
RE: Can a slug be God?
May 27, 2016 at 1:54 pm
(This post was last modified: May 27, 2016 at 2:26 pm by Ignorant.)
(May 27, 2016 at 1:37 pm)robvalue Wrote: Why isn't a slug? The laws of our reality just don't apply to it. [1]
Quote:ignorant says: Even if it were a slug that created everything else, as conditional, it isn't god.
Bold mine: Why not? What's still lacking? It created everything, and its not conditional on anything. What is it missing? [2]
Honestly, I don't know what a god is supposed to be. [3] It's normally defined in ways that tell me nothing about it. I can't fill in the gaps myself here.
1) Why? A slug is a thing-existing-in-a-particular-way, viz. in the way of a slug. If the thing-about-which-you-are-asking exists in a way which slugs do not exist (e.g. slugs do not exist unconditionally or necessarily) then it can't be said to be a slug and be intelligibile at the same time. Either it is a slug (which is a contingent way of existing) or it is a non-contingent thing existing in the ways you are trying to understand. It can't be both.
2) See #1
3) Join the club. Thomas Aquinas used to ask "What is god?" all of the time. There are very few things you can positively identify about god (some would argue no things can be so identified). The most traditional way to try to understand the "what" of god is by identifying what god is not (i.e. the via negativa). One of the things god is not => a slug
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