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Re: Ye Religion Thread
« Reply #1770 on: December 13, 2007, 06:53:46 PM »
well i just got home and i missed your replys but no matter!  because the LINKS in my post was meant to be the topic not my own personal views but whateva lol
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« Reply #1771 on: December 13, 2007, 07:21:55 PM »
However, it's only o.k. to "challenge" a christians beliefs and the benefit of the doubt is always stripped from those which you owe your life, limb, and country to.

At this point I hate to start off with another contrarian observation... :D
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Re: Ye Religion Thread
« Reply #1772 on: December 13, 2007, 07:22:27 PM »
well i just got home and i missed your replys but no matter!
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Re: Ye Religion Thread
« Reply #1773 on: December 13, 2007, 10:14:13 PM »
 :lolsign:  well I'm a Catholic Atheist if that makes any sense... 
I was brought up Catholic but I am skeptical of it all. Yet for some reason I still have thoughts like "omg I just sinned"   lol  :LAME:

The bible stories just sound like some really good sci fi/fantasy genre reading IMO. It's all just to unbelievable for me, but I'm hopeful to the possibility of a 'Godly being'.
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« Reply #1774 on: December 14, 2007, 12:26:37 AM »
This thread reminds me of what a perfect subject this is for dinner parties.

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« Reply #1775 on: December 14, 2007, 02:47:24 AM »
This thread reminds me of what a perfect subject this is for dinner parties.

 :rockon:

heh careful hang, might end up in a food fight with that subject  :lolsign: (if the menu is right, you could have "flying spaghetti", just gotta find out how to add the monster in that equation)
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« Reply #1776 on: December 14, 2007, 05:15:33 AM »
Catholic Atheist

haha pretty much how I am. Dropped out of CCD.  :twisted:
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« Reply #1777 on: December 14, 2007, 10:38:50 AM »
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Re: Ye Religion Thread
« Reply #1778 on: December 15, 2007, 12:41:49 PM »
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Let's suppose there really is a god. Not some wimp deity who can't even create his own time and logic. No, let's suppose the Big Omega is the guy in question, someone so vast and powerful that all your conceptions of god, no matter how elaborate or degenerate, all fit inside with plenty of room to spare. We're talking a god who can happily create walls so high he can't jump over them, who can solve the General Halting Problem, who is benevolent, irrelevant, and malignant at the same time, who exceeds any origin or ending, who is contained by no distinction, who is bigger than any god any religion ever invented or can ever invent. The kind of god that's bigger than this page can distinguish. The god so big he doesn't care whether or not you capitalize his name. The god who owns all names, all behaviors, all attributes, all physics, all specifications, and all infinities. A god who forgives and damns you no matter what you do, who is 100%, completely, utterly, and without bound, unpredictable, an impartial god of random chance and an intimate god of unfailing love at the same time. The mystery god who resembles, cherishes, and ignores you neither more nor less than he resembles, cherishes, and ignores lichen, water, cattle, neutrinos, stars, pistachio jelly beans, the story of the Lusitania, and one particular cherry-red 1968 Plymouth Barracuda.

The trouble with most theists is they can't stand the idea of a really big god like this. They want a god that acts like their parents did. Someone who buys you ice cream if you're good and sends you to the eternal lake of fire if you're bad. The idea of a god of howling chaos, crystalline order, and all myriad flowing variations in between just scares them stupid, or else their imaginations are too impoverished to conceptualize someone that large.

Give me a religion with a god like this and I might come have tea with you to chat about it. But take your poor excuse with his hands banged onto a tree, or that other poor excuse sitting under the tree clawing his way into his own navel, or that whole tribe of poor excuses playing celestial parlor games with humans for dice, or that poor excuse who doesn't even trouble himself to exist, and leave them at home. All human religions are just pretty children's stories next to Big Omega.

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Hmmm... Its meaning is crystal clear to me, so I'm pretty sure it's not gibberish.

Do you mean that you didn't understand it?
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Re: Ye Religion Thread
« Reply #1779 on: December 15, 2007, 01:09:03 PM »

To me, the point of someguy's post was to highlight that the Christian God seems like contrived, sometimes petty, disciplinarian.  Seems pretty relevant to discerning the truth to me.





