Food for though
January 29, 2001
First I read this:
“This process is referred to as “meeting your maker.” I wouldn’t worry too much about the experience itself. My calculations show that even if God dedicated all of his time meeting the dead, you would only get to meet him for half of one second. There are 56 million deaths occurring annually and only 32 million seconds in a year.” [source]
Then I did this:
Assignment #1
What are the implications of production (this case, the ‘unit’ you’re producing is ‘meeting your maker’) if ‘Armageddon’ were to occur?
Assumptions:
- God is real
- Every word in the bible is real
- Souls are real
- Your soul will traverse to the gates of heaven upon death and be judged
There are roughly 6 billion people in the world. Should the prophetic event entitled Armageddon occur, all 6 billion people will be dead. This triggers the spontaneous release of 6 billion souls into the Heaven to be judged. This can be likened to the christmas season shopping boom that retailers face – only on a much larger scale. ie. yearly demand for ‘meeting your maker’ is 56 million. The additional one-time demand of 6 billion is roughly a 10,700% increase in demand. Remember AOL? Their demand spiked up, i don’t know how many percentage points, but i’m sure nowhere near 10000%. Anyway, assume for the moment that God has the capacity to meet this new demand. Instead of half a second, you now get 0.005s with your creator. I’m not sure if that gives you enough time to even look at your creator. So: I assume that all souls want to see/talk/question God because of our natural inquisitive nature, so if we only get 0.005s, i’m sure all 6 billion customers will be very unsatisfied.
Now let’s assume that each person will require at least 5 mins to find out all answers to the questions that have plagued them in their lifetime. It will take 57078 years to completely answer the questions of each soul. God is a busy busy man/woman/omnipotent being.
Also think of the implications of heaven and hell occupancy. Let’s say half of the people go to Heaven, and half to Hell. I bet famous people like Da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Hitler, George Washington, Ghandi, Kurt Kobain will be so annoyed by people wanting to talk to them. I’d be pissed off it I was in my eternal bliss paradise when say 1000000 people come pestering me, telling me they love my work or they want an autograph.
I know what you Godboys and Godgirls will say: God is almightly and therefore time is no constraint to his almighty power, or somethign like that. Wake up! Everytime an intelligent atheist points out a fact that denies/belittles/reduces the power of God, you churchies will do nothing but make up some ridiculous rule that is nothing but a religious loophole that makes God invincible. Anyone see Dogma? I think that was a very clever movie. The God in that movie (played by the ever so talented Alanis Morrisette) had constraints to his/her power. And who created God?
I was going to say I’m not trying to offend anyone, but i guess it would offend churchies that I just stomped on their precious religion and spat on the bible. You know, I do believe in A god, but by no way anything near the God in the bible. Remember – the bible was written by a bunch of old men about 5 zillion years ago. This means over time, and over countless translations, things get distorted. AND I’m sure the people who wrote the damn book put some of the own self-interest in it. Anyone who questions the book is deemed a sinner – for it is the word of God??? Now tell me, who actually witnesed ‘God’ speak the words of the bible?
No court in Canada will accept hearsay as legitimate evidence in a trial but here, millions of people worldwide are using hearsay to determine their actions and beliefs. That is called ignorance. Ignorance leads to downfall.
That update felt good. Anyone have a rebuttal? Send it here.
