Brothers! Its been a long long time since I've been on an atheist forum, not since the days that I myself was an atheist, I was a hardcore atheist for 10 years but started believing in God again once I started smoking marijuana.

Good stuff.

Anyways I posit to you that Energy is the Essence of Sentience. That Energy is actually ALIVE, I have a pamphlet for this entire thing but its going to be published in the book I'm writing which I am calling ******. Of course if Energy is actually itself Sentience then the entire cosmos which is made of Energy would be essentially a Sentient Entity that we might call... God.

Just putting this out here to tease you all a little bit, not doing to much to prove it to you, I already do that in my book. Just something for you to mull over ^-^

I'm going to have a lot of fun with this forum.

(December 30, 2022 at 7:03 am)Authari Wrote: Anyways I posit to you that Energy is the Essence of Sentience. That Energy is actually ALIVE, I have a pamphlet for this entire thing but its going to be published in the book I'm writing which I am calling

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'. Of course if Energy is actually itself Sentience then the entire cosmos which is made of Energy would be essentially a Sentient Entity that we might call... God.

Energy sez no eating hot dogs on Fridays of Lent.
Energy sez no two menfolk and no two womenfolk getting hitched.
Energy sez it needs money, so shell it out, care of the voice of Energy, the nice man on your television set.

Welcome. I suspect we’re going to have a fair bit of fun with you as well.

Boru

Welcome. As they say, the devil is in the details. I suspect you'll have some issue developing a definition of your terms that coheres with other things you believe.

So you are saying that 12 volt battery is alive?
I think you have been smoking too much marijuana!

I think the only thing he believes is that he is a sufficiently arch bullshiter that he can profit, either emotionally or financially or both, from it.

So God is energy. Is God that small-dick energy Greta Thunberg has been talking about?

(December 30, 2022 at 8:19 am)Angrboda Wrote: Welcome.  As they say, the devil is in the details.  I suspect you'll have some issue developing a definition of your terms that coheres with other things you believe.

Other things that I believe? Like what?

I think it takes balls to declare “energy as the essence of sentience” when one has clear idea about neither what energy, nor what essence, nor what sentience really means.

(December 30, 2022 at 8:28 am)Authari Wrote:

(December 30, 2022 at 8:19 am)Angrboda Wrote: Welcome.  As they say, the devil is in the details.  I suspect you'll have some issue developing a definition of your terms that coheres with other things you believe.

Other things that I believe? Like what?

The principle is simple. If you adopt an unorthodox definition of something, or some concept, that difference from common usage when applied to other things may have unintended consequences.

I'll give a made-up example. A person recently suggested that his view was that God is everywhere, that the universe is like God's body, and we are like a toe or a finger. That leads to the question of whether all the parts of God are sentient. If so, then that would seem to imply, by the analogy, that toes and fingers are sentient, which they are not. At minimum, that points to a limitation of the analogy which needs elaboration through other means. However, one can't really back pedal and say that the toes and fingers of God are not sentient, even though he is, as that would imply that God is composed of parts, which has consequences and ramifications which show up in other areas of theological import. The long and short is, there is no free lunch. Words and language are a system of interdependent meanings. When you adjust one off here in the corner, that doesn't just affect that one corner, it has ramifications for the whole system.