Garrett, your trust in your thinking is scary — Joe Mello
just as we cannot see two sides of a coin at the same time, we cannot see absolute truth and our opinions at the same time. — Joe Mello
A philosophy forum should be populated, at least, mostly with people who studied philosophy well enough to reason out basic logical problems. — Joe Mello
an infinite line of finite things is illogical.
An omnipotent God is not finite and therefore the only thing that could exist infinitely. — Joe Mello
And, in saying this, I'm setting up where I will be coming from, which is not a materialistic view of the Universe (and ultimately Us) springing up autonomously and evolving unaided. — Joe Mello
Show me a scientific discovery where a scientist combines things and creates a totally different and greater thing. An ice cube is not it. — Joe Mello
No combination of lesser things can create a greater thing without something greater than the greater thing added to the lesser things. — Joe Mello
Using the example of life evolving from the elements, the metaphysical principle I provided can be thought upon like this:
Taking physical elements and adding to them a lesser thing, such as light, to create a living being would be an absurdity.
Taking physical elements and adding to them an equal thing, such as other elements, to create a living being would be an impossibility.
Taking physical elements and adding to them a greater thing, such as a living being, to create a living being would be a redundancy. — Joe Mello
T Clark, show me where you have discussed this principle before. — Joe Mello
life evolving from the elements — Joe Mello
Taking physical elements and adding to them an equal thing, such as other elements, to create a living being would be an impossibility. — Joe Mello
human beings are the spokespersons for reality. There are no others.
Knowledge is the adventure of a lifetime when we seek it through talent, humility, sacrifice, experience, and so much more that the gift of our humanity has provided us.
I have found that a skeptic likes to look up into outer space because he has never discovered the greatness right where he stands, within himself.
Your ignorance of your own greatness will keep you from the knowledge of who you actually are until you breathe your last breath in this body and this knowledge is revealed to you in the next instant — Joe Mello
(1) How do you know that the universe had a "beginning"? (Define "beginning" in this context just so I'm clear what you're talking about, Joe.)Only an omnipotent infinite being can be the logical beginning of a finite universe. — Joe Mello
I'll begin taking statements like this seriously, Joe, if you answer at least one of my questions above in either a sufficiently scientific or coherently metaphysical manner. I'm quite confident from reading your posts that you haven't a clue as to what "a multi-universe" refers to. :roll:180, a multi-universe is illogical
:lol: It is, as you say, "mostly" ...A philosophy forum should be populated, at least, mostly with people who studied philosophy well enough to reason out basic logical problems.
Contrary to what he aimed to demonstrate, Newton's physics work without the hand of God. — Fooloso4
Batricks, you're attempting to reason about God without doing the work it takes to do it well. — Joe Mello
God does exist out of necessity, for nothing could exist without God. — Joe Mello
We exist because he exists. We think because he thinks. We love because he loves. Etc. — Joe Mello
What good would it be for us to have been given, without any effort or growth or achievement on our part, a perfect life from birth? — Joe Mello
We don't exist to exist, but exist to become like God, our father. And he receives his greatest glory through his children who become fully alive, just like any father does. — Joe Mello
years of disciplined thinking, — Joe Mello
a single wise person — Joe Mello
A philosophy forum should be populated, at least, mostly with people who studied philosophy well enough to reason out basic logical problems. — Joe Mello
a multi-universe is illogical. There cannot be an infinite line of finite things. — Joe Mello
you forgot to show me where I went wrong in placing a human being at the pinnacle of creation. — Joe Mello
A more complex molecule is still a molecule, not a living being ... not a thought. — Joe Mello
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