Daft_ish@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · edit-28 months agoWhat is your favorite paradox or conundrum? I am partial to can god kill god?message-squaremessage-square243fedilinkarrow-up1133arrow-down119file-text
arrow-up1114arrow-down1message-squareWhat is your favorite paradox or conundrum? I am partial to can god kill god?Daft_ish@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · edit-28 months agomessage-square243fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareSPRUNT@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up27arrow-down3·8 months agoI like George Carlin’s version: “If God is all powerful, can he make a rock so big that he himself can’t lift it?”
minus-squareBrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up34·8 months agoWeird 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 :)
minus-squareHarriPotero@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up21·8 months ago“Can God microwave a burrito so hot that he himself cannot eat it?”
minus-squaretherealjcdenton@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 months agoI was gonna say that but didn’t know the exact phrasing
minus-squareOmega_Haxors@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·edit-28 months agoYes. Yes he can. It’s only a paradox to our comprehension.
minus-squaresexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·8 months agoI don’t see why that’s a paradox. It’s like asking if infinity is bigger than infinity, where both infinities are aleph 0.
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?”
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 :)
“Can God microwave a burrito so hot that he himself cannot eat it?”
I was gonna say that but didn’t know the exact phrasing
Yes. Yes he can. It’s only a paradox to our comprehension.
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.