I am a sentient being, with intellect and individuality... and according to religion, free will.
Debasing myself in "worship" of anything is repulsive to me.
If God wants my gratitude for existence he's got it.
Thanks God.
Now, why do I have to prostrate myself in worship and endless praise?
Why is my simple genuine thanks not enough?
Why do I have to bow before God and grovel and tell him over and over how awesome he is?
Because he is powerful and he desires it?
That is tyranny.
Because he created me?
I JUST SAID THANKS!
ffs -.-
If God can communicate with me and I can understand him when we come face to face, then we face each other on equal terms (as long as he doesn't propose a universe creating contest or something).
I'm happy to discuss anything God wants in a rational manner on equal terms.
I don't care if he can make unicorns out of nothing, I don't see any point in being sycophantic and submissive to my creator just because I am the creation.
If we ever managed to create genuine AI should we demand it's worship?
lawl, it's like the wild west bro.
Our nice little mining town is a bit rough and tumble so the federal marshals start trying to move in.
Listen up hombres, we got the Anonymous gang from out yonder and we got plenty of posses and deputies made up of decent folk who live here (but we ain't got no sheriff on account of NEVER NEEDING ONE).
The good folk of the town Internet are able to look after their own.
Sure it may get a little wild but if anyone really gets out of line, we can and have policed ourselves.
The internet is NOT lawless, but our laws are for the most part, unspoken, instinctively known and pretty subtle despite our often vulgar shenanigans.
In short, prolly way over the heads of out of touch dinosaurs in suits blah blah blahing away all day about bullshit that's irrelevant to 90% of the peeps on this rock.
WE ARE THE LAW IN THIS PLACE.
So Nanny State can fuck off.
Clean up your own shithole of a house before you come swaggering into ours telling us what to do.
You lizard fucks can't even manage to run your own dying system, now you want to lay claim to ours too?
Get a grip.
I hereby raise the concept of a campaign to declare the Internet a separate independent sovereign state, bound by the laws of no other but it's own.
Representative democracy is worthless, the people can now communicate directly with each other on matters of mutual interest, we have no need for middlemen in suits currying our favour so they can retain their prestige job and fat paycheck for another few fleeting years.
Fuck them, we have in our hands the true channel by which the people can govern themselves.
We can form consensus directly with each other, we don't [i]need[/i] these fuckers any more.
But if the world does not want to use this tool, we'll happily use it for ourselves.
The Republic of Internet!
Declare an independent cyberspace!
If virtual goods are just as valid and "real" and can hold the same value as material goods, then sir I say a virtual "place" is just as valid as a real place and the people who populate it have a right to their independence like any other nation.
I mean... amirite or amirite?