Why must I prove what I am when there is nothing to suggest that I am not?
I’m not trying to persuade you that I am God.
I’m only asking why you think I am not.
Well, I’m still sitting here.
Executive J.: You admit you’re not omniscient. You can’t kill an obvious disbeliever, hell, you don’t even threaten me to spending eternity watching reruns of “The Gong Show.” You apparently don’t have the intellect to respond to Atreyu in even a halfway intelligent fashion.
All I can say is that you are one piss-poor diety.
Atreyu said that God would know what is wrong with asking to prove a negative.
I asked “on what do you base that”.
Explain to me how my answer displayed how I do not have an adequate intellect to respond? As I see it, logic was connected in relation to what was presented.
How is it that it was not?
I’m an atheist. I haven’t accepted the God even exists, let alone that he’s some guy posting on the net.
You’ll have to prove the first part before I’d even bother worrying about the second part.
I can not prove that you are NOT God. I can not prove that I am not God. No one can prove that they or anything else IS God. Where does this leave us? Unless I’m missing something, it seems that either everything or nothing is God.
All other mythologies and faiths are only wishful thinking, I’m afraid.
you are asking me to prove that I meet the qualification that you define as “god”.
I cannot do that without knowing what those qualifications are.
Finally, where have you been, Lord? I’ve been looking all over for you. I suppose you didn’t get all the messages I’ve been sending you since I was little. Well, while you’re here, let me list the things that I’ve been praying for during the last 22 years:
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For you to fix the broken arm of my Transformers toy.
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For you to reveal where I lost my GI Joe toy.
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For you to get me out of trouble when my friends and I broke a cement manhole cover.
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For you to give me the power to become invisible.
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For you to get the person who actually let the air out of the bike tires to confess to his crime, getting me out of a 1-month detention.
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For you to let me stay smarter than everyone else.
That’s all for this installment. There are more prayers, but I can’t recall them offhand. Anyway, could you see to these first, and we can go on from there?
PS
Yes, these are actual things I prayed for. I was a selfish little bastard, wasn’t I?
I don’t require a God, thus I don’t care whether you are God or not.
I can’t recieve your prayers.
What makes you think I can?
Then this discussion is not for you.
Believe me, The GREAT AND DREADED CTHULHU knows a God when he sees one, and ** Executive J **, you ain’t a God, god, Outer God, Great Old One, Mediocre Old One, Elderly God, Senior Citizen God, or anything even having the littlest bit of supernatural power.
What makes you think God has supernatural powers
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Dopers are not impressing God - I must say.
God would know that it is impossible to PROVE that HE was not communicating on the internet. Therefore it would be extremely illogical of HIM to issue the challenge of making such a proof. Therefore it is extremely UNLIKELY that you are GOD since you have failed to consider the obvious.
Maybe you are GOD but HE has a really dumb sense of humor.
Know little, suspect much, believe nothing.
Dal Timgar
Well, you asked a stupid question, so don’t be surprised if you get a variety of stupid answers.
In this case, though, I’d say all the basic solipsism arguments have been effectively discussed, boiling down to:
[ul][li]The burden is on you to prove that you’re God, not on us to prove otherwise;[/li][li]If you’re not going to provide a working definition of “God”, the discussion is pointless; and[/li][li]Even if you are God, what have you done for us lately? You God-ness or non-God-ness has no apparant effect on our lives, so the issue is moot, and boringly moot at that.[/ul][/li]
Had you asked the similar question “Can anyone prove the universe is real and not simply an illusion created for my benefit”, you’d likely get similar answers: nobody can prove it, and it’s a waste of time trying.
Judging from this thread and that other thread you started, you seem to have arrogance but no originality. That’s a tricky combination.
The fault in everyone’s logic is this (and you have done the same):
“God would [do this]”.
My question is “How do you know that?”
On what do you base such a claim?
Oh, a serious reply. I wasn’t expecting that. Very well, then, what is it that you are referring to when you use the word “God”? As commonly understood in the overwhelmingly Judeo-Christian society that most of us live in, “God” refers to an omnipotent entity (actually, the omnipotent entity) that created the universe and supposedly has the best interests of humanity in mind. Are you that?
And don’t pull that Socratic irony crap. You know very well what the word means in everyday discourse in North America (which is where I assume you live). So of course people will ask you questions based on their understanding of what the word “God” means (i.e. that God is supposed to answer prayers, be omniscient, smite the wicked, and so on).
And I think you can receive prayers because that was what I was taught. Which is the answer for everyone else that makes assumptions of your nature.
As God, I feel the need to introduce this blatant and neglected logic.
This only an excersize.
And I’m still waiting for that stuff I asked for, Lord.
Err, what? God, you’re not making much sense.
Wait, now that I think about it, incoherence is one of God’s trademarks. You’re doing a good job of proving your divinity. Hosanna in the highest!!