Your Own Personal Microverse

[Fyrenze]

(Note to the mods: I wasn't sure which topic to throw this under, so feel free to move it.)

I'm writing a paper for Philosophy and I'd be interested to hear what people here have to say about the subject.

You have created what some writers have called a "microverse". It is a complete universe with an Earth inside, etc. How would you explain to the inhabitants who you are? What would their response be?

Ok, all you Creators. What say you?

[Fyrenze]

The most base ideas I have so far:

Show them I'm all-powerful and a part of everything and their source.

Or explain that I am like them. They are created in the image of myself.

Or I simply not tell them. See what they come up with. A trial by fire. Who can figure out the nature of their universe?

Or a similar idea to the one above, would be to pick a few random individuals to spread the word for me, and allow their unique perspective to color whatever picture they like, and watch how similar yet different all the resulting doctrines would be. For example, I could tell a sheltered prince who has everything, and a poor carpenter who has nothing.

[Fyrenze]

Another thought, although this doesn't quite address the actual question.

If they were all a part of me and I was able to learn all that they learn, in some respect, there could be no "evil".

Because if they went to war with each other, I'd absorb all experiences from every side of the matter, and I could make adjustments in the long picture. Both positive and negative experiences would be important in order to constantly move forward.

Of course, a cynic could say that maybe I'd think I was moving forward but all the time be moving toward an inevitable negative. As long as any negative experiences exist, it spoils the positive ones knowing that at some point yet another negative will happen at some time.

And I've just had another interesting slightly off-topic thought:

In creating this universe and these people - what is the reaction? Everything has an equal and opposite reaction right? So am I creating them out of what I was? In other words how have I changed myself in creating them? If I create them out of my "material," do I now have less material to work with?

Or are they therefore still "me"? I'm not buddhist, but that's a very firm rational argument for the whole universal oneness bit.