No Stupid Questions
No such thing. Ask away!
!nostupidquestions is a community dedicated to being helpful and answering each others' questions on various topics.
The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:
Rules (interactive)
Rule 1- All posts must be legitimate questions. All post titles must include a question.
All posts must be legitimate questions, and all post titles must include a question. Questions that are joke or trolling questions, memes, song lyrics as title, etc. are not allowed here. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.
Rule 2- Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material.
Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.
Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.
Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.
Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.
That's it.
Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.
Questions which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.
Rule 6- Regarding META posts and joke questions.
Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-question posts using the [META] tag on your post title.
On fridays, you are allowed to post meme and troll questions, on the condition that it's in text format only, and conforms with our other rules. These posts MUST include the [NSQ Friday] tag in their title.
If you post a serious question on friday and are looking only for legitimate answers, then please include the [Serious] tag on your post. Irrelevant replies will then be removed by moderators.
Rule 7- You can't intentionally annoy, mock, or harass other members.
If you intentionally annoy, mock, harass, or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.
Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.
Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.
Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.
Let everyone have their own content.
Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here. This includes using AI responses and summaries.
Credits
Our breathtaking icon was bestowed upon us by @Cevilia!
The greatest banner of all time: by @TheOneWithTheHair!
view the rest of the comments
So first, asking religious questions on the Fediverse is a fool's errand, but that aside: Why not? Hell, if anything it'd be the other way around: An all-powerful being without emotion wouldn't create anything, because they wouldn't gain anything from doing so. Any creation by an omnipotent being would have to be an emotional affair.
Why? Because believers don't like the answers?
Because nobody actually answers the question. "Because it's bullshit" is the least interesting, least informative answer you can give to a question like this, and it does nothing except make the commenter feel clever. It gets especially annoying when legitimate answers are buried under dozens of "because God doesn't exist I'm so smart." Now an answer could reject the premise that a creator exists and still be interesting, but it'd have to do better than the armchair anthropology everyone here seems so fond of.
Discussing about a being whose existence cannot be verified in reality is an exercise in futility.
I hope you have the same opinion regarding philosophy, pure math and string theory, but also: Then don't fucking answer the question. Clearly some people, including the OP, see value in discussing beings whose existence cannot be verified in reality.
I don't care a iota about philosophy, in fact.
Pure math is a self-contained system that only occasionally is useful in reality
String theory has no full international scientific consensus, so for now is just a possible model of reality. Does it bother you?
You seem to think I recognize your authority to give me orders. I don't.
As long as they postulate it as fiction, I don't have an issue with that. The moment they posit they ideas are real, they're exposed to scrutiny to those among us who care about what's real and what's not.
As a final note, your tantrum is somewhat amusing, but in a different sense is somewhat sad. Make of that what you want.
... Wow. I'm going to hope for the sake of everyone you'll ever meet that you're just 14 or something.
I hope you don't procreate until you get rid of your religious delusion.
Phew.
No, he's giving you free advice on how not to be an insufferable dickhead in public; advice that you seem to desperately need, and this is coming from an atheist, before you think I am playing team sports.
It's a very simple concept: if all you're contributing to a conversation is the equivalent of coming into the room and violently jerking yourself off while going "hurrrr look how big my dick is" you're being actively detrimental to the conversation no matter if you're right or wrong.
You can engage with the conversation while disagreeing with the premise, that is not what you're doing. You are just being a smug teenage dickhead who needs to butt into every conversation to, if nothing else, reinforce the idea that there should be harsher barriers to being on the internet in the mind of everyone looking at your "contributions."
Maybe it was boredom. I mean, when effortlessly power everything sometimes you just need a break.
Boredom is an emotion. As is hunger.