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If God is everywhere, then God is
Everything, And if God is everything, then everything is God? If X= Everywhere, then X= everything, If X= everything, then everything= X. If I am a thing amongst the sum total of everything - then I must be God. Just thinking out loud. |
Hello Friends. Omnipresent - present in all possible locations at once. In reference to the biblical God, who is deemed to be Omnipresent. If said entity was to be in all possible places at once, said entity would occupy every single occupiable location in both the cosmic and the quantum. Every component, of every thing would be entirely occupied by one thing. Therefore everything would have no other ingredients than this sole- entity. Would not everything then be ONE thing? leading to the truth that - everything is said entity. If god is everywhere, then God is Everything, And if God is everything, then everything is God? If X= Everywhere, then X= everything, If X= everything, then everything= X. If I am a thing amongst the sum total of everything - I must be God, like you and gluons and nebula and even (although this defies all logic) Gordon Brown Please can someone reveal the flaw in this - I can't. Thanks. |
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I'm not sure if this is the proper section to discuss this in, but I feel like this is pretty existentialist thinking. It seems to me that the words Truth and Fact are often used interchangeably. I posit that there is a very significant difference between Fact and Truth, and that using them synonymously is a fallacy to be consciously avoided. I've come to understand the difference between Fact and Truth as this: A fact is a reality that cannot be logically disputed or rejected. If I say "fire is hot," I don't care how great your reasoning skills are, if you touch fire your skin will burn (and don't give me that "but people can walk on hot coals!" bull. There's a difference between the transfer of heat through conduction and training one's body to deal with the agonizing pain of said conduction). Now when I say this, I am not speaking a truth, I am speaking a fact. If you say "fire is not hot," you are not lying, you are incorrect. Facts are concrete realities that no amount of reasoning will change. When one acknowledges a fact, they are doing just that. Facts are not discovered, facts are not created, facts are simply acknowledged. A Truth on the other hand, is almost the opposite. Truths are those things that are not simply acknowledged, but must be discovered, or created. If I say "God exists," and I possess strong reasoning for the affirmative of that statement, then God really does exist, that is a reality. However, if another individual possesses strong reasoning for the negative, and because of this reasoning they believe that God does not exist, then that is also a reality. If we were to debate our ideologies, and my reasoning appeared stronger than theirs, they may choose to adopt my belief that God does exist. If they do, then the existence of God is just as true as the nonexistence of God which they believed a week ago. Truths, as opposed to fact, are much more fluid and malleable than their empirical counterparts. Now, facts may often be used to substantiate one's assertions on certain truths, and truths may be used to help us better understand certain facts. However, to assert a fact as a truth, or a truth as a fact, is backwards thinking, and antithetical to intelligible progress. I know this may seem obvious to some, but I see plenty of people on this site, and in real life misjudging the values of certain assertions based on this misconception. I myself must be constantly reminded of this concept, as it's easy to let them sort of run together when caught up in the insatiable quest for knowledge. I just wanted to point out what I've figured to be the pitfalls of that assumption, and see what other people think of this notion. |
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