As someone who works outside most of the day, this meme is bullshit. It's hot as fuck out here and it's not even summer yet.
Yeah I'm not even stepping a toenail outside
True!
I'm already drinking between 1.5 to 2.5 gallons a day! I don't think I can up my intake much more.
Outside is where the mosquitos live.
There’s sunlight too. Gross.
I feel attacked
Perhaps I should go touch grass
Edit: Fun fact: it's allergy season and I'm now itchy. 10/10 would recommend touching grass anyways.
I’ll go outside, but I am NOT putting the phone down.
At least put pants on
I walk outside as God intended.
Balls swinging, crocs squeaking.
no
Ok, just look out for that p...
Oh, never mind. Should I call an ambulance?
What was the P? Pole? Pothole? Pussycat?
Why the fuck would an """all-knowing god""" need to test people?
Only the most benevolent of beings test people.
For fun
Touché... It just get pretty boring being omnipotent and all-powerful
I mean, I really do NOT defend religion, because over all, it really is a crock of BS twisted history and Baby's First Philosophy rolled in to garbage cults.
... Though there ARE multiple reasons an "all-knowing" god would test their creations, even if they "knew the results". This happens all the time in the real world. Some engineers just enjoy seeing their creations do something, even if it's doomed to be a prototype. Software engineers test their stuff all the time when they "know" what it will do.
Hell, 99.9% of science itself is getting a solid idea before you run the experiment. Remember: scientists test hypotheses, not hair-brained ADHD shower thoughts.
So while religion is overall total BS for dummies, individual components DO make sense, in their own way. It wouldn't be so popular if the pieces didn't make more sense than the whole.
There is a big difference between getting a solid idea for what will happen before testing and literally being able to see the future as clearly as the present. If a software developer literally can see the future and already knows what error will occur if he tries to run the code then he would not run it. Or to use the engineer example, let's say someone is creating a humanoid robot which is still in the early phases of development but the creator believes that it has just reached a point where it is able to sort of balance for a second. First of all, he can't KNOW that it's at that point without testing. And even if he has a very good idea that it is probably at that point he certainly won't know exactly how it is going to fail eventually during the test. If the designer is all-knowing then he would literally know every force that is applied to the robot as it attempts to stand, the exact way that it will stumble down to the minutiae, etc. There is no reason, not for fun, not for learning, literally no logical reason to run that test in that case.
I also agree that religion is a bunch of BS but if I were to try to come up with a justification to the question of why an all-knowing creator would test their creation, I would say that it isn't for the sake of the creator but rather to teach the person they are testing about themselves or some BS like that. That being said, I think there are many many ways that you can poke holes in the logic of a creator being all-knowing, just, and all-powerful; all three of which are claimed by believers. Alternatively, you can also focus on the all-knowing aspect specifically by illustrating that it is impossible for free will to exist if god is all-knowing. At least not the version of free will that most people refer to. If you want to claim that free will can exist even if there is only one possible time line then that's another argument.
Because humans experience a lot of growth during trials and tribulations.
Ah yes, the Mother Theresa approach. You know, she accepted modern medicine near the end, despite denying it to others. This is more often than not the truth of this subject amongst the "devout".
Because He feels like it? Why does God have to behave according to your standards?
I don't think all-knowing exist outside of fiction, and neither do God.
But just for fun, I think there is an interesting way religious people would answer, and a more satisfying one than just saying God's works in mysterious way.
See we can see free will as a God given power to make choice in a otherwise deterministic world.
The testing would just see what we do with his power.
And since it comes from him, it could be outside of something knowledgeable, outside of the "all".
Or, at least to make him or his powers outside of the "all" would be the best solution to paradoxes like can 'God create a rock he can lift?' etc...
P.S. Obviously another way to answer the paradox and my personal belief is to discard the reality of words like all-knowing or omnipotent. But i think this view has some merits, it can't probably be better put philosophically... (I'm not a philosopher thought ^^)
I think about this a lot, about free will to make a choice in an otherwise-deterministic universe, and the thing that gets me is... yeah, it sort of makes sense if you consider the person making the decision like a black box. A decision comes out, and it seems free.
But what goes on in the box? How can it possibly be free will? If I were making a choice to benefit myself, and I had perfect information about the options and the consequences, then wouldn't everybody in my position make the same (objectively best) choice? If I make a non-optimal decision because I lack some information, then that's not free will, that's due to an external circumstance. If I make a non-optimal decision because I'm not of rational mind, then that's not free will, that's either an intrinsic quality of my mind, or due to external influences. If I chose to be intentionally non-rational to prove that I have free will, the idea of free will itself and the need to prove it would be the external influence driving me.
If the choice was just one of just one of preference, then the preference is either one I was born with, or the product of outside influences. Maybe there's somebody who can logic themselves into liking cauliflower au gratin without reference to subjective sensory experience, or cultural significance, and I just can't imagine how?
Not defending religion, but part of religion is philosophy. It seems to be a pretty fundamental part of psychology that people need to experience hardships and overcome them. This is the path to reach a peaceful feeling that you have some control in this world and the ability to carve out a life worth living.
Maybe the test says less about the tester, and more about the testee.
Going outside? What for, exactly?
To experience the anthropogenic global warming.
So boooring...
Just be confident and have a shower. 99% of your problems will be solved if you just did that.
Wow, that completely healed an entire childhood of trauma in a single comment.
Get a bottle of No-More-Tears and cross out Tears and write in Trauma in sharpie. Lather, rinse, repeat. Easy as that.
Follow me for more counselling advice and haircare tips.
Bro don't be an incel. Take a shower and wash that trauma off and be confident.
Jokes on you, Jesus. I'm outside on my phone.
Outside? But that's where the evil tree pollen is D:
The grass here is spiky and horrible. It'll break the skin, it's basically walking on occasional thorns. I don't recommend touching grass in all situations, and I need to move
Have you considered shoes?
Outside is overrated. We have food and shade and air conditioning and fans and screens to keep bugs out and real computers (fuck phones) and videogames and books and all sorts of shit inside. Outside is a nightmare of garbage weather, bugs, skin cancer, strangers, and who knows how much random bullshit you can get into.
Fuck outside.
No.
I went outside yesterday and the mosquitoes almost carried me off - and it's not even full summer yet.
Stupid warm winter. Stupid global warming.
Go outside so you can melt like an ice cream cone in the sun.
What if you pitched a tent in your living room and got inside it with a second phone in your other hand?
Sure, go out for a walk into town or the forest, or a bike ride. Meet nobody who wants to talk to you, take photos that nobody wants to see or just sit and listen to birdsong. The one thing I have gained out of going outside frequently is the realization that we are one organic system, every plant, every animal, unified by the fact that every living creature has a finite life span. So my body too will rot and decay, I will no longer exist in the present and that is beautiful, for however much I hate my life, it is no different from that of a squashed bug on the dirtpath.
I know a few people who this applies to.
The grass here is spiky and horrible. It'll break the skin, it's basically walking on occasional thorns. I don't recommend touching grass in all situations, and I need to move
looks like all of these self-improvement-incel-bros memes. thanks, i'll stay inside. it's safe here.
literall--
Downvote and move on. OP needs to learn a second adverb.
