Martin's scrappy set - up begins with the correct amount of misdeeds and mayhem, but 10 Cent Pistol is an example of
how omniscient narration works desperately against the desired ambience.
Your logical contradiction is based on your judgement as to
how an omniscient being would behave.
I love
how the omniscient, omnipotent god changes his mind and must make corrections to the book that he «wrote».
fred, Any idea
how an omniscient omnipotent being that created the 100's of billions of galaxies, ours with 100's of billions of star systems, provided his word to so few humans over the last few millennia?
Not exact matches
I pray to whichever holy name (God, Allah, Jehovah, Krishna, Jesus, etc.) suits the ONE
Omniscient, Omnipresent, Omnipotent being that ignorance is wiped away from our species and we become a closer, more loving, peaceful creature and that we realize
how much time we waste and
how much further we push our fellow neighbor and brother under God, regardless of creed, away debating over who's God is better and discover the error of our ways before we destroy each other... before it's too late, because The End is Nigh!!!!! LOL!!!!! Really though, isn't the world full of enough tragedy, and aren't their so many more important things that need our energy and attention like the innocent children in Pakistan dying from diseases from the flood or the homeless children in our own country, or the lack of education, which is exactly what leads to this kind of debate?
If God is
omniscient, he must already know
how he is going to intervene to change the course of history using his omnipotence.
How big a leap is it from an
omniscient invisible sky faerie to an evil denizen of the netherworld?
Which raises the question,
how can an omnipotent,
omniscient God create something he's not pleased with?
amazing
how many mistakes there were in a supposedly perfect creation by a perfect,
omniscient, omnipotent deity.
How many of us have been an
omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent being?
If god is
Omniscient, then He would KNOW exactly
how to convince anyone and everyone that He exists.
@ellen, free will is a contradiction if there is an
omniscient god...
How do you explain the fact that your god knows about everything you will do and the fact that you think you have the ability to do otherwise?
Luv
how your claimed
omniscient deity still needs to test his subjects.
guideless, luv
how your claimed
omniscient deity still needs to test his subjects.
My reply: The Christian god, being
omniscient and omnipotent, would know exactly
how much of Himself to reveal,
how much evidence would be necessary, so that everyone would believe in Him.
Anyone beyond the age of TEN should rid themselves of imaginary friends -
how many people REALLY think there's a
Omniscient Celestial DIctator afoot in the universe?
One is the scene in which Dolly is on her way to visit Anna at Vronsky's estate in the country; as she travels, the narrative takes us into her thoughts, which are perfectly ordinary: her anxieties as a mother, principally, and as a wife, and her moral uncertainties; but it is all rendered with such confident and seemingly
omniscient artistry that one almost feels as if one has momentarily become this woman, and can think and feel as she does; and more than one female critic has called attention to
how well Tolstoy succeeds here at imagining his way into the worries and regrets of a wife and mother.
In short, if you are an Omnipotent and
Omniscient deity
how can you be jealous (even using your definition) without appearing insecure and possibly phobic?
how can your perfect, infallible,
omniscient, omnipotent, imaginary man in the sky do ANYTHING in err?
I mean, honestly, what kind of bovine excrement
omniscient being designs a universe that obeys a set of rules (physics), but designs a sentient being that He will then cast into eternal torment at death — no matter
how good the being was during its life — unless that being has faith in His son?
Therein lies the genius in having the
omniscient perspective: we eventually learn no one is clean but as the story develops our willingness to take the lesser of two evils is directly proportional to
how much we're shocked by the developments.
But it takes an
omniscient narrator to tell Jeanne's story, to describe
how this unsophisticated French housekeeper is impacted by the power of the God.
Last time, Midnight Publishing discussed
how «head - hopping» is a writing mistake to avoid, whereas
Omniscient POV is a writing strategy that several iconic authors have mastered successfully.
How would it have been different if told by an
omniscient narrator?