TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: philos
to: DAY BROWN
from: RELATIF TUINN
date: 1998-03-20 04:07:00
subject: Logical impasse

Day Brown discussing ""A Philosophy of Chaos"" with David Martorana...
 DM>>      Would you be suggesting that the God/Creation-factor HAS limits 
 DM>>      BECAUSE She employs compression or simplification techniques 
 DM>> which would be unnecessary in omnipotent circles ... ? (Of course she 
 DM>> could use such clever tricks for FUN!) ...yes? 
 DB> All of that. also, for us to have free will, we must be acting out  of
 DB> that, and not the will of god... which therefore, is a limit on  the
 DB> will of God. 
 DB>  
 DB> I still wonder sometimes if it is that God herself, suspends the 
 DB> disbelief so that She does not know what will happen next... so  as to
 DB> enjoy the show.  Or if Chaos, is as represented, truely a  random force,
 DB> beyond even the will of God.  ___ 
This is similar to David Hume's argument which goes something like this:
Deists claim that god is benevolent and omnipotent.
There is evil in the world.
If evil is gods plan then he is not benevolent.
If evil is not gods plan then he is not omnipotent.
God cannot be both benevolent and omnipotent if evil exists.
    Relatif Tuinn
... Assembler Command: TSR: Trash System Randomly
--- Spot 1.3a #1413
---------------
* Origin: 1+1=2 2+2=11 11+11=22 22+22=121 121+121=1012 (2:254/524.18)

SOURCE: echomail via exec-pc

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.