What if God does Play Dice?

[ShahdagMountains]

One judges God according to whether one’s life’s circumstances met one’s expectations. Mark Twain suffered terrible blows—the deaths of his infant son, and of two of his daughters when they were in their twenties; correspondingly, his assessment of God was devastatingly bitter. In our days, the Holocaust has naturally become a focal point for theological discomfort. Yet oddly, the protagonist of the Book of Job—an astonishingly sophisticated discussion of innocent suffering—refuses to blame it on God (nor, just as remarkably, on himself). But Job was rather an exception.

Equally unique was Einstein’s opining on God, and his views on fairness. Those did not touch on ethics, but on the workings of the Universe. Einstein was awed by how perfectly-ordered and fine-tuned the Nature was, its current configuration predictably flowing from the immediately preceding one, based on immutable laws. Among the physicists, this view was universal—even if not felt with equally visceral intensity. But there came a reality check: a dawning realization that sometimes this predictability just wasn’t in evidence.

What if God does Play Dice?

by Lev Tsitrin (October 2024) As thinking social animals, we cannot help passing judgement on the people around us. Inevitably, those judgements are centered on ourselves. Is a neighbor

www.newenglishreview.org

 

[jwoodie]

Jesus understood God better than anyone else, and even he didn't get into this subject.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

One judges God according to whether one’s life’s circumstances met one’s expectations. Mark Twain suffered terrible blows—the deaths of his infant son, and of two of his daughters when they were in their twenties; correspondingly, his assessment of God was devastatingly bitter. In our days, the Holocaust has naturally become a focal point for theological discomfort. Yet oddly, the protagonist of the Book of Job—an astonishingly sophisticated discussion of innocent suffering—refuses to blame it on God (nor, just as remarkably, on himself). But Job was rather an exception.

Equally unique was Einstein’s opining on God, and his views on fairness. Those did not touch on ethics, but on the workings of the Universe. Einstein was awed by how perfectly-ordered and fine-tuned the Nature was, its current configuration predictably flowing from the immediately preceding one, based on immutable laws. Among the physicists, this view was universal—even if not felt with equally visceral intensity. But there came a reality check: a dawning realization that sometimes this predictability just wasn’t in evidence.

What if God does Play Dice?

by Lev Tsitrin (October 2024) As thinking social animals, we cannot help passing judgement on the people around us. Inevitably, those judgements are centered on ourselves. Is a neighbor

www.newenglishreview.org

"God" Hides His Dice

All phenomena that decadent physicists claim can never be explained just proves their incompetence and disrespect for logic.

Einstein was referring to a Nazi scientist's Indeterminacy Theory. Instead of being stumped, the quack scientific hierarchy should have seen it as logical proof that there was an outside dimension affecting the apparently random phenomena.

 

[luiza]

Jesus understood God better than anyone else, and even he didn't get into this subject.

Of course .
The Fake figure invented by Constantine at and after Nicea 325 AD when he needed to reduce competing religions from ca. 2500 to 1 .
And the Space Alien worshippers still repeat the same Fake story and believe every word .

 

[braalian]

"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded."
– Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, "Looking God In The Eye"

 

[DGS49]

THis is the (stupid) metaphor that works for me. Imagine an infinitely intelligent person playing pocked billiards, straight competition, on a pool table that is utterly without friction. S/he would break the rack in such a way that in time every ball would find a pocket.

When God created the universe, he put everything in motion making a perfect universe, and doesn't generally get involved in our matters as history rolls itself out. But in order for everything to work out there must be things that work out badly (natural disasters, diseases, houseflies, and so on). He also gave us unlimited freedom. IF we choose to be good, fine, and if we choose to be evil, that's fine as well - S/he is not going to get involved in the gagillions of daily injustices of life. But at the same time, he gave us, his creation, the ability to overcome all of life's fractuosities, even having your expensive beach house washed into the sea. The important thing to keep in mind is that this life that we see and experience is not the totality of our existence. A good life is rewarded and an evil life is punished in the afterlife.

If I didn't believe that I would off myself.

 

[SootedUpCyndi]

If there Is a Gawd?- He gave us a beautiful planet.. I gave you this? And you all messed it up! Reap what you sow-
And mankind came in--- with gubmints -regulations- wars ... political BS- I believe he turned his back on us...
I would too! He's got other planets to deal with... he's a busy guy?
We ARE a prison planet... full of filth- and he's moved on!

 

[zaangalewa]

... All phenomena that decadent physicists claim can never be explained just proves their incompetence and disrespect for logic. ...

Says someone who would be dead if physicists would be wrong?

 

[ding]

One judges God according to whether one’s life’s circumstances met one’s expectations. Mark Twain suffered terrible blows—the deaths of his infant son, and of two of his daughters when they were in their twenties; correspondingly, his assessment of God was devastatingly bitter. In our days, the Holocaust has naturally become a focal point for theological discomfort. Yet oddly, the protagonist of the Book of Job—an astonishingly sophisticated discussion of innocent suffering—refuses to blame it on God (nor, just as remarkably, on himself). But Job was rather an exception.

Equally unique was Einstein’s opining on God, and his views on fairness. Those did not touch on ethics, but on the workings of the Universe. Einstein was awed by how perfectly-ordered and fine-tuned the Nature was, its current configuration predictably flowing from the immediately preceding one, based on immutable laws. Among the physicists, this view was universal—even if not felt with equally visceral intensity. But there came a reality check: a dawning realization that sometimes this predictability just wasn’t in evidence.

What if God does Play Dice?

by Lev Tsitrin (October 2024) As thinking social animals, we cannot help passing judgement on the people around us. Inevitably, those judgements are centered on ourselves. Is a neighbor

www.newenglishreview.org

I think it's because God is transcendent that God doesn't get enough credit for caring.

 

[ding]

I believe he turned his back on us...

We are all being pruned by God. Most just don't know it.