@blü 2: " IF God is said to have objective existence, independently of anyone's concept of [him], why is there no coherent definition of such a god, so that if we found a real suspect, we could determine whether it was God or not? There's also no coherent definition of 'godness', the real...
Hello You and welcome, hope this is okay to add here and hope you do not mind me posting definitions of words. You can either take these definitions as facts and that they are true to the words they are paired up to or if they are not true. This is a real Dictionary that was bought one day...
I understand that English terms' definitions are subject to interpretation base on the most popular use. I've read that Sanskrit terms are much more specific and that there is little to no need to interpret meaning.
I'm asking anyone who is familiar with or fluent in Sanskrit to confirm or...
Hi everybody, hope this post finds you well. I explored the site a bit and I've gotta say, I'm glad to see there's a place for people to intelligently discuss such a touchy topic. It's a rarity these days, at least in my experience. But, I digress. Onto my question.
After leaving Christianity...
I've seen several posts here asking how someone is defining a term, particularly in threads where people are talking past each other.
At what point did it become acceptable for everyone to have their own personalized definition of a word? Do we not have words and corresponding agreed-upon...
In my brief existence (what is that?) in the RF I've seen a lot of different uses of the term "God" by the users. Some people assume that others have the same definition, others believe that the word have a unique meaning shared by everyone (you can call it a meta meaning for understands sake)...