Originally Posted By: Tutor Turtle
Originally Posted By: ImagingGeek

So in otherwords, you're using a definition of 'god' that is so meaningless as to be useless.

No, I don't define God.

So, in otherwords, it is impossible to have a discussion with you about god, since you refuse to even talk about what god "is".

Originally Posted By: Tutor Turtle

"The Rest of Us" refers to all those you know and don't know, (assuming everyone experiences and thinks the same as you) who see God as a non-word describing something that doesn't exist, but gives meaning to a conversation regarding what doesn't exist?

You're the one using 'god' as a non-word. words have definitions - you refuse definition. Ergo, it is you, not the rest of us, who don't 'know'.

Originally Posted By: Tutor Turtle

How could you know anything about anything, if the thing being referenced isn't experienced?

Because personal experience is only one path to knowledge - and, as history has shown us - one of the least useful, most prejudicial, and most prone to error routes to knowledge.

Originally Posted By: Tutor Turtle
If something doesn't exist but the authoritative example for the word (dictionary) describing the non-thing is your point of reference, why would you give a non-thing any thought or any credibility to the dictionary?

Because, without a usable definition it is impossible to even discuss if something exists. Lets pretend I take your tact - refusing to acknowledge the definition of a word. But instead of the definition of 'god', I'm going to refuse to define the term "tooth fairy". Now, how do we ever begin to discuss the non/existence of the tooth fairy, if I refuse to acknowledge what the term "tooth fairy" implies in its common useage?


Originally Posted By: ImagingGeek
Originally Posted By: Tutor Turtle
Everyone is familiar with the word God.

LOL. Doesn't exist = no words.
Than simply put no one can be anti-god. Since God is a non word and doesn't exist, nor could you have a conversation about something you can't know anything about since it can't exist.[/quote]
The word god exists. Look, here it is ----> god <-----. But it describes a supernatural phenomena which does not exist. Just like the term tooth fairy describes something which does not exist.

Originally Posted By: Tutor Turtle
No, authoritatively prescribed definitions of personal realities that seek to reduce the experience to a non-experience, or to prove a non-experience to be a real experience.

There are no 'personal realities' - there is only one, the universe in which we live. I can wish as much as I want for reality to conform to my personal desires; it never will - it'll conform to the physical principals which drive the universe.

Bryan


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