Maybe it was boredom. I mean, when effortlessly power everything sometimes you just need a break.
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
So first, asking religious questions on the Fediverse is a fool's errand, but that aside: Why not? Hell, if anything it'd be the other way around: An all-powerful being without emotion wouldn't create anything, because they wouldn't gain anything from doing so. Any creation by an omnipotent being would have to be an emotional affair.
StoneyPicton@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
riskable@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Boredom is an emotion. As is hunger.
richieadler@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Why? Because believers don’t like the answers?
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Because nobody actually answers the question. "Because it's bullshit" is the least interesting, least informative answer you can give to a question like this, and it does nothing except make the commenter feel clever. It gets especially annoying when legitimate answers are buried under dozens of "because God doesn't exist I'm so smart." Now an answer could reject the premise that a creator exists and sitll be interesting, but it'd have to do better than the armchair anthropology everyone here seems so fond of.
richieadler@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Discussing about a being whose existence cannot be verified in reality is an exercise in futility.
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
I hope you have the same opinion regarding philosophy, pure math and string theory, but also: Then don't fucking answer the question. Clearly some people, including the OP, see value in discussing beings whose existence cannot be verified in reality.