Papoon
Active Member
I am not at all threatened by you.
I am giving you a clue about logic, proof and clear thinking.
Aggressive ? No, just to the point.
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Are You Divine?
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I am giving you a clue about logic, proof and clear thinking.
Aggressive ? No, just to the point.
Papoon
Active Member
Yeah ? Tell that to Frank Zappa.
Wait, you can't... he died of prostate cancer after multiple medical tests which 'proved' he was fine.
How we defining "proof?"
How exactly do you go around proving you're not a God?
Papoon
Active Member
You yell me.
I didn't start the conversation about proof. I made observations that some posters use the term pretty much meaninglessly.
In fact I am ignostic, so words have no meaning we haven't agreed on.
Jeremiahcp
Well-Known Jerk
I think you are threatened by me, or maybe you like like me.
Unveiled Artist
Veteran Member
Yes. My ancestors are. My family are. Why wouldn't I be.
Here is something I like from my class reading "Reading Between the Signs." It talks about cultural differences between Deaf and hearing culture.
If we can accept the paradox that the real humanity of people is understood through cultural differences rather than cultural similarities, then we can make profoun sense of our differences. It is possible that there is not one truth, but many; not one real experience, but many realities; not one history, but many different and valid ways of looking at events.
~Jamake Highwater
The Primal Mind
No idea, I'm not the one who made the claim.
What you been smoking? God trusts us so much to explore the universe he put a million miles between each planet.
You consider the characteristics that make something a God and then investigate whether you possess those characteristics.
So what are the characteristics that make something a God?
BTW: by "a God", do you mean "a god"? I know the autocorrect on my iPod capitalizes "God" without me asking, so I figured I should ask before assuming that you meant "God" to be something different from "god".
The Kilted Heathen
Crow FreyjasmaðR
If someone asks you if you're a god, you say YES!
Outside of proving that you're not a specific god, you really can't. Especially if people worship you. After all, that's really all that "god" means; "that which is worshiped". Even the third definition of the Oxford English Dictionary definition of "god" is: a person who is loved or admired very much by other people. Which would then complicate "divine", in that divine law/love/will/etc is usually described as something coming from a god or connected to a god.
The uses of a word listed in the dictionary are distinct, and not intended to be conflated.
The Kilted Heathen
Crow FreyjasmaðR
How do you mean? If one fits the definition of a god (see: any celebrity) would not their actions then fit the definition of divine as originating from a god?
Muffled
Jesus in me
I beleive divinity means the ability to know the future and only God has that ability. We try to divine the future but we are not very good at it.
The Kilted Heathen
Crow FreyjasmaðR
Frigga holds that ability too. I predict you're going to disagree with me.
There are several possible defining traits of divinity. Necessity, for instance. I myself am not a necessary being. There's omni traits, but I don't even believe the neteru really have those (with debatable exception). Then there's immaterial existence, which I only partake halfway in, so perhaps there I may ONE DAY be a god. Finally there is the ability to willfully and consciously go against nature, and by that definition all humans are indeed gods, or capable of being one.