RE: Search for Causes
January 2, 2020 at 5:38 pm
(This post was last modified: January 2, 2020 at 5:45 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Some of us don't have any use for the category Lek. The same way that you wouldn't have much use for "natural" if you could pick a stream and clearly articulate the contents of your beliefs.
To give you an idea of why this is....what would you call a magical creature made out of magical essence? Natural, or magical? Magic book asserts that we, and not only we..but the entire universe is just such a creature. Created in an act of magic, with magical essence, by a magical agent.
You can use supernatural there if you want - but I bet you'd rankle at the suggestion. Well, I use natural in much the same way. Cancer going into remission? Natural. An existent god making cancer go into remission...still natural. No one begins with the premise that there is no supernatural. That would fly in the face of all of human history and even childhood development. We simply have to make peace with the failure of the supernatural as a concept. If a god is important to us, it might also be important not to let the failure of that concept become the failure of our favored deity.
Then again, it's up to you what you decide to saddle god with. Maybe a natural god just wouldn't be enough for you, even though it created an entire natural universe......some of which we see, most of which,m we probably can't.
: shrugs :
To give you an idea of why this is....what would you call a magical creature made out of magical essence? Natural, or magical? Magic book asserts that we, and not only we..but the entire universe is just such a creature. Created in an act of magic, with magical essence, by a magical agent.
You can use supernatural there if you want - but I bet you'd rankle at the suggestion. Well, I use natural in much the same way. Cancer going into remission? Natural. An existent god making cancer go into remission...still natural. No one begins with the premise that there is no supernatural. That would fly in the face of all of human history and even childhood development. We simply have to make peace with the failure of the supernatural as a concept. If a god is important to us, it might also be important not to let the failure of that concept become the failure of our favored deity.
Then again, it's up to you what you decide to saddle god with. Maybe a natural god just wouldn't be enough for you, even though it created an entire natural universe......some of which we see, most of which,m we probably can't.
: shrugs :
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