God: Welcome, Mr. Gao, I am your host god today, and I will take you on a tour of the temple and answer your questions.
Me: I have a question right now.
God: Please.
Me: Am I dead?
God: Of course not.
Me: Then why am I here?
God: To explain a little bit, our temple will invite some creatures to visit the temple from time to time and let them bask in the light of God.
Me: Part of the creatures?
God: Not just human.
Me: You've ever received dogs?
God: Of course, how many?
Me: What are the criteria?
God: We will judge whether or not living beings can be used as the criteria for our invited guests based on their positive contribution to society and nature as a whole, which is what you humans say is good or bad.
Me: You're hitting me on the muzzle. Good or bad things are not static, and the good things I do today may become bad things in a few hundred years, and conversely, the bad things I do today will have a positive effect in a few hundred years. How is this calculated?
God: Give me an example.
Me: For example, Qin Shi Huang and Emperor Yang of Sui, they must have been bad people at the time, but now they all think that their merits outweigh their faults, what do you think of people like this?
God: It's very simple, it's just that you humans are thinking about things too complicated.
Me: How do you say that?
God: You humans are always emphasizing the inevitability of events and trying to come up with some kind of pattern, which is ridiculous, because it is just accidental.
Me: Tell me more.
God: I'll give you an example, have you ever had such an experience? When you go to work in the morning, you wait for a while to go out, only to find that the elevator has just gone down, and as a result, you don't catch the bus you usually take, and then you accidentally delay for a while at the traffic light, and finally when you walk to the company, it's 9:05 - you're late. I want to ask, is there a necessary connection between the moment you grind and the tardiness?
Me: No.
God: History is like that, it's just by chance. Something that an emperor did two thousand years ago has a direct impact on the present, and under this influence, something needs to happen, something needs to happen, something needs to happen again, and something needs to happen again, and without one of them, it is impossible to form today's situation. Just like being late, you have to collect all the elements of "late departure", "the elevator just went down", "just missed the bus", and "delayed a while at the traffic light" to cause the result of "late". But people often only remember the first impact.
Me: Hmm...
I stopped talking, because I thought of an example to refute Him—if I woke up at 8:45, I would be late no matter how smooth the road was. What was the difference between this example and what he thought of it? Why was Qin Shi Huang's influence not the one I gave but the one he gave? But I didn't say it, and I always felt that something was not quite right.
God: Have you ever thought about it, there's another question here? There must be a reason why you are rubbing, maybe you didn't sleep well the night before, maybe you can't find your socks, maybe it's other reasons, why you didn't sleep well, why can't you find your socks, there must be a reason, if you want to trace back to the source, you can throw the pot until you were born, you can also go back and say that it's your parents' reason, or even one of your ancestors you can't name. In the same way, history is also like this, Qin Shi Huang's unification and establishment system are also well-founded, for example, his theory of unification originated from the great unification of the Zhou Dynasty, as for the system, the county system originated from the Chu State, and the county system originated from the Qin State. Of course, this can be traced even further.
I didn't know what to say, and I tried to pinch my thighs to wake myself up and prove that it was just a dream. But apart from the pain in his thighs, there was no other reaction. Of course, I didn't sweat profusely from the bed as shown in the movie.
But the pinch wasn't pointless, at least my eyes were taken away from God's body and to the things around me.
- It turns out that we have been flying in the sky.
We were already in the sky when the receiving god began to say "welcome", but I didn't notice it because it was flying steadily.
The plane we flew on was the one we grew up watching in the mythological tale "Flying Clouds and Fog", the cloud was so soft that I could barely feel any contact when I stood on it, and the cloud would adjust itself and wrap my feet tightly in the most suitable position.
Me: Why clouds?
God: Huh?
Me: Why do we ride on clouds, not brooms.
God: Oh? This has something to do with you.
Me: Something to do with me?
God: Yes, God will choose a more suitable scenario for the visitor, including myself, depending on the client's specific situation.
Me: Yourself?
