RE: Supernatural isn't a useful concept
November 8, 2016 at 8:29 am
(This post was last modified: November 8, 2016 at 8:46 am by The Grand Nudger.)
As though a "being" weren't a "particular form"...and as though you don't imagine that this "being" -has- an even more specific, and particular, form. Sure as hell aren't talking about Ometecuhtli, are you? Seems the only time you think that a "particular form" requires a creator being that is itself uncaused... is when it isn't your creator being's particular form, lol. Special rules for special people and their special beliefs.
That's ignoring that you just smuggled the being bit in for no reason at all, ofc. People can call their uncaused cause god all they like, but that doesn't demonstrate that it is a god. That just demonstrates that people say things of shady rational provenance, as you've done above. On the subject of things said with shady rational provenance....it's enitrely unclear why there must be an uncaused cause in the first place. It's easy to see why we'd need one to form a rational argument, because an infinite regress cannot yield a definite answer...and thus the purpose of a rational argument cannot be met. People imagine that an infinite regress is impossible in some sense other than it being impossible to reach terminus in a rational argument, but that's just their imagination. A subtle misunderstanding of the problem of infinite regress.
That's ignoring that you just smuggled the being bit in for no reason at all, ofc. People can call their uncaused cause god all they like, but that doesn't demonstrate that it is a god. That just demonstrates that people say things of shady rational provenance, as you've done above. On the subject of things said with shady rational provenance....it's enitrely unclear why there must be an uncaused cause in the first place. It's easy to see why we'd need one to form a rational argument, because an infinite regress cannot yield a definite answer...and thus the purpose of a rational argument cannot be met. People imagine that an infinite regress is impossible in some sense other than it being impossible to reach terminus in a rational argument, but that's just their imagination. A subtle misunderstanding of the problem of infinite regress.
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