How do you feel about artificial intelligence?

God is all powerful but won’t heal the sick and lets the holocaust happen and all sorts of miserable stuff that there is too much to list…

As a Michael, I should know god better right? The name Michael means “who is like god?” and my understanding is that no one is. But also, god doesn’t seem likeable as a … whatever god is.

A lot of people think god should be worshiped, but if you’ve ever tried that with a celebrety you know people who are superstars usually hate fawning fans.

God the absent father. (Wanting us to make it on our own without support from daddy.)
God the mediator of competing wills. (Too carefully weighing both sides to be decisive?)
God the all powerful but lazy. (Apparently it is difficult to fix this world.)
God the gamer. (Going for high score but limited by the rules of the game.)
God who isn’t all knowing. (Because god has some kind of concern about protecting human’s privacy.)
God who isn’t all powerful. (Because something like Satan is sapping god’s abilities.)

They all don’t really make sense. I’m told if it made sense you wouldn’t have to have faith, which seems to be a key to all this. Even still, if you care what the bible says (as opposed to Harry Potter, which more people have read) god took his most faithful and asked him to sacrifice his son and then said LOL JK, which is a horrible thing to do to the faithful.

God straight up tortured Job… for no reason, and at the end Job’s reward was that he got to talk to god directly? Like can I just go to another universe instead where the guy who runs things is kind and just?

My wife’s theory is that people chose a life in our world out of boredom from a perfect utopia after millions and trillions of years. I don’t know how it can all work, I guess you are supposed to smoke some kind of drug and (queue zen noises) just transcend the mortal realm. I can’t really do drugs because it will make me even more insane.

Free will: the ability to make bad choices that will forever doom us. If there is a right answer just tell me, have a little angel pop up and say, “don’t do that or you will be punished for eternity.” Better yet: just make it impossible to do something that will damn me forever.

I want to see god (though to some extent to punish him.) God had to kill jesus to save humanity? What, not powerful enough to snap his fingers and remove our sin? He had to make a movie… bible I mean… a best seller to reach and save the souls he created himself?

I’ve had moments where the world seems orchestrated by some unknowable ineffable force, like a musical where everyone is dancing like puppets to some kind of unheard music. It was not pleasant for me, it makes me feel like a tool.

Philosophers have rigged up a lot of things to allow for god to exist, they made the definition of “Know” in ontology, mean belive something that is true, thus it is possible to “Know” that god exists. I do not know that god exists, I believe it, but the truth is unknowable, and that is at best frustraiting when so many people want so much and so little seems to be fixing a dying planet.

My point was that the existence of a number like Pi should be just as surprising

The surprise doesn’t mean much, it’s what the actual meaning of the truth is. Numbers existing is as clear as the fingers on my body, the idea that logic itself can prove that logic has limitations seems much more meaningful.

The goal is to choose goodness by free will, not by force.

I get tired of that choice over and over, do I ever get done with it?… Also, because I have free will I can choose to accidentally cut my finger with a kitchen knife while I cook, or make a million mistakes that cause infinite pain and sorrow? I have to choose to be vigilant against errors because that is the path to virtue?

You cannot prove all truths for the same reason you cannot pinpoint the exact value of Pi.

Calculus is the study of infinity, and a taylor series can be used to repersent Pi exactly as well as prove that it is irational, a complicated proof that will take up a few pages of rigerous language. (It is much easier to prove root 2 is irational.) But infinity, countable, uncountable, and the various hierarchies of infinite series that goes all the way up, are all route things to a math guy.

“God the teacher” – your life is a test, and god is a cruel strict school marm who does not love you. Every second, god is testing your purity, every action is graded and scored. Once you “graduate” you get to deal with a god who isn’t an arse?