Khemikal Wrote:OFC we have. The definition being consistently wrong doesn't mean that the term hasn't been continuously defined and re-defined. Theres no one on earth who hears a person use the word god in any language and thinks to themselves "well, wtf is that, total noncognitive, no idea what you're talking about".
Agreed. People have conceptions/definitions of what a god is. However, can we make use of these definitions as we would mathematical definitions in writing mathematical proofs and solving mathematical problems? Hence, can we make use of god definitions/concepts with the same exactness and precision that we can use mathematical definitions/concepts? That is what I was curious about.
Khemikal Wrote:You can easily call something anything you like. You can't easily make whatever you've called that thing accurate. This ground leveling shit between SETI and faith is pure idiocy.
After reading your post and seeing the concept of a god from the perspective described in your post, I couldn't help but laugh at myself. You have given my king a well-deserved check, sir.
Khemikal Wrote:I can help with that. SETI concerns life that may exist out there, in the universe, and equipment capable of..at least potentially, detecting such life in a demonstrable fashion. While the search for some god is neither a search for life, or for anything "out there" in the universe, nor does it require or entail equipment that could then be pointed to as a certifier or demonstration of it's results.
Thank you for taking the time to clarify the difference, but I already understood this. My aim in that post, which was poorly communicated by me, was to ask the following question: is this conception of god actually beyond a "search for life" or "anything out there"? In essence, by saying that "the search for some god is neither a search for life, or for anything "out there" in the universe, nor does it require or entail equipment that could then be pointed to as a certifier or demonstration of it's results," are we closing off our imagination/understanding to matters which can actually be understood, searched for, and demonstrated to exist in our reality? Do god concepts ultimately inhibit human growth and humanity's understanding of the reality they occupy?
