To start with, I'm a Catholic.
I'm also easily distracted.
So I was sitting in Church yesterday and a thought occurred to me: What if each of our lives is a story written by some outside force? Sure, it's not a novel thought, I've thought the same thing dozens of times over the years, but this time was different. Instead of just being controlled, as in a video game, this time I thought about it as being written into a complex story. To account for all of the different people and stories in the world, I called upon conversations I'd had in the past day. The scattered ideas that emerged were an Art School and College. I found the two topics and my idea came into better focus: "Heaven" is an art school, and we are the application essays. You see, this art school (Heaven University, say) has a special essay requirement: all applying students must write an epic fiction that follows a character of their creation from birth to death in a literary universe created by HU. The good essays are accepted into HU, and the bad ones are not. Luckily, there's a community college nearby. It, of course, is called Hell College.
I feel like this kind of meta writing would either get a student accepted because it's interesting, or rejected very quickly because it's stupid and over used. I'm a little bit scared of being smited. Huh.
The other thing I thought of was basic prayers. You always hear about the power of many people praying together. Believe it or no, it does bring up the interesting topic of religious croudsourcing. That's right, all the issues you pray about? They're all just Kickstarter ideas (http://www.kickstarter.com/). You pray however much you feel you should, then when the time is up, if the cause met the goal, the problem gets fixed, if it didn't, it doesn't. And if the goal is exceeded by enough, the stretch goals are just better, more in-depth solves.
I'm not selling any of this as truth, I just think these are cool ideas.
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