Exactly. But I felt some understanding of a "God" who would allow all possible parallel universes to continue (leaving aside for the moment the question of bringing them into existence). And previously I had felt no understanding of any God who would allow a universe like this one. (Also see quote to minipoppy :))
Thus it does reformulate the question, but from a question to which my only response was "It's impossible, there cannot be such a God" to "Hm, maybe those assumptions are not contradictory after all".
Which I thought was sufficiently interesting to ponder. And curious to know if other people would agree. (So far it seems mixed.)
why has the postulated value of God chosen for this iteration of me to experience this particular parallel rather than any of the trivially imaginable ones that are better than this one is some straightforward obvious ways
That is, in the parallel universe case, I felt I might possibly have let them exist. But am still unable to put into words why (or I could just have said that). But felt it likely that other people, presented with the same premise, might feel the same way, and either be able to explain better, or at least see something new into the question.
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Date: 2008-05-12 02:36 pm (UTC)Exactly. But I felt some understanding of a "God" who would allow all possible parallel universes to continue (leaving aside for the moment the question of bringing them into existence). And previously I had felt no understanding of any God who would allow a universe like this one. (Also see quote to minipoppy :))
Thus it does reformulate the question, but from a question to which my only response was "It's impossible, there cannot be such a God" to "Hm, maybe those assumptions are not contradictory after all".
Which I thought was sufficiently interesting to ponder. And curious to know if other people would agree. (So far it seems mixed.)
why has the postulated value of God chosen for this iteration of me to experience this particular parallel rather than any of the trivially imaginable ones that are better than this one is some straightforward obvious ways
That is, in the parallel universe case, I felt I might possibly have let them exist. But am still unable to put into words why (or I could just have said that). But felt it likely that other people, presented with the same premise, might feel the same way, and either be able to explain better, or at least see something new into the question.