Then I was surprised to find that this god actually had a face exactly like mine. I don't remember if he was like this in the first place, or if he became like this when we got here.
God: Yes. God is inherently inherent. Because you are a human being, I will transform into an adult appearance, because you are Chinese, and the things around you are also deliberately arranged into the things you are used to because of your arrival.
Indeed, I saw a lot of things other than clouds that were Chinese characteristics.
Under the clouds, there seems to be a huge amusement park, there is the Great Wall, there is the Forbidden City, there is the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, there is Mount Tai and Yellow Mountain......
There are many, many books, and the book unfolds like a mountain, and when I glanced down, I saw "Zhou Yi", "Analects", "Mencius", "Lisao", and "Historical Records";
There are also people, many people, Zhou Gong, Confucius, Mencius, Sima Qian, Li Bai, Du Fu, Su Dongpo, Zhu Xi, Wang Yangming, Hai Rui......
When I looked in, they all had the same face - my face.
Me: This is also specially made for me.
God: Yes.
I also saw the future, the war between AI and humans, the peaceful coexistence of aliens and humans, the great hybrid of humans in the future, and those children had the same skin color, the kind of color that mixed yellow, black, white, brown, etc.
I also saw a dog, a big dog, like my ex-girlfriend's dog.
Me: So, what about when the dog came?
God: Then I am the appearance of a dog, and this is the wonderful world of dogs, with dog houses and bones......
I (interrupted him): Is it possible to think that there are several kinds of gods among you? For example, the human god who is in charge, the dog god who is in charge of the dog.
God: No, there is only one God, we are just doppelgangers of God, in the words of you humans, the Trinity, no, the N-one. Let me give you an example, you humans have brains, limbs, and five senses, and although the brain directs the body, you don't separate the brain from the body, because it's a whole, and together you can be a normal person and do what human beings should do. You can think of our temple as a normal human body, where the brain is responsible for thinking and the limbs are responsible for cooperating.
Me: You're an arm god and a brain god?
God: Well, you can understand that too!
The clouds were speeding fast, but the paradise below was always there, but not the one you had seen at the beginning.
Volcanoes erupt, oceans roar, earth roars, torrential rain pours......
Me: Does God interfere in the affairs of mankind or the entire mortal world?
God: Yes.
Me: In what way, is it the following? (I pointed to the natural disasters in Paradise)
God: This is one of them.
Me: Like Dong Zhongshu's celestial induction.
God: Yes, it's just that God's instructions are not directed at any one individual, but at humanity as a whole.
Me: The whole human race.
God: Yes, in God's eyes, the common people and the emperor will be the same, God will not only target a certain type of people, but He will target all things in the world.
Me: When will God warn the world through calamities?
God: I don't know if you have noticed that in recent years, the whole world has been very unstable, with all kinds of disasters, floods, tornadoes, and earthquakes one after another.
Me: Seems so.
God: That's God's warning.
Me: Warning.
God: Don't you know what to warn about? You are a person who pays attention to current affairs and politics, and the undercurrent of today's world is surging, and all forces are secretly exerting their strength, and if it weren't for the fact that there is something called "civilization" that restricts you, a war would have started a long time ago.
Me: It's already a fight.
God: Yes, that's a warning, and it's not just for those who are high in the temple, it's for everyone.
Me: How do you say that?
God: Society is made up of one person, right?
Me: Hmm.
God: Whether the society is depraved or divided, whose depravity is it? Human beings always sigh at the indifference of the world, but how can everyone not be selfish people? Human beings always complain that today's world is very divided and everyone is very angry? But when everyone encounters something, no one wants to retreat, how can the world not be divided?
Me: I'm fine.
God: Of course, otherwise you wouldn't be here. The depravity and madness of society are certainly not caused by one or two people, but by the depravity and madness of almost all people.
Me: You are saying that this is a Christian statement, God destroys the world, Noah's Ark and the Ten Commandments warn. I don't like a god who kills people at every turn. God should have at least the difference between good and evil.
