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Crystal1501 t1_jd8iqk9 wrote

This is a really good prompt, but I need someone to explain how 'infinity' can 'run out' lmao.

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MasterV3ga OP t1_jd95sde wrote

I didn't really have the space to cram it into the prompt, and I didn't want to color other people's ideas too much, but mostly I was trying to imply a threat of a magnitude beyond human comprehension, such that even an entity we perceive as infinite and all-powerful must focus their entire being to fight it.

The conceit here is that God may as well be infinite to us as 3.5 dimensional beings, but on the realm of other Nth demensional beings, perhaps He is not so infinite after all. It's a cosmic horror answer to the question "If God is all-powerful and all-good, why is there evil in the world?" God is busy making sure every last soul on Earth and in the afterlife doesn't become a Cthulu snack.

Glad you liked the prompt, though. Perhaps I should have worded it differently. :)

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Crystal1501 t1_jd966fo wrote

No, wording's fine, it was just something I thought of!

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VinesAtMidnight t1_jd8lcoe wrote

Maybe the clawing thing is equally as powerful

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Crystal1501 t1_jd8n7ti wrote

Infinity - infinity = ?

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That's it, God's fighting against a mathematical impossibility!

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JustMeNotTheFBI t1_jd91mee wrote

There are as many real numbers as there as many imaginary numbers, but the sum of those two is still less than the amount of complex numbers (if my 3 seconds of brain usage hasnt failed me)

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za419 t1_jdb5ea1 wrote

So... God's the Emperor of Mankind, and we secretly live in 40k?

..... Yeah, you know what, that's not the least plausible idea....

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riyan_gendut t1_jdbei2i wrote

the God of the Bible in the Highschool DXD light novel outright died in order to seal a being called Trihexa/666. Just thought it's related.

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