A Quote from The Talos Principle 2
The New Theology
When you are asked, "Where is God? Who is God?" stand up and say, "I am God and here is God, not as yet completed, but still advancing towards completion, just in so much as I am working for the purpose of the universe, working for the good of the whole of society and the whole world, instead of merely looking after my personal ends."
More quotes from The Talos Principle 2
User tried to make changes to their own device settings which could result in an infinite regress and/or omnipotence. There is only room for one god around here.
The beauty of the universe and the beauty of what we can accomplish within it are two related but separate things, and the separation matters.
You, sir, are a moron of the highest order.
I've been wondering, what made our ancestors settle in these godforsaken places? It can't have been easy with those frail, squishy bodies of theirs.
What makes a caveman go yes, this frozen hellscape is where I want to live out my days?
Straton wrote that the most common error we commit is to think that ideas determine reality, when in fact the opposite is true. Ideas follow from material conditions; belief systems are formed to explain and justify the way we live. We did not have kings because we believed in the mandate of heaven; we believed in the mandate of heaven because we lived in monarchies.