[lit-ideas] Re: TUESDAY'S FORCAST

Eric's right - Donal's wrong. 

Too hot here on the Avalon for further argument. 25 degrees! Second day in a
row. Newfoundlanders melting on the streets. Penguins washing ashore. Cod being
caught already fried (and breaded). Blueberry trees going up in smoke. Dairy
Queen outlets being robbed by the thirst-ravaged and sun-stroked. Philosophy
professors spontaneously combust in sweltering classrooms while attempting to
generate light. Water in the harbour rapidly evaporating, leaving Japanese
trawlers unable to reach Prince Edward Island.

It's the end of the world! And god sees it all as a moment of eternity and an
eternity in a moment. (Didn't somebody say something like that?)

Walter O
Cool as a cucumber




Quoting Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

> 
> --- On Wed, 29/7/09, Walter C. Okshevsky <wokshevs@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Hmmm ... Does an omniscient and omnipotent "being" really
> > have reasons?
> > Rendering this thought in transcendental locution: Is it
> > *possible* for a
> > "being" answering to this description to have reasons?
> > (That we mere mortals
> > often do attribute reasons and intentionality to god is not
> > in question.) 
> 
> As mentioned some years ago, the notions of all-knowing and all-powerful are
> at odds with each other and in themselves paradoxical:
> 
> at odds because if God knows all then S/He must know what is to come, but if
> this is known then God cannot be empowered to change what is to come because
> the capacity to change it would mean it cannot be known in advance;
> 
> paradoxical because if God is all-powerful then God must have the power to do
> something that even God is powerless to undo, in which case God is not all
> powerful; and if God does not have the power to do something God cannot undo,
> then God is also not all powerful;
> 
> paradoxical because if God is all-knowing then God must know all about God,
> but if God knew all about God then S/He...actually I haven't thought this one
> through. 
> 
> Donal
> If God cannot have reasons then S/He is not all-powerful, since S/He lacks
> the capacity or power to have reasons. So there.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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