RE: why things are rather than not...and necessary existence
June 16, 2012 at 10:45 pm
(This post was last modified: June 16, 2012 at 10:49 pm by Tempus.)
(June 16, 2012 at 9:40 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Thoughts?
Lots of assumptions, assertions but very little content. I really don't mean to be rude, but I don't know what the hell you're talking about, nor why you capitalise certain words. These words aren't proper nouns, so why are they being capitalised? To show honour to this deity? It frankly looks ridiculous to me, but hey it's your choice.
(June 16, 2012 at 9:40 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: one wonders indeed why it exists at all rather than not
I think 'why?' is a poor question. It seems to assume motive and I don't see any reason to do that. Asking 'how', 'what', and 'where' will yield much more useful answers, I think. How am I here? Because I evolved? How did I evolve? How did life originate? How did all the elements come to be? What was the early universe like? How did the universe come to be? If there is a god or gods all these questions will lead there eventually anyway, but with the added bonus of not assuming stuff. You've instead essentially asserted that we all have intuitive knowledge of god, which would implicitly mean we atheists are all secretly denying -- or too incompetent to access -- that knowledge, which I disagree with. I would suggest that any god which couldn't foresee the ineffectiveness of its own revelation via intuitive knowledge is pretty incompetent.
