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God as the hidden basis to our knowledge.
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RE: God as the hidden basis to our knowledge.
(May 29, 2012 at 7:08 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: It seems all praise we praise is derived from a eternal praiseworthy reality.

This is the way it seems me, and I find impossible to imagine the world as other then this. I try to see it through atheist view, but it just seems the beauty, glory, praise, all just disappears, as if we don't know and don't perceive, but we do perceive and know.

Yes. The glory and praise all just disappear for me as well seeing the world, as I do, with an atheist's point of view.

I just don't find much use for praise. Apart from training a puppy, what is that really? "Way to go God! You nailed another sunset." Is that the idea? Personally I find praise off-putting. It sort of implies that you did whatever you did just to please the person handing it out. I don't do what I do to win praise and perhaps your God doesn't either.

I don't find any difficulty enjoying a sunrise or a sunset but why imagine anyone or anything putting it on as some sort of show for our enjoyment? Like legs on a snake, I'd say. Shit happens. Some of it is pretty good shit. A sense of wonder is great. But why close that off and attribute it all to the manipulations of one creator? I'd say you're the one losing out on the wonder when you do that.
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RE: God as the hidden basis to our knowledge. - by Whateverist - May 29, 2012 at 8:03 pm

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