Ep. 221 - We Might All Be Living in God's Dream (Hasidic Idealism) w/Dr. Samuel Lebens
Parker's Pensées
The Problem of Evil - Is God the Author?
We don't just believe that God is an author of the story, he's also a character in it. So for instance, Kurt Vonnegut appears in the breakfast of champions. But there's no such person as Kilgore Trout. From God's perspective, the pain and suffering is in real. Why can't you tell a nicer story, God? Like, pretty horrible, some of these things you're imagining. That's one problem and it needs its own response. I think any of the classical Theodicy's could be adopted here. And we must eventually explain how, how this idealism could potentially solve the problem with the sphere of the sphere.
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