They are grammatical, emergent from discursive reason, and "exist" only insofar as language exists. "Imperatives" are not the function or property of a private "mind". All you've "proved" is that language exists. :roll: :sweat:Imperatives of reason exist. — Bartricks
I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar. — Twilight of the Idols
The hard or brutal facts of our existence demand an effort from us to continue living. I think a balance between the brutal act of living and a spiritual or transcendent source of connection (finite/infinite) to potentially be a more realistic solution (if the problem we're addressing is spiritual despair). — CountVictorClimacusIII
Surrendering to a spiritual path is an attractive thought, I just see it as difficult to properly apply in practice. — CountVictorClimacusIII
Or, just as well, some(one) to blame, a Feuerbachian scapegoat ... — 180 Proof
Otherwise, our in-gratitude signifies taking 'the living – boredom and spite, joys and sorrows, loves and strangers – and the dying' for granted (i.e. neglecting, or denying, that we are called-into-question by these (our) givens). — 180 Proof
I think he just means he doesn’t want to talk to you anymore because you’re an obnoxious douchebag. I could be wrong but it follows from how much of an obnoxious douchebag you are. — DingoJones
the omnipotent God annihilated himself in the Big Bang to become the Universe. — CountVictorClimacusIII
An Absolute, such as 'God' cannot go away or have a beginning, or it wouldn't be Fundamental and 'First'.
Further, a Mind couldn't have been fundamental, for it would have parts necessarily more fundamental. — PoeticUniverse
Oh, pardon me, from the context of both this thread discussion and your particular post, I had no indication that you assume you are talking about a merely fictional mind ("God") defined with fictional predicates. Well then, my mistake – carry on confabulating, Barftrix, instead of philosophizing. :ok:Yes, and if you had read what I said carefully and had sufficient powers of understanding, you'd realize that I did not say "God exists by definition", I said "God is by definition an omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent mind". — Bartricks
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