The meaning of life

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Forum / God is Playing Hide and Seek
# smallBang - 2008-05-07 01:07
Is it possible for God, a being who knows all and who is the creator of everything, to have fun? Nothing can surprise him and the laws of chance do not apply to him!

God invented a game in order to have some fun. He plays at forgetting himself by being you, me, the trees and the animals. The object of this game is to have various adventures experienced through a limited consciousness, to evolve little by little, to expand this consciousness, and finally return to his true self and remind himself that this has been nothing more than a divine game of hide and seek.
# An existing person - 2008-05-12 19:24
assumptive.
# Sai - 2008-05-18 12:37
Thanks for your post!

This is the theory most of the religions follow. Let's say this is true. Then why do we not know who we are? Some religions say this is our mission in this life. Why do we need such a mission or a test? If we are really God then why did we not have faith in our own ability to pass this test. Does this mean that God's abilities are limited? Does this mean that God is training himself to develop new skills in our form?

I seek an answer from this.

Thanks!
Sai
# knower - 2008-07-15 01:53
There is one tiny problem with this answer: you are ascribing human qualities to God. While I agree that the only sensible conception of God requires omni-(science, potence, etc.), this would also mean that God does not experience the need (or want, or desire) to have fun. This is one of the contradictions of conventional religions: a God who acts (even if there is only the act of creation, without further interference) contradicts the idea that God is perfect. If God finds it necessary to act, that means there is a state that God seeks to achieve prior to the act. After the act has been accomplished, God gains the state of having achieved a desired result. All this contradicts the notion that God exists outside the constraints of physical limitations that God himself invented. However, if we concede that God is himself limited by laws which he himself invented (or, for that matter, is constrained by laws that exist outside of God's influence), then he's not much of a God. He's simply a more powerful being than a human, but a constrained being nevertheless. I don't know about any theologians take on this but it seems to me that any conception of God that does not include infinitudes is arbitrary. This is similar to comparing any finite number with infinity. It is not that 376 is less than infinity, it is simply a concept fundamentally different than infinity. It's just like dividing infinity in half: you don't get two half-infinities. Same with God: any finite attribute of God is arbitrary and does not work with God's basic infinite nature.
To conclude simply: either God is real and infinite in all respects, or God is not real. There can be no middle ground.
# Anonymous - 2008-12-17 16:52
Ha ha ha... thats exactly what I think (I wrote the "after life is boring" one, that you just commented on ). If you really think about it, how boring would it be to be god ( you are all knowing and have done and can do anything..whats left?) I too, if I was god, I would create a world, make some rules to it, get rid of all my knowledge and become life. That way I could redo everything as if it was new... thus have some fun!
# smallBang - 2008-12-17 17:11
by: Anonymous
Ha ha ha... thats exactly what I think (I wrote the "after life is boring" one, that you just commented on ). If you really think about it, how boring would it be to be god ( you are all knowing and have done and can do anything..whats left?) I too, if I was god, I would create a world, make some rules to it, get rid of all my knowledge and become life. That way I could redo everything as if it was new... thus have some fun!


It's fun to see we think of the same things as other people sometimes! :-)

Another absurd/funny answer: Annihilating Nothingness, if you are interested.

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