I understand that God knows everything, at least the Judeo-Christian God does. So, I ask myself. Do I have secrets? Or am I lying naked in front of someone, basked open in my shame, sadness, happiness, every thought and desire known. Well, I would rather be nothing than have that. God is so human like in the Judeo-Christian tradition that it is almost humiliating to lay myself bare to such a being. Maybe because I might feel what God feels, having the knowledge that God has about my wrong-doings.
This would be a problem had I an ounce of belief in God. I do have respect, however, for the claims of knowledge that people seem to impose upon me of the Being. But, I digress. What about the possibility that this person, was simply god-like? I would be laying bare in their ability to know my secrets and their priding themselves of that very fact. But, would this person really care about knowing all of the minute mundane details of my life? Every dream, every moment that I breathe, my heart beats... it seems creepy and really boring at the same time. Really, whatever designed our existences or chose to must have had a great amount of time to make the most complex of systems and designs in order that we understand very little of ourselves and live as contradictions.
What if that person, god-like, had a micro-chip embeded into their brain that told them practically everything about me? Would I really fear the person or would I simply be in awe of their knowledge. Of course the person would know my innate desires and what I 'really' wanted from life or from person X that I encountered on a daily basis, but would that make me fear them or simply find them exhausting to keep around?
I like my privacy. There are thoughts and feelings that no person should know about or even bother trying to read. And, it doesn't bother me if no one knows, since that's just the way I want it. Omniscience is a little too demanding of my complex systems, my brain, my thoughts, my desire and my shame. Moreover, if I have been given the opportunity to know EVERYTHING there is to know about another person, I doubt I would take that opportunity and not regret having chosen the knowledge. Now, control of another person, that is an entirely different realm of power-seeking that I shall not get into, at the present moment.
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