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I disagree -- I think he wants a wooden phallus.

It doesn't matter, everyone already knows i'm god.  

Quote from: Arta[vL] on September 30, 2003, 05:32 PM
God would have neither a concept of 'living' (since he does not die) nor of 'boredom'. Boredom is the result of a mind that is not interacting with anything, or performing any task. Since God is omnipresent and omnipotent, there could not possible *be* a moment when he *wasn't* interacting with something - unless the entire universe just 'stopped'.

That's incorrect. Boredom is the result of a mind that doesn't need to think, doesn't have a challenge, pretty much a mind that doesn't risk failure. Since God is omnipresent and omnipotent, he would then be bored, all the time. The easier something is to do, the more boring.

There are different types of boredom, like me being bored in computer engineering because I know all of the course already (simplicity). There is also bored due to repetitive failure and giving up doing something, like me in english (lack of understanding). The only other boredom I can think of would be due to boredom caused by not doing what you want to be doing, like me in english (lack of interest).

This question (which I forgot to mention) stems more along the lines of is God capable of wishing, like the question 'is god capable of making  a rock so big that even he can't lift it', and my own made up one, 'is god powerful enough to kill himself'.

Quote from: Adron on October 02, 2003, 03:14 PM

Quote from: Arta[vL] on September 30, 2003, 05:32 PM
God would have neither a concept of 'living' (since he does not die) nor of 'boredom'. Boredom is the result of a mind that is not interacting with anything, or performing any task. Since God is omnipresent and omnipotent, there could not possible *be* a moment when he *wasn't* interacting with something - unless the entire universe just 'stopped'.

That's incorrect. Boredom is the result of a mind that doesn't need to think, doesn't have a challenge, pretty much a mind that doesn't risk failure. Since God is omnipresent and omnipotent, he would then be bored, all the time. The easier something is to do, the more boring.

You're applying human emotions to something that is not a human.

Quote from: iago on October 02, 2003, 07:32 PM
You're applying human emotions to something that is not a human.

You're assuming that god wouldn't model human boredom after his own boredom.