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« Reply #1780 on: December 15, 2007, 02:06:28 PM »
In addition to Defiant's observation, there's another aspect to the "riff on Big Omega as Diety" concept that I find interesting.

This will be probably hard to explain, because it involves familiarity with the implications of the mathematical Big Omega concept.

I guess I'll go ahead and quote it here:

Quote from: http://clublet.com/why?BigOmega
Formal shebang

We're going to construct a couple of mathematical objects which we call the ordinal numbers. The ordinal numbers form a total order, i.e. for every two ordinal numbers n and m, we have either n < m, n > m, or n = m.

Now if we have a set of ordinal numbers V, then we call an ordinal number w an upper bound of V if for all numbers v in V, we have v < w. This essentially means that w is bigger than all elements of V.

Now there is One Basic Rule: if we ever have a set of ordinal numbers V, then we can construct a number sup(V) which is has the following two properties:

   1. sup(V) is an upper bound of V
   2. for every upper bound w of V, we have sup(V) <= w

The second property essentially says, in a math-speak way, that sup(v) is the smallest upper bound of V. Think about it...

OK, how do we start? Let's consider the empty set. According to the One Basic Rule (OBR), there is some ordinal number larger then every number in the empty set. Let's call this number 0. Since it was created with the OBR, property 2 guarantees that it is the smallest number that is larger than... nothing. So 0 is the smallest ordinal number.

Now we apply the OBR to the set {0}. This gets us 1, apply OBR to {1}, gives 2. In this way we can build all the natural numbers.

But we can also apply the OBR to this set N of natural numbers, i.e. {0,1,2,3,...} ad infinitum. No one said that the OBR can only be applied to finite sets. So applying the OBR to N gives us omega (note the small o, this is not yet the Big Omega). omega is the smallest infinite number. Of course, we can apply againg the OBR on {omega}, giving omega+1, omega+2, etc.. Again, we can apply the OBR on the whole infinite set {omega, omega+1, omega+2 ,...}, resulting in 2omega. Applying the OBR on {omega, 2omega, 3omega, ...} gives omega^2. It gets a bit messy on notation now, but you get the idea. In fact you can even write down the set that generalises this idea, and apply the OBR to it. This gives you an even larger transfinite number.

Everytime you feel you have a mechanism to create larger ordinal numbers, you can formalize this mechanism, create a set out of it, and apply the OBR on it, to create a number that is larger than all previous attempts. In fact, you cannot talk over the set of all ordinal numbers; if you could, you could apply the OBR on it and get a new ordinal number, not in the set. So mathematicians don't talk about the set of all ordinal numbers, they talk about the class of ordinal numbers. No one knows what exactly makes a class different from a set, except that you cannot apply the OBR to a class. (But you can write a stronger version of the OBR, call it meta-OBR, saying that you can. Then you can produce even more (meta-)ordinal numbers. Of course, all meta-ordinal numbers don't form a class, they form something different, say, a metaclass. Repeat ad nauseum, and to arbitrary levels of meta(n)-ness, with n being finite, transfinite or even meta-ordinal.)

So what is Big Omega? Big Omega is the limit to all of this. The number bigger than all numbers, ordinal, meta-ordinal or otherwise. The only number bigger then itself, violating all previous set-up rules. Of course, formally, there's no such thing. Its existence violates the OBR, and the meta-OBR, and all the others. But we like to talk about it anyway.

Don't think too much about Big Omega. Cantor did, and he became mad.

Please spend a few minutes to internalize the above concept.  Don't worry, you don't have to be a math whiz for the concept to click... (I'm not a math whiz by any means.)

Anyway...

What I like about the Big Omega deity riff, is that although it's stated rather poetically, conceptually the idea of "someone so vast and powerful that all your conceptions of god, no matter how elaborate or degenerate, all fit inside with plenty of room to spare," falls out quite naturally as a direct analogy to mathematical concept.

But I want to be clear that no-one is saying the mathematical concept somehow EQUALS the proposed deity.  The mathematical concept is still just a mathematical concept.  The proposed deity is a riff on the implications of the mathematical concept as applied to a deity.

So, what I love about the BigOmega diety concept, is that by nature it encompasses and contains every other human God concept ever invented or described with plenty of room left over.

What I find intersting, is how easy it turns out to be to imagine and conceptualize a deity that completely dwarfs the traditional god concepts of all religions.

