(July 21, 2023 at 5:46 am)Carl Hickey Wrote: Hi,
A thing (including a human) is always in a space. A space is equivalent to (a set of) rules (of that space).
/having space means having rules; having rules means having space/
A set (of rules) is a thing. God is a thing.
So there are different "traditions" (believes/religions/philosophies/...):
- there are many gods (every god has its realm; god-devil dualism is here);
- god is just life (good) (the rules of life); the opposite is bad (death);
- there is one god (the creator or everything (good and bad, life and death));
- there is not god - there are rules (Spinoza's god!?).
- ...
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The Atheist's God - The Paradox of Spinoza
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21y23t7yVjw
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This is not about god (-s), universe, existence, creation, life (and its purpose, meaning, ...), ...
... not about making science, academic career, ...
This is about thinking. If space and time were parts of the human mind (Kant), then, maybe, there would be other spaces.
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Indo-European words for God - The Meaning of God Through Etymological Exploration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU_nDnp8ASw
And yet the average annual rainfall is higher in Praetoria, South Africa than in Dublin, Ireland.
Checkmate, Baruch.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson