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[–] Sergio@piefed.social 20 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I realize he's talking about "history is written by the victors" but I thought of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_of_all_possible_worlds

[–] GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone 26 points 4 days ago (3 children)

If this is the best of all possible worlds then God must be pretty fucking terrible at making worlds.

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I go with Schopenhauer:

Arthur Schopenhauer argued, contrary to Leibniz, that our world must be the worst of all possible worlds, because if it were only a little worse, it could not continue to exist.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

We appear to be working on proving Schopenhauer's theory.

[–] DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

How great it would be to realize that our god is the equivalent of a grade school child making finger painting and crayon drawing versions of worlds in the timeout chair and this was just the one we got stuck with.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

I've read webcomics with something close to that premise.

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That was the point of the satiric novella Candide.

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 2 points 3 days ago

Actually assumed naively that was the subject of the conversation above. Oh well.

écrasez l'infame

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 8 points 4 days ago

Its object was to solve the problem of evil, that is, to reconcile the existence of evil and suffering in the world with the existence of a perfectly good, all-powerfuland all-knowing God, who would seem required to prevent it

I'm reminded of HAL from 2001 for some reason. Maybe because HAL was given two conflicting goals and went insane trying to reconcile them with each other, rather than simply discarding the goal that was obviously just some nonsense.

[–] MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I couldn't get past this...

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Is that Leibniz?

Such a fancy boy

Edit: didn't click the link before posting. Dunno if I should be impressed or concerned that I recognized this dude lol.

He might look like a dandy, and might have been way too weirdly Christian, but the man was a fucking genius. Still think his notation style for calculus was better than Newton's

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 11 points 4 days ago

Wai? Dude looks like he plays drums in a Spinal Tap tribute band. What could be better than that?

[–] too_high_for_this@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Beings are possible together, in turn, when they do not enter into contradiction with each other. For instance, it is logically possible that a meteor might have fallen from the sky onto Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales's head soon after he was born, killing him. But it is not logically possible that what happens in a given world (e.g. that Jimmy Wales founded Wikipedia) also does not happen in the same world (i.e. that Jimmy Wales did not found Wikipedia).