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  1. TY for sharing this example of the three-body problem, @[email protected]!
    It is a striking example of the fact that #omniscience is impossible. #Omnipotence, incidentally, is also impossible, because an omniscient being cannot generate random numbers.
    Fascinating #physics and #ethics:)

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6qsr3ebzrptzaycswv63nnh4/post/3mqluwy66fq2i

  2. TY for sharing this example of the three-body problem, @[email protected]!
    It is a striking example of the fact that #omniscience is impossible. #Omnipotence, incidentally, is also impossible, because an omniscient being cannot generate random numbers.
    Fascinating #physics and #ethics:)

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6qsr3ebzrptzaycswv63nnh4/post/3mqluwy66fq2i

  3. TY for sharing this example of the three-body problem, @[email protected]!
    It is a striking example of the fact that #omniscience is impossible. #Omnipotence, incidentally, is also impossible, because an omniscient being cannot generate random numbers.
    Fascinating #physics and #ethics:)

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6qsr3ebzrptzaycswv63nnh4/post/3mqluwy66fq2i

  4. TY for sharing this example of the three-body problem, @[email protected]!
    It is a striking example of the fact that #omniscience is impossible. #Omnipotence, incidentally, is also impossible, because an omniscient being cannot generate random numbers.
    Fascinating #physics and #ethics:)

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6qsr3ebzrptzaycswv63nnh4/post/3mqluwy66fq2i

  5. TY for sharing this example of the three-body problem, @[email protected]!
    It is a striking example of the fact that #omniscience is impossible. #Omnipotence, incidentally, is also impossible, because an omniscient being cannot generate random numbers.
    Fascinating #physics and #ethics:)

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6qsr3ebzrptzaycswv63nnh4/post/3mqluwy66fq2i

  6. “Trump’s whole life was a dress rehearsal for this moment: constantly imposing his will, wriggling out of scrapes, never held accountable, born on third base and thinking he’d hit a triple. He was the #American illusion of #omnipotence incarnate.”

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/post/3mhyzwizw4s2d

  7. “Trump’s whole life was a dress rehearsal for this moment: constantly imposing his will, wriggling out of scrapes, never held accountable, born on third base and thinking he’d hit a triple. He was the #American illusion of #omnipotence incarnate.”

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/post/3mhyzwizw4s2d

  8. “Trump’s whole life was a dress rehearsal for this moment: constantly imposing his will, wriggling out of scrapes, never held accountable, born on third base and thinking he’d hit a triple. He was the #American illusion of #omnipotence incarnate.”

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/post/3mhyzwizw4s2d

  9. A quotation from Walter Raleigh

    O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised: thou hast drawn together all the far stretchèd greatness, all the pride, cruelty and ambition of man, and covered it all over with those two narrow words, Hic jacet!

    Walter Raleigh (c. 1552-1618) English statesman, soldier, writer, explorer
    The Historie of the World, in Five Bookes, Book 5, ch. 6, sec. 12 (1614)

    More about this quote: wist.info/raleigh-walter/81507…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #walterraleigh #sirwalterraleigh #death #epitaph #mortality #omnipotence #doom

  10. A quotation from Walter Raleigh

    O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised: thou hast drawn together all the far stretchèd greatness, all the pride, cruelty and ambition of man, and covered it all over with those two narrow words, Hic jacet!

    Walter Raleigh (c. 1552-1618) English statesman, soldier, writer, explorer
    The Historie of the World, in Five Bookes, Book 5, ch. 6, sec. 12 (1614)

    More about this quote: wist.info/raleigh-walter/81507…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #walterraleigh #sirwalterraleigh #death #epitaph #mortality #omnipotence #doom

  11. A quotation from Walter Raleigh

    O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised: thou hast drawn together all the far stretchèd greatness, all the pride, cruelty and ambition of man, and covered it all over with those two narrow words, Hic jacet!

    Walter Raleigh (c. 1552-1618) English statesman, soldier, writer, explorer
    The Historie of the World, in Five Bookes, Book 5, ch. 6, sec. 12 (1614)

    More about this quote: wist.info/raleigh-walter/81507…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #walterraleigh #sirwalterraleigh #death #epitaph #mortality #omnipotence #doom

  12. A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

    If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce. Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak; the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent, and nowhere, in all the annals of mankind, has any god succored the oppressed.

    Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
    Lecture (1872-01-29), “The Gods,” Fairbury Hall, Fairbury, Illinois

    More about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #conquest #deity #destiny #divineintervention #domination #evil #God #history #omnipotence #oppression #problemofevil #problemofsuffering #suffering #slavery #theodicy

  13. A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

    If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce. Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak; the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent, and nowhere, in all the annals of mankind, has any god succored the oppressed.

    Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
    Lecture (1872-01-29), “The Gods,” Fairbury Hall, Fairbury, Illinois

    More about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #conquest #deity #destiny #divineintervention #domination #evil #God #history #omnipotence #oppression #problemofevil #problemofsuffering #suffering #slavery #theodicy

  14. A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

    If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce. Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak; the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent, and nowhere, in all the annals of mankind, has any god succored the oppressed.

    Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
    Lecture (1872-01-29), “The Gods,” Fairbury Hall, Fairbury, Illinois

    More about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #conquest #deity #destiny #divineintervention #domination #evil #God #history #omnipotence #oppression #problemofevil #problemofsuffering #suffering #slavery #theodicy

  15. A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

    If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce. Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak; the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent, and nowhere, in all the annals of mankind, has any god succored the oppressed.

    Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
    Lecture (1872-01-29), “The Gods,” Fairbury Hall, Fairbury, Illinois

    More about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #conquest #deity #destiny #divineintervention #domination #evil #God #history #omnipotence #oppression #problemofevil #problemofsuffering #suffering #slavery #theodicy

  16. A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

    If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce. Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak; the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent, and nowhere, in all the annals of mankind, has any god succored the oppressed.

    Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
    Lecture (1872-01-29), “The Gods,” Fairbury Hall, Fairbury, Illinois

    More about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #conquest #deity #destiny #divineintervention #domination #evil #God #history #omnipotence #oppression #problemofevil #problemofsuffering #suffering #slavery #theodicy

  17. Trump is no strongman when it comes to #Russia or #Israel. If other democracies don’t step up, anarchy awaits

    It is too easy to blame Donald #Trump for everything that goes wrong in the world. The ability of any #US president to fundamentally change or control the behaviour of other major powers is frequently overestimated

    Yet by posing as a sort of uncrowned global #monarch and grand arbiter of #war and #peace, Trump perpetuates fantasies of US hegemony, #omnipotence and divine right ...

  18. Trump is no strongman when it comes to #Russia or #Israel. If other democracies don’t step up, anarchy awaits

    It is too easy to blame Donald #Trump for everything that goes wrong in the world. The ability of any #US president to fundamentally change or control the behaviour of other major powers is frequently overestimated

    Yet by posing as a sort of uncrowned global #monarch and grand arbiter of #war and #peace, Trump perpetuates fantasies of US hegemony, #omnipotence and divine right ...

  19. Trump is no strongman when it comes to #Russia or #Israel. If other democracies don’t step up, anarchy awaits

    It is too easy to blame Donald #Trump for everything that goes wrong in the world. The ability of any #US president to fundamentally change or control the behaviour of other major powers is frequently overestimated

    Yet by posing as a sort of uncrowned global #monarch and grand arbiter of #war and #peace, Trump perpetuates fantasies of US hegemony, #omnipotence and divine right ...

  20. Trump is no strongman when it comes to #Russia or #Israel. If other democracies don’t step up, anarchy awaits

    It is too easy to blame Donald #Trump for everything that goes wrong in the world. The ability of any #US president to fundamentally change or control the behaviour of other major powers is frequently overestimated

    Yet by posing as a sort of uncrowned global #monarch and grand arbiter of #war and #peace, Trump perpetuates fantasies of US hegemony, #omnipotence and divine right ...

  21. Trump is no strongman when it comes to #Russia or #Israel. If other democracies don’t step up, anarchy awaits

    It is too easy to blame Donald #Trump for everything that goes wrong in the world. The ability of any #US president to fundamentally change or control the behaviour of other major powers is frequently overestimated

    Yet by posing as a sort of uncrowned global #monarch and grand arbiter of #war and #peace, Trump perpetuates fantasies of US hegemony, #omnipotence and divine right ...

