Have you went down any internet rabbit holes only to come out with a deep set existential crisis? If so, what are they?

  • ssm@lemmy.sdf.org
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    5 months ago

    Roko's Basilisk / Pascal's Wager scared me for a little while. Then I realized it was stupid.

    Also you can invert Pascal's Wager and argue that god could not want to be worshipped, and worshipping a god result in punishment due to celebrating ignorance and blind faith.

    • stewie3128@lemmy.ml
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      5 months ago

      Tri-omni God problem. The God that we are told is worthy of worship is

      1. Omniscient, and
      2. Omnipresent, and
      3. Omni-benevolent.

      The presence of evil in the world demonstrates that no more than two out of those 3 can possibly be true at the same time. Thus if God does exist, he's not all that and a bag of gummy bears.

      • PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com
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        5 months ago

        The "solutions" to this are called theodicy and are definitely a fascinating rabbit hole. They're all unsatisfying, but philosophically interesting

      • BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
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        5 months ago

        Omnipotent, not just omnipresent (which would be entailed by the combination of omnipotence and omniscience).

        Otherwise the problem has a very obvious and unsatisfactory solution (god has no power to make a difference).