The problems of Omnipotence - Part II
Think about some of the few great pleasures you are able to enjoy in life. Pick your favorites.
Not that perfect afternoon at the golf course, nor that perfect walk by the beach, nor that perfect night partying with friends. Try to breakdown those complex feelings into all those smaller ones that make those mentioned above.
Think instead of simpler, more intimate forms of pleasure:
Think about some of the few great pleasures you are able to enjoy in life. Pick your favorites.
Not that perfect afternoon at the golf course, nor that perfect walk by the beach, nor that perfect night partying with friends. Try to breakdown those complex feelings into all those smaller ones that make those mentioned above.
Think instead of simpler, more intimate forms of pleasure:
- sleeping
- laughter
- sex
- eating while hungry
- drinking while thirsty
- breathing fresh air
- stretching in the morning
etc...
You can usually find some of these simple pleasures in the complex things we love to do everyday. However, there is a point in our day, our week or our month when we feel like we are missing some of the pleasures we have experienced before. From the simplest ones to the more complex ones. Lacking some of the more important pleasures in our lives will make us pursue them more intensely. The hungrier we get, the harder we will try to eat, the thirstier we get, the harder we will try to get something to drink, and so on...
I wish I had unlimited financial resources to pursue my sources of pleasure.
To own that perfect house, that perfect car, to climb a mountain, to go into space, to have my own jet, my own yacht, to take my friends on a cruise, then on a submarine, to afford it all several times... All that to get my intimate pleasure(s) and share it with whomever.
What if I had health problems that money could not solve? Money will not provide me with all forms of pleasure I may think of. There is more than just the power of money.
What if my power was limitless?
You can usually find some of these simple pleasures in the complex things we love to do everyday. However, there is a point in our day, our week or our month when we feel like we are missing some of the pleasures we have experienced before. From the simplest ones to the more complex ones. Lacking some of the more important pleasures in our lives will make us pursue them more intensely. The hungrier we get, the harder we will try to eat, the thirstier we get, the harder we will try to get something to drink, and so on...
I wish I had unlimited financial resources to pursue my sources of pleasure.
To own that perfect house, that perfect car, to climb a mountain, to go into space, to have my own jet, my own yacht, to take my friends on a cruise, then on a submarine, to afford it all several times... All that to get my intimate pleasure(s) and share it with whomever.
What if I had health problems that money could not solve? Money will not provide me with all forms of pleasure I may think of. There is more than just the power of money.
What if my power was limitless?
- Would I eat my favorite steak all the time?
- Or would I eat just that first perfect bite when I am the hungriest and freeze that feeling in my head forever?
- Would I get tired of that feeling being always there?
- Or would I remove boredom from my head forever and enjoy it forever?
- Would I then drink my favorite drink after that bite of steak?
- Or would I freeze that drinking feeling, that first sip when we are the thirstiest, along with the steak bite forever?
- Would I then add my favorite music to the whole thing?
- Or would I add that musical bliss to my brain forever along with the sip and bite...?
- What would keep me from making this list of things grow forever in my head?
Steak, Drink, Music, Company, Games, Winning, Pleasing, Being Pleased, Ice cream, Sports, Excitement, a Massage, a Swim, Sky Diving, World Peace, everything!
Let us assume that I added and absorbed all pleasures in life just because my power is limitless. Just because I can.
If you had the power to do anything and everything, what pleasure would you not add, and why?
Let us assume that I added and absorbed all pleasures in life just because my power is limitless. Just because I can.
If you had the power to do anything and everything, what pleasure would you not add, and why?
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