Jiddanand
Active Member
Never heard plural skies. Sky exist and is single entity.
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How you define God?
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YmirGF
Bodhisattva in Recovery
It might well have meaning for you. For me, it no longer has any meaning.
So unicorns exist then?
Deathbydefault
Apistevist Asexual Atheist
Gods are representations of a humans mind adapting to make sense of the world we live in.
You can draw a conclusion on what God is through any indirect line of thinking.
A God is whatever you want it to be, the only set definition describes power/ability characteristics.
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Kilgore Trout
Misanthropic Humanist
The definition of sky I was using was simply "the upper air." The locations around the world are analogous to different practices which may provide different perceptions of "the upper air." And even in the same location, there are different parts to "the upper air."
Rick O'Shez
Irishman bouncing off walls
And therein lies the problem, it makes "God" just another bit of ill-defined jargon, one of those woolly catch-all words which ends up being meaningless.
It would be helpful if people using the word could attach a succinct personal definition as a matter of course, that will save the rest of us trying to guess.
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Jiddanand
Active Member
[emoji3]It might well have meaning for you. For me, it no longer has any meaning.
So unicorns exist then?
Rick O'Shez
Irishman bouncing off walls
Jiddanand
Active Member
I think sky is an element and is Omnipresent. From the point you start to infinity. And of course the sky is only one. Within the sky you may have few distributions for scientific research and measurements.
Kilgore Trout
Misanthropic Humanist
Look at all the stars in the sky.
Kilgore Trout
Misanthropic Humanist
An argument for increased focus on chemistry education.
Only if one lacks education on natural philosophy and is ignorant of the term "element" being stolen and usurped by chemistry, not the other way around.
A god is that which a person or culture deifies. Deification is a declaration of relationship and tells us how a people regard a certain thing. A deified thing is deeply valued or held sacred. What people find to be deeply valuable varies from person to person, and culture to culture. Thus, necessarily, the precise attributes of a god depend on what is being deified.
I like apophatic theology. iow, to define God by means of what He is not.
God is defined as something that does NOT exist.
Ciao
- viole
The abstract concept, usually anthropomorphized into a deity(s), that people have used to plug up and plaster over the gaps between the world that they wish to live in and the reality that exists.
Tom
GoodbyeDave
Well-Known Member
A god is simply some being that other people choose to worship. If that sounds a bit vague, at least it covers everything, and defining very simple concepts is always difficult.
If you are thinking of The God, a unique or special one, then one would say the being responsible for the existence of the universe. That's a definition which fits all religions that accept the existence of such a being: Christianity, Hinduism, African Traditional Religion, etc. But of course some would see the existence of the universe as a mystery, or as the result of a collaborative enterprise.
If you are thinking of The God, a unique or special one, then one would say the being responsible for the existence of the universe. That's a definition which fits all religions that accept the existence of such a being: Christianity, Hinduism, African Traditional Religion, etc. But of course some would see the existence of the universe as a mystery, or as the result of a collaborative enterprise.
Kilgore Trout
Misanthropic Humanist
Ah yes, the original, useless connotation of "element." I suppose there will always be some people who will persist in clinging to outmoded and incoherent language.
Either way, your little snit has little to nothing to do with the point of the conversation.
The original quote- "Ask 1000 different people from around the world to look at the sky and simply enter here what the sky looks like." They would see light in the sky. The analogy is restricted to the sky and uses only those things that appear in the sky to represent the actual. The use of outer space may demand new mappings between the actual and those things in outer space.
Kilgore Trout
Misanthropic Humanist
I was responding to you saying that you were defining the sky as the "upper air."
Seems we can't even get one person to stick to one definition of the sky.
Jiddanand
Active Member
Doesn't exist or unknown?
God is defined as the one that is not yet known so far and is vague.
However miracles do happen and people worship God. Many of the individual have personal experience with the God.
Jiddanand
Active Member
That's a personal god, a deity that is deified for personal interests and relationship. A personal Deity must be different from the universal God and the Creator.