Is god happy for his Cards?
Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2011 3:33 am
The baseline would be the theoretical peer gods. To say that G-d is kind, or merciful or forgiving.....as opposed to what? Does one mean in comparison to his peer gods, who all have different levels of mercy and kindness?
To say that a perfect being has personality traits and biases seems to me to be contradicting.
What makes humans appear to have unique personalities? The two main things I come up with are intelligence levels and emotions. Since G-ds intelligence level can't be in question, he would make the same choice, given the same set of circumstances, every time. But to say that a perfect being can be ruled by emotion is limiting them. To say that a perfect being would make different choices, (or even different from his peer g-ds) given the same set of circumstances, based on his state of emotion at the time isn't reasonable. in my opinion. The emotion is wagging the G-d.
Since a theoretical perfect being must have all thought available to them at all times, for God to be surprised, snuck up on by an emotion seems unlikely. If a thought were to occur to god..."I'm sad", at the exact same moment another thought would be available to him saying "I don't want to be sad, that's no fun". I think I choose to be not sad. Same goes for angry or miffed or depressed.
It's the stuff a billion self help books have been written about ever since man first needed those things. Other people don't make us angry, or sad or happy. We do. We select the option.
Curt
To say that a perfect being has personality traits and biases seems to me to be contradicting.
What makes humans appear to have unique personalities? The two main things I come up with are intelligence levels and emotions. Since G-ds intelligence level can't be in question, he would make the same choice, given the same set of circumstances, every time. But to say that a perfect being can be ruled by emotion is limiting them. To say that a perfect being would make different choices, (or even different from his peer g-ds) given the same set of circumstances, based on his state of emotion at the time isn't reasonable. in my opinion. The emotion is wagging the G-d.
Since a theoretical perfect being must have all thought available to them at all times, for God to be surprised, snuck up on by an emotion seems unlikely. If a thought were to occur to god..."I'm sad", at the exact same moment another thought would be available to him saying "I don't want to be sad, that's no fun". I think I choose to be not sad. Same goes for angry or miffed or depressed.
It's the stuff a billion self help books have been written about ever since man first needed those things. Other people don't make us angry, or sad or happy. We do. We select the option.
Curt