A couple of days ago, while putting on my socks, I had an epiphany.
Omnipotence and/or omniscience is torture. Pure, utter torture. I’m telling you, if God exists, he would not like his existence—in fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if he had offed himself a few hundred-million years ago. Maybe that’s why we don’t come across any omniscient/omnipotent beings nowadays.
Think about it. Omnipotence is the ability to do anything and everything. This means that whatever there is to do, you know how to do it, and you know how to do it well. And if you knew how to do everything well, then there sure as hell wouldn’t be any challenges, would there?
Omniscience is probably even worse: it implies knowledge or awareness of everything, microscopic, macroscopic, past, present and future, and whatever convenient dichotomy. Awareness, my friends. Knowing what everyone is thinking, has thought, and ever will think? Being able to predict everything? Knowing anything there is to know?
This whole comparison can be summed up into two words. “Nothing new.” Boredom. And don’t give me that “But you go under the faulty assumption that God can be bored!” crap. Sentience implies the awareness of the self and the ability to learn. Maybe even the desire to learn. What does that say about a theoretical being that, knowing everything, cannot learn anything new and is not bothered by it?
Couple the above with immortality, and you have grade A punishment. Eternal damnation to boredom? Thank God I’m human.
lol. pwede namang hindi mabore, can do everything and anything naman.:D
Did you just miss my entire 4th paragraph?
Wonder what I’d do with both omnipotence AND omniscience. Life must get boring very, VERY quickly.
So maybe I’ll try magicking up some flawed partially-sentient creatures, send them hazy messages through untrustworthy messengers, and demand that they deny not only their own natural instincts, but also logic and the overall good. Only to show their faith in my powah.
Yeah, yeah! And then, and then I’ll make them self-replicating. And implant a vast majority of them with minds and personalities far, far too weak and pathetic to keep up!
So then we’ll have this tiny population of good dudes, fighting against reality itself to make something of themselves, as they struggle against the blank, drooling masses and their groupthink!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Scream
zing!
But the thing with the concept of God is that he’s that selfless. He’s willing to be that being that will watch over us. HAHA. Even if it’s a boring job.
Also, he has humans to amuse him.
But, then there comes the paradox of if he knows everything, even what happens in the future, then human can’t amuse him. And so, humans have no free will.
And then that’s a whole new idea right there.
Religion is sloppy. XD
Simple. God made a rock he can’t lift. =P
I always figured that free will worked in the way that’s so convoluted, other people would slap me for it. God is omniscient and omnipotent, but then God made free will. And God, using the omnipotent-y willpower, is just refraining from peeking into the human mind and going “oh, lolz, so that’s what happens next.”
Gaming-wise, it’s like having the will not to look at gamefaqs even though there’s this fucked up puzzle you just can’t solve. =|
Of course, that still doesn’t answer why we were made. =P (And why there is no Godly interference) Baka boredom nga. XD Maybe we’re all just Sims or something… though I haven’t seen any pool ladders mysteriously disappearing. Yet.
Much easier to just imagine that such issues are irrelevant, because in all likelihood, such a creature simply doesn’t exist . And we’re all alone. And thus must be good simply because we want to, and not because some grand omniscience derives pleasure from it.
But I dunno. It’s not worth arguing about.
Eh, I believe in God probably just for the sake of comfort that there’s an afterlife and all that. And that there’s a big invisible blob backing me up when I do good shit. But it’s not my prime reason for being nice. Religion and religious groups can be assholes anyway. =P
I liked the socks part. :)
What a very smart comment! I too enjoyed the socks part!
mahusay ah. pareho tayo!
I like Dallas. <3
I use my omnipotence to remove my omniscience. =P
On the other hand, knowing something can often be rather different from feeling/experiencing it. You can mentally know something and know you’re going to enjoy it, but you still want to do it anyway to enjoy it. Let’s say… eating a pie. I know the pie tastes delicious — which is exactly WHY I’m going to eat it. Okay, it’s not EXCITING, but yeah.
…now, more interestingly, imagine if we had an omniscient and omnipotent being that WASN’T sentient. Awareness of everything but the self or something. Wala lang.
Ia Ia, Cthulhu ftaghn!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azathoth
That would make for a very interesting thought experiment. And a good story. :-?
Oops. O.o I replied to the comment before mine. :| MALI. HAHAHA sorry. XD Independent comment dapat. XD
Hrm. Oh! Oh! I know what God does when he gets bored!
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He becomes human for a while… Then comes back 3 days after he gets owned. Just for kicks.
=D
Pwede. :D
I know right? XD
and hey, it’s only been two thousand years or so.
He’s probably still amused. Wahahaha. =P
This theory gets the Feanne stamp of approval!
what if god doesn’t feel boredom?
what if, when god get’s bored
he just becomes awesome?
and then when he get’s too awesome
he gets bored of being awesome
but god doesn’t get bored
when he gets bored,
he just becomes awesome again
and if he becomes too awesome again
he might get bored
but when you blah blah blah blah……