Quote:Wrong. The problem is not language, the problem is that you insisted upon presenting your thoughts in such a comprehensively garbled fashion that they were totally unreadable.Thanks a million Abaddon__Ire, for slapping the piss out of me to the point which my head cleared, and, thereby, I have done it, thusly:
An Important Ramification of Spinoza's Dictum is Disproof of the Deity of Yahweh, Jehovah, and Jesus Christ.
Spinoza's dictum is "determinatio negatio est", i.e., "determination is negation", and, is the central concept by which, within seven paragraphs, it can be shown that Yahweh, Jehovah, and Jesus Christ, are not, cannot be, deities.
The type of determination being considered here is human determination to act, and, precisely what is being considered is how human action originates at its source, the source being human consciousness.
Several thinkers have employed, slightly modified, and based their systems of thought upon the Spinozistic dictum. Hegel modified it to "All determination is negation." Then, Sartre, using the Hegelian modification, based his entire magnum opus, "Being and Nothingness", 1943, upon the dictum. One can go as far as to say that every sentence in Sartre's eight hundred plus page work, entails Spinoza's dictum.
Hegel proclaimed the dictum to contain infinite riches; and, as part of the mining of those infinite riches, Sartre realized something which he based upon the dictum, and which precisely describes how human action actually originates by consciousness. What Sartre named the "double nihilation" is a theoretical structure which traces the particular movement of consciousness which constitutes a human act; being, of course a compound or double movement.
Sartre coined the term 'nihilation'. When one actually thinks about it, every word in human language ultimately originates via our human imagination;--- yes, Sartre invented the term 'nihilate', which, he stated, means "to make nothing", and, this in the sense that nothing is produced by consciousness; and, consciousness is nothingness, a nothingness which nihilates or makes the nothing that is human determination to action. Given determinatio negatio est, (determination is negation), and, given that negation is refusal, we have Spinoza's dictum at the foundation of the double nihilation, thus: In the course of originating an act, consciousness projects and posits a not yet existing future state of affairs as its end goal, or objective, which it has not yet attained; i.e., in its project toward this as yet non-existant future, consciousness has, on the one hand, made the nothing which is a not yet realized and as yet absent future; and, the double, the other component, of the double nihilation, is, that, as consciousness upsurges toward its absent and unrealized future, consciousness refuses, abandons, and makes the present, i.e., the given or extant state of affairs, into the nothing that is the past; thus, we have the doubly nihilative movement of consciousness which is the double nihilation, whereby an intended human act originates and upsurges, as a particular, intentional, engagement in the human sociosphere.
Now, to explain why and how Yahweh, Jehovah, and Jesus Christ, are not, cannot be, deities, in terms of human consciousness enacting the negation which is double nihilation, thus:
1. Judaeo-Christian theological error consists in deeming the Biblical Yahweh, Jehovah, and Christ, to be Deity which both created man, and, master and command men via written law and scripture.
2. An authentic Omnipotent Godhead, having made man, would not thereafter mistakenly demand man determine himself, in his acts and forbearance, by a deistically established and enforced language of law/ scripture; for to do so contravenes man’s authentically deistically created ontological mode of originating action and inaction; which human ontological mode of upsurge of action fundamentally pre-qualifies man for the possibility of constructing a non-legalistic mode of civilization, patterned upon the form provided by man’s overall personal ontological structure.
3. Yahweh/Jehovah/Christ, of Judaeo-Christian scripture, proclaiming man shall be determined in his acts, and his forbearance to act, by a language of law attendant upon holy scripture, thereby exhibit an incompetent lack of familiarity with the originative mode of upsurge of human action. If an Omnipotent God has indeed created man, that Omnipotent knew a priori that human beings cannot be determined, in their acts and forbearance, by the given factual states of law and scripture; thereby indicating Judaeo-Christian Deity, as described by Biblical Prophets, are inauthentic Deity, and, further, are inauthentic Deity which both practice mistake and exhibit ignorance regarding the genuine doubly nihilative mode of originative upsurge of human action, and, of human forbearance to act.
4. Consciousness is prior to the theoretical construct "law", which law is mistakenly posited as determinative of conduct, by a series of human Biblical Prophetic consciousnesses, while, all the while, law-positing human consciousness, by virtue of its own ontological structure, cannot subsequently be determined to action, or inaction, by the self-same mistakenly posited language of "law".
Inauthentic Biblical Deity and Biblical Prophets insist men determine their conduct via existing “law” and “scripture”, while, all the while, determination is negation, meaning human action-origination proceeds purely on the basis of non-existants, not on the basis of existing states of affairs like “law”, i.e., “No factual state whatever it may be (the political and economic structure of society, the psychological “state”, etc.) is capable by itself of motivating any act whatsoever. For an act is a projection of the for-itself toward what is not and what is can in no way determine by itself what is not.” (Being and Nothingness, Sartre 435).
5. If I entertain the possibility that my created consciousness is made in the image and likeness of Deity, then, to gain core familiarity with Deity, I simply need study the ontological structure of my Deity- reflecting consciousness.
6. Consciousness is the constant study, and, the entire subject matter of Jean Paul Sartre’s "Being and Nothingness", 1943.
7. Thus, Sartre’s theory of origin of human action, which posits consciousness as upsurging acts via “the double nihilation”, a position wholly predicated upon Baruch Spinoza’s (1632-1677) “determinatio negatio est”, is the negative theoretical construct central to demonstrating precisely why neither Yahweh, nor Jehovah, nor Jesus Christ, who all mistakenly thought men could be determined to action by the positive, given, factual state of affairs, which is law, it is clearly shown these putative dieties are not, cannot, be Deity.
Therefore, given that God can be shown to be seriously mistaken regarding his notion that his language of law is an efficacy in the sphere of human determination to action, we have hewn an avenue through the ontological unintellibibility practiced by inauthentic diety, to demonstrating, likewise, the ontological unintelligibility of extant American jurisprudence, thus:
