Does God exist outside our own skulls?
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Started: | 1/28/2018 | Category: | Philosophy | ||
Updated: | 3 years ago | Status: | Debating Period | ||
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Greetings all, in the interest of full disclosure I am a retiring soon US Navy aircraft carrier commanding officer, so my command of logic is a little on the sound side, so no need for the usual watchdogs who monitor all new members of these types of groups to waste their own or anyone else's time attempting to provoke me, since I am also the world's foremost authority on Linguistic Warfare, which includes being able to effectively execute a prolonged gaslighting campaign against someone. So, not to worry anyone, just letting you know the timeframes I can leave an argument do and come back to it with the same sense of interest I had to start it, in case I drop off here, I'll be baaaaaack!! As Arnie would say. Who, unfortunately never played a US Navy Top Gun God's Boss coffee cup driving flattop CO, but maybe that will change once he learns how much fun it is from me.
And that's the simple question. There's a lot of debate about God existing or not within our own minds, me, personally, I don't have any doubt my Supreme Being is the same as my biological fathers and I won't go into that, since everyone's experience growing up is going to be different, which will add to the fun. Not just does God exist outside our own skulls, but is that a belief you inherited from your parents or came to from your own reading and exploring in other directions. Curious. Captain Wort. This round has not been posted yet. |
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Not sure I would agree with that creator and ruler of the universe and source of all moral authority. Logic is the creator and ruler of the universe and source of all moral authority. Which would be my guess as to being the God of Adam, Abraham and Moses described in the Judeo-Christian-Islamic religious texts. That's the English word Logic.
As far as spiritual authority, as in what we should do next, I would choose the ancient Greek pantheon of archetypes, with a minor but major change of Zeus and Hera - who were Roman perversions of Greek religion in order to justify the slavery on which their empire was built on - and replace Zeus and Hera with the Supreme Beings the Greeks worshipped, which were Orion and Hestia. Would be their mythical "Dad and Mom" so to speak, until they learned enough and had enough real world experience to start to think for themselves and become independent agents, so to speak, with their own marriage partners replacing their parents as authorities for their kids to maintain the line of succession, so to speak, that fostered the independent thought and self-reliance necessary for democracy to originate in Ancient Greece.
So, for all All-powerful God, I would call that being Orion, but I would not mention Him as being separate from his wife, Hestia, as I would not speak of my own parents as Dad or Mom, but Dad AND Mom, since it took DNA from both of them to create my physical body, otherwise I wouldn't be here to ponder any of this in that 1250 cc organ tucked inside my skull here I imagine as being the seat of my mental thinking, but in fact is just one part of this complete entity called ME, made up of my whole body.
Thanks for your service (forgot to say that before) and I'd really like to debate you on this, but you have to at least pin down *some* definition of god so that we may use *that* definition throughout the debate.
Can I suggest a definition?
god - the creator and ruler of the universe and source of all moral authority.
Your thoughts?
And the etymology, meaning, the origin, of the English word God, is the Proto-Germanic word gudan, which they used in ancient times to mean good. Language changes over time. You see, the Bible was not written in English, it was TRANSLATED from the original Hebrew for the Pentateuch and other parts of Old Testament from the Jewish religious tradition, and then Aramaic for most of the New Testament. So, they would not have been using the word God in the Bible. That's an English word. So, just be careful to keep language separate from intent, because those two very rarely align between two people because of all of our vastly different experiences reading books, or lack thereof, which is the unfortunate side effect of the so-called Information Age that makes debate sites such as this so few and far between, so no harm in running the characters remaining warning all the way down to the last letter for a little more information to share.
Care to define it?