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Deism! (and pantheism and Pandeism, and polypanendeism...)
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RE: Deism! (and pantheism and Pandeism, and polypanendeism...)
June 24, 2011 at 2:29 am
Why would a deity want/need to create a universe at all?
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RE: Deism! (and pantheism and Pandeism, and polypanendeism...)
June 24, 2011 at 4:49 am
(June 20, 2011 at 8:17 pm)Ashendant Wrote: Maybe he was just bored and decided that he wanted some DRAMAS, if i was god i would totally make this world to laugh at all the DRAMA in it Big Grin

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RE: Deism! (and pantheism and Pandeism, and polypanendeism...)
June 24, 2011 at 3:29 pm (This post was last modified: June 24, 2011 at 3:44 pm by Darth.)
Nah Cj thats a very interesting god concept, one that I've never heard of before. I shall term it 'post-creation emergent deism', or has a term already been coined?

People's beliefs fascinate me, I for one would like to read more... Smile (Man I would love a belief (And lack of belief (before my fellow atheists maul me)) museum/zoo) "And this folks is a creationist, notice how he is impervious to logic and reason" "oooooh". "This here is an atheist, note the lack of horns, the ethical behaviour dispite a lack of religious beliefs and the amazing abs" "aaaaaah"
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RE: Deism! (and pantheism and Pandeism, and polypanendeism...)
June 24, 2011 at 4:04 pm
(June 24, 2011 at 2:29 am)theVOID Wrote: Why would a deity want/need to create a universe at all?

Same reason we create. Because it's what we do.
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RE: Deism! (and pantheism and Pandeism, and polypanendeism...)
June 24, 2011 at 5:43 pm (This post was last modified: June 24, 2011 at 5:45 pm by Cinjin.)
(June 24, 2011 at 4:04 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote:
(June 24, 2011 at 2:29 am)theVOID Wrote: Why would a deity want/need to create a universe at all?

Same reason we create. Because it's what we do.

Keep in mind Void that you have to take the Xtian characteristics of perfection and omnipotence out of the equation as well.

None of it really matters to me though. As soon as someone makes a claim that they KNOW why God would do something or that they even know who he is, automatically gets stamped with a disregard policy from me. Theorizing is fine. I do it often, but making claims of truth is unacceptable to me.


Any answer I have for someone is going to be my own conjecture with an attached disclaimer that reminds them that I simply do not know.
I speak only for myself, not deists, when I say: In my opinion, belief in God IS illogical ........... doesn't change the fact that I choose to do so.
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RE: Deism! (and pantheism and Pandeism, and polypanendeism...)
June 26, 2011 at 7:10 pm
(June 24, 2011 at 2:29 am)theVOID Wrote: Why would a deity want/need to create a universe at all?

Because he was extremily bored and decided he wanted to watch some human DRAMA
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RE: Deism! (and pantheism and Pandeism, and polypanendeism...)
June 26, 2011 at 7:18 pm
(June 24, 2011 at 2:29 am)theVOID Wrote: Why would a deity want/need to create a universe at all?

I would firstly propose to take 'deity' or 'God' out of the equation altogether; supposing ours to be a possibly created Universe, all we can know about its Creator is that it possessed whatever power, intellect, and rationality were required to set forth a Universe of precisely the attributes we see before us, no less (obviously) and more importantly no more than that. So the question really is, what might motivate an entity with the ability to create a Universe to exercise this ability?
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RE: Deism! (and pantheism and Pandeism, and polypanendeism...)
June 26, 2011 at 7:21 pm (This post was last modified: June 26, 2011 at 7:36 pm by fr0d0.)
(June 24, 2011 at 5:43 pm)Cinjin Wrote: As soon as someone makes a claim that they KNOW why God would do something or that they even know who he is, automatically gets stamped with a disregard policy from me.
Seems like you should disregard yourself the fuck out of existence then.

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(June 26, 2011 at 7:18 pm)Arcos Plage Wrote: what might motivate an entity with the ability to create a Universe to exercise this ability?
Entity creates for a purpose > entity has a need. Purpose = need fulfilled.
Cosmos exists because it needed to exist
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RE: Deism! (and pantheism and Pandeism, and polypanendeism...)
June 26, 2011 at 9:04 pm (This post was last modified: June 26, 2011 at 9:20 pm by Cinjin.)
(June 26, 2011 at 7:21 pm)fr0d0 Wrote:
(June 24, 2011 at 5:43 pm)Cinjin Wrote: As soon as someone makes a claim that they KNOW why God would do something or that they even know who he is, automatically gets stamped with a disregard policy from me.
Seems like you should disregard yourself the fuck out of existence then.

Read much?


Let me just direct you back to that post so you can finish READING it.
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RE: Deism! (and pantheism and Pandeism, and polypanendeism...)
June 27, 2011 at 12:23 am (This post was last modified: June 27, 2011 at 12:23 am by Arcos Plage.)
(June 26, 2011 at 7:21 pm)fr0d0 Wrote:
(June 26, 2011 at 7:18 pm)Arcos Plage Wrote: what might motivate an entity with the ability to create a Universe to exercise this ability?
Entity creates for a purpose > entity has a need. Purpose = need fulfilled.
Cosmos exists because it needed to exist

But did it need to exist prior to its existence? Or did something need it to exist (or to exist as it)?
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