I have some thing in my hand. It's not a spoon it's not a fork ,it's not a gun ,it's not an American flag. It's not a bible ,it's not paper or plastic and it's not any type of metal. I could go on for days telling you what isn't in my hand but that wouldn't tell you what is. Therefore you have no choice but to remain agnostic about what I mean when I say something is in my hand. So it goes with the word God! When I ask Christians/apologists/theologians what god is they say he is spirit, and when I ask what spirit is they say immaterial. Non existence is non material because non existence doesn't exist! They try to define god by saying god is good loving all powerful all knowing 3 persons in one ontology (being) ,but that doesnt tell me what they mean by being. Talking about character doesn't define existence. Since they can't tell me what god is, I can't even asses the probability of their claim. In fact their claim is no more meaningful, logical, or explanatory than "blue sleeps faster than Wednesday". Their claim is no more sensical than saying " there is a great blah in the sky!".The Christian orthodox concept of deity isn't really a concept because it's not conceptual. Many say that it is possible to conceptualize something that doesn't exist, but they are wrong! They say that unicorns are conceptual, but the problem with their assertion is that horses exist and horns exist and all one is doing ,is taking two diferent concepts of two physical objects and calling them a unicorn. Every conceptualization is a mere compilations of physical objects. When we create a person in our minds all we are doing is taking some physical characteristics that we have seen in the past and scrambling them all together to make a new arrangement. So even in that sense we are not conceptualizing anything non existent or immaterial. Everything we know and can conceptualize (with any level of certainty) is merely the result of sensory input into our physical brains. Saying something or someone is immaterial is meaningless to me because everything in my personal experience has only been physical (energy or matter). Thanks for taking the time to read this post and may the blah be with you whatever that means lol .Please leave a comment. Sincerely James T Stillwell 3.
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Friday, July 22, 2011
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