mysterious force controlling the fate of him and those he faces.
That and the fact that he's managed to not die or cripple himself yet. Extraordinary, I say!
The Undertaker's undefeated streak at Wrestlemania could be considered evidence for the supernatural. I mean, come on! No mortal human being could POSSIBLY achieve over twenty consecutive wins at wrestling's grandest event! Makes me question sometimes if there's some dark, mysterious force controlling the fate of him and those he faces.
That and the fact that he's managed to not die or cripple himself yet. Extraordinary, I say!