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{{quote| "I noticed your level is highest. That's obviously the good one. You have to feel glad you're not on one of the other levels." <br /> |
{{quote| "I noticed your level is highest. That's obviously the good one. You have to feel glad you're not on one of the other levels." <br /> |
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"No. Happiness comes more easily at the other levels. Awareness has its price. An Avatar can find happiness only in serving." }} |
"No. Happiness comes more easily at the other levels. Awareness has its price. An Avatar can find happiness only in serving." }} |
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* [[Have You Seen My God]]: The ultimate test of God's omnipotence and omniscience is {{spoiler|to kill himself and create a world where he doesn't exist. The big bang was god's death, and all particles in the universe and the laws of probability are [[Title Drop|God's debris]].}} The formal name for such a theory is [[Useful Notes/Pandeism|Pandeism]]. |
* [[Have You Seen My God?]]: The ultimate test of God's omnipotence and omniscience is {{spoiler|to kill himself and create a world where he doesn't exist. The big bang was god's death, and all particles in the universe and the laws of probability are [[Title Drop|God's debris]].}} The formal name for such a theory is [[Useful Notes/Pandeism|Pandeism]]. |
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* [[Healing Factor]]: Gravity is {{spoiler|God regenerating}}. |
* [[Healing Factor]]: Gravity is {{spoiler|God regenerating}}. |
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* [[He Who Fights Monsters]] The explanation the old man gives for why skeptics are exactly as dogmatic as everyone else. |
* [[He Who Fights Monsters]] The explanation the old man gives for why skeptics are exactly as dogmatic as everyone else. |
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* [[Pieces of God]] |
* [[Pieces of God]] |
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* [[Someone Has to Do It]]: {{spoiler|"There is only one Avatar at a time."}} |
* [[Someone Has to Do It]]: {{spoiler|"There is only one Avatar at a time."}} |
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* [[Spiritual Successor]]: The Avatar's philosophy resembles [[Mind Screw|a theory presented]] in the final chapters of ''[[Dilbert|The Dilbert Future]]'' and its [[Updated Rerelease]]. Oddly, there the philosophy is presented as a [[Take That]] to the misapplication of [[ |
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: The Avatar's philosophy resembles [[Mind Screw|a theory presented]] in the final chapters of ''[[Dilbert|The Dilbert Future]]'' and its [[Updated Rerelease]]. Oddly, there the philosophy is presented as a [[Take That]] to the misapplication of [[Occam's Razor]], possibly. |
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* [[Subliminal Advertising]]: The book supposedly contains hypnotic messages. |
* [[Subliminal Advertising]]: The book supposedly contains hypnotic messages. |
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** The arguments THEMSELVES use the principles of hypnosis to make them seem reasonable. It's the source of half of the [[Mind Screw]]. |
** The arguments THEMSELVES use the principles of hypnosis to make them seem reasonable. It's the source of half of the [[Mind Screw]]. |
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* [[Title Drop]]: See the [[Have You Seen My God]] reference. |
* [[Title Drop]]: See the [[Have You Seen My God?]] reference. |
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* [[Who Wants to Live Forever]] : God blows itself up because it has already figured out everything it can figure without ending its own existence. |
* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]] : God blows itself up because it has already figured out everything it can figure without ending its own existence. |
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