thinking of the classic trilemma of how there can be evil if god can be omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent my take: essentially what we imagine "omnipotent" to be includes arbitrary intervention, but such actions are illusory & so the idea god can take them meaningless
Why the problem of evil rests on an incoherent omnipotence
10 tweets · December 2022 · 71 likes · 3 retweets · read on Twitter
can god use his dashboard to select the leftmost half of the universe and delete it? of course the fuck not that makes no fucking sense
no more than god can have already sprooged eleventy colorless green ideas that are sleeping furiously this is highlighted by the classic "can god create a rock so heavy he can't lift it?" you fool. you absolute moron. your concept of god is irrelevant
...I really like the "you fool. you absolute moron." phrase for some reason but I want to be clear it's the memes here that are moronic not the people holding them like everything, they make sense from the inside!
the fact that we can imagine god reaching a giant hand down to do something to prevent evil doesn't make that make sense not "being able to do that" doesn't contradict god's omnipotence
it's the same error as thinking "I should just quit smoking" or "the government should just..." it's not that you CAN'T, but "just" is sus
god is the whole universe the whole universe knows what it's up to the whole universe wills goodness (as far as I can tell, and many have corroborated) the whole universe has the power to do whatever it in fact will do
these are not in conflict they may seem in conflict from a single person's narrow viewpoint but if you think god isn't omnipotent or omnibenevolent because god SHOULD do something god's not doing? uhhh. why do you think you know better?
PS: you are god—god's goodness is enacted (in part) by you, however it makes sense to you to enact it love and do as thou wilt (and start by loving yourself, if the rest feels too hard)
ahh oop I typo'd, though it doesn't affect what I actually meant. the first tweet should read "omnipotent, omnibenevolent & omniscient" I put "omnipresent" for some reason which sort of doesn't really mean anything here also, good thoughts on the topic: twitter.com/squidpunk1312/…