God
Created | Updated Apr 9, 2002
God is one of the strangest things ever invented by mankind (or vice versa).
This person or thing usually is seen as all-knowing, omnipotent and infinitely benevolent (as is taught us by philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Berkeley, …). The feature of existence is something that not everybody is prepared to grant him or it. The most important reason is probably that his or its most important features contain a hole bunch of logical paradoxes. A few examples:
(1) These questions concern the nature of a God and are very popular amongst atheist and likewise hated with believers or deists (who have been trying to make up answers to these questions for ages):
- Can god build a wall that is so high that he can’t jump over it?
- Can god make a car that is faster than he himself?
- Can god create a girl that is so fine looking that he can’t get her?
- Can god pay his taxes? …
(2) Another paradox is causes by the following situation:
Pick a game and dare god to join in. The easiest game is a chicken-race (This is a game in which two cars are placed on a same line opposite to each other. On a given sign both cars start to race on to each other. The goal of the game is to keep on going as long as you can. The person who turns his wheel is a chicken and therefore a loser). Now the only thing you have to do to win a chicken-race against god is never turn your wheel and make sure you believe you never will turn your wheel. Because god is all-knowing he will now that you won’t give in so he will have to turn his wheel. So the almighty god is a loser!
Quite a lot of believers will burst out into tears if you face them with this Spielerei. If you happen to stand against one of the few very intelligent ones they while probably encounter your attack with ever more ridiculous arguments. If this happens you can find yourself in a situation that is pretty shaming: the believer might for example slam the argument in your face that an all-knowing god won’t be so stupid to join in such a stupid game (especially since, because he is all-knowing, he already knows that he will lose).
To conclude: if god really does exist his last message to his creation (We apologise for the inconvenience) should be in thirty-foot-high letters of fire across every planet in the universe in stead of only on the Quentulus Quazgar Mountains on the land of Sevorbeupstry on the planet Preliumtarn (which orbits around the planet Zarss in the Gray Binding Fiefdoms of Saxaquine beyond the Limitless Lightfields of Flanux)!
This person or thing usually is seen as all-knowing, omnipotent and infinitely benevolent (as is taught us by philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Berkeley, …). The feature of existence is something that not everybody is prepared to grant him or it. The most important reason is probably that his or its most important features contain a hole bunch of logical paradoxes. A few examples:
(1) These questions concern the nature of a God and are very popular amongst atheist and likewise hated with believers or deists (who have been trying to make up answers to these questions for ages):
- Can god build a wall that is so high that he can’t jump over it?
- Can god make a car that is faster than he himself?
- Can god create a girl that is so fine looking that he can’t get her?
- Can god pay his taxes? …
(2) Another paradox is causes by the following situation:
Pick a game and dare god to join in. The easiest game is a chicken-race (This is a game in which two cars are placed on a same line opposite to each other. On a given sign both cars start to race on to each other. The goal of the game is to keep on going as long as you can. The person who turns his wheel is a chicken and therefore a loser). Now the only thing you have to do to win a chicken-race against god is never turn your wheel and make sure you believe you never will turn your wheel. Because god is all-knowing he will now that you won’t give in so he will have to turn his wheel. So the almighty god is a loser!
Quite a lot of believers will burst out into tears if you face them with this Spielerei. If you happen to stand against one of the few very intelligent ones they while probably encounter your attack with ever more ridiculous arguments. If this happens you can find yourself in a situation that is pretty shaming: the believer might for example slam the argument in your face that an all-knowing god won’t be so stupid to join in such a stupid game (especially since, because he is all-knowing, he already knows that he will lose).
To conclude: if god really does exist his last message to his creation (We apologise for the inconvenience) should be in thirty-foot-high letters of fire across every planet in the universe in stead of only on the Quentulus Quazgar Mountains on the land of Sevorbeupstry on the planet Preliumtarn (which orbits around the planet Zarss in the Gray Binding Fiefdoms of Saxaquine beyond the Limitless Lightfields of Flanux)!
