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Originally Posted by Ilya  ...
Anyway, if you believe that the word God has too many connotations and cannot, to you, represent something as abstract as 'existence' or 'substance', then you are free to use a different word. However, when I think about your beliefs, I think about the ideas, and not the words. Just because our names for this thing differ does not mean that the ideas do. |
There is already a word for existence. It is existence. Why drop mysticism into the mix? It is unnecessary.
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Originally Posted by Ilya PS: If you then proceed to argue that I am the only that uses this definition of God, you are empirically wrong. Many religions have at their root the belief that God (Brahman, YHVW, Tao) is a concept so large and complex that we cannot even come close to understanding a fraction of it. Certainly, they are not talking about a deity. As for philosophers... I am particularly fond of Spinoza, and this is exactly the God he describes. |
I'm not. I know there are lots of people with sketchy philosophical bases for the definition of god. So what?