From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Thu Apr 03 2003 - 18:05:18 MST
--- brent.allsop@attbi.com wrote:
> If some alleged God came up with some answer to this
> "why?" question that truly
> made rational sense for why misery is tolerated by
> powerful beings ? now that
> would be powerful evidence of their true Godliness.
> We would still be screwed ?
> but it would be impressive.
The one that seems to make the most sense:
Because, even with all their power, they still have
finite resources. It is more efficient to make us
solve our own problems than to intervene - even if
that
means we suffer when we screw up, and even if we
insist
in believing that certain events are just
unpredictable
random chance.
This seems unlikely, though, since we can point to
examples on the power scale we do have where it is
more
efficient for the powerful to invervene, in certain
ways, for nearly any intent (especially just getting
the less powerful to become powerful enough to be able
to help the more powerful). For instance, by teaching.
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