Re: God and the plenitude (was:The Meaning of Life)

From: 1Z <peterdjones.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:11:27 -0000

On 2 Mar, 11:54, "Stathis Papaioannou" <stath....domain.name.hidden> wrote:
> On 3/2/07, Tom Caylor <Daddycay....domain.name.hidden> wrote:
>
> God would be outside of the plenitude, and thus would break the
>
> > meaning/moral circularity inherent in the plenitude, breaking its
> > symmetry of meaningless whiteness/blackness and bringing order. He
> > basically would be in charge of the evolution of the countless
> > histories of the universes. But this seems superfluous to what is
> > needed for meaning for us in this universe. Thus why bother with
> > multiverses? You haven't shown how multiverses give meaning.
>
> What about considering God as identical with the plenitude? In a sense, both
> are omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, transcendent as well as immanent,
> outside of time and space, the source of all things, and the plenitude has
> the additional attribute of necessary existence, which is philosophically
> contentious in God's case (the ontological argument again).

cf Whitehead's Primordial Nature of God.


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