On 1/14/2015 3:26 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 3:56 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]
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On 1/14/2015 12:34 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 1:32 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]
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On 1/14/2015 6:25 AM, Jason Resch wrote:
In Buddhism: Samantabhadra Buddha declares of itself:
"I am the core of all that exists. I am the seed of all that exists. I
am the
cause of all that exists. I am the trunk of all that exists. I am the
foundation of all that exists. I am the root of existence. I am "the
core"
because I contain all phenomena. I am "the seed" because I give birth to
everything. I am "the cause" because all comes from me. I am "the trunk"
because the ramifications of every event sprout from me. I am "the
foundation"
because all abides in me. I am called "the root" because I am
everything."
Various thinkers over time have, apparently through reason, come to a
similar
conclusion:
"Geometry existed before the creation, it is co-eternal with the mind
of God,
Geometry provided god with a model for creation, Geometry is God
himself." --
Kepler
"To all of us who hold the Christian belief that God is truth, anything
that
is true is a fact about God, and mathematics is a branch of theology."
--
Hilda Phoebe Hudson
"I would say with those who say ‘God is Love’, God is Love. But deep
down in
me I used to say that though God may be Love, God is Truth above all.
If it
is possible for the human tongue to give the fullest description of
God, I
have come to the conclusion that God is Truth. Two years ago I went a
step
further and said that Truth is God. You will see the fine distinction
between
the two statements, ‘God is Truth’ and ‘Truth is God’. I came to that
conclusion after a continuous and relentless search after truth which
began
fifty years ago." -- Gandhi
And how are all your examples different than "God is money" or "God is
power"
or "God is a bearded dude in the clouds" They are just instances of a
simple
formula: "I think X is really important and deserving of your
adulation. So
God is X"
No, they provide (potentially verifiable) answers to the question of what
exists
beyond the physical reality and why it exists at all (assuming it does and
is not
an illusion of consciousness), particularly those God definitions which you
cut
from your reply.
Some people say "God is love", Bruno says "God is unprovable
truths.",
Paul Tillich said "God is whatever you value most." But just
because
somebody says "Unicorns are rhinocereses" doesn't mean I have to
start
believing unicorns exist, or that that when I say unicorns don't
exist I'm
denying the existence of rhinocereses.
Do you believe in a source of reality beyond the apparent physical
reality we
find ourselves in now?
No. I don't "believe IN" anything. I entertain hypotheses.
So then you're merely entertaining the hypothesis that no theistic God
exists,
rather than being a true atheist who would "believe IN" "no theistic god
exists"
I don't believe any theistic God exists - and so I'm an a-theist.
Having no beliefs is agnostic.
No, an agnostic not only doesn't know, but thinks it's impossible to know, per
#5 below.
Brent
adjective
4.
of or relating to agnostics or their doctrines, attitudes, or beliefs.
5.
asserting the uncertainty of all claims to knowledge.
6.
holding neither of two opposing positions:
If you take an agnostic view of technology, then it becomes clear thatyour decisions to
implement one solution or another should be drivenby need.
Jason
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