Hi Bruno Marchal Everything that God does by definition is just. God is righteous and he is justice itself.
Perhaps it is not the best, but the best possible action in this contingent world. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 9/20/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-20, 05:28:08 Subject: Re: the "nothing but" fallacy. On 20 Sep 2012, at 03:09, meekerdb wrote: On 9/19/2012 5:41 PM, Jason Resch wrote: Also, the concept of a super intelligent entity torturing someone may be almost contradictory, for they may realize the identity of all minds, and therefore they would be torturing themselves. That would be an inconsistency of values, but not a logical contradiction. Yes. And self-torture exists. It is called masochism. Is God a masochist? That would explain some things, but I am not sure "It" can qualify for that, as God, according to many religious theories, has no nameable attribute. Bruno http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
