Apr 11, 2005

you get to choose

Here's a philosophical question to ponder.

Assuming they are mutually exclusive, which would you rather have: omnipotence or omniscience? Why?









Update: Two posts, two calls to "ponder." *sigh*
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4 comments:

  1. Captain Princess11:31 AM

    What was that oracle's name, the one Apollo cursed? She could see the future, but she couldn't alter it.

    I say onmiscience because then you could set up a spooky business place where you foretell people's deaths and they pay you lots of money.

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  2. Jim Anderson11:36 AM

    Her name was Pythia, and how dare you implicitly impugn her motives.

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  3. eRobin1:32 PM

    I thought it was Cassandra. Was she the Roman one or something?

    I'm with thetachyix. I think omniscience would drive my insane unless I was omnipotent too. I'll take omnimpotent and run the risk that I'd foolishly use my powers the wrong way. That would be horrible though ...

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  4. Jim Anderson2:17 PM

    Cassandra was the unsuccessful seer; no one believed her prophecies.

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