RE: Musings about omnipotence and perfection.
February 8, 2011 at 7:18 pm
(This post was last modified: February 8, 2011 at 7:20 pm by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
(January 18, 2011 at 6:22 am)DoubtVsFaith Wrote: Thoughts?
Discuss.
Clearly there can only be one truely perfect being in the universe:
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IN all seriousness though, perfection as a attribute to a being is so vaguely defined that the term is meaningless when used that way. Which is to say, how can a being be perfect?
Omniopotence is defined by its ability to give a being that is omnipotent perfect freedom - which is to say that everything that that person desires happens instantly. There are no boundaries to the will of an omnipotent being. The very definition implies limitless power and freedom of will.
However, as any good physicist will tell you, infinities are ruled out of the mathmatics used to represent reality because there are no infinities in reality. The universe we live in is quite finite in every measureable detail. As such, beings with any attributes defined as such cannot exist.
As such, I can't really say much else about this topic given that omnipotent beings cannot exist and perfection is... rather arbitrary/subjective and ill-defined when used in the sense to describe the overall traits of a being. Thus, I believe the discussion to be meaningless.
Also, I found this and thought it amusing:
The perfect morbidly obese person.
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If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