God: It's not about Christianity, it's the same with you in China.
Me: Huh?
God: You Chinese like to talk about "Mandate of Heaven" or "Destiny". For example, there is a person who is a good person, honors his parents, respects his lover, loves his children, and goes to do all kinds of volunteer work every weekend, but he has an incurable disease and dies. Neighbors and people who know him will say that this is "fate". There are also such historical events, such as the Shu Han regime you like, or Ji Han, whether it is Liu Guanzhang's affection or Zhuge Liang's loyal ministers, it should be more desirable than the conspiracy of Cao Wei's Sima family.
Me: Absolutely.
God: But in the end, the Three Kingdoms all belong to the Sima family. You will also say that it is the "Mandate of Heaven".
God: Then why doesn't this "life" be good or bad?
I was asked.
God: The God of Christianity is nothing more than the embodiment of what you call "life" and nothing more. In addition, you are studying history, before the Zhou Dynasty, heaven and God were the same thing, and even at that time everyone said God. Later, didn't you still have a Hong Xiuquan, who said conclusively that God is a Chinese god, not a foreign god at all.
I seem to be somewhat convinced.
Me: Then why doesn't God or God let "good people get rewarded"? Why do we have to let the bad people go unpunished, and let the good people suffer?
God: It's like a game.
Me: Games?
God: The development of the game is from simple to easy, from Tetris and Super Mario at the beginning, and then there was Journey to the West, Ask, and now League of Legends. League of Legends is definitely a lot more complicated than Tetris. God's setting for you human beings is the same, if only good people have good rewards, bad people have no good ends, then it is too simple, complex is more interesting.
Me: Is this a game for you?
God: Yes, just like the game you play.
Me: Then I can see why God is always moody. But I still don't understand, games don't have life, people are living people.
God: What about animals? Do fish have life? Do pigs, cows, sheep, chickens, ducks, and geese have life? Do you humans feel the slightest guilt when you eat them? In the eyes of you human beings, all living things except humans can be killed at will. God actually thinks like that, and to be exact, your thoughts come from God. In God's eyes, everything but God can be destroyed at will.
God (who probably saw my confusion, and went on to say): Of course, God will not destroy the world at every turn, just like you human beings will not kill all of them at once although they eat pigs, cows, sheep, chickens, ducks and geese. This is true to you with animals, and so is with God. Do you see how many times since the birth of your human race?
Me: Then I thank you.
God: You don't have to thank me, just thank yourselves. Again, what I said, God does terrible things because you humans did terrible things first.
I was convinced by His words, maybe it was? Maybe not, but I couldn't find a way to refute it yet, so I had to steer the conversation away.
Me: You say that the calamity is just one of them, but what about the other ways?
God: Dreams.
Me: Dreams?
God: Yes, dreams are God's direct instructions to humans.
Me: Zhou Gong's Dream Interpretation, Zhuang Zhou Xiaomeng, Freud, Inception.
God: Roughly so. As for the interpretation of dreams, you humans have studied them for thousands of years, and to this day there is no accurate answer, and that is because we do not want you to know for sure.
Me: Why?
God: A little bit of mystery.
Me: I think we have too much mystery about your gods.
God: It's different. Religious gods and Buddhas vary from person to person, and the attitudes of believers and non-believers are diametrically opposed, but dreams are different, and everyone, no matter who they are, feels the same about dreams. For example, if you have a dream at night, of course, when you wake up, you will remember it in detail, but when you recall it the next day, there are only some scattered fragments left. In the same way, the world of dreams is more ethereal, and all kinds of things that are impossible in real life can happen.
Me: What is the meaning of this kind of instruction? For example, what does it mean when I dream of killing someone, or what does it mean when I dream of saving people, or getting married, or going to work?
God: You should ask Zhou Gong, you should ask Zhuangzi, you should ask Freud.
Me: Nolan?
God: Disasters are warnings, dreams are revelations, and it's up to you how to do and understand them.
