Well, I haven't thought about God for some time, and there was apparently nothing He could do about it. — Ciceronianus the White
the axiom of all philosophy, the being of thought — JerseyFlight
You believe God is only a product of thought and has no independent existence. — Coben
we just have an assumption/assertion, not an argument. — Coben
↪Pantagruel it is very unlkely that thought is your central motivation. It is more likely that it is emotions. (I am not insulting or ad homing you, this is true for all of us. Motivations and desires set us in motion. ) — Coben
Perhaps for Hegel God and thought, although intially in apparent contradiction, become finally synthesised in Spirit? — jkg20
The real question is why does one need God when one has thought? — JerseyFlight
Well, that seems a little too strident. English speaking idealist interpreters of Hegel such as McTaggart and Stace, different kinds of idealist admittedly, but no idiots either of them, find in Hegel's dialetic the "Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis" model. It's not the be all and end all of his philosophy of course and those interpreters might be wrong, but it seems too involved an exegitical issue to just discard it out of hand as you do.VERY IMPORTANT: Thesis, Antithesis and Synthesis has nothing to do with Hegel's position.
In this moment I am euphoric, not because of any phony God's blessing but because I am enlightened my own intelligence. — BitconnectCarlos
English speaking idealist interpreters of Hegel such as McTaggart and Stace, different kinds of idealist admittedly, but no idiots either of them, find in Hegel's dialetic the "Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis" model. — jkg20
I think you're taking this a bit too far - it's like a cat with fangs and claws thinking that fangs are claws are far superior than everything else and cats know better. — TheMadFool
I think that thought has the power to dictate any narrative — Judaka
this too and the opposite. Wouldn't you agree?It has the capacity to transcend narratives, even to correct itself. — JerseyFlight
That thought does not have the capacity to transcend narratives — Judaka
The Deity is a formation of thought, it is not a concrete substance. — JerseyFlight
In the first instance, the very formation of the Phantom-Deity is itself the outcome of a thinking process, without this process there is no Phantom. — JerseyFlight
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