RE: [split] Are Questions About God Important?
December 1, 2023 at 12:55 am
(This post was last modified: December 1, 2023 at 1:52 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Welcome aboard Harry. It's interesting the expectations we would have for such beings. I'm not sure we're really equipped to predict what an animal like a god would or even could do. To understand what it might or might not know. I use the terms loosely..but, by the stories we tell about them....
I also think that there's something superficial in saying that..when we disagree with a god or someone's god or..I guess, whatever someone says about what a god says....that it's our relative development that is the entire problem. I mean...we're obviously not gods, but we're not rocks either. If anything a god or someone's god, or what someone says about what god says is true...I strongly believe that we would be able to apprehend at least some piece of whatever content that was. One more piece, at least, than a rock - that apprehends nothing.
This is directly related to how I think that god-meaning is often employed, actually. That, when we have some thing we believe x, and maybe we have all sorts of reasons for believing it....that thing x is so important to us that even if we do have what anyone would allow were objective reasons for it..that's still not enough™. So we say,..."well, I believe x for y reasons that are z impossible to deny...the z being...also, too, GOD says x"
What do you think? If we simply discarded all of those z-reasons, or all of that god-meaning, would we not still have all of the y content, and y facts, and y meaning - the purportedly objective....of x?
I also think that there's something superficial in saying that..when we disagree with a god or someone's god or..I guess, whatever someone says about what a god says....that it's our relative development that is the entire problem. I mean...we're obviously not gods, but we're not rocks either. If anything a god or someone's god, or what someone says about what god says is true...I strongly believe that we would be able to apprehend at least some piece of whatever content that was. One more piece, at least, than a rock - that apprehends nothing.
This is directly related to how I think that god-meaning is often employed, actually. That, when we have some thing we believe x, and maybe we have all sorts of reasons for believing it....that thing x is so important to us that even if we do have what anyone would allow were objective reasons for it..that's still not enough™. So we say,..."well, I believe x for y reasons that are z impossible to deny...the z being...also, too, GOD says x"
What do you think? If we simply discarded all of those z-reasons, or all of that god-meaning, would we not still have all of the y content, and y facts, and y meaning - the purportedly objective....of x?
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