holes aren't empty, they contain another state of matter. a puddle contains H2O, a hole is usually considered to hold O2. one is a gas and the other a liquid.
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God and Atheism
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No; knowledge is justified true belief.
In any case, theism is belief in a god or gods, so if you still say that God can't believe, then God can't be a theist.
leibowde84
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How could God not believe in himself?
leibowde84
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Can you please explain what you mean by this? How is God defined as "absolute"? Absolute what?
leibowde84
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That sounds a lot like Superman or Hercules.
leibowde84
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"Totality" means "the whole of something". So, what are you saying the "something" is? God is the whole of what? And, please don't just say "everything", because that would just be a trolling answer. I'm truly curious as to what you are talking about specifically.
leibowde84
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No, you are just making grammatical errors making your claims here make no sense logically.
What is God the absolute of ... and please don't insult me by saying "everything".
believing in self is not the same as believing in something apart from self.
knowing the all cannot have belief in something otherwise.
god doesn't have to be logical, the absolute/all contains both the logical and the illogical, the syncratic and idiosyncratic.
leibowde84
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That makes absolutely no sense.
Atheism is the lack of belief in the existence of deities. So, God would not have to believe in something apart from himself to be a theist. If God believes that he, himself exists, then God is by definition a theist.
God is the all of self.
leibowde84
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leibowde84
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What does that mean?
beliefs take positive or negative states.
leibowde84
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OK, but what does that have to do with anything?
Alright, can you just answer one question:
Does God believe that he exists? Yes or no?
leibowde84
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This isn't actually true. There is positive, negative, and neutral.
I, for example, don't believe that God exists. But, I also don't believe that God doesn't exist. I am an atheist because I lack belief in the existence of God. But, I certainly am not convinced that God doesn't exist.
IT knows it exists. just like an atheist knows it exists; if only temporarily. just as science knows that some things do not come into/or out of existence.
https://phys.org/news/2011-03-quantum-no-hiding-theorem-experimentally.html
neutral falls between the positive and negative and takes a position on the spectrum. i can agree but still it doesn't know because of a choice to know, not know; which falls within the spectrum of belief.
A Vestigial Mote
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"God is a culmination of universal experience that manifests in the spiritual apart from the material."
I just made up the above piece of crap sentence on the spot. See... anyone can do this. It means nothing.