GOD------------the ANTI-Concept!

by Terry 17 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  Terry

  Telling you what something is NOT is the opposite of identification.

  GOD is:

  1.Someone the human mind cannot grasp.

  2.Not human

  3.Not earthly

  4.Not "body" or material

  5. Not finite

  Think about this:

  Something or someone who exists possesses identity. Identity is what you ARE rather than what you are not.

  God is portrayed in a mode of being "superior" to existence itself: without beginning or end.

  God has no dimensions.

  God has gender without sex.

  God transcends the human mind--yet--we are to take in "knowledge" of Him.

  Nothing can be infinite because things which EXIST are limited to what they ARE in quality and quantity: this much and no more.

  Quantity?

  One that is also three?

  But, three that is only one?

  Perception of God is non-sensory.

  Knowledge of God is non-reason.

  We are informed (?) mystically, superstitiously never rationally.

  God is Creator of the Universe?

  God created everything out of NOTHING? There is no NOTHING.

  Creating everything out of nothing is creating everything out of "what there is none of."

  God is omnipotent? Unlimited?

  Actually existing things can act only in accordance with their nature.

  Nature begins and ends in terms of what it IS and what it ISN'T. Identity is a limit.

  God is the systematic contradiction of every valid metaphysical principle.

  Think about this, if you dare!

  To get to God you must must abandon reason, referents, existence, identity, perception, knowledge, quantity and enter the world of

  THE ANTI-CONCEPT!

  Taking anything as a "given" without testing, processing, measuring or integrating it with reality is anti-conceptual.

  The brain merely accepts "as is".

  No analysis.

  Just faith.

  To accept on faith what cannot be described without nullifying what can be known is to fill your mind with nothing while calling it the greatest something imaginable.

  How different is this from insanity??

  GOD=the Anti Concept!

  What is an Anti-Concept?

  Let me remind you that the purpose of a definition is to distinguish the things subsumed under a single concept from all other things in existence; and, therefore, their defining characteristic must always be that essential characteristic which distinguishes them from everything else.

  So long as men use language, that is the way they will use it. There is no other way to communicate. And if a man accepts a term with a definition by non-essentials, his mind will substitute for it the essential characteristic of the objects he is trying to designate . . . . Thus the real meaning of the term will automatically replace the alleged meaning.
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  MadGiant

  God is:

  Whether believers like or not, god is absolutely nothing without worshipers.

  Take care,

  Ismael
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  Terry

  “Anti-Concepts”

  An anti-concept is an unnecessary and rationally unusable term designed to replace and obliterate some legitimate concept. The use of anti-concepts gives the listeners a sense of approximate understanding. But in the realm of cognition, nothing is as bad as the approximate . . . .

  One of today’s fashionable anti-concepts is “polarization.” Its meaning is not very clear, except that it is something bad—undesirable, socially destructive, evil—something that would split the country into irreconcilable camps and conflicts. It is used mainly in political issues and serves as a kind of “argument from intimidation”: it replaces a discussion of the merits (the truth or falsehood) of a given idea by the menacing accusation that such an idea would “polarize” the country—which is supposed to make one’s opponents retreat, protesting that they didn’t mean it. Mean—what? . . .

  It is doubtful—even in the midst of today’s intellectual decadence—that one could get away with declaring explicitly: “Let us abolish all debate on fundamental principles!” (though some men have tried it). If, however, one declares; “Don’t let us polarize,” and suggests a vague image of warring camps ready to fight (with no mention of the fight’s object), one has a chance to silence the mentally weary. The use of “polarization” as a pejorative term means: the suppression of fundamental principles. Such is the pattern of the function of anti-concepts.
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  HintOfLime

  Yeah... talk about a long list of 'mental hoops' to jump through just to justify a concept.

  Oh, sorry, anti-concept.

  - Lime
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  Deputy Dog

  Terry thinks God should be like a box of crackers. Just because he can't find it, it doesn't exist.
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  cofty

  Its a good point Terry. Its what theologians refer to as apophatic theology. Hard to relate to something when ultimately its easier to say what its not than what it is
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  Terry

  Terry thinks God should be like a box of crackers. Just because he can't find it, it doesn't exis

  t.

  Gee, I didn't know I thought that!
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  Gopher

  God is accepted in our society almost without any thought. "There has to be a God, look at our bodies, look at the organization of the atom", etc. , etc.

  And yet anytime a logical challenge is raised, such as "If everything has a cause, then who caused God", the God-believer will shrug it off, and the God-promoter will invent a magical solution such as "God exists infinitely, and outside he boundaries of time". How can they say such magical reasoning really answers any question?

  The "box of crackers" reasoning could also apply to Santa Claus. I can't find him - does that mean he really exists?
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  BurnTheShips

  GOD------------the ANTI-Concept!

  So if the human mind cannot fully grasp something, it must not exist.

  You are like a talking dog telling me there is no such thing as electricity.

  Talk about limiting your possibilities! Closed mindedness.

  There is no NOTHING.

  Prove it.

  Besides, before the universe, there was no NoThing. There was Being itself. From that being, came all other things.

  BTS
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  Gopher

  Believers seem to be saying "If the human mind cannot grasp it, it MUST exist." (Electricity is scientifically measurable, God isn't.)

  Actually God could exist, but if seems quite unlikely he resembles anything that humans have described in their books that try to explain life's mysteries.

  God has been described as intimately involved with the details of all people who worship him in a particular way, and one who deeply cares about the injustices and suffering happening on planet earth. (Yes even the hairs of our head are numbered.) I don't see how people can know any of those things for sure.