SkepticThinker
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Yes, they do.
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Atheists: If there's no God, then where did the word "God" come from?
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paarsurrey
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term
Origin
Middle English (denoting a limit in space or time, or (in the plural) limiting conditions): from Old French terme, from Latin terminus ‘end, boundary, limit.’
https://www.google.ca/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=term+etymology+
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Shad
Veteran Member
No need to invent words just use known fiction like Star Trek and Star Wars. Lets take Klingon(s) for example. Using the OP's flawed logic Klingons must exist. The same applies to Wookies. Take a novel series like Lord of the Rings or Wheel of Time. Saidin must exist, Aes Sedai must exist. Nasty Orcs that taste horrible must exist.
Is your argument that we would not have made a word "God" if there was nothing that the word was meant to describe?Humans could neither create an atom nor a word both are work of God , in real sense.
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P.S.
atom (n.)
late 15c., as a hypothetical indivisible body, the building block of the universe, from Latin atomus (especially in Lucretius) "indivisible particle," from Greekatomos "uncut, unhewn; indivisible," from a- "not" + tomos "a cutting," from temnein "to cut" (see tome). An ancient term of philosophical speculation (in Leucippus, Democritus), revived 1805 by British chemist John Dalton. In late classical and medieval use also a unit of time, 22,560 to the hour. Atom bomb is from 1945 as both a noun and a verb; compare atomic.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=atom
Science has borrowed it lately from language as it has no language of its own.
paarsurrey
Veteran Member
What is your understanding from the word "God"? Kindly express your own understanding, not from a lexicon/dictionary? Please
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paarsurrey
Veteran Member
To what language will it pertains? English? Please
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leibowde84
Veteran Member
Yes, a baby is taught by its mother. But, we all have instincts learned by experience. We know, instinctually, to look both ways before crossing the street. It isn't magic. We experience cars and other dangers having to do with this activity. Thus, it becomes inherent to look before crossing (for reasonably intelligent people anyways).
lol ... that's a different usage than you are using in this thread. That usage of the word "term" refers to a limited amount of time, like a "contract term". It signifies a specific length of time. So, I have to assume you posted the wrong origin. And, further, you posted the origin/history of the word, not the definition as it is used in modern English.
leibowde84
Veteran Member
I think it can be assumed that it would be an english term/word, as we are all using english on this forum.
leibowde84
Veteran Member
God: a superhuman being or spirit worshiped as having power over nature or human fortunes; a deity.
My understanding of "God" is of the fundamental of mind. "Mind" is the person. When we "die," it is "mind" that is "lost," it is "mind" that we mourn and miss. It is "mind" that is proposed to "go" to some "afterlife." "God" is mind at rest.
paarsurrey
Veteran Member
Interesting. Please write more and express in a post to the extent the Forum allows in a post. I want to know more about it.
Anybody else who agrees with friend Willamena with reasons and and also those who don't agree with her with reasons. Please
Thanks and regards
What do you want to know about it?
McBell
Unbound
Ignoring the definitions of words that make you flat out wrong do not in any way make you right.
Seems your dishonesty kows no bounds
leibowde84
Veteran Member
He provided the origin of a completely different usage for the word "term" by mistake. This is the origin of the word "term" referring to a limited amount of time, like a "contract term". Kinda funny, to tell you the truth. But, further evidence that he doesn't have a real grasp on the issue at hand (and, obviously doesn't really understand what the word "term" means).
FearGod
Freedom Of Mind
According to the terms of my contact the term "term" is defined as 180 days from the date of the signing.
Tom
leibowde84
Veteran Member
Sucking is a learned reflex. This is why so many women & babies have a hard time nursing, b/c it is a LEARNED BEHAVIOR & not innate. Learning to breast feed not only is based upon previous experiences (for both mom & baby), but there is also a learning curve & maturational processes necessary for it.
Humans could neither create an atom nor a word both are work of God , in real sense.
Regards
P.S.
atom (n.)
late 15c., as a hypothetical indivisible body, the building block of the universe, from Latin atomus (especially in Lucretius) "indivisible particle," from Greekatomos "uncut, unhewn; indivisible," from a- "not" + tomos "a cutting," from temnein "to cut" (see tome). An ancient term of philosophical speculation (in Leucippus, Democritus), revived 1805 by British chemist John Dalton. In late classical and medieval use also a unit of time, 22,560 to the hour. Atom bomb is from 1945 as both a noun and a verb; compare atomic.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=atom
Science has borrowed it lately from language as it has no language of its own.
Believers, if there is no evolution by natural selection, where did those words come from?
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