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Author Topic:   If God is dead, does mankind become God?
crashfrog
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Message 12 of 109 (332347)
07-16-2006 9:05 PM
Reply to: Message 8 by Rob
07-16-2006 7:33 PM


However, philosophically speaking, God is reality (whatever God may be), reality is truth, and truth is the motivator, or the goal. So in that way, if there is no direction (or God), then that is God.
So, in other words, the word "God" means everything, every definition possible; and therefore means nothing.
I guess that if you define "God" to arbitrarily mean whatever you decide it means, and at that point, mankind - or anything else - can very well be "God". But if you think you've communicated a useful idea at that point, you're mistaken.

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crashfrog
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Message 50 of 109 (332471)
07-17-2006 8:38 AM
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07-16-2006 9:27 PM


Reality means a lot of things to a lot of people. whatever that is, that is their God.
I don't understand what you're trying to say, here. It seems like you're completely unable to concieve of someone who recognizes the existence of no gods at all.
I assure you that these people exist; they're called "atheists." They have no gods and they do not worship. Which basically renders your entire argument meaningless.

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crashfrog
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Message 55 of 109 (332732)
07-18-2006 12:35 AM
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07-17-2006 9:14 AM


Reality means a lot of things to a lot of people. whatever that is, that is their God.
So "God", in your view, is a synonym for "reality"? Setting aside the question of why we would have two different words for the same thing, how does your OP make any sense at all? Mankind is a part of reality either way. So how could mankind be the "new" God? And how could reality die?
Denial is the sickest and most selfish of defenses.
And nonsense is a waste of my time. Unless it's funny. You're not very funny, I'm afraid.

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crashfrog
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Message 57 of 109 (332789)
07-18-2006 8:04 AM
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07-18-2006 2:09 AM


Re: Neitzsche was right in large part...
It's just nonsense, Rob. You're not even playing word games here; those have rules, at least.
You know how people sometimes call specious arguments about anothers motivations or mental state "psychobabble"? What you've done here is philosobabble. It's a hodgepodge of various concepts from freshman philosophy that you've munged together, but it doesn't actually mean anything, because I suspect you're not very clear on the concepts in the first place.

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