Omnipotence: unlimited power to do anything.
Omnipotence raises a lot of problems to any god. Some even argue it is impossible, contradictory, and even paradoxal. What does it mean, and how?
Unlimited power means that everything we can think of, one can do. Because of having a somewhat wild imagination, I reached a point where, already a non-believer, the concept of Omnipotent (or all powerful) stopped making sense.
We all experience good and bad in one way or another. Being hungry is a bad thing that our own biology makes us feel, but then it drives us to eat and feel the great thing that is to eat when hungry. The same can be said for thirst. Although dying of thirst can be a horrible thing, few things compare to drinking that perfect cool glass of water when you were the thirstiest.
However, all this happens in a world with power limits. I do not have the power to change myself to never need to eat or drink. Nor do I have the power to grab that feeling that happens when food or water is entering your body when you want it the most and make such feeling last forever and at all times. These unreasonable changes are things that only an omnipotent being could do.
Our lives happen because of our power limitations.
We will die, so we make our lives safer and we cherish it, because we will lose it.
Car crashes usually hurt, so we came up with seat belts.
Eating the wrong stuff is bad for us, so we label things.
We enjoy other people and we make more people, because we would all die and disappear if otherwise.
We search fun because we know how boredom feels like.
We search what we find beautiful because we know what ugly is.
We travel, we search, we wait, we learn, we build, we live, kill and die, because we usually know the consequences of not going after the good, and avoid the bad.
So, if one was actually omnipotent, had the power to do and change anything and everything, what would you do?
I will share my view of the problems of such power very soon.
Omnipotence raises a lot of problems to any god. Some even argue it is impossible, contradictory, and even paradoxal. What does it mean, and how?
Unlimited power means that everything we can think of, one can do. Because of having a somewhat wild imagination, I reached a point where, already a non-believer, the concept of Omnipotent (or all powerful) stopped making sense.
We all experience good and bad in one way or another. Being hungry is a bad thing that our own biology makes us feel, but then it drives us to eat and feel the great thing that is to eat when hungry. The same can be said for thirst. Although dying of thirst can be a horrible thing, few things compare to drinking that perfect cool glass of water when you were the thirstiest.
However, all this happens in a world with power limits. I do not have the power to change myself to never need to eat or drink. Nor do I have the power to grab that feeling that happens when food or water is entering your body when you want it the most and make such feeling last forever and at all times. These unreasonable changes are things that only an omnipotent being could do.
Our lives happen because of our power limitations.
We will die, so we make our lives safer and we cherish it, because we will lose it.
Car crashes usually hurt, so we came up with seat belts.
Eating the wrong stuff is bad for us, so we label things.
We enjoy other people and we make more people, because we would all die and disappear if otherwise.
We search fun because we know how boredom feels like.
We search what we find beautiful because we know what ugly is.
We travel, we search, we wait, we learn, we build, we live, kill and die, because we usually know the consequences of not going after the good, and avoid the bad.
So, if one was actually omnipotent, had the power to do and change anything and everything, what would you do?
I will share my view of the problems of such power very soon.
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so who should i go ask for this unlimited power i wish to have?
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