(July 17, 2019 at 10:53 am)tackattack Wrote:(July 17, 2019 at 9:38 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: He is only eternally himself if he is absolutely static and does nothing whatsoever.As Gae pointed out as well, I thought it was a commonly understood definition but apparently still needed to be pointed out. This isn't a definition I concocted or had to do word salad to line up. Let me show you an example,
It is like saying god is by definition 2+2=5 and never wrong in his math.
Concocting a definition does not make the ill conceived ignoramus fantasy Less ill conceived, less revealing of the ignorance of the fantasist, or less of a fantasy.
That a definition like this can be claimed only shows how shallow the concept of god is, and how pathetically besotted the adherents to this fantasy have become.
"You are only eternally yourself if you are absolutely static and do nothing whatsoever." Doesn't that seem a little ridiculous? You are yourself always, whether you're inside or outside or cleaning a toilet. The fact you clean toilets for eternity doesn't make you any less you. In the case of this argument I am that I am.
Not true. You have hardwiring that lumps all your perceptions of self into one completely artificial category called self. In fact you are not all of that yourself which existed just a moment ago, and very little of what had been yourself when your were a toddler. So you are not only not yourself always, your are never yourself from any other moment.
So you might say “but the artificial construct call self is what I a talking about”. But that artificial construct is purely an artifact of your neurological wiring. We have very good idea why we, evolved as we did from our evolutionary lineage, come to have such wiring.
Can you propose why your putative eternal god who presumably is subject to no evolution and no selective pressure, come to perceive his entire existence as one single self?