The God of the philosophers
According to the 'God of the philosophers', God is the eternal, all-powerful, al-knowing, all-loving creator of the universe, but the problem is that, when we look at this definition more closely, we run into all kinds of paradoxes, here are four:
1- The paradox of omnipotence: could God create a stone so heavy that he can't lift it? if he creates the stone, then he can't lift it, so there would be something he can't do, and if he can't create a stone, there would be other thing he can't do.
2- The paradox of change: this paradox arises when we ask how a God who is perfect can intervene in human history as He has traditionally been thought to do.
3- The paradox of sufering: this paradox arises from the twin assumptions that 'God is all-loving and does not want us to suffer' and that 'God is all powerful and is able to prevent us from suffering'
4- The paradox of free-will: if God is all-knowing, then He knows not only the past and the present, but also the future. This means that he knows not only everything we have done in the past, but also everything we will do in the future.
From Theory of knowledge, Richard van de Lagemaat
You have been sentenced to death. What method of execution would be your worst nightmare and what would be the most tolerable?
My worst nightmare would be every single way to die while im aware of it, or concious of what they are doing to me, and it would be even worse if it is painfull. The most tolerable would be every way while im not concious, preferebly asleep, or anesthetized, so I don't feel it.
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