Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Omniscience and the Origin of the world

Wisdom of the night:

If there is an Omniscient being, let's call it God, that being has to know what this moment is like, and part of what this moment is like is that I am here not being Omniscient.

So being Omniscient requires having been through every possible experience, including this, non-Omniscient-feeling one.

If there is an Omniscient being, our lives are a part of it, and it would be incomplete without our living through what we live through.

This is also a convenient solution to the problem of evil; (How did evil come into the world, or too put it more bluntly, why do we hurt sometimes?) evil is something that can be known, but it can be known both from the doing and from the receiving. Pain is something we can feel, so for an Omniscient being to be, somebodies got to feel the pain.

But also the pleasure, and the wonder, and the joy.

Thanking is good.

But let's just say, "you're welcome".

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