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RE: Why?
September 26, 2011 at 1:56 am (This post was last modified: September 26, 2011 at 1:58 am by Rokcet Scientist.)
(September 25, 2011 at 8:44 am)medviation Wrote: Hmmm... If there's a god and he's eternal, he would have created this universe and infinite other universes infinite times. Reason: He's one really bored, lonely god. Wink

No, that's how he got bored! And who wouldn't from doing the same pointless things over and over and over again? Ask any assembly line worker.
So if God is bored, tough luck. He did it all to Himself.
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RE: Why?
September 26, 2011 at 7:24 am (This post was last modified: September 26, 2011 at 7:25 am by Welsh cake.)
For sake of argument, I will imagine in this thought-experiment that I am an all-powerful, all-intelligent possessing omni-benevolence all-present entity. No, I am entity itself. I am being. I am existence. I am reality. I am God. I am the beginning of all that was, is, and will ever be.

I can create time and space. I have the capacity to know everything that takes place everywhere infinitely. I know everything that can be known. I have divine foreknowledge of infinite cause and effect. I foresee each and every possible outcome of what will happen if I choose to create reality, for I am the true cause of all causation.

I am wholly perfect, lacking nothing I don't need a microscopic universe with other tiny sentience beings to exist in and around me. So I must ask myself: Do I truly want to will in a creation, my creation, to exist? Do I crave to initiate a reality that I am accountable for? Do I have a longing for life to arise subjugated to the laws of physics that must first be established? Do I crave frail finite mortals to be born, to live and ultimately die? Do I desire other consciousnesses with limited freewill to feel and experience my real world in action? Do I yearn for creation? Do I wish to have living witnesses to my wonders as my newly born universe unfolds?

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ENOUGH.

NO. No. No, I do not.
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#23
RE: Why?
September 26, 2011 at 7:30 am
Why? .
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#24
RE: Why?
September 26, 2011 at 9:36 am
You tell us it is YOUR delusion fr0d0
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
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RE: Why?
September 26, 2011 at 4:16 pm (This post was last modified: September 26, 2011 at 4:16 pm by fr0d0.)
I didn't say no tho', WC did.

(I have to confess that I didn't see any pictures tho', they're all blocked at work)
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RE: Why?
September 27, 2011 at 9:24 pm (This post was last modified: September 27, 2011 at 9:27 pm by Rokcet Scientist.)
(September 26, 2011 at 4:16 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: (I have to confess that I didn't see any pictures tho', they're all blocked at work)

They block sinful pictures at the bible distribution center?

So you have some catching up to do, don't you? Like a mental food supplement. OK, I'll give you a dirty picture with a humongous pile of shit. That's for starters. I'm sure our brethren know tons of sinful pictures for you.
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#27
RE: Why?
September 28, 2011 at 3:05 am
lol it's a Local Authority Rocket. Don't get yourself too excited now Big Grin
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