Some More of God’s Greatest Mistakes

The Folly of Revelation

With this volume we seek primarily to instruct and advise, and not direct, our student deities. Alas, in the special circumstance of Revelation or telling the truth about one’s nature to one’s more sentient creations, we must advise against it in the strongest terms possible. We warn the consequences are unlikely to be pleasant ones. The plain truth of there being a creator is a dangerous one to have too plainly put to those created.

Why this is so seems obvious, but too many young gods have, out of the noblest of intentions or in simple curiosity, designed to place themselves before their people in simple honest terms and come later to think better of it. The likely outcome is that the apocalypse will have to be moved up and a fresh world begun the damage is so irrevocable.

In the purer more ignorant corners of reality a god or a creator is theory only, to be written and preached about, contemplated, argued over, and ultimately each man or woman can for themselves create a god which most suits their own innermost desires. The created become the creators and the equations balance.

In the unnatural instance of god appearing in unambiguous glory for all to see and then repeating this upon request so that no question of the nature of creation can remain unanswered there is an odd effect of the benighted deity, however great in actuality, not quite living up to the imagination of a deity. Accusations of being not god but technologically superior alien or computer programmer running creation as a simulation are thrown about and the world as created begins to seem a poorer place for being all at once less mystical.

Remember, the root of the mystical is the mysterious. When the mysterious is cruelly translated into a set of facts it loses everything and gains nothing.