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Food for Thought by Markus Knight #1 · 1:32pm Feb 18th, 2013
(Reposting because of technical issues)
According to many philosophers, every story created and written is a whole other universe, with its own cultures, people, and sometimes even its own universal laws. As a writer and philosopher myself, I know this more than most.
But because I created a story, a universe, and dictate it at will, does that not make me the god of that universe?
If so, who is this universe's writer? Is this being we call god a super-dimensional being, who simply created a story? If this is so, who are the main characters? What is their story? What is our role in the story as background characters?
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I've thought about this many a time, myself. I have always found that us being created by beings in another universe was more likely than us being created by a super-dimensional being though. Perhaps our universe is a series of stories chronicling all major events. Maybe every new one was written by a different being, a bit like fan-fiction, but all in one continuity. Sorry, I'll stop rambling.
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"Super-dimensional" is used here to refer to a dimension 'above', or the parent universe.
842670 Really? I thought it referred to something that transcended dimension, like it existed outside of one. My mistake.
This is actually discussed by Pinkie and Fluttershy in the Becoming Ponies setting. And since I write Pinkie...
My view is that the worlds existed on their own before we wrote them. We, by cosmic coincidence, happen to have written stories that matched up to that world's history. We are not gods; we are scribes. And not every story is a super-important world shaking one, after all.
But to be a god... I do not want to be a god. It would be boring for me and horrible for my followers. And... it would make me guilty of more transgressions then I dare begin to count.
I'd like to think that our own universe has more than one story. Think of all the time that the universe has been around, and will be around for. Think of it's endless size and countless worlds. Why would our universe revolve around just one story? I think that we are all telling our own first-person stories, from our own perspectives.
I would think of it like the Ponyearthverse. The stories are linked by the universe's canon, yet they are all unique. Each character has a different perspective and has different experiences, just like every individual on Earth. We are not just one book, we are an endless collection of books, set in the same universe. That's how I see our world.