A talk with Jen got me thinking....
For some inexplicable reason, my dad has become extremely spiritual recently. Every time I see him, he tells me that god has a plan and we are all wrapped up in it somehow - that everything is with purpose. I agree everything is with purpose (though I view it as a hybrid of causality with something otherworldly, though I am still hammering this out for myself...so its not a complete thought yet). I start thinking about god after talks with dad, and after a talk with Jen the other day, I have begun to figure something out about god and humanity.
IF, and that is a big 'if', god exists then he must be an envious god - envious of humanity and our mortality. That every moment may be our last makes everything fleeting but beautiful. God has no appreciation of that, from his perspective everything is static (assuming a 3-Oh god, and I am assuming that). A concert, a sunrise, winning in a sport, even a divorce - we appreciate these things because there is a finality in them. They will never happen the same way for us ever again, and that resonates with us. God is incapable of missing something, he knows what will happen at every moment in every location.
The question really comes down to this: can one enjoy life if all the nuances, all the turns and changes, all the possibilities are known?
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I don't think one can.
edit::towle pointed out a big error in my thinking, and i see it now as well. but i guess this is more a comment on human experience than god.
IF, and that is a big 'if', god exists then he must be an envious god - envious of humanity and our mortality. That every moment may be our last makes everything fleeting but beautiful. God has no appreciation of that, from his perspective everything is static (assuming a 3-Oh god, and I am assuming that). A concert, a sunrise, winning in a sport, even a divorce - we appreciate these things because there is a finality in them. They will never happen the same way for us ever again, and that resonates with us. God is incapable of missing something, he knows what will happen at every moment in every location.
The question really comes down to this: can one enjoy life if all the nuances, all the turns and changes, all the possibilities are known?
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I don't think one can.
edit::towle pointed out a big error in my thinking, and i see it now as well. but i guess this is more a comment on human experience than god.