What we need to understand, that for the first time in history abstract thinking-- sort of that high-- that people created the idea of invisible and transcendent god, who is omnipotent . And who also is very-- God cannot do bad things.
So it created this kind of wonderfully awkward scenario of crossing the room to approach this very sort of stony and omnipotent seeming person eating by himself, who just kind of looked up at us and said, I'm done. And Seamus said oh, could I ask just what line of work are you in.
As far as I understand, Monotheistic religions attaches importance to connections with God. Because an omnipotent God created this world and mankind and mankind can live under God's protection and can attain peace after death. To stay connected with God, we need to follow God's will strictly.
between buildings, between departments, between projects. We're not omnipotent . We don't have the ability to plant ideas in people's heads.
Because, he says, I'm not a Westerner. He said self-interest seemed almost omnipotent next to the weak claims of logic and fair play.
Kami of the sun, kami of the sea, or kami of the mountains. Monotheistic religions have only one omnipotent God, but shinto has thousands of God, or "kami". So there are one or several enshrined kami at each shrine, but none of them seem to be idolized.
If you really believe that God was watching over your every move. If you really believe there was an omniscient, omnipotent , omnipresent being that watched every sparrow fall and counted every grain of sand, then why wouldn't you walk through the battlefield going "hidey hidey-ho.
"If God does not exist, anything is permissible," is a legitimate intellectual view. There's no gainsaying it, right? If you believe that God should be involved in our human affairs, for example, be that kind of omnipotent God or a God who is entering into our lives, then you have to wrestle with some very considerable questions, such as evil and why it exists; the question we call theodicy in philosophy. That is, how can God allow for carnage? How can God allow for horror, child molestations, children being beaten and so forth, like in
But for me, I think I'd probably go with The Watcher. For those who don't know him, he's a near-omnipotent being who is devoted to observing everything that transpires across all realities. He's sworn never to interfere with them, but he kind of is terrible at keeping that oath.
At the same time those two things happened, all of the world's earliest origin myths were born. And they all say almost identically the same thing, which is that our omnipotent creators descended from the sky amid smoke and fire, created humanity, gave us rules to live by, and then left.
And this, however, was not where the buck stopped. Because let us suppose we've inherited the entire cosmos, we're de facto omnipotent and immortal. It is an insult to our existence that there are still human beings moldering in the grave, that we must therefore then seek to resurrect every human being who had ever
And you're like, "Chef, how do I make pasta?" Daniel Humm: No, what he did first, he Googled. It was this long quote, but the last line was "persistence and determination alone are omnipotent ." And I think that what we do is something that requires just being on every single day.
And that's one thing that I wanted to make very apparent in this, bringing in humanity, but also bringing the bad assery of making a decision-- a decision that, even if it's not the smartest from the audience's point of view, who have an omnipotent kind of perspective of watching everything unfold on stage, she makes the choice.