On 10 Jul 2013, at 21:12, meekerdb wrote:
On 7/10/2013 2:35 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 09 Jul 2013, at 20:06, John Clark wrote:
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 12:59 AM, Kim Jones
<kimjo...@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
>>>I love Christopher Hitchens. I agree with many points. He is
more an anticlerical than an atheist to me ...
>> Everybody called him an atheist. He called himself an
atheist. I think you just don't like the term.
> Forgivable though, don't you think?
No I do not, I think it's unforgivable to value a word more than
the concept it represents.
But this is exactly what you are doing John. God represent a
concept, even, at the start, the mother of all concept.
You just want that the word God applies only to the theistic notion
of some institutionalized religion, where some want to use it in
very large sense akin to its original meaning.
It's ancient meaning referred to superhumanly powerful, immortal
people that lived in inaccessible places (above the firmament,
beneath the Earth,...) and occasionally punished or rewarded humans.
I'm sure you believe in these gods; since they are logically possible.
I met them all the time, sure.
I believe in thunders, I belief in the earth, I believe in the fire.
The fire can reward me, by warming me up when it is cold, and can
punish me too, when I go to much closer.
Of course I have updated many technical details, about firmaments and
things like that. I bet that they are appearances emerging from
infinities of (number's) dreams.
Bruno
Bruno
Brent
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