For example: Some religions say, our god is infinite and all-powerful.  And figure that nothing can be bigger than that.

But BigOmega is way bigger than that...

:D


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« Reply #1781 on: December 15, 2007, 02:43:59 PM »
This will be probably hard to explain, because it involves familiarity with the implications of the mathematical Big Omega concept.


I think you did a rather fine job of it quadz....

So, what I love about the BigOmega diety concept, is that by nature it encompasses and contains every other human God concept ever invented or described with plenty of room left over.
What I find intersting, is how easy it turns out to be to imagine and conceptualize a deity that completely dwarfs the traditional god concepts of all religions.
For example: Some religions say, our god is infinite and all-powerful.  And figure that nothing can be bigger than that.
But BigOmega is way bigger than that...

:D

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I like this quadz (like that counts for anything :) ). I could be wrong but I think it brings out one point that I've always tried to teach. I believe the human mind cannot comprehend infinte and all-powerful because we are finite beings. So, anything we comprehend as being infinte and all-powerful is limited by what we can comprehend these terms to mean. Since we are finite and our comprehension of these terms is necessarly bound by this, there must be lots of space past what we can comprehend, lots of room for, if you will, continued revelation and understanding as we gain knowledge.

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« Reply #1782 on: December 15, 2007, 04:04:21 PM »
"God made Man in his own image and likeness"


When deciphering the meanings of the words in the Holy Bible, it is important to understand the context that these words are used in when you aren't completely clear on what a phrase means. On the whole, the translators working for King James did a pretty good job of using english words with definitions and usages mirroring the words used in the original greek and hebrew texts. From my own studies, this particular phrase is not to be understood as "God is suseptible to illness etc." as you have mentioned. Many people make the mistake of taking individual passages out of context for their own purposes. For example, some people have used the verse saying that "God has given you all the seed bearing plants to use" as a defense for their choice to smoke marijuana. If you only pay attention to THAT verse, sure, it sounds like marijuana is a seed bearing plant, therefore you can use it. However, the bible also decries the "drunkard" and "strong drink". In such context, it's quite obvious and apparent that the bible champions sobriety and is strictly against intoxication. Using proper context, "likeness" cannot be translated as "exactly the same". Believing that because man gets sick that God must also get sick, is not using proper context. Remember that after the "original sin", mankind was cursed with sickness, having to work for food, painful childbirth, etc... "Likeness and image" is used in other verses, particularly referring to offspring: "Genesis 5:3 - And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth: ". Obviously this does not mean that his son is EXACTLY like him. "Image" is often used in the bible in reference to an idol (ie, effigy, statue of a deity), obviously the word image means having the representation of the physical appearance.

It's certainly not my intent to evangelize Christianity, or any other religious dogma for that matter. But it does aggrevate me to see some people who are willing to use religious texts as their argumentative ammo without understanding the WHOLE of that religion. They affect an appearance of one who is well-read on their own religion, only to look like a completely impotent fool to the one who REALLY IS well-read. Personally, I will NEVER debate the viability of one religion over another, such things are pointless, fruitless, and hopeless. Choice of religion is a personal opinion and opinions always vary. It certainly doesn't surprise me to see a thread here completely devoted to "religion" which is 120 pages long... and ever growing.
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« Reply #1783 on: December 15, 2007, 06:05:22 PM »
"God made Man in his own image and likeness"
When deciphering the meanings of the words in the Holy Bible, it is important to understand the context that these words are used in when you aren't completely clear on what a phrase means. On the whole, the translators working for King James did a pretty good job of using english words with definitions and usages mirroring the words used in the original greek and hebrew texts. From my own studies, this particular phrase is not to be understood as "God is suseptible to illness etc." as you have mentioned.

You might want to re-read my post?
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Re: Ye Religion Thread
« Reply #1784 on: December 15, 2007, 07:23:07 PM »
I believe the human mind cannot comprehend infinte and all-powerful because we are finite beings. So, anything we comprehend as being infinte and all-powerful is limited by what we can comprehend these terms to mean. Since we are finite and our comprehension of these terms is necessarly bound by this, there must be lots of space past what we can comprehend, lots of room for, if you will, continued revelation and understanding as we gain knowledge.

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