JediSenshi on DeviantArthttps://www.deviantart.com/jedisenshi/art/Is-God-505027754JediSenshi

Deviation Actions

JediSenshi's avatar

Is God

By
Published:
2.2K Views

Description

Done using Paint.NET.  Stamplate by :iconchirilas:

Epicurus  Greek: Ἐπίκουρος, Epíkouros, "ally, comrade"; 341–270 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher as well as the founder of the school of philosophy called Epicureanism. Only a few fragments and letters of Epicurus's 300 written works remain. Much of what is known about Epicurean philosophy derives from later followers and commentators.

For Epicurus, the purpose of philosophy was to attain the happy, tranquil life, characterized by ataraxia—peace and freedom from fear—and aponia—the absence of pain—and by living a self-sufficient life surrounded by friends. He taught that pleasure and pain are the measures of what is good and evil; death is the end of both body and soul and should therefore not be feared; the gods neither reward nor punish humans; the universe is infinite and eternal; and events in the world are ultimately based on the motions and interactions of atoms moving in empty space.

Image size
294x174px 16.37 KB
© 2015 - 2024 JediSenshi
Comments135
Join the community to add your comment. Already a deviant? Log In
OkAlyx's avatar

Quantifying God with my personal 28 years of experience (sorry Holy Father, but you knew this was coming) my thoughts are that he's trying to come to terms with his fight against the ever-oppressive force of entropy, and in this thought process he wound up inventing "mankind." Living sentience with the same capacity to reason as He, but with far fewer moments to do so with.


Imagine you're an infinitesimal small dot of existence in an infinitesimal absence of material (a literally limitless empty vacuum) and trying to figure out what exactly makes you what you are, in all of that. Matter and energy cannot come from nothing, they have to originate somewhere - what if "life" is similar to those things? The encapsulated ability to accept, process and (in response) even create information? If those three separate conditions are the result of, or even the condition of, what we consider to be "life," then it stands to reason that life itself is something separate of both matter and energy, that requires its own conditions to be met and requires its own unique source - one could say "neither matter matter nor energy can be destroyed nor created, therefore life (as a separate existing 'thing' from both) can be, either."