tackattack wrote:"so then do idea's exist?"
definition from wikipedia:
In the most narrow sense, an idea is just whatever is before the mind when one thinks. Very often, ideas are construed as representational images; i.e. images of some object. In other contexts, ideas are taken to be concepts, although abstract concepts do not necessarily appear as images.[1] Many philosophers consider ideas to be a fundamental ontological category of being.
Obviously ideas cannot exist in the physical realm as you and I do. That is the reason that I think ideas are as described above concepts created within the mind. Almost everything we know to exist in the physical realm such as tables, chairs, electronic inventions started out as ideas or concepts based on the development of previous knowledge. Once they made it past the thinking and planning stage the labor of making those ideas a reality through the act of invention and ingenuity brought those ideas into existence. Your God is an idea but his existence is beyond the realm of reality and the proof of said existence is unattainable.
The concept of god started as an idea, was accepted and believed, and finally was charged with the investment of ones emotional content. This is what gives the idea of god life but if you can't do this (believe without proof) then god remains an idea and nothing more.
definition from wikipedia:
In the most narrow sense, an idea is just whatever is before the mind when one thinks. Very often, ideas are construed as representational images; i.e. images of some object. In other contexts, ideas are taken to be concepts, although abstract concepts do not necessarily appear as images.[1] Many philosophers consider ideas to be a fundamental ontological category of being.
Obviously ideas cannot exist in the physical realm as you and I do. That is the reason that I think ideas are as described above concepts created within the mind. Almost everything we know to exist in the physical realm such as tables, chairs, electronic inventions started out as ideas or concepts based on the development of previous knowledge. Once they made it past the thinking and planning stage the labor of making those ideas a reality through the act of invention and ingenuity brought those ideas into existence. Your God is an idea but his existence is beyond the realm of reality and the proof of said existence is unattainable.
The concept of god started as an idea, was accepted and believed, and finally was charged with the investment of ones emotional content. This is what gives the idea of god life but if you can't do this (believe without proof) then god remains an idea and nothing more.
There is nothing people will not maintain when they are slaves to superstition
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