tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2998170988042649652.post8588819799791708444..comments2023-05-09T09:26:34.907+01:00Comments on Andi Osho's Life Blog: This Life - What Are We Doing Here and Who's This God Fella? Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09360568846630713473noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2998170988042649652.post-30169152487965516172014-03-16T13:46:26.227+00:002014-03-16T13:46:26.227+00:00There could also be the thought that God exists ou...There could also be the thought that God exists outside our measurable reality. For example, if you went with a Deterministic theory of the universe, particularly the 'Block Universe' where the universe exists as a four dimensional object where all actions are set. Just as the past is unchangeable, so is the future essentially. Time becomes an abstract concept as how do you describe time? What is it's essential principles? Moves at 1 second per second.... which in a mathematical sense means 1 divided by 1 equals one, which doesn't really tell me much. <br /><br />This kind of finite fixed universe poses a problem for God existing within such a universe, as it holds everything else to a set defined series of actions capable determined by the object's make up, so how could a being that is omnipotent, omnipresent and the creator of the known universe exist within said object? The block universe theory posits that if you were to stand outside it, you wouldn't perceive time, just set events. Perhaps that's the same?<br /><br />Kind of bums out the idea of free will though. If everything moves and acts according to being moved or acted upon in the first place, then how are we agents of our own actions? Everything else in the universe requires an outside influence to cause movement, nothing apart from life seems imbued with its own set of desires, much like how balls on a pool table don't move unless one is hit by another. So, if we do have free will is this because of an outside force is acting upon us so we will do such things? Or are we somewhat smaller gods? Or not at all, if determinism is fully correct, and that things have been planned for us and that's that.<br /><br />I'd add more but I think if I do I am likely to disappear up my own arse in a very short amount of time. I am only an armchair philosopher in reality. Set as it is.Michael Miocevichhttp://500and50.comnoreply@blogger.com