Thursday, March 15, 2018
From dice to duties
A quora question about the meaning of "God doesn't play dice" drew the usual set of answers about Einstein vs Bohr. Pretty good answers within the normal bounds of normal secular conversation.
Convective thought from a different angle:
When I think of God, I'm thinking of the totally predictable design and course of the whole universe.
There is no such thing as random. It's a null concept.
Every choice is completely predestined by the design of the universe.
We call some choices random because we can't possibly calculate the looooooooooooooong chain of events that led to the choice.
We call some choices determinate because we can see and understand how this choice follows from another choice made by humans; or follows directly from easily measured inorganic events like planetary rotation.
From this angle, ask the question again: Does God play dice?
Of course God plays dice. Every time you play dice (or roulette or any other unskilled game of chance) you are playing against God and you will lose. The universe KNOWS which dots will be upward. You don't know which dots will be upward. You're a sucker, just the same as speculating in Bitcoin or trading stocks or any other activity that is not MAKING THINGS.
When you are MAKING THINGS you are playing on the same side as God, so you're going to win. God made the incalculably complex mechanisms of our cells and organs and nerves with a PURPOSE in mind. Our GOD-ASSIGNED DUTY is to make more life, more order, more complexity, more value, more beauty.
Labels: From rights to duties, Natural law = Sharia law
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