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What is your favorite paradox or conundrum? I am partial to can god kill god? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Daft_ish to c/[email protected]

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The monotheistic all powerful one.

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[–] SPRUNT 23 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I like George Carlin's version: "If God is all powerful, can he make a rock so big that he himself can't lift it?"

[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Weird attribution, man :) That one, and a lot of others like it, come all the way from the 12th Century and thereabouts. Carlin’s influence is awesome and deserved, but I don’t think it stretches that far :)

[–] HarriPotero 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"Can God microwave a burrito so hot that he himself cannot eat it?"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"All of the "is infinite power so powerful that it could overpower its own power" type questions just annoy me.

Is infinite power so powerful it can do something that it can't do?

Yes it can. And then it can do that anyway. Otherwise it wouldn't be infinite."

[–] HarriPotero 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So you're saying he would wait for it to cool down before eating it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

It's a copy pasta from another thread, just like the comment I replied to.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I was gonna say that but didn't know the exact phrasing

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

I don't see why that's a paradox. It's like asking if infinity is bigger than infinity, where both infinities are aleph 0.