RE: The Principle of Contingent Causation: The Impossibility of Infinite Regress.
July 3, 2023 at 10:53 am
(This post was last modified: July 3, 2023 at 11:02 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Meh, may as well have fun.
Failing to demonstrate that there are any first causes, we proceed breathlessly into the notion that there could only be one first cause. Good luck with that. Skipping many tiresome pages ahead or many thousands of years into the past - if we assume that this god thing z is, as classically contended, entirely unlike any and all other things a-y, then no observation of the states of affairs of things a-y would be demonstrative or even informative with respect to thing z. So it doesn't really matter whether or not kids have parents or whether any thing a-y has or does not have a cause. This will tell us nothing about a thing z wholly unlike all those things no matter what we assert about those things a-y.
It's an interesting setup in all of the ideas people have ever had about gods, where we posit that there is simply nothing we can say about a god that is true. This is why saint tommy threw his hands in the air and started babbling about a magic book and it's special revelations, among a great many other hilarious things.
...and the entire time, as a scholar of this system, he knew that the system was premised on an eternal universe with no room for creator, a system that designated any creative entity or force as something well below the "god" in this formulation. St Tommy was a holy horseshitter peddling garbage to illiterates in a pre-scientific world that he'd stolen from the pagans they'd only recently eradicated.
Failing to demonstrate that there are any first causes, we proceed breathlessly into the notion that there could only be one first cause. Good luck with that. Skipping many tiresome pages ahead or many thousands of years into the past - if we assume that this god thing z is, as classically contended, entirely unlike any and all other things a-y, then no observation of the states of affairs of things a-y would be demonstrative or even informative with respect to thing z. So it doesn't really matter whether or not kids have parents or whether any thing a-y has or does not have a cause. This will tell us nothing about a thing z wholly unlike all those things no matter what we assert about those things a-y.
It's an interesting setup in all of the ideas people have ever had about gods, where we posit that there is simply nothing we can say about a god that is true. This is why saint tommy threw his hands in the air and started babbling about a magic book and it's special revelations, among a great many other hilarious things.
...and the entire time, as a scholar of this system, he knew that the system was premised on an eternal universe with no room for creator, a system that designated any creative entity or force as something well below the "god" in this formulation. St Tommy was a holy horseshitter peddling garbage to illiterates in a pre-scientific world that he'd stolen from the pagans they'd only recently eradicated.
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