Ruminations on multiverses; if they are evil (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, March 18, 2017, 00:13 (2807 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: It’s an amazing concept: a God who creates with no purpose other than to observe, and who might have absolutely no feelings whatsoever. It would mean that prior to his invention of life, he had had no personal experience of enjoyment, love, boredom, curiosity, sympathy, empathy, the good, the bad and the ugly. It took living forms to invent them. If that were true, I would rate your God as infinitely superior to us in the sciences and in sheer mental and physical power, and infinitely inferior to us and some of our fellow animals in every other conceivable way. I’m pleased to hear that you are now willing to accept the possible “humanization” of your God by agreeing that he may have attributes similar to our own. We are making progress.

Not much progress. If God is all alone, to whom does He relate to have all the emotional feelings you ascribe to Him? He might have created humans so that we could relate to him so He could observe our feelings and find out what emotions are like. That could be it. He's lonely and needed us to realte to!