On Mar 25, 11:04 am, Brock Organ <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Redshirt Bluejacket > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > First, consider the rational pandeistic conception of our Creator (not > >> > "God" exactly, but if you want to use that word, okay).... all things > >> > in our Universe are equally manifestations of this Creator, and so > >> > everything that I write, and that you write, and that everyone writes > >> > is just another manifestation of this Creator -- but recall, the > >> > Creator itself has surrendered its consciousness to have the > >> > experience of our Universe, and so we are something akin to a dream, > >> > though one that is bound to follow an ordered set of rules over > >> > billions of years.... > > >> fallacy by children's nursery rhyme: > > >>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row,_Row,_Row_Your_Boat > > > And what fallacy would that be? > > An epistemological method of inquiry that is unable to distinguish > between the objective nature of reality and the speculative conjecture > of a children's rhyme is inadequate: > > "Row, row, row your boat, > Gently down the stream. > Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, > Life is but a dream." > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row,_Row,_Row_Your_Boat > > Regards, > > Brock
Well that's why I said much earlier that all analogies are bad analogies; naturally it is a vast simplification to characterise our current state as "God's dream" when instead we are a manifestation arising from the ongoing unconscious will of our Creator, which is temporarily existing as a Universe of energy bound by well-crafted physical constants designed to cause precisely such sort of manifestations, at some point, somewhere (though not necessarily us here and now).... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "A Civil Religious Debate" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/a-civil-religious-debate?hl=en.
