On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:
> You might also tell me what is your "theory of everything" > If I had one I'd be the greatest and most famous scientist who ever lived. I'm not. > or if you are even interested in that notion. > I would be very interested if a theory of everything exists, but there is no reason ti think it must. > Only an obtuse Christian can believe that only the christian God gives the right meaning of the word God. > There is no one "right" meaning to a word but to communicate we must agree on a meaning otherwise we very literally don't know what the hell we're debating. Imagine if you and some of your friends decided to collaborate to prove something about the real numbers, but one of you thought "real numbers" meant a right triangle, another thought the points on a line, another thought is meant a oblate spheroid and still another a ice cream cone. You decide to worry about what "real numbers" means until after the proof is finished. Do you think the resulting proof would be any good? > But the abramanic God is already *quite* different for the muslim and the > sufi, or for the israelite and the cabalist, or for the christian clergy > and the christian mystics. > They all are supposed to have made me and the entire universe and they all know everything that can be known and that's good enough to be called "God" in my book. But you said there are thousands of definitions of "God", if so then the word is totally useless especially in philosophy. The entire point of words is communication and if nobody knows what it means then it's not a word it's just a noise. It's true that philosophers love the word "God", but then philosophers haven't done any philosophy in centuries. > For this I am atheist. There are no omniscient being(s). > Then have the guts to just say you don't believe in God and stop all this nambe pambe "depends on what you mean by God" crap!! John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" 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/everything-list?hl=en.