Natural disasters are followed by human disasters, and I saw old people crushed under houses, fishing boats swept by huge waves, volcanoes devouring villages, and cries and shouts resounding through the heavens and the earth.
My heart has been struck by something called compassion, but God is indifferent, to be exact, from the beginning to the present, no matter what he says, it is an expression.
Me: Will you laugh, will you cry, will you be sad and sad, will you be sad and compassionate?
God: No. You humans are too naïve to imagine God. God is insentient and does not need to be sentient. Because of all your human feelings, we just have to think about it.
Me: Joy, sorrow?
God: Far more than that. For example, if you don't eat for a long time, you will feel hungry, but we won't. You have the sense of smell and taste of food, and you will be happy when you eat, but we are also happy when we don't eat.
Me: Is it the same with love and sexuality?
God: Yes.
Me: That's a shame.
God: It's not a pity at all, but you would be very happy if we shared this power with you humans today.
Me: It's tempting to have the pleasure of socializing without having to socialize.
God: Have you ever wondered why human reproduction is through sex, because sex can make people feel comfortable, so people will do it, as long as they do it, they will have a chance to have children. If people didn't need sex to get that feeling now, guess anyone would have sex? Would anyone have children?
Me: Then humanity will become extinct in a few years?
God: Not really, you humans have a really powerful ability, technology.
Me: Is technology anti-god?
God: No. Again, you humans will always be monkeys, and God is the Buddha, but technology can indeed create more possibilities for the future to some extent.
Me: For example?
God: For example, the food crisis, the population crisis, the resource crisis, and so on.
Me: I still don't get it.
God: Let's take the population crisis as an example, do you know what the biggest concern of mankind was in the last century?
I shook my head.
God: At that time, the biggest fear of human beings was that the population would grow too quickly, leading to a lack of resources, and then causing unrest.
Me: Family planning?
God: Actually, family planning is not unique to you, European and American countries have had this kind of initiative for a long time, but you have implemented it thoroughly. Because in the 100 or 200 years after the Industrial Revolution, the world's population grew faster than in the previous millennia. Therefore, many scholars and futurists are very worried, they are afraid that the uncontrolled growth of the population, not to mention the resources, it is estimated that there will not be enough food to eat.
Me: Nothing to worry about.
God: You can't overdo it, because they are also working for a better world! It's just that their predictions are missing the predictions of technology.
Me: I think of an incident when I was a child, I saw water and electricity conservation everywhere, but now it seems that there are fewer calls for it.
God: It's technology that solves this problem.
Me: And now the metropolis is brightly lit up at night, and it would be a bit of a cover to save people.
God: So, a lot of environmentalists think of it as an attitude to life, a fashion, but they don't say anything about whether it will really work.
Me: Totally agree.
God: It's getting late, you're coming to the end of this trip.
Me: Last question, did humans evolve from ape-man, or were they created by God?
God: If man evolved from apes, what about apes?
Me: Some kind of primitive creature?
God: What about primordial creatures?
I was asked, not knowing how to answer.
God: Where did that creature come from? It can't have been conjured out of thin air, could it?
Me: So, human beings are ...... by God
God: When the time comes, I'm going to send you back.
Me: You haven't answered me yet?
I was lying in a hospital bed with all kinds of tubes stuck in my body. I suddenly remembered that I had entered the hospital because I had gone to save a child who was about to be hit by a car, and fortunately the child was unharmed, and I was knocked away.
I remembered that god, that temple, and it was a dream?
But that experience was so real, like it happened yesterday, oh no, like it happened a second ago.
Those conversations, that amusement park, are vivid.
God thinks I'm a good person because I saved a child, but do I think I'm a good person?
I know for myself what kind of person I am.
I forgot to ask God this question—am I a good person?
If today I save a child, but tomorrow I do another bad deed, am I still a good person?
These questions hurt my brain. I just want to fall asleep again, maybe I can see that god again?
I fell asleep, I woke up, I didn't see God.