(November 26, 2013 at 6:46 pm)FiniteImmortal Wrote: A perception of something that isn't there IN REALITY, but exists only in our minds.
Oh...so we exist in the Matrix? Things don't actually exist?
Did you give up on the comfort thing?
(November 26, 2013 at 6:46 pm)FiniteImmortal Wrote: and becuase it suggests there is something more than meets the eye that transcends pure MATERIAL. My happy ass will gladly move along when you can tell me how beauty can exist in the effect, without existing in a first-cause.
I didn't say beauty was A Thing. I said beauty was a perception.
(November 26, 2013 at 6:46 pm)FiniteImmortal Wrote: God exists as a perception to me, as I see beauty in the universe; it incites wonder and a deeper urning to explore it. The beauty I see in my infant daughter transcends the shallow explaination of evolved instinct, and points in the direction of a transcendent being of infinite beauty in the first-cause, from which beauty in the effect is perceived.
If that is a conversational abomination to you, grow some thicker skin, or get on a forum that will only reinforce the ideas what you want to hear.
Aw, I wasn't 'hurt' by it, merely disgusted. [pats head] Yes, I see - you love your daughter, therefore god..because no one ever loved their spawn before.