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Post by ObserverStatus on Sept 3, 2015 1:30:28 GMT -6
For one, I'm not an atheist. But that matters little as I found that every theist who got defensive calls out non-conforming people atheists as if that would miraculously strenghten their argumentative position. And your ant to internet-meme-spammer analogy is so laughably beside the point that I'm half a mind that you're just trying to troll me because you just keep mindlessly regurgitating the same dogmatic nonsense as if it were the answer when my initial argument was in fact entirely focused on the inherent contradiction this dogma represents. Repeating it ad nauseum doesn't make its obvious fallacies go away. You're not even thinking in circles, you're not thinking at all. Telling yourself you have superstrenght isn't going to make you lift an object that's too heavy for a human to lift. Neither is continuing to tell yourself you have superstrenght going to be the answer to that dilemma. So what motivates God? Who knows? The need for love? Curiosity? Weariness? Many ancient civilizations have similar flood myths, most likely because the imaginations of early civilizations were excited by the floods that the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers would bring to the cradle of civilization. The Sumerians were unique from many other civilizations, however, because they believed that the gods destroyed the earth with a great flood not because the humans were too sinful, but because they were too noisy. The humans made so much noise that the chief god Enlil could not sleep, and decided to drown us all so he wouldn't have to listen to our noise any more. But then, the other gods forced him to create humanity anew, for without humans to do their work for them, they would have to dig irrigation canals for themselves. So who is to say that god is all powerful? Perhaps the universe came to be exactly the way atheists say it did, and the gods are just as puzzled by their own existence as we are? Perhaps the most powerful beings in existence are still limited by their need to sleep, and digging canals is so exhausting to them that they would prefer to rely on mortals to do it for them? I don't find it so hard to believe that somewhere out there in a universe, there could be a God of Insomnia, eternally tormented by the noise of 2.172*10^36 mortals living their lives. This God of Insomnia could be powerful enough to devastate entire worlds, but there could just be too many worlds for them to silence enough to get a decent rest. Perhaps the insomnia will drive them mad. Perhaps someday they will just destroy our world out of spite. It has been suggested that the mind of a god would be just as incomprehensible to a human as the mind of a human would be to an ant, so perhaps the noise is just a metaphor for some concept that only God can understand. Scientists once performed an experiment in which they genetically modified a colony of E. coli to produce light every time they synthesized a protein, and they expected that the colony would produce a continuous glow. But instead, it flickered in a seemingly random fashion. The scientists expected the E. coli to behave in a clock-like fashion, producing proteins at regular intervals, but there did not seem to be any rhyme or reason to their timing. Even worse, although every single E. coli in the colony was a clone of the same organism, none of them seemed to create proteins the same way. They created a sound track in which every flash of an E. Coli is represented by a sound, and instead of the continuous tone they had expected, it turned out to be the most annoying static-like sound. The scientist who explained this in the radio interview I learned this from kept describing the E. Coli as sloppy, and noisy. Sloppy, noisy. Humans tried to make sense of the activities of these bacteria by representing their activities with light and sound, but by doing so, we only made them seem more annoying. These bacteria had no idea that they would be labeled as noisy, or sloppy, because of the way humans went about trying to make sense of their existence. Perhaps our relationship with God is not so different from the relationship between the E. coli and the scientists? Perhaps there is something about our existence that annoys God when they try to make sense of it in the same way the static of the E. coli is annoying to us? That could be it, when the Sumerians said that Enlil wiped out the first humans for being too noisy, the noise could have metaphor for some concept so alien to us that we could not comprehend it anymore than a bacterium could be aware of its own protein synthesis.
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