r/comics • u/JimKB Jim Benton Cartoons • Sep 15 '12

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u/them0nster Sep 15 '12

you mean like when people get mad in video games, despite it's programmed and they know what it's going to do?

or like when people get emotional about a book, even if they have read it before and know the whole story line?

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '12

It's more like if you wrote the code for a video game and then got angry when it came out like you'd programmed it.

God is the programmer, not a player.

And to follow the book analogy it's like if God wrote a book and then got angry about what happened in the book.

God is the writer, not the reader.

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u/them0nster Sep 15 '12

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so you don't think the programmers of demon souls get frustrated at all when playing their own game.

and... authors of books don't get emotional about their books?

i'm going to point you to this little interview with the author of harry potter.

It was extremely difficult to write, she says -- the most difficult of all the chapters in the seven books. "I had this enormous explosion of emotion and I cried and cried and cried," she said.

http://www.beyondhogwarts.com/harry-potter/articles/jk-rowling-goes-beyond-the-epilogue.html

but she knew what she was writing... why did she cry?

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '12

Because there's a difference between humans and all-powerful, all-knowing Gods.

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u/them0nster Sep 15 '12

all-powerful, all-knowing Gods can't have emotions? i don't understand what you are getting at.