Side note, does it count as a shower thought when it was conceived while sitting on the toilet? Do we have toilet-sitting-thoughts communities?

  • Dawn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    143·
    2 years ago

    Honestly, if I was a God, I would create the universe, then just watch how it unfolds, why would I interfere to save what is the equivalent of ants to me?

    • magnusrufus@lemmy.world
      121·
      2 years ago

      I think that you are overlooking a lot of things here. If you are God in the traditional modern sense then you would already know how the universe will unfold. You would be gaining nothing by having the “ants” live and suffer. As the creator of the universe you would also have a responsibility for the lives you put in it and you would be responsible if you chose to not intervene in their suffering as well. As the creator it would have been within your power to create a universe without suffering. When we start to consider those points it paints morbid picture. That’s not to attribute that kind of callous cruelty to you, the implications of such a hypothetical are probably not something we’ve spent much time sorting out.

        • magnusrufus@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 years ago

          Well to borrow a bit from the rest of the threads here, just how much baby cancer is in the builder’s project or the programmer’s code? The difference in perspective between an all powerful all knowing being knowing fully what the entirety of the outcome of their creation vs our speculation of the outcome of our works is probably incomparable. Would there even be a difference between experiencing the spectacle of the universe verses perfectly knowing it as an all knowing being? That might be an interesting philosophical question.

        • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆@yiffit.netEnglish
          42·
          2 years ago

          Of course, that’s anthropomorphizing God and projecting, but then that’s 99% of religion, so…

          We were made in His image, according to the 3 biggest religions. And most take that to mean that, other than the power he wields, he is like us.

          Both should know exactly what will happen (especially the programmer)

          Tell me you’re not a programmer without saying you’re not a programmer. 🤭

          • Shou@lemmy.world
            2·
            2 years ago

            The three biggest religions are based on the same b.s. I’d count the statement as perpetuated by one text that got copied like homework.