A God that isn’t there, or a God that doesn’t care?
I would think that for a believer in crisis, it would be vastly preferable to think God is a myth we invented a long time ago to make us feel better about being alone in the universe than to think there is a real, all knowing, all powerful, infinitely compassionate God out there who could totally have kept your Gramma from dying of cancer but just couldn’t be bothered.
Because those are the only two options. When your God is omnipotent, there is no question of whether or not He CAN do something, and that leaves whether or not He WANTS to do it.
In fact, for an infinitely powerful God, every possible action, from removing Gramma’s cancer to reshaping the entire Universe in the blink of an Eye, is infinitely easy.
How difficult something is must be measured in relation to one’s capacities, after all.
Thus we come upon the Problem of Evil, which is the most potentially devastating challenge to monotheistic faiths ever.
It is usually/ stated thusly : If God is all powerful and infinitely Good, why is there still evil in the world?
To me, this is a design flaw in monotheism itself. In fact, one might say that monotheism contained the seeds of its own destruction.
In hindsight, they would have been better off saying their God is just very, very powerful but not omnipotent per se.
But then someone else might come along who says their God is even more powerful and we can’t have THAT.
Perhaps just say He is more powerful than any other God and leave it at that.
More after the break.
You’re my type
Guess what? I’m typing again!
Yes, my new keyboard arrived – a Logitech K650 – and I am using it to type these words, these very words that I am typing right now.
And it feels good…. more or less.
It’s a new keyboard ergo it will take me some time to break it in and get used to how it feels as I type.
This has been true for every new keyboard I have ever bought. So I know that it’s only temporary and that fairly soon, it will pass.
Till then, I just need to put my head down and bulldoze ahead like the ox I am.
To be honest, it just feels weird actually typing after three months or more of click-typinhg. I keep getting the urge to grab the mouse when I want to type.
Presumably that will go away soon too.
One fun thing is that compared to goddamned click-typing I feel like I am typing REALLY REALLY FAST.
And I am!
Which means that I will be shifting back to 1K words a day sometime quite soon., This is Wednesday, so by Friday or maybe Saturday at the latest.
Yes, gentle reader, you will soon have to read twice as much, Sorry about that.
But it really does feel great to be typing my words like a writer again.
Nobody ever wrote a story aboput a noble and driven writer whose merciless muse drives them to click long into the night.
More after the break.