Damus
Kevin's BLAKE2bacon · 80w
A lot of my philosophy is concordant with Objectivism, but I don't believe in their dogmatic claim that there is no god just because they don't understand what God is and can't measure him. They furth...
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The atheist option is self defeating. To affirm that there is no God is to affirm that reality is impossible. If the material world has a begining, it must have a cause that transcends it, hence there must be something non material in existence (this succession of creation cannot go on eternaly and must have a first term, and that is what philosophy and the religions call God). But, if material creation has no begining, it must be the source and cause of itself, which would make the material universe the cause of all that exists, and this makes the universe God. This is pantheism, and it is extremely (EXTREMELY) poor in philosophical terms... The worldview of hippies and new age modern mistyc gurus. Either way, a God must inescapably exist. #God #atheism #philosophy #pantheism
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nostrich · 80w
Or one can simply make no assertion about it all and regard it as an anti-concept having no real meaning.
Kevin's BLAKE2bacon · 80w
Interesting take. I don't find this argument to be convincing on its own. Why does there have to be an ultimate cause? I'm not saying I believe otherwise, but I think it is worth discussing. You seem to be saying that the ultimate cause of the universe is God, that if it exists, it is some kind of ...