God must be bored

**habilis** · July 11th, 2003, 09:37 AM

Creating the Universe is cool and everything but just imagine, it took around a billion years before the universe cooled down enough for hydrogen gasses to start coalescing into the first stars following the Big Bang. That would suck to have to wait that long just to see the first star, I mean what are you doing in the meantime, with a universe full of nothing but occasional pockets of gas. Then, to add insult to injury, even after the planets themselves formed, you would have to wait 2 or 3 billion more years just to see a little single celled blob floating arounding in the primordial seas.

If God is a supreme being, who consciously creates things, or makes choices, that would mean all other intellectual logic would apply to him as well, meaning he could get bored, especially over the timespan of 15 or 20 billion years, which is how old the known universe is. Also, if you're god, the creator of the universe, that means that you know everything, all the secrets about the universe, and everything in between. So if you know everything, what is the point of existing? I mean how incredibly boring would that be?

**serpicolugnut** · July 11th, 2003, 09:41 AM

God? Bored? Not!

Your suggestion presupposes that God is subject to linear time, just like we are. If God is truly an omnipotent being, than moving backward and forward through time would be no harder than moving from place to place....

But what do I know, I'm agnostic...

**toast** · July 11th, 2003, 09:56 AM

Wrong, serpico. If God wasn't lienar, he wouldn't have rested on the 7th day

But what do I know ? I'm agnostic too...

**habilis** · July 11th, 2003, 10:26 AM

I'm agnostic 3, but what does it matter if you can travel through time. You're still going to be conscious in one form or another for billions and billions of years, which you would be bored to insanity and beyond.

BTW, if you believe in heaven, and eternal life after death, you're going to be facing the same boredom crisis.

**toast** · July 11th, 2003, 10:40 AM

Eating white fruits for eternity

**Trip** · July 11th, 2003, 11:30 AM

That's the fun of being a god though, you can't get bored. You can go create planets and watch the species of your choice slowly evolve into something great and then start killing themselves.

And then what? You do it again! C'mon, what could be funner than creating sounds never before heard/thought-of or creating colors we could never imagen being created.

Plus if you were god would you be sitting around all day? Heck: I'd come on down to earth and give the peeps down in Las Vegas something to holler about.

**Sogni** · July 11th, 2003, 12:42 PM

Uh, SimCity 4 and The Sims anyone?

Me thinks: Same general idea. Especially the part about messing up their lives - that's always fun! heh

**Vard** · July 11th, 2003, 12:53 PM

I am agnostic 4...and here's my take...

Most people here seem to be speaking of God as if it were subjected to time. What if it's not? I mean, billions of years can be long for us, but what if it didn't matter at all....it just IS always....no time or distance involved

...or maybe it was just spending that time laughing to itself about all of us analyzing the hell out of it.

I know I would

Later,
Vard