This thread is comedy gold! Best laugh I've had in ages!
@datc:
When I asked why you think "God" is a male, it was from the same curiosity that wants to know why you capitalise the word 'god'. Your bafflegab about male and female aspects of nature contains zero useful information. Nature's god is masculine; well, how did you arrive at that conclusion and how would we set about verifying it? If it's merely an aspect of nature, does it possess intelligence? Awareness? If not, are you merely referring to it as "God" for the same silly reason you gave for referring to the Universe as Earth?
If this is an entity you are trying to define into existence, is it male in the sense of having male genitalia? A beard? Middle age spread?
These might seem trivial questions to you, but from my point of view you're trying to eat your cake and have it too.
And I don't care if you think this is irrelevant to the ad hoc assertions you want to mislabel as "proof". You need to be prepared to defend every card you play, including the palmed ones. This is one I picked up on and intend to examine.
@datc:
When I asked why you think "God" is a male, it was from the same curiosity that wants to know why you capitalise the word 'god'. Your bafflegab about male and female aspects of nature contains zero useful information. Nature's god is masculine; well, how did you arrive at that conclusion and how would we set about verifying it? If it's merely an aspect of nature, does it possess intelligence? Awareness? If not, are you merely referring to it as "God" for the same silly reason you gave for referring to the Universe as Earth?
If this is an entity you are trying to define into existence, is it male in the sense of having male genitalia? A beard? Middle age spread?
These might seem trivial questions to you, but from my point of view you're trying to eat your cake and have it too.
And I don't care if you think this is irrelevant to the ad hoc assertions you want to mislabel as "proof". You need to be prepared to defend every card you play, including the palmed ones. This is one I picked up on and intend to examine.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
