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 Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:27 pm
A concept brought on by the book "God's Debris" by Scott Adams, the maker of the dry humour comic "Dilbert". Read it all if you dare twisted
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"If you were God, what would you want?
Imagine that you are omnipotent. You can do anything, be anything, create anything. As soon as you decide you want something, it becomes reality.
Does it make sense to think of God as wanting anything? A God would have no emotions, no fears, no desires, no curiousity nor hunger. Those are human shortcomings, not something that would be found in an omnipotent God. What, then, would motivate God? Omnipotence means that nothing is a challenge. And what could stimulate the mind of one that knows everything?
Everything that motivates living creatures is based on some flaw or weakness. Hunger motivates animals. Lust motivates animals. Fear and pain motivate animals. A God would have none of those impulses. Us humans are driven by all of our animal passions plus loftier-sounding things like self-actualization, creativity, freedom and love. But God would care nothing for those things, or if he cared, he would have an overabundance of them. None of them would be motivating.
I can concieve of only one challenge for an omnipotent being:
the challenge of destroying oneself.
You'd think because of your humanistic logic that God wouldn't dare commit suicide, however would have no fears. Existing would be a choice. And there'd be no feeling of remorse or loss. Those are human feelings, not God feelings. God could simply choose to discontinue existence.
Yes, he will know the future of his own existence under normal circumstances, but would his omnipotence include knowing what happens after he loses his omnipotence, or would his knowledge of the future end at that point?
Consider this: A God who knew the answer to that question would indeed know everything and have everything, therefore would be unmotivated to do anything or create anything. There'd be no purpose to act in any way, whatsoever. But a God who had that one nagging question -- what happens if I cease to exist? -- might be motivated to find the answer in order to complete his knowledge. And having no fear and no reason to continue existing, he might even try it.
How would we know either way? We have the answer. It is our existence. The fact that we exist is proof that God is motivated to act in some way. And since the only challenge of self-destruction could interest an omnipotent God, it stands to reason that we...
are God's Debris..."
What is your opinion? heart
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Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:32 pm
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Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:41 pm
The point of this experiment is to ask of an intelligent audience in a mature setting. If you intend to post intertube acronyms as your full resonse plz go somewhere else 3nodding
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Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 11:11 pm
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Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 11:12 pm
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Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 11:25 pm
Umm....ask Holiest of Holies?
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Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 11:35 pm
blaugh Now, that would be interesting~
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Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 11:57 pm
*nods* Yeah, that would.
Try asking him! See what happens!
I wanna watch :'D
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Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:22 am
blaugh Okie I'll ask him lolz. I'll ask the guy that supposedly destroyed himself. brb~
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Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 8:21 pm
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Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 8:39 pm
IF I DIED....
THE GD TOO WOULD CEASE TO EXIST. AS I AM THE ESSENCE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD AND LULZ, SO IS THE GD. WITHOUT MY PRESENCE IT WOULD WITHER AND DIE.
AND THUS, THE DARK VOID THAT IS THE CB WOULD CONSUME ALL EXISTENCE.
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Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 8:49 pm
Holiest of Holies IF I DIED....
THE GD TOO WOULD CEASE TO EXIST. AS I AM THE ESSENCE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD AND LULZ, SO IS THE GD. WITHOUT MY PRESENCE IT WOULD WITHER AND DIE.
AND THUS, THE DARK VOID THAT IS THE CB WOULD CONSUME ALL EXISTENCE. o_0
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Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 4:08 pm
Holiest of Holies IF I DIED....
THE GD TOO WOULD CEASE TO EXIST. AS I AM THE ESSENCE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD AND LULZ, SO IS THE GD. WITHOUT MY PRESENCE IT WOULD WITHER AND DIE.
AND THUS, THE DARK VOID THAT IS THE CB WOULD CONSUME ALL EXISTENCE.
Well... that would suck, indeed.
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Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 7:26 pm
Indeed. We definitely needs Holiest, even if his only true goal in life is to destroy himself gonk . Let's pray we can keep 'im entertained sweatdrop
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