No one, I think, is in my tree.
I mean, it must be high or low.
theilleist
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Turns out that one was actually universal.
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"This had better be good."
"Fuck it, I'm tired of waiting, I'll come back on the 8th day."
"Oh, this IS good."
"What are these stupid apes doing? Fine, I'll educate them myself."
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Which part is directly excluded?
"What? This group of fascists has absolutely nothing to do with that group of fascists. This group's ancestors fought that group."
If we had the technological power, would humans run simulations of universes with Planck length precision? Obviously yes. So extrapolating from our one and only example of intelligent life (us), it seems like intelligent life enjoys stimulating universes. If our reality were the result of that kind of project, and the engineers lived outside the laws of physics, I would call them higher beings. And they could be as hands-off or as interventionist as they pleased.
I always liked that Marain, the common tongue of the Iain M. Banks Culture novels, was a conlang in universe.
You remind me of God in this classic:
A holocaust survivor dies of old age and goes to heaven. When he gets there, he meets God and tells him a holocaust joke.
God says, "That’s not funny."
And the man says, "I guess you had to be there."
Aw, come on.
"Cartoonist found dead in home. Details are sketchy."
"Where's the best place to hide after committing murder? Behind a badge."
"Did you know today is the anniversary of the Jonestown massacre? I'd tell you a joke about it, but the punch line is too long."
And if we were talking about whether it were real, or whether people believed it in those specific terms, you'd have a point. But since we're talking about your assertion that major earth religions are "directly excluded" by that definition of "higher beings," i still fail to see the exclusion.