There were numerous postongs with the 'subject' topic, trying to identify the concept of God. Different religions (tribal superstitions) identified the concept differently, some calling for - ONE - item, some allowing - MANY - even in controversy to each other. Even the so called monotheistic religions (e. g. the Muslim faith) allow a twosome: one on the positive side (Allah) and one on the negative (Satan). The Christian faith teaches about a THREESOM: i.e. the Holly Trinity of Father, Son and the Holly Spirit. The older Jewish liturgy refrains from even calling 'God" by name and circumvent if by descriptive nouns.
I claim to be agnostic in the topic, not the classical agnostic in the books, just "I dunno" agnostic. In my 'belief' of 'non-believing' tghe only POSITIVE item consists of the negative: the ENTIRETY (my favorite name for the totality we may think of as the WORLD - Everything included) consists of an infinite cpmplexity of which we may have a glimps of only a tiny fraction - the rest is untouchable for our capabilities. I used the word "glimp" because I have no assurance that whatever we THINK WE KNOW is real, true, existing (what is this?) and indeed(?) part of the world. I had a discussion with my son who is more conservative in his vocabulary and he came to the conclusion that whatever I call the "Infinite Conplexity" - ofEverything List "Entirety" - IS in fact identical to the concept religions cover by the word "God". Such infinite complexity MAY BE responsible for the generation of the Entirety and the maintenance in which we can exist (whatever we think about that). I t may be the sustainer of such Entirety as well and generator (guardian?) of the rules it follows. We THINK we KNOW some items and explain them into a conform WORLD in our 'science' - developed over the past millennia gradually and in many cases in newly taken routes of progress, abandoning the old speculations. Looking back into whatever we can deduct from the history of our own world (mostly: our planet Earth) it seems that we 'had' diverse inhabitants around and every one died out - or at least diminished into non-important ones whenever a newcomer emerged with a higher-level complexity than what the former one had - even suggesting that the populace of the former era couldnot elevate into understanding the incoming higher level complexity at all. Humanity developed the comparative meaning of items, whereupon more than 1000 languages were developed in diverse powers of understanding. Technology was developed as well and the bodily features were formulated to serve successfully such technology. One item to illustrate: The closest relative we had, the apes, are unable the THROW: they cannot coordinate the release of the stone while the holding hand is still moving. Such coordination needs a human brain complexity with adjusting (bringing together) the moving stone with the moving hand. In human complexities already achieved I count the languages, music, the arts,billions of mutually advantageous symbioses and lots of social achievements into the list. Unfortunately it seems we close in to the final stage in our existence and SOME higher complexity will be bound to tke over. In our limited capabilites we cannot foresee what features such newer/higher complexity will achieve. -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
