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What are the odds that we are all in a simulation? (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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[–] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This is quite literally how many religions view their divine beings. They are so massive that they are beyond your comprehension and we would be powerless to impact them.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Including the Abrahamic religions except people are simple and have rewritten the mindboggling idea "can not comprehend" to punishable dogma "must not mention by name, gaze upon, depict".

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)

    Except then the same gods are really worried about what you eat, or do with your specific meat-based mammalian reproductive anatomy.

    A remote, totally amoral deity a la Lovecraft is at least consistent with facts. Nobody wants to believe in that one, though. You could go polytheist to avoid immediate falsification, too.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    The believers would argue that of course these gods have desires but you wouldn’t understand them because you cannot much like the fly in front of me cannot grasp astrophysics.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Yeah. Saying "you just don't get it and never will" is a great way of defending anything you want. Even if, like in this case, it's not consistent with the facts. The "it's a sin to question, so don't or else" approach has also seen quite a bit of use.

    And for some reason, what god is telling us is always convenient for the powerful, and for the dominant culture...

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