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God exists subjectively?
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RE: God exists subjectively?
(November 7, 2016 at 12:21 pm)wallym Wrote: Is this what Schroedinger and his cat was all about?

That the perception of reality we exist in has different truth's than the 'true' reality?  That the cat may be dead in the real world, but in my perception of the real world, it could be alive or dead, and only by opening the box to see, I effectively make it dead in my perception of the real world, as well.
re concept vs. real, we only experience concepts, because everything we interact with/know is just a data version of it stored in our brain.

No, schroedingers cat was a caricature of quantum mechanics, a specific interpretation of quantum mechanics, that attempted to communicate the absurdity of what was proposed to be present at the quantum level by reference to objects and relationships at the classical level.  So, instead of referring to quantum superposition, it was the superposition of the state of a cat in a box.  People have since -used- schroedingers cat in reference to perception, of a great deal of strange things where not even the caricature applies, lol.
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#12
RE: God exists subjectively?
(November 6, 2016 at 2:28 pm)abaris Wrote:
(November 6, 2016 at 2:15 pm)Maelstrom Wrote: Concepts that exist purely in the mind are real, to the extent that the individual can conceptualize the existence of something in the mind that clearly does not exist in reality outside of the mind.

But it can get them through the nights. That's why I always keep saying, believe what you want if it rocks your boat. I only get upset if someone tries to shove their individual believes on the population at large.

There’s the rub. When the belief that rocks their boat and gets them through the night tells them anyone who doesn’t share their belief is going to hell, how do we separate the subjective belief from its application? Of course, I don’t appreciate being proselytized, at the same time, xtians who tell me they don’t care what I believe make me wonder: this person believes I’m going to hell and doesn’t care? Eclectic hermeneutics is no better than strict fundamentalism.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.

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RE: God exists subjectively?
(November 7, 2016 at 1:58 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: There’s the rub. When the belief that rocks their boat and gets them through the night tells them anyone who doesn’t share their belief is going to hell, how do we separate the subjective belief from its application?

Simple enough. By their actions.

I couldn't care less if they believe it. If they don't go out preaching their believes, it's a non issue. It's still a non issue if they haven't got a political lobby to try and enforce their believes. Both points coming together is where it's getting problematic. Not anytime sooner.

No rub at all.
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#14
RE: God exists subjectively?
(November 6, 2016 at 1:57 pm)wallym Wrote:


I argue that what is subjective is the belief that there is no God (which atheists like to re-phrase as "'lack of belief"). For, like the realization that we cannot fly due to the truth of laws of physics, we can know that there is God, by the truth of laws of metaphysics. But, to know that there is God via the truth of Metaphysics is to know reality, for metaphysics, like physics, is the study of reality in a very larger scope, and whatever studies reality cannot be subjective alone. So, belief that there is God cannot be subjective alone. Further, non-belief in God doesn't have a real basis. Hence, it is the belief that there's no God which is subjective.
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RE: God exists subjectively?
.......................................it;s starting to seem like "subjective" is just a taboo word you avoid without any understanding of the term.   Dodgy
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RE: God exists subjectively?
(November 11, 2016 at 6:39 pm)Rhythm Wrote: .......................................it;s starting to seem like "subjective" is just a taboo word you avoid without any understanding of the term.   Dodgy

Care to elaborate? May I know in what way I don't understand subjective?
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#17
RE: God exists subjectively?
God exists as a concept.

For a concept to be considered reality, there must exist the proper evidence to support it.

There has never been evidence to support the existence of god, despite there having occurred throughout history many proofs for the existence of many concepts.
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#18
RE: God exists subjectively?
(November 6, 2016 at 2:48 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: God doesn't exist in the mind. The concept of God exists in the mind. Superman doesn't exist in the mind. The concept of Superman exists in the mind.

Now here's a question: Does the imagination exist? And here's another: Does imaginaryness exist? And here's another: is there a difference between the two previous questions?


I don't know about that.  The mind seems capable of animating what it likes, with or without our deliberate participation. I don't think you should confuse anything one contrives deliberately -like the idea of 'superman', with that which one experiences interactively and subjectively.  A true believer does not have one hand up the god puppet's sock any more than he has one up his own.  Properly planted and cultivated I suspect the mind can animate a presence of god.*

*Disclaimer: the god one's mind can animate had no hand in creation, is omni-nothing and has no existence apart from the mind that animates it.  Then again, I'm not sure who I take myself to be has any existence apart from the mind that is animating 'me' either.  So most likely gods have no more existence than we do.
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RE: God exists subjectively?
(November 11, 2016 at 6:41 pm)Maelstrom Wrote: God exists as a concept. [1]

For a concept to be considered reality, there must exist the proper evidence to support it. [2]

There has never been evidence to support the existence of god, despite there having occurred throughout history many proofs for the existence of many concepts. [3]

1. ...and in reality Please see no. 3.

2. I agree.

3. It is not true that there are no evidence to support the existence of God. The 5 ways of St. Thomas Aquinas is an evidence that God exist and to deny that is to deny both reality and logic, for his 5 ways are arguments which starts from the things we can sense with our 5 senses and it proceed with valid logic and true premises like principle of sufficient reason.

Therefore, God is not a concept which is not derived from reality.
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#20
RE: God exists subjectively?
Aquinas has been discredited.
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