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I used to think about this when I was a kid. If 5 billion people pray to God at the same time and ask for mutually exclusive things, how can he possibly answer
by nonameiguess 3y ago
I used to think about this when I was a kid. If 5 billion people pray to God at the same time and ask for mutually exclusive things, how can he possibly answer or even listen to them all? And it's now up to 8 billion and the problem isn't getting any easier.
I guess the answer is God's perfect omniscience is massively concurrent on a scale unfathomable to human computational models and, by existing outside of time, he also avoids the possibility of race conditions. But Google can't do that, so they need to face this problem like the rest of us. I think they have really, by admitting it's impossible at that scale to provide service to all customers, so they simply don't, but their users have not yet accepted that.
- mattigames 3y agoIm pretty sure that if there were only one single human in the world the success ratio of the communication with God would be just as bleak, and the situation there is more like a company that after digging a tiny bit you discover only exists on paper.
- svieira 3y ago> after digging a tiny bit What makes you so sure that "the company" doesn't exist? Sounds like you've discovered something almost axiomatic to have that level of certainty since there isn't a state-of-Deleware for the perfect being.
- mattigames 3y agoThe time to argue is long gone, if you are past highschool and still believe in ghosts you call "Gods" I don't want anything to do with you, that exception you make in your head from some basic rational thinking makes me suspect that you have many one similar exceptions that I am better away from.
- rand846633 3y agoOr maybe god just is really good at making use of caching and has cloudflare tuned in properly?
- TremendousJudge 3y agoOr maybe there just shouldn't exist a company so large if it's clear that it won't be able to listen to its users?