I was reading this book called "God's Debris" by Scott Adams( of Dilbert fame) and came across this very interesting point.
Imagine that you are omnipotent. You can do anything, create anything, be anything. As soon as you decide you want something, it becomes reality. Imagine that you are God.
A God would have no emotions, no fears, no desires, no curiosity, no hunger. Those are human shortcomings, not something that would be found in an omnipotent God. What then would motivate God? Maybe it’s the challenge, the intellectual stimulation in creating and destroying things. But, Omnipotence means that nothing is a challenge. And in knowing that everything is possible. What could stimulate the mind of someone who knows everything and more importantly, knows that it can do everything? That it can perform every task?
This may sound morose, but I guess it sounds as if it is really boring to be God! But then again, boredom is very much a human feeling! Motivation is required to do anything in this universe. Now this is where I deviate. Just as how hunger, pain, fear, freedom and many other such feelings motivate all creatures to do something, humans are also motivated by these very emotions, probably more which includes "dignity of labour", "respect in society" , so on and so forth.
It is the basic instinct of curiosity that propels us to achieve something. We invented the wheel becasue we wanted to find out if it would feel good not to walk so much! We discovered fire because we wanted to know whether roasted beef tastes better than raw meat! We invented the "Blue Gene" 70.72 TerraFLOP SuperComputer probably because we wanted to know if the value of PI has a recurrence after the first 300 trillion digits!!!! :-P
We think up of stuff like the one I am writing as a as a curiosity or as a challenge to our superior minds as Homo Sapiens.But will any of this motivate God? He doesn't need to hunt or grow food, he doesn't need to know the exact value of PI. He knows that the first recurrence will occur after the first godzillian digits. :-). Nothing is challenging to God. His omnipotence requires for Him to be able to create galaxies with thousands of civilizations with the same ease as solving a simple quadratic equation!
So then, this brings us to the proverbial fork in the road... Why bother with all creation? Why create stuff in the universe and then destroy it? Why govern the universe according a set of laws and rules? Why go on with the whole charade when He knows perfectly well that He CAN do it. Is it just to prove himself of HIS capability with a practicable model? That is simply absurd and frankly, unholy!!!So then, that leaves us with the only uncomfortably logical explanation that it is his Destiny to do so!!! He HAS to do it all! He too can't escape it! So from this, we would come to the inescapable conclusion that even God is bound by Destiny, even though He has created Destiny itself! Then how does that make him omnipotent? A Catch-22 right here! If God has created the universe, then he needn't have, because there is no motivation for him to do so; but if he has created, then that would be because he was destined to do so...Now, we know for a fact that the Universe has been created and that we are a part of it!
Hence, an omnipotent GOD does not exist! Q.E.D .
I'm not an atheist....I'm only agnostic! :-D
Imagine that you are omnipotent. You can do anything, create anything, be anything. As soon as you decide you want something, it becomes reality. Imagine that you are God.
A God would have no emotions, no fears, no desires, no curiosity, no hunger. Those are human shortcomings, not something that would be found in an omnipotent God. What then would motivate God? Maybe it’s the challenge, the intellectual stimulation in creating and destroying things. But, Omnipotence means that nothing is a challenge. And in knowing that everything is possible. What could stimulate the mind of someone who knows everything and more importantly, knows that it can do everything? That it can perform every task?
This may sound morose, but I guess it sounds as if it is really boring to be God! But then again, boredom is very much a human feeling! Motivation is required to do anything in this universe. Now this is where I deviate. Just as how hunger, pain, fear, freedom and many other such feelings motivate all creatures to do something, humans are also motivated by these very emotions, probably more which includes "dignity of labour", "respect in society" , so on and so forth.
It is the basic instinct of curiosity that propels us to achieve something. We invented the wheel becasue we wanted to find out if it would feel good not to walk so much! We discovered fire because we wanted to know whether roasted beef tastes better than raw meat! We invented the "Blue Gene" 70.72 TerraFLOP SuperComputer probably because we wanted to know if the value of PI has a recurrence after the first 300 trillion digits!!!! :-P
We think up of stuff like the one I am writing as a as a curiosity or as a challenge to our superior minds as Homo Sapiens.But will any of this motivate God? He doesn't need to hunt or grow food, he doesn't need to know the exact value of PI. He knows that the first recurrence will occur after the first godzillian digits. :-). Nothing is challenging to God. His omnipotence requires for Him to be able to create galaxies with thousands of civilizations with the same ease as solving a simple quadratic equation!
So then, this brings us to the proverbial fork in the road... Why bother with all creation? Why create stuff in the universe and then destroy it? Why govern the universe according a set of laws and rules? Why go on with the whole charade when He knows perfectly well that He CAN do it. Is it just to prove himself of HIS capability with a practicable model? That is simply absurd and frankly, unholy!!!So then, that leaves us with the only uncomfortably logical explanation that it is his Destiny to do so!!! He HAS to do it all! He too can't escape it! So from this, we would come to the inescapable conclusion that even God is bound by Destiny, even though He has created Destiny itself! Then how does that make him omnipotent? A Catch-22 right here! If God has created the universe, then he needn't have, because there is no motivation for him to do so; but if he has created, then that would be because he was destined to do so...Now, we know for a fact that the Universe has been created and that we are a part of it!
Hence, an omnipotent GOD does not exist! Q.E.D .
I'm not an atheist....I'm only agnostic! :-D
2 comments:
Me an agnostic too, does that mean we r gay...bad joke.Worse though was the face-off between the 300 and Terminator-2, it read like a parody.....
BTW if u liked Sin-City and 300, then get hold of some Frank Miller Graphic novels. They will leave u salivating.
Also Mainframe is dead/dying swith to any ERP Application, and fast ;)
The face-off WAS meant to be a parody...It was a "what-if' scenario that I had posted in 'CBUB' and was told to put it here too as it would be fun! I hope it is!
And yes, MF has lived out its life but I'm working for the company and it would expect me to do justice to the salary it's paying me. All the fun programming on my own time ;)
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