The nature of God part 2

6 thoughts on “The nature of God part 2”

1. The ques­tions don’t even make sense except at some sort of naive lev­el. What is a cir­cle? What is a square? The mean­ing is infi­nite­ly deferred. And that’s just one prob­lem in a large set of prob­lems…

2. The rea­son that God can’t make a square cir­cle as I see it is the fol­low­ing.
   A square is defined as a geo­met­ri­cal fig­ure hav­ing four sides of equal length, with a right angle at each ver­tex.
   A cir­cle is defined as a geo­met­ri­cal fig­ure with one side and a con­stant radius.
   (scuse me if I don’t define these rig­or­ous­ly)
   These def­i­n­i­tions are mutu­al­ly exclu­sive. But they’re both def­i­n­i­tions writ­ten by human­i­ty to describe the world around them. Because of the way that we inter­pret the world, we exclude the pos­si­bil­i­ty of square cir­cles exist­ing.
   To cre­ate a square cir­cle, God would have to pro­duce a geo­met­ric shape that was simul­ta­ne­ous­ly four sided and one sided. Tech­ni­cal­ly, I guess, he can do this. But there’s not much point, because human­i­ty would just give the resul­tant shape a new name, study it for a while and move on.
   And God’s far too busy mak­ing waves into par­ti­cles and vice ver­sa.

3. Assum­ing God choos­es to work with­in the laws of log­ic that human­i­ty con­stant­ly tries to blud­geon the uni­verse into shape with.
   Their are oth­er options. We may not under­stand them. We may nev­er under­stand them. But that does not reduce their exis­tence, it reduces ours.

4. There are no Laws of Log­ic. I think you’re grasp­ing at a com­mon sense idea of absolutes that math­e­mat­ics does­n’t have. There are an infi­nite num­ber of log­ics that have rules such as: A is equiv­a­lent to Not A. Even the log­ics that we use may be incon­sis­tent, but by their own rules we can’t know for sure. We’re just try­ing to get along.
   Anoth­er way of reduc­ing your exis­tence is to play along with the peo­ple who’ve reduced theirs. Best just to leave them be.

5. Oh yeah, just wave an incom­plete­ness the­o­rem at us and assume that we’ll leave them be, oh yeah.

6. God does not exist.
   The uni­verse does not have lim­it­less pos­si­bil­i­ties.
   A square, a cir­cle and the num­ber sys­tem do not occur in nature, they are human con­structs which can be used to describe the nat­ur­al world, but they are not of the nat­ur­al world them­sleves.
   Log­ic is derived from true false state­ments. The first of which comes from the ques­tion: Does truth exist?

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