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Computational Religious Analysis

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Of all the numbers of gods, many select a particular quantity.
Zero....I understand. It's fundamentally different from other numbers.
The common choice: Why believe there is a single supreme being?
(Please show your calculations.)
Why couldn't there be a whole gaggle of supreme beings?
 

sun rise

The world is on fire
Premium Member
Between 0, 1 and many you have covered the gamut.

But if you want to play with numbers, what about fractional deities and transcendental ones (Aleph sub nought). Or complex ones made up of "real" and "imaginary" numbers The mind could boggle itself easily here.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Between 0, 1 and many you have covered the gamut.

But if you want to play with numbers, what about fractional deities and transcendental ones (Aleph sub nought). Or complex ones made up of "real" and "imaginary" numbers The mind could boggle itself easily here.
The heathen view:
Quantity of gods = 0 + xi
Where x is the set of counting (natural) numbers.
 
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Brickjectivity

Turned to Stone. Now I stretch daily.
Staff member
Premium Member
Of all the numbers of gods, many select a particular quantity.
Zero....I understand. It's fundamentally different from other numbers.
The common choice: Why believe there is a single supreme being?
(Please show your calculations.)
Why couldn't there be a whole gaggle of supreme beings?
Supreme means better than all others and semantically excludes multiple beings. You could have multiple awesome beings but not multiple supreme beings.

I don't disagree with your point, because 1 is zero relative to 2.
 

Brickjectivity

Turned to Stone. Now I stretch daily.
Staff member
Premium Member
Also, zero exists relative to other numbers. If there is no one then there is no zero, for zero is relative.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Supreme means better than all others and semantically excludes multiple beings. You could have multiple awesome beings but not multiple supreme beings.

I don't disagree with your point, because 1 is zero relative to 2.
"Supreme" could refer to a group rather than an individual, eg, the Supreme Court.

I am not used to your new avatar.
The fox makes me think of @Laika.
 

Nakosis

Non-Binary Physicalist
Premium Member
Of all the numbers of gods, many select a particular quantity.
Zero....I understand. It's fundamentally different from other numbers.
The common choice: Why believe there is a single supreme being?
(Please show your calculations.)
Why couldn't there be a whole gaggle of supreme beings?

I'd imagine it to be a matter of convenience. More efficient to only have to worry about one God to please.
Having zero Gods to please is even more efficient, but, meh... baby steps.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
My avatar changes from time to time, because I've never found my supreme avatar.
supreme-brick-house-1.jpg
 

bobhikes

Nondetermined
Premium Member
Of all the numbers of gods, many select a particular quantity.
Zero....I understand. It's fundamentally different from other numbers.
The common choice: Why believe there is a single supreme being?
(Please show your calculations.)
Why couldn't there be a whole gaggle of supreme beings?
For me if there was more than one there would always be a power struggle.
 

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
Of all the numbers of gods, many select a particular quantity.
Zero....I understand. It's fundamentally different from other numbers.
The common choice: Why believe there is a single supreme being?
(Please show your calculations.)
Why couldn't there be a whole gaggle of supreme beings?


History does show a whole gaggle of gods, somewhere between 4200 and 10000 nor including the 330 million Hindu gods.

Funny you should mention zero. I find it the best way to deal with claims of god, simply multiply by zero and the god goes away
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
History does show a whole gaggle of gods, somewhere between 4200 and 10000 nor including the 330 million Hindu gods.

Funny you should mention zero. I find it the best way to deal with claims of god, simply multiply by zero and the god goes away
I find 0 +ni to be more precise.

for the non-math geeks...
"n" is the set of numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4....
"i" is the square root of -1, ie, an "imaginary number"
 
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