Since the list is in a proselytizing mood -- I guess it's appropriate for the season -- I leave you my favourite religious book.
"Principia Discordia" or "How I found Goddess and What I did to Her when I found Her" http://www.principiadiscordia.com/downloads/Principia%20Discordia.pdf (the good stuff starts on page 28) The good news is that, in Discordianism, we are all Popes. Hail Eris! Telmo. On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 20 Apr 2014, at 10:16, LizR wrote: > > On 20 April 2014 18:52, Samiya Illias <[email protected]> wrote: > >> So which of the 1000s of Gods people have invented, I mean discovered >> through divine revelation, should one bet on (and why) ? >> >> The one that you truly believe in, based upon all the study and >> contemplation you can put in. Not bet upon any arbitrarily, rather search >> and find faith. >> > > To me, god is a non-answer. Where did god come from? > > > > Good question. Apparently in comp God might have a Mother, and it has to > be a Goddess, but take this with the usual amount of grain salts :) > > But God, nor his Mother, should ever be considered as an answer. As answer > that is the usual authoritative "don't ask, don't search" attitude, i.e. > the God of the gap, maintained by those who want you to believe in their > view on reality, and prevent you to search and question them. > > God is not an answer, nor a justification for any act, even the most good > one. At least not in any public way. > > Bruno > > > So far the only ontologies that don't seem to merely push the question > back a step are ones like Bruno's comp, Russell's "theory of nothing" or > Max Tegmark's mathematical universe hypothesis. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
