On 14 Jan 2015, at 20:32, meekerdb wrote:
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"
Not at all. When we say "God is money" we do a metaphor. No one would
defend the idea that money is the origin of the universe/consciousness.
When we say God is the unknown reason of the universe/consciousness,
we provide a definition.
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.
Good. But you don't always talk like that. Sometimes it looks like you
do believe that our origin is physical.
Bruno
Brent
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