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Can God commit suicide?

 
 
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Reply Thu 8 Jan, 2009 04:57 pm
Your point being?
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Reply Thu 8 Jan, 2009 11:07 pm
Ogionik, I don't think it is accurate to portray the universe as "obeying" laws (it is not a legal system) The so-called laws of nature are not statutes; they are generalizations we make about observations we make of the ways "nature" behaves.
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Reply Thu 8 Jan, 2009 11:18 pm
You're perhaps overlooking their most important aspect; that being their predictive nature. Also they can be much more specific than a generalization.

I would further assert they are not simply "observations we make" in that they can stand clear of our observations once they have been scientifically-empirically established.
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Reply Tue 3 Feb, 2009 08:49 pm
Since god is a myth, I'd say no.
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Reply Tue 3 Feb, 2009 08:58 pm
We might also say that IF the fundamentalist conception of "God" were the case (that He is omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent and omnicompetent, etc.) he would be able to ANYTHING; he would not be constrained by our sense of the logically possible.
But God makes no sense, I cannot relate to the concept, ergo (subjectively, but sincerely) NO.
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Reply Tue 3 Feb, 2009 08:59 pm
We might also say that IF the fundamentalist conception of "God" were the case (that He is omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent and omnicompetent, etc.) he would be able to do ANYTHING, no matter how illogical; he would not be constrained by our sense of the logically possible.
But God makes no sense, I cannot relate to the concept, ergo (subjectively, but sincerely) NO.
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Reply Tue 3 Feb, 2009 09:00 pm
We might also say that IF the fundamentalist conception of "God" were the case (that He is omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent and omnicompetent, etc.) he would be able to do ANYTHING, no matter how illogical; he would not be constrained by our sense of the logically possible.
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Reply Tue 14 Apr, 2009 09:20 pm
No he can't commit suicide. Why? Well he only exists in the minds of man.
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Reply Tue 14 Apr, 2009 10:10 pm
You know, Cowboy, that when Nietzsche (and I think Hegel before him) announced that "God is Dead" he was referring to the dominance of the idea of God in the minds of Man.
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Reply Wed 15 Apr, 2009 06:07 pm
Well, sorry. I disagree with both gentlemen. God never existed at all, except in man's imagination. So he could not die, in any way at any time.
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