i am reminded of a short story by isaac asimov. i don't recall the name, but to summarize, basically humans had developed an analog computer that held all knowledge that humans amass. one day, the humans asked this computer "will the universe end?" to which the computer responded "insufficient data at this time."
move forward a few million years, as humans progress through the various stages of civilization (type I, II, and III), humans pose this question repeatedly across the millennia, to which the computer spits the same reply.
move forward a few thousand billion trillion years, the universe has finally cooled, all life has ceased, all stars have burned out. the only thing left is the analog computer existing peacefully in hyperspace. finally the computer has the data needed to answer the question posed so many eons ago. having no humans to share this knowledge with, the analog computer gathers all the matter in the universe into one large clump, and speaks into the void "let there be light!" BANG...and there was.
of course, the reader never gets the answer. i think this is because the answers aren't as important as the questions. so, if i had the opportunity to ask an all powerful supreme being one question, to which the response was to be the truth, my question would be similar to the one posed by you just now:
what is the one true thing this being would like to know, that is what question(s) should i be asking? because once i know the question that drives this being, i will know what is important, and whatever knowledge this being has ammassed is soon to follow. truth, after all, cannot be told...it can only be known.
move forward a few million years, as humans progress through the various stages of civilization (type I, II, and III), humans pose this question repeatedly across the millennia, to which the computer spits the same reply.
move forward a few thousand billion trillion years, the universe has finally cooled, all life has ceased, all stars have burned out. the only thing left is the analog computer existing peacefully in hyperspace. finally the computer has the data needed to answer the question posed so many eons ago. having no humans to share this knowledge with, the analog computer gathers all the matter in the universe into one large clump, and speaks into the void "let there be light!" BANG...and there was.
of course, the reader never gets the answer. i think this is because the answers aren't as important as the questions. so, if i had the opportunity to ask an all powerful supreme being one question, to which the response was to be the truth, my question would be similar to the one posed by you just now:
what is the one true thing this being would like to know, that is what question(s) should i be asking? because once i know the question that drives this being, i will know what is important, and whatever knowledge this being has ammassed is soon to follow. truth, after all, cannot be told...it can only be known.