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Sunday, March 7, 2010
God and the Burrito
I have been busy this week so i havent done much thinking about philosophy but i thought you all may like this question.
Can god make a burrito so big that he him self can not eat?
I think God can, if a man can make a truly Universal set: For a set to contain all sets, it must contain (in addition to all the other sets) itself. But then, by adding itself, there exists a set that has all other sets and itself, so that set too must be added ... ad infinitum .
I use that illustration for this reason: The answer to the conundrum, I believe, is in determining if "all-powerful" means "even more powerful than oneself"; it is similar with the Universal-set riddle, in which you must define "all-containing" -- does it mean "even containing itself"?
... of course if god is an aesthetic then he won't eat more than he needs ... in which case the issue becomes one of desire and moderation rather than one of capacity ...
Maybe a better question is: "Can god make a burrito so perfect that he will choose not to eat it?"
... but there I go again diverging into the koan school of alpha-mangling ...
I think that God, as a perfect being, does not eat. But then, since he made man in his own image, does that mean that God has a digestive system? And since eating implies defecation, is thunder what happens after God eats his burrito? I think he picks green chile.
Then there would also be the question of "if everything god creates holds a piece of Him/Her, would it then be considered cannibalism?" Which then leads to a definition of cannibalism--if a deity eats a piece of itself... what happens?
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ReplyDeleteI think God can, if a man can make a truly Universal set: For a set to contain all sets, it must contain (in addition to all the other sets) itself. But then, by adding itself, there exists a set that has all other sets and itself, so that set too must be added ... ad infinitum .
ReplyDeleteI use that illustration for this reason: The answer to the conundrum, I believe, is in determining if "all-powerful" means "even more powerful than oneself"; it is similar with the Universal-set riddle, in which you must define "all-containing" -- does it mean "even containing itself"?
Do you think God ever gets hungry? And why a burrito? Or better yet... Red or Green??
ReplyDelete... of course if god is an aesthetic then he won't eat more than he needs ... in which case the issue becomes one of desire and moderation rather than one of capacity ...
ReplyDeleteMaybe a better question is: "Can god make a burrito so perfect that he will choose not to eat it?"
... but there I go again diverging into the koan school of alpha-mangling ...
I think that God, as a perfect being, does not eat. But then, since he made man in his own image, does that mean that God has a digestive system? And since eating implies defecation, is thunder what happens after God eats his burrito? I think he picks green chile.
ReplyDeleteAccording to some of the teleological views, if God made a burrito so big that he could not eat it (red or green :-) --he could not be God.
ReplyDeleteThen there would also be the question of "if everything god creates holds a piece of Him/Her, would it then be considered cannibalism?" Which then leads to a definition of cannibalism--if a deity eats a piece of itself... what happens?
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