Daft_ish@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · edit-28 months agoWhat is your favorite paradox or conundrum? I am partial to can god kill god?message-squaremessage-square280fedilinkarrow-up1137arrow-down119file-text
arrow-up1118arrow-down1message-squareWhat is your favorite paradox or conundrum? I am partial to can god kill god?Daft_ish@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · edit-28 months agomessage-square280fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareBrundleFly2077linkfedilinkarrow-up34·8 months agoWeird attribution, man :) That one, and a lot of others like it, come all the way from the 12th Century and thereabouts. Carlin’s influence is awesome and deserved, but I don’t think it stretches that far :)
minus-squareHarriPotero@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up22·8 months ago“Can God microwave a burrito so hot that he himself cannot eat it?”
minus-square🖖USS-Ethernet@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months ago"All of the “is infinite power so powerful that it could overpower its own power” type questions just annoy me. Is infinite power so powerful it can do something that it can’t do? Yes it can. And then it can do that anyway. Otherwise it wouldn’t be infinite."
minus-squareHarriPotero@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoSo you’re saying he would wait for it to cool down before eating it?
minus-square🖖USS-Ethernet@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoIt’s a copy pasta from another thread, just like the comment I replied to.
Weird attribution, man :) That one, and a lot of others like it, come all the way from the 12th Century and thereabouts. Carlin’s influence is awesome and deserved, but I don’t think it stretches that far :)
“Can God microwave a burrito so hot that he himself cannot eat it?”
"All of the “is infinite power so powerful that it could overpower its own power” type questions just annoy me.
Is infinite power so powerful it can do something that it can’t do?
Yes it can. And then it can do that anyway. Otherwise it wouldn’t be infinite."
So you’re saying he would wait for it to cool down before eating it?
It’s a copy pasta from another thread, just like the comment I replied to.