RE: If
January 17, 2015 at 12:35 pm
(This post was last modified: January 17, 2015 at 12:35 pm by Davka.)
(January 17, 2015 at 3:35 am)Riketto Wrote:(January 16, 2015 at 2:09 pm)Davka Wrote: That would depend entirely on my personality.
If I were a capricious, wrathful, jealous trickster-god, I'd be both pleased and pissed. Pleased because I'd have a new toy to torment, and pissed just because that's who I am.
If I were a loving, forgiving, kind and merciful god, I'd be pleased to see anyone and everyone. I would be able to ease the pain and suffering that is inherent to life, and I'd finally be able to explain the purpose and workings of the Universe.
You mean that you would act like a father that do his son homework?
So how your son would ever learn anything?
No, not even close. Remember, this is an after-death hypothetical, so the supposed "homework" is already done. All I'd be doing (as a truly loving god) would be going over the homework after it was already graded, and explaining my child's mistakes, as well as what she got right.
Quote:Suppose you in this life exploit the labour.That's a reasonable approach, I guess. But it would be useless if I didn't remember my previous life. I'd just be another exploited laborer, wondering why life sucks.
As God i would make you reborn as an exploited labour in order to see the evil of exploitation and in order to learn how to live better.
In the real world, however, we can only learn from what happens in this life. We certainly don't have any reliable textbooks or homework assignments - on the contrary, we have a shit-ton of books that all claim the be "the one true textbook," and none of them are confirmed in any rational way by observable reality.
As for "homework," we have our intelligence, our curiosity, our tools, and the "homework" of all those who have gone before. We're trying to figure out the how and why of the Universe, and so far all the answers to things like "what is lightning?" and "why do people look different in different parts of the world?" and "where did all the different animals come from" are noticeably lacking anything like "goddidit." Every time we find a new answer; another piece of the puzzle, it turns out to be "this is how nature works."
So if - against all the evidence we have so far discovered - there actually is an afterlife and a god, that god's first responsibility upon my meeting her would be to explain why everything appears to be the result of natural causes rather than divine creation.
Unless god is the capricious, irrational shit described in the Bible. In that case, I'm gonna run like hell and hope he gets distracted by the prospect of another Holocaust, or another billion babies to torture with horrific diseases. BibleGod does seem to be a pretty clueless fuck, for all his bragging about omniscience.