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0 pointsexo-pla-net4y ago0 comments

You'd have to impose a lot of conditions on such a god to make it not nightmarish.

Without a god, we control our own destiny. A lot of things are currently awful, but with enough human ingenuity, we can overcome them.

On the other hand, if our fate is determined by a god driven by its own motives, we have lost control of our destinies to something that evidently doesn't care about us.

We would be ants on the back of a whale that might decide to dive at any moment, doomed perhaps to see our loved ones swirl away screaming into the watery void, on whale's whim, pointless.

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breuleux4y ago

I mean, a god might say that any destiny you choose is good, because it would proceed from the laws of physics, but you could still choose what it is.

Personally I don't think it's worth caring about, just like it isn't worth thinking about how our universe might be a bubble in a greater universe that's just about to pop and destroy us all in an instant ;)

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breuleux4y ago

I mean, a god might say that any destiny you choose is good, because it would proceed from the laws of physics, but you could still choose what it is.

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