{"id":605,"date":"2015-11-04T13:41:44","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T21:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/?p=605"},"modified":"2015-11-04T13:41:44","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T21:41:44","slug":"short-stories-about-deity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/04\/short-stories-about-deity\/","title":{"rendered":"Short Stories about Deity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Seth and I have been trading short stories that explore the idea of God for the last few years. This is a list of some of the best. Sit back and enjoy them for what they are, fun stories and thought experiments. They&#8217;re all available freely online.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physics.princeton.edu\/ph115\/LQ.pdf\">The Last Question<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Isaac\u00a0Asimov. His &#8220;favorite story,&#8221; one that encompasses all of human history in just a few pages.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roma1.infn.it\/~anzel\/answer.html\">Answer<\/a> by Fredric Brown. Just read it :), the whole thing is almost short enough to Tweet.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fullmoon.nu\/articles\/art.php?id=tal\">Talking to God<\/a>\u00a0from The Ragged Trousered Philosopher. God answers some questions in a chance encounter with an atheist on the bus.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-reading.club\/bookreader.php\/70896\/Chiang_-_Hell_Is_the_Absence_of_God.html\">Hell Is the Absence of God<\/a> by Ted Chiang. Angels visit Earth in a dramatic way. This one is a pretty dark. I\u00a0included mostly just for the sake of completion&#8230; skip it maybe.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/downlode.org\/Etext\/nine_billion_names_of_god.html\">The Nine Billion Names of God<\/a> by Arthur C. Clarke. What do a bunch of Tibetan monks need with a supercomputer?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.galactanet.com\/oneoff\/theegg_mod.html\">The Egg<\/a> by Andy Weir,\u00a0author of <em>The Martian<\/em>. If everyone thought this way, Earth would be awesome.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/qntm.org\/responsibility\">I don&#8217;t know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility<\/a>\u00a0by qntm. What happens when a group of engineers creates a quantum computer capable of simulating the universe?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Seth and I have been trading short stories that explore the idea of God for the last few years. This is a list of some of the best. Sit back and enjoy them for what they are, fun stories and thought experiments. They&#8217;re all available freely online. The Last Question\u00a0by\u00a0Isaac\u00a0Asimov. His &#8220;favorite story,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-m"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppj2P-9L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}