  22. A quotation from Margaret Atwood

    Perhaps he’s reached that stage of intoxication which power is said to inspire, the state in which you believe you are indispensable and can therefore do anything, absolutely anything you feel like, anything at all.

    Margaret Atwood (b. 1939) Canadian writer, literary critic, environmental activist
    The Handmaid’s Tale, ch. 37 (1986)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/atwood-margaret/7560…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #indispensability #intoxication #omnipotence #power #powermad #unstoppability

  23. A quotation from Margaret Atwood

    Perhaps he’s reached that stage of intoxication which power is said to inspire, the state in which you believe you are indispensable and can therefore do anything, absolutely anything you feel like, anything at all.

    Margaret Atwood (b. 1939) Canadian writer, literary critic, environmental activist
    The Handmaid’s Tale, ch. 37 (1986)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/atwood-margaret/7560…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #indispensability #intoxication #omnipotence #power #powermad #unstoppability

  24. A quotation from Margaret Atwood

    Perhaps he’s reached that stage of intoxication which power is said to inspire, the state in which you believe you are indispensable and can therefore do anything, absolutely anything you feel like, anything at all.

    Margaret Atwood (b. 1939) Canadian writer, literary critic, environmental activist
    The Handmaid’s Tale, ch. 37 (1986)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/atwood-margaret/7560…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #indispensability #intoxication #omnipotence #power #powermad #unstoppability

  25. 📚 book idea:

    **"Wh̶ea̲ther God? - Faith in times of climate catastrophe"**

    The main idea would be that contrary to popular belief, "deity of the weather" is actually a very sensible re-specification of #omnipotence for the coming decades/centuries.

    #climate #theology @theologidons @theology

  26. 📚 book idea:

    **"Wh̶ea̲ther God? - Faith in times of climate catastrophe"**

    The main idea would be that contrary to popular belief, "deity of the weather" is actually a very sensible re-specification of #omnipotence for the coming decades/centuries.

    #climate #theology @theologidons @theology

  27. 📚 book idea:

    **"Wh̶ea̲ther God? - Faith in times of climate catastrophe"**

    The main idea would be that contrary to popular belief, "deity of the weather" is actually a very sensible re-specification of #omnipotence for the coming decades/centuries.

    #climate #theology @theologidons @theology

  28. 📚 book idea:

    **"Wh̶ea̲ther God? - Faith in times of climate catastrophe"**

    The main idea would be that contrary to popular belief, "deity of the weather" is actually a very sensible re-specification of #omnipotence for the coming decades/centuries.

    #climate #theology @theologidons @theology

  29. 📚 book idea:

    **"Wh̶ea̲ther God? - Faith in times of climate catastrophe"**

    The main idea would be that contrary to popular belief, "deity of the weather" is actually a very sensible re-specification of #omnipotence for the coming decades/centuries.

    #climate #theology @theologidons @theology

  30. A quotation from Byron, George Gordon, Lord:

    «««««
    Because
    He is all-powerful, must all-good, too, follow?
    I judge but by the fruits — and they are bitter —
    Which I must feed on for a fault not mine.
    »»»»»

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/byron/60460/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #benevolence #blame #divineplan #fault #God #omnipotence #theodicy

  31. A quotation from Gaiman, Neil:

    «««««
    And I wanted someone who is absolutely and utterly powerful. It’s interesting because at the time, John Byrne had just taken over Superman and had announced that he was making Superman less powerful because he had become too powerful and you couldn’t write interesting stories about people that were too powerful. That star…
    »»»»»

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/gaiman-neil/16614/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #character #omnipotence #power #writing

  32. A quotation from Dante Alighieri:

    «
              Charon, bite back your spleen:
    this has been willed where what is willed must be,
    and is not yours to ask what it may mean.
              [Caron, non ti crucciare:
    vuolsi così colà dove si puote
    ciò che si vuole, e più non dimandare]
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/dante-alighieri-poet

    #quote #quotation #command #divinepurpose #divinewill #God #omnipotence

  33. Daily Study Bible: Morning, June 2 biblehub.com/devotions/Morning

    > ... who can defeat Omnipotence?

    Me: That about sums it up.

    Two devotionals side by side wind up complementing one another. (See image.) Now that's intersectionality.

    #devotional #Omnipotence