weirdway

Let's say an omnipotent entity is travelling and comes across a community of people. He socialises with them and has a fun time. He decides to stay there for a while and creates close friendships with 2 people. He knows that he could leave that world forever if he chooses and move on. He also knows he can bend that world to his will if he wished. His two friends aren't privy to that knowledge, they are just conventional beings.

The entity grows to really like his two new friends and wishes that they could accompany him. But the power difference is so large, these two people would get ripped apart if they traversed beyond their realm and they would probably emotionally and mentally suffer a lot. It would be like taking 1000 doses of DMT in a row, it would completely destroy them.

The entity also feels strange when he hangs out with his friends. He knows something they don't and it bothers him greatly. And even if he told them and revealed his power to them, he would still feel weird because of the massive power difference. If your friend revealed they had god-like superpowers, would your reaction to them change? It certainly would.

An omnipotent entity would either declare those 2 friends as "powerful enough" and by virtue of this declaration it would become true for all intents and purposes of that entity. Alternatively, this entity would never get lonely in the first place, because it would routinely encounter people like itself, at an appropriate power level, because that's the entity's will, and it being omnipotent, as it wills, so it is.

Basically an omnipotent entity has arbitrary tuning of anything and everything. There are no problems that remains problems for long.

For an omnipotent entity a problem is when they change how they want their experience to be, but didn't get around to actually changing their experience yet. And being able to contemplate possibilities without those contemplations spilling out into the protected domain of experience is part of omnipotence too.

Although I have to say it's weird to call an omnipotent being "an entity." It's like attributing will and life to a body, just as wrong in the final analysis. I would refer to something as an entity when I regard it as distinct from myself and as being "out there." When I regard myself I am not en entity to myself. Just like to myself I am also not a body or anything other concrete and optional.

Originally commented by u/mindseal on 2017-09-24 16:45:54 (dnfhzj7)