On 19 Jan 2015, at 02:17, John Clark wrote:
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be>
wrote:
> The question is not if God exists or not. But if
God = the physical universe?
God = a mathematical structure? Which one?
God = a dream by a universal machine?
God = a sum on all dreams by all universal machines?
God = the one who lost itself in a labyrinth of dreams?
God = the one who plays hide and seek with Itself?
God = the universal person?
God = the universal person completions? (if that exists)
God = Allah?
God = Jesus?
God = Krishna?
God = my tax collector?
God = the one who made the cat in its own image, and then made the
humans to gives the vat the modern comfort, with TV nad bag of catnip?
etc.
If you're correct about that, and I think you are, and it could mean
a tax collector or the mathematical universe or anything in between
then the word "God" has exactly ZERO information content and writing
about "God" accomplishes nothing except cause excessive wear and
tear on the O D and G keys on your computer.
And yet some people still insist on using the word. Go figure.
That would be the case if God was defined by the disjunction above.
But God was defined by "roots of the physical, psychological and
spiritual reality". So each individual question makes sense. is the
physical universe the roots of the physical, and psychological or
spiritual reality? If yes, you are materialist. You can define
materialist by saying God = Matter. If not, you are not materialist,
and so can look to the other questions. Etc.
Bruno
John K Clark
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