Why does God want to?

[rnd]

1) Why does God want to explorer himself by creating life, humans and what-not? What is it that makes him want to?

 

2) Since it's infinite, will God ever be able to completely explorer himself 100%? 

[ajasatya]

1) for the most pure and unconditional awe

2) no. every experience of BEING is completely new. it's impossible to reach 100%, 90%, 50%, 10% or even 1%. we're bound to an eternal 0%.

[Leo Gura]

1 hour ago, rnd said:

1) Why does God want to explorer himself by creating life, humans and what-not? What is it that makes him want to?

"Want" is a poetic word here. More accurately God just is. Is-ing and wanting boil down to the same thing.

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2) Since it's infinite, will God ever be able to completely explorer himself 100%? 

God is fully actualized at all times. What appears to you to be a process which takes time (people being born & dying) from God's POV has all happened in less than on trillionth of a second. Actually in zero time.

Everything that will ever happen in the universe has already happened from God's POV.

Infinity was fully actualized in zero time for eternity. But for a human to be a human, it must appear as though infinity is slowly unfolding. In truth it exists as folded & unfolded simultaneously because there isn't a difference between the two at the Absolute level.

Think of a video game cartridge which already has all the possible gameplay sessions coded in it at once. In a sense, a video game is just an infinite possibility space. Every time you play it, it is different. But all the possible paths are already there baked into the cart. There's nothing you can do which will "surprise" the cart. In a sense, the cart "knows" all. You just have to tell it which paths you want to take.

God is the entire cart AND all the individual gameplay sessions which can be played. The two are actually identical.

[Truth Addict]

@Leo Gura ❤️?

[SoonHei]

24 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Infinity was fully actualized in zero time for eternity. But for a human to be a human, it must appear as though infinity is slowly unfolding. In truth it exists as fold & unfold simultaneously because there isn't a difference between the two at the Absolute level.

Think of a video game cartridge which already has all the possible gameplay sessions coded in it at once. In a sense, a video game is just an infinite possibility space. Every time you play it, it is different. But all the possible paths are already there baked into the cart. There's nothing you can do which will "surprise" the cart. In a sense, the cart "knows" all. You just have to tell it which paths you want to take.

@Leo Gura Love your analogies  <3

 

[CreamCat]

1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

Think of a video game cartridge which already has all the possible gameplay sessions coded in it at once

Are all the possible gameplay sessions coded in GTA 5 at once?

[Leo Gura]

@CreamCat Obviously. Otherwise they could not occur. You can't make GTA do anything which isn't already coded into it, by definition.

Of course the programmers themselves do not have a full understanding of all the possibilities they coded, because the possibilities are infinite. They'd have to have an infinite mind to know that.

In a sense, you'd have to play an infinite number of GTA sessions in order to fully know what GTA is. So no one actually knows what GTA is other than God, who has played through everything everywhere.

That's what omniscience is: the state of all possible unfoldings of reality unfolded in zero time.

From God's ultimate POV, everything which can happen has happened because it is outside of time. Everyone is just one singularity, like a tiny seed. Except this is an infinite seed which holds all possible universes. Every video game that could ever be made exists in that seed. And every object that could ever exist.

[Leo Gura]

@Drake140 You are right at the nexus of deciding what will happen. You are the player of the game. So yes, there are rules of course, but you have a say too, since you are a part of creation.

You already hold that everything which happens obeys certain rules. This you call the physical world. You can't just turn into bird and fly away. Limitations are imposed upon you at all times as a human.

[Inliytened1]

@Drake140 remember Infinity does not have to have it carved out for it to be there.  So yes him responding saying he's not sure happened already but it does not necessarily have to be carved out in form so to speak.  Instead its isness, or it just IS.  Another word for isness is Being.

We reverse collapse Being/isness into form when we create, or simply be, but it was always there.

Edited May 23, 2019 by Inliytened1