I'm looking for the origins or the stories that inspires stories like the Yuuzhan Vong (Star Wars), Tyranids (Warhammer 40k) or Reapers (Mass Effect).

It intrigues me of how someone could come out with this theory of other Creature or Beings from different galaxies invading another one.

Three-worldism is a new philosophy that I created in 2023 and 2024. Three-worldism is about metaphysics, consciousness, and ethics. To create three-worldism I used rational-intuitive thinking that combines reason and intuition. Three-worldism is based on the experiences of most people throughout history unlike other philosophies that are based on ideas. The problem with modern philosophy is that it rejects the experiences of most people. Modern philosophy only accepts what scientists and philosophers have to say, which is a small group of people.

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In our second episode on C.S. Lewis' 'Mere Christianity' we went a bit further into Lewis' notions of universal morality and justice. Lewis discusses his history as an atheist and believing the universe to be cruel and unjust - but ultimately came up against the question of what did unjust mean without a god who was good running the show, so to speak.

This is related to a post I made last week, but I am still butting up against this idea and I think there is something to it. If justice is purely subjective (simply based on the societal norms at play), then something like slavery was once just and is now unjust. I am not on board with this.

Taking it from a different angle, there are ideas of 'natural rights' bestowed upon you by the universe, and so it is unjust to strip someone of those - but this is getting dangerously close to the idea of a god (or at least an objective standard) as a source of justice.

What do you think?

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? If the whole show was bad and senseless from A to Z, so to speak, why did I, who was supposed to be part of the show, find myself in such violent reaction against it?...Of course I could have given up my idea of justice by saying it was nothing but a private idea of my own. But if I did that, then my argument against God collapsed too—for the argument depended on saying that the world was really unjust, not simply that it did not happen to please my fancies. Thus in the very act of trying to prove that God did not exist—in other words, that the whole of reality was senseless—I found I was forced to assume that one part of reality—namely my idea of justice—was full of sense. Consequently atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be a word without meaning. (CS Lewis - Mere Christianity)

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