(January 22, 2012 at 6:48 pm)Welsh cake Wrote:(January 22, 2012 at 2:44 pm)Soyouz Wrote: It would feel strange to say that a God would need entertainment since that would be a human trait, why would an all-powerful being need entertainment?A creator god isn't perfect, or else why create anything to start with? A perfect deity has no want or need for a creation, it’s perfectly content in its own perfection. A being that creates a reality, its rules and square bounds knowing every possible outcome in advance must have done so out of sheer boredom.
When you think about, fictional deities that exist inside an endless and timeless void such as Ilúvatar, Allah or Yahweh would go insane if they didn't assume the role of creator. They've got nothing else to do.
They can't simply create another god or clone within the infinite abyss to keep them company, it’s beyond their power to break their bodies/forms apart and defeats the objective as dividing their own divine forms creates a mere reflection that's no different from talking to themselves.
So they seek a distraction, an illusion, anything to stop the maddening realisation they're all alone, a single conscious in vast nothingness. They create a reality around them, a grand design, a triumph equalled only by its monumental failure.
The deity devises creations that are lesser beings, each all flawed in its own unique way. It pits them against each other and the natural order, watching their meaningless lives play out like The Sims. Initially it gains a sense of self-gratification as it watches the pathetic mortals’ ambitions and existences get squashed into oblivion - whether good or evil they are all doomed to failure as they lack the power of their creator.
But then the god starts going mad again though, as it cannot ignore its own voice of reason that this elaborate "reality" it has created is still nothing more than a lie, a game of pretend, an illusion made to occupy itself from the truth - the endless dark void all around. It starts venting that anger, that frustration on its own hapless creation, seeking new ways to abuse the lesser beings that dwell there.
Eventually the being starts confronting the truth and verges on complete insanity. It becomes a destroyer rather than a creator/maintainer. We know the saying "the bigger they are the harder they fall" but when we're talking godly-big, when they fall at this point, they hit the dirt so damn hard they take everything else with them.
This reality is destroyed. Then nothing happens. The horrible realisation that the entity is once again all alone in an endless abyss returns. Out of desperation to give itself a sense of purpose or meaning it creates another cosmos all over again.
And thus, the god is doomed to repeat the cycle of self-denial for all eternity.
Precisely my thoughts, you just put it into better words. And when I think about it, it makes the very thought of a god so stupid that I can't understand how anyone could believe in it. Well, there are loads of reasons but this one outshines them all as nothing can be said about it.
Forsaken, that's exactly what I mean. But that's not what they seem to think.