If God exists, would It have a sense of humor?

[ThePainefulTruth]

I imagine that a god would be much like Slartibartfast.

Hmmmm, they don't have badges here for irrelevant.

 

[Revoltingest]

Hmmmm, they don't have badges here for irrelevant.

He had a wry sense of humor.
That seems relevant.

 

[PureX]

If so, what would make God smile, so to speak, or laugh?
If not, does that mean God is just a cold fish or fancy computer program?

God "exists" within and through us. So if we have a sense of humor, our sense of humor is also "God's sense of humor".

 

[Lucian Hodoboc]

Bingo! God could only be surprised by independent creatures with free will.

He's omniscient. He knows all possible futures that we could ever create through our choices.

 

[ThePainefulTruth]

That's right./quote]

So you're saying we're not made in God's image.

Because the existence of G-d's motivation is beyond our conception. It may not exist.

Yeah, but if God does exist......

It is a claim to know nothing. It is a claim about myself (that I can't know G-d). G-d is presumably knowable to Himself. I'm not making any claims about G-d.

I don't have any knowledge of G-d, so it comes from nowhere.

Nay, if God does exist, it does come from somewhere, your self-awareness.

First it needs to be proved that G-d needs to have desire in order to act in a non-mechanical manner.

That is a feature of the creation, what proof do you have that it is a feature of the Creator?[

The only alternative is that God had no desire to create the universe, yet It did. That shouts God not being in control.

The contradiction only exists in a dimension in which it works that way.

Have you deduced some special knowledge of dimensions I haven't heard of. If so, you need to publish.

All I'm saying is, you can't derive any essential traits about the Creator from the Creation.

We can't create anything without revealing something of ourselves, and we're made in God's image--or do you believe we're not. I thought you were biblical, and that's one of the great bits of wisdom there is in the Bible.

 

[SabahTheLoner]

Humor is keeping us alive right now. Maybe it's what keeps God alive too. That is assuming the existence of God is provable and true.

 

[ThePainefulTruth]

He's omniscient. He knows all possible futures that we could ever create through our choices.

God, if It exists, sets our choices beyond It's omniscience in order that we have free will. If God knows what we're going to do before we do it, the choice isn't ours, it's God's--making us God's hand puppets.

 

[blü 2]

If so, what would make God smile, so to speak, or laugh?
If not, does that mean God is just a cold fish or fancy computer program?

You don't think life is a joke?

 

[Lucian Hodoboc]

God, if It exists, sets our choices beyond It's omniscience in order that we have free will. If God knows what we're going to do before we do it, the choice isn't ours, it's God's--making us God's hand puppets.

I fail to see how omniscience contradicts the existence of a certain number of choices. Complete free does not exist in this life. We are given a number of choices and each one leads to various different outcomes.

 

[Grandliseur]

If so, what would make God smile, so to speak, or laugh?
If not, does that mean God is just a cold fish or fancy computer program?

Have you noticed how funny some animals look?
Have you noticed how funny a beautiful woman looks once she is heavily pregnant? (naked of course)
Have you noticed how ridiculous a man looks when his penis is ready for sex?

Have you noticed some of the animal dances they do for getting a mate interested?

There can be little doubt as to God having a sense of humor.

 

[jonathan180iq]

If so, what would make God smile, so to speak, or laugh?
If not, does that mean God is just a cold fish or fancy computer program?

There are no higher animals that don't have a sense of humor of some type. I imagine that this would have to be true of the hypothetical deity that created them as well.

 

[sayak83]

Much humor is based on surprise. How can an omniscient being be surprised?

Much other humor is based on forcing us to look at ourselves. The discomfort produces laughter. How does this work with a perfect being?

On the other hand, perhaps the universe is just a great big joke and God is laughing at it continually.

Cats doing funny things are also humorous without having those features.

 

[Akivah]

If so, what would make God smile, so to speak, or laugh?
If not, does that mean God is just a cold fish or fancy computer program?

No. G-d does not have a sense of humor nor any other human characteristic. A pillar of Judaism is that G-d is Eternal and Unchanging. Having an emotion is experiencing a change.

 

[ThePainefulTruth]

You don't think life is a joke?

I know a lot of people do, but, whether or not God exists, no. I believe this is a test for our own edification, again, whether or not God exists. What did we do with the life we had.

 

[ThePainefulTruth]

Have you noticed how funny some animals look?
Have you noticed how funny a beautiful woman looks once she is heavily pregnant? (naked of course)
Have you noticed how ridiculous a man looks when his penis is ready for sex?

Have you noticed some of the animal dances they do for getting a mate interested?

There can be little doubt as to God having a sense of humor.

Yes, and speaking of animals, just look at the Democrats starring in the Theater of the Absurd.

No. G-d does not have a sense of humor nor any other human characteristic. A pillar of Judaism is that G-d is Eternal and Unchanging. Having an emotion is experiencing a change.

So:
1) How do you know that even if God is eternal, that It doesn't experience change?
2) Why should we think that God doesn't change in the first place?
3) And how can we be created in God's image and not have any characteristics in common?

 

[Polymath257]

Cats doing funny things are also humorous without having those features.

You aren't surprised by the antic of the cats?

 

[Vee]

If so, what would make God smile, so to speak, or laugh?
If not, does that mean God is just a cold fish or fancy computer program?

You can learn a lot about someone just by observing their work and that goes for God too. As a believer in the existence of a creator, when I look at nature and see so much purpose, imagination and diversity, in my mind God is someone with an incredible personality. I see His sense of humor in many things. Animals for example: spend some time looking at penguins, dolphins, monkeys or meerkats to name just a few and you find yourself having a laugh.
God is the opposite of cold.

 

[Akivah]

So:
1) How do you know that even if God is eternal, that It doesn't experience change?
2) Why should we think that God doesn't change in the first place?

It is in Torah.

3) And how can we be created in God's image and not have any characteristics in common?

We don't have any PHYSICAL characteristics in common. Our soul contains a Divine Spark, which is created in G-d's image.

 

[blü 2]

I know a lot of people do, but, whether or not God exists, no. I believe this is a test for our own edification, again, whether or not God exists. What did we do with the life we had.

Seems to me that the sense of humor is a survival tool for us complex gregarious animals.

So perhaps if you're immortal you don't need one. And you never understand why people might laugh.

 

[sayak83]

You aren't surprised by the antic of the cats?

No. I expect them to be doing those funny things.
If surprise was the factor here, an episode of Big Bang Theory would cease to be funny after the first watch.