Ep. 221 - We Might All Be Living in God's Dream (Hasidic Idealism) w/Dr. Samuel Lebens
Parker's Pensées
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Why Does God Create a Perfect World?
What if God is not going for the perfect world in balance of evil and good, but the perfect narrative, the perfect story? Yes. If that's the impetus for creating a world outside of himself, what do you make of that one? Good. So I think that's actually part of the explanation is why does God create a world at all? And it's actually, on this view, it's a function of his kind of narrative brilliance,. His artistic brilliance, aesthetic thing, right? Why does a story tell it, tell a story? Now, so I like that, but he'd say this. There are multiple problems to deal with: there's the problem of creating an
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