Intergalactic Summit

If their blood provides these qualities, wouldn't that make them superior to the chosen? If they were better they wouldn't need to seek these qualities from inferior sources.... right?

The blooder doesn't subscribe to the canon. He believes in his own delusions, which includes a hell.

Though canon does include mention of things that could be equated with hell, the concept is not quite so defined as what the blooder wants to believe in.

To kill a god. Well, I suppose if it is to be done, eggers are the ones to do it. The question then becomes how. Identify the target, determine exactly what you are to bring to an end. An ephemeral ghost hiding within the delusions of its faithful? An idea? A real entity that can interact with our reality? It's an interesting enough thought experiment, I suppose.

I think it's safe to say it'd have to be one of the former, so its refuge would be the hearts and minds of real people of flesh and blood. Then what would be the battleplan? One could simply use brute force and destroy every stronghold the delusion hides within. Antimatter rounds delivered at terminal velocities would take care of that, but it's hardly an elegant solution given all the ways it can go wrong or fail to root out every heart, body and mind carrying this memetic virus.

You could infiltrate these hiding places, cleaning the infestation out from within through education, logic, reasoning and deprogramming. Some would obviously be impregnable, like the aforementioned coward that holds a certainty I almost envy.

An almost impossible task then, which would probably require more than one approach to succeed.

I think I'd pay good money to see someone try, though. It wouldn't be the first imagined deity who's death eventually became nothing more than a whisper on the Winds, not even leaving behind a memory. Then again, who considers this coward worth the time and effort?

If anyone does, let me know. I am bored enough to spend time and ISK on an idle distraction.

Human mind defaults to supernatural when it's too weak to explain things. It works this way since stone age and will work this way until humanity still exists. If you kill a god, others sooner or later will take his place, and there's no guarantee that the young gods wouldn't surpass the old one in hatred, cruelty and stupidity.

New viruses may be worse than the old ones, but you still get rid of the ones you have today. Fear of tomorrow can't be allowed to stop you from making today better than yesterday.

I suppose an effort to spread and improve educational institutions would be considered "attacking religious adherents" to some.

That sort of says it all, doesn't it?

"Uneducated simpletons" were your words, not mine. The same as "attacking religious adherents". I also suspect there's no "just" in removing all the religious dribble adding a lot of noise to the signal when you're dealing with scientific advancement.

As for trying to equate education with missionary work, it's not exactly a new thing to try making rational endeavors look like they're the same or equal to religious ones. Religion has always tried to legitimize itself by piggybacking actual reasoning and accomplishment after all.

What I'm doing, though... is nothing at all. Yet. If you paid attention, all you'll see is the gathering and processing of data in order to satisfy idle curiosity. Improving existing educational institutions in the Empire would be easy, though. Remove the indoctrination, add better understanding of critical thinking.

You're entirely right. I should broaden the spectrum of this thing. Should actually use multiple projects on the same subject, in fact. Different approaches too. This is going to require a lot of manpower, I suspect. Expensive manpower.

I suppose you'd prefer the Blooder, then? Besides, I'm no atheist any more than you are. There's no words that describe myself not playing Splinterz or a word stating I don't go dirtside. Likewise, there's no need for a word that says I don't subscribe to a faith.

There are words that do describe what I am and do though, like humanist, post-humanist and more. Far more descriptive of me and my endeavors but I suspect they don't carry the invective quality needed for the small-minded to feel righteous about their attempted slurs, do they?

Wouldn't even pretend to be righteous as I suspect I wouldn't be able to keep a straight face while doing so. You give a bored little IGS rambler far too much credit, really. Also, you're focusing quite a lot on the person instead of the subject. I'm sure you'd have great things to contribute if you stayed on topic, no?

I can take over the "no u" bit if you feel it needs to be a part of the discussion, if you'd like.