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The name of god
#21
RE: The name of god
Pointless, senseless, meaningless, unmeaning, inane, nonsensical, absurd, preposterous, senseless, pointless, foolish, inept, ludicrous, ridiculous, insignificant, irrelevant, immaterial.
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#22
RE: The name of god
I doubt that it's a difference in a semantic interpretation that something possible is possible. That's just tautology. Unless you're suggesting I'm equivocating one definition of "possible" with another? I doubt it. I'm just saying that if something can exist, it can exist. A greatest possible being is possible. The greatest being that can exist can exist.

But anyway, yes, infinite greatness can always be greater so it never reaches absolute greatness. I guess that means greatness can only be absolute if it is finite.
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#23
RE: The name of god
(October 29, 2012 at 4:15 pm)DoubtVsFaith Wrote: I doubt that it's a difference in a semantic interpretation that something possible is possible. That's just tautology. Unless you're suggesting I'm equivocating one definition of "possible" with another? I doubt it. I'm just saying that if something can exist, it can exist. A greatest possible being is possible. The greatest being that can exist can exist.

But anyway, yes, infinite greatness can always be greater so it never reaches absolute greatness. I guess that means greatness can only be absolute if it is finite.

Hmm..you are right. I guess I have to better at using words.
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#24
RE: The name of god
I like Anoia


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Quote:Anoia
The minor goddess of Things That Stick in Drawers, Anoia is praised by rattling a drawer and crying "How can it close on the damned thing but not open with it? Who bought this? Do we ever use it?" As she says, sooner or later every curse is a prayer. She also eats corkscrews and is responsible for Things Down The Backs of Sofas, and is considering moving into stuck zips. The Maccalariat family of Ankh-Morpork have been Anoians for five generations. She is not part of the number of gods praised at the Temple of Small Gods, but instead has a freelance priestess who also serves for various other minor deities. Thud! refers to a painting of Anoia Rising From The Cutlery.
She was previously a volcano goddess, possibly under the name Lela. Anoia (and Lela) are first mentioned in Going Postal. She appears in Wintersmith as a tired, skinny woman wearing a bedsheet and smoking a cigarette that sparks like a volcano (she began smoking when the Storm God kept raining on her lava). On a whim, Moist von Lipwig named her as one of the gods responsible for his "miraculous" recovery of a large sum of buried money that he had in fact himself buried: since belief is what empowers Discworld gods, she benefited tremendously from the resulting surge of believers. As of Making Money her religion has seen something of a revival, and now she is making a move into becoming the Goddess of Hopeless Causes.
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
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