Why don't you just call it One with a capital O Samiya
> On 27-Feb-2015, at 4:23 pm, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On 26 Feb 2015, at 21:52, meekerdb wrote: >> >>> On 2/26/2015 3:09 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >>> Fro the greek, the existence of God is a quasi-triviality, because God, by >>> definition, is the reality that we search. Then the real question is what >>> is the nature of God? A person? A physical thing? A mathematical thing? A >>> first principle, etc. >> >> The Greeks had many concepts of the basis of reality which were not assumed >> to be gods, i.e. persons. Anaximander called it "aperion". From Wikipedia: >> >> "Greek philosophy entered a high level of abstraction, adopting apeiron as >> the origin of all things, because it is completely indefinite. This is a >> further transition from the previous existing mythical way of thought to the >> new rational way of thought which is the main characteristic of the archaic >> period (8th-6th century BC)." >> >> So I reiterate my objection that using "God" is not only obfuscating your >> avowed meaning it is also wrong to say it's what the Greeks meant by the >> basis of reality. > > > Yes, it is a key moment in the greek theology, where at the beginning, God > was considered as finite, and the infinite was confused with the indefinite, > and almost an insult. Later they make the infinite (apeiron) into a possible > attribute of the ONE, and reserve the indefinite ofr the notion of bad, or > matter. > > If you don't like the term "God" I will use "Allah". The main point about God > is that it has no name, so *any* name is wrong. I did not use God, except in > a reply which has lead us to that infinite useless vocabulary discussion. God > is just the most common quasi-name (pointer). > > I made clear what I meant, and the important point is the coming back to the > scientific attitude in theology, which is typically concerned with soul, > afterlife, (re)incarnation, origin of universe, transcendence, truth, > non-nameable, etc. It is the ONE of Parmenides and Plotinus, and it is not > distinguishable from arithmetical truth, in case we are machine. > > BTW, sometimes ago, you suggested here to promote my work to Templeton. How > is that going? > > Bruno > > > >> >> Brent >> >> -- >> 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.
