User blog comment:DYBAD/Character Sheet/@comment-25135454-20171011120908/@comment-25135454-20171027173148

Nope, God doesn't suck. While we became flawed because of our own actions, we remain infinite in potential thanks to being made in God's image. We may talk endlessly about the evils humanity has done to itself and to the world it lives, but we may never forget all the good it did too. In fact, I believe that most people are good, just wanting to leave in peace, while evil is just more noisy.

According to my beliefs, it's not only the mind that is insatiable, but our very souls. This is where the veil between reality and my works is at it's thinnest ;D Even if we fixed the way our mind works so we could adapt effectively, there would still be a void in our very souls that can only be filled with God himself. And even if the problem laid on our minds alone, I think we couldn't fix it's problem without getting consequences. What would be the consequences of such a change? Like you said, one of them would be that we would lose our ability to endure the sufferings of life, but I think there would be more. What would they be? Could we ever reap the benefit without also reaping the consequence?

The reflection isn't insensitive, so don't worry. While we may disagree, I completely understand you because I was in your place once. Disturbed by all the evil and suffering in the world and people trying to justify the existence of this lazy God that did nothing to help us. If you feared that your reflection was going to be insensitive, you should have seen mine at the time xD To be fair, God did create a world that was going to be just like you said. He created the world, created us and gave us direction. However, it was by our fault that we deviated from the path. So here we are now. However, instead of being doomed for all eternity, God offered us a second chance and now the world is going towards perfection again. Right choice by right choice, we are getting there. But the nice thing is: He didn't hand it to us straight away. He gave us freedom, and while we may have fucked up big in the first time, we are getting there by our own merit. Our right choices have value and meaning in the great scheme of things, all contributing, little by little, to getting the world back to how it should be. Sometimes in our lives, we only need to fuck up once. Only once. And then we we'll never redeem ourselves again. Because that is the justice of man, flawed like he is. It's only on God's justice that we could fuck up how hard we did (the greatest fuck up in the history of the cosmos, mind you) and still get a second chance on fixing everything.

While most believers don't have enough study to defend their own beliefs and are very emotionally attached to them, crumbling completely when they are confronted with opposing ideas that make sense, or just irrationally closing their ears in the same situation, that doesn't apply to all of them. While that disturbs you, believers must always try to justify their beliefs and salvaging the idea of the omnipotent and omnibenevolent God because thats crucial to their true belief. If they didn't care to do so, then it would be wrong to have such beliefs. Reason and Faith must walk together always.

DYBAD, I declare you victorious on this one. In the past, I also thought about depicting the First Soul as an entity that actually used it's awesome godlike powers for love and happiness. However I scrapped the idea in favor of him being a follower of the Great Guardian and having the same relationship with his creations as the Great Guardian does. But our talks made me realize that the same logic can't be applied to both. While the Great Guardian is omniscient and perfectly rational all the time, the First Soul is a creation like any other, so he doesn't have that obligation. He can and will say "fuck free will" for the sake of life from now on, just like our parents do to ours when we do what we can't do. I guess I'll make the First Soul's dimension a "checkpoint" to the Great Travel, where all can rest without worries. It's a start :D

It's funny how things happen on our lives: I was going to work yesterday and heard a priest on the radio talking just about what I said last comment, and my sorta-kinda last doubt was answered: we will not suffer an assimilation plot. We will retain our memories, know who we were and who our parents, friends and lovers were, and how our life was. Losing our memories implies losing our sense of self, and losing our sense of self makes salvation pointless, since salvation is personal. I am relieved now :3

The Great Civilization appeared on multiple worlds at the same time because what defined it was it's belief that the Ethereal Arts were the answer for everything. Since that belief appeared on every sapient race at the same time the Great Guardian gifted them the access to the Ethereal Arts, then the Great Civilization appeared on all of them. While in the beginning they were different as the sapient races were different, when they collided they united on single amorphous Great Civilization centered upon that belief.

The Great Guardian did his job as existential guide because there were alot Travellers that followed his teachings and his call. However, discord was only natural. Again, it's not his fault that they became flawed. By giving them free will, he gave them an opening so they could be flawed, and sadly they chose to do so. While he didn't give them that kind of precognition, he did give means for them to get that ability. And that's what the Great Guardian and even God in real life is all about: giving opportunities. If we pray to be patient, he will not magically give us patience, but opportunities to be patient. If we pray to be brave, he will give us opportunities to be brave. And the Great Guardian gave all sapient races the answer to all their prayers. While they also used it for evil (like they always do, because free will), in  the end, most used it for good: the Orbs of Empathy, Telepathy, Retro/Precognition... All of them made their lives better.

Creation is already a big mess. All would be more perfect if all that existed was the silence and darkness of nothingness. However, it is imperfection that is interesting. And to be fair, it's not entirely our blame either. While we chose evil, we only did so because we were offered to do it by the Enemy. If someone gets the prime blame, then it's it. And boy... It will come to bite him in the ass hard before everything ends.