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Newsgroups: alt.pagan, alt.satanism, alt.magick.tyagi
From: lorax666 <yronwode.com@nagasiva>
Date: 11 Mar 2008 00:07:07 GMT
Local: Mon, Mar 10 2008 8:07 pm
Subject: Allegiances to Gods
"lorax666" <yronwode.com@nagasiva> wrote in message "Tani Jantsang" <tjs...@spampost.com>: >>> you could just switch allegiances to a different >>> god. that way the "sin" set would also change. >"flower of romance" <flow...@inthattick.com> wrote in message >> you could. some of us did. >There is another way to see this. there are many. >Let us say that your God is the Cosmos itself I'll call this hypothesis A. >- or the dark force in nature. I'll call this hypothesis B. I see no reason to equate A with B. > Let us say that this god has only what is absolutely this is confused and nonsensical. the cosmos as a >and literally true to tell us. whole doesn't speak, unless you take a certain subset's expression as the expression FOR the whole. why you identify this as you do is anybody's guess. >This is what this god says: I'll evaluate this contention below. >1. Nothing is good or bad unless you think it is good or bad. A: the Cosmos says nothing specifically and therefore does not say this specifically. B: since i have no data on this "dark force in nature" >2. All things are permitted, the only exceptions being A: this seems demonstrably accurate: that which is >purely physical ones. >(I.e., you are not permitted to breathe water because, >as a human, you simply can't do that. You are not >permitted to walk through a wall, because as a being >made of matter, you can't.) beyond our abilities transcends natural principles. this isn't really about "permission" but about the extant operating principles constraining all of us. B: since i have no data on this "dark force in nature" >Now, one might ask why have a god at all, if those you are maintaining to us that the Cosmos and the >are the only 2 things told to you by this god? dark force of nature told you these things, 1 and 2 above? >Well, heh, if a GOD said it and it's written in a I wrote fictional stories about gods. there is no >BOOK - then heh - you know how the rest of that goes. reason that others could not have also done so. >What kind of society would we have? speculation is baseless and endless. > Maybe no society? > Anarchy leads to gangs.... try anarchism then, which is different. > ..."tit for tat" doesn't always work out.... quite so. nocTifer You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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