Advice From God

Dear God,

I heard a rumor that the domain name AdviceFromGod.com, where the Advice From God column is hosted, is the target of an attempted takeover. From what I heard, an offer has been made to purchase the registration rights for the web site, though the amount of money offered for the site has not been made public.

Is it true? Are you selling your web site, God? If so, how much would you be willing to accept for Advice From God?

- Ernie

Ernie,

Yes, it is true that I have been contacted by email by someone interested in buying AdviceFromGod.com from me. Apparently, they believe that they can offer advice from God without having God actually providing the amount.

To heap insult upon blasphemy, the person offering to buy this web site had the audacity to suggest that I go to sedo.com in order to achieve a valuation of the worth of Advice From God. To think – these people believe that they can audit me, God, the almighty!

What makes them think that I need their money? What do I need money for, when I am all powerful, all knowing, and infinitely valuable? I already own everything.

So, although this offer has been made, I will not be accepting it. There will be no takeover. It’s a downright satanic idea, if you think about it.

- God

Dear God,

I recently found out about Second Life, an online virtual world where hundreds of thousands of people live in an alternative reality. You are credited with the original creation of life on Earth. Did you create Second Life as well? If so, was that on the eighth day, or what?

- Ned

Ned,

I did not create Second Life. As I understand it, some programmer named Norm (or something like that – I can never remember his name) did the initial creation of this alternative world. The creation is ongoing, however, and apparently users are able to create their own islands and objects just like that – albeit with the application of a little bit of ingenuity or real world money.

It’s a bit blasphemous, don’t you think?

- God