On 05 May 2009, at 18:19, daddycaylor.domain.name.hidden wrote:
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> The second question is in the form of, "Doesn't C imply D?":
>
>> But doesn't it make sense that if God were personal, and a human
>> person like us could relate to him/her as a person, then that would
>> result in expanding our consciousness?
It makes sense for me. But I must add it could make sense also, for
me, with an impersonal God (like a priori the "aritmetical truth", or
the "usual aristotelian cosmos", or the Chinese TAO). Looking at the
stars for example can result in expanding consciousness.
And many things can expand consciousness (learning math, wandering in
Mountains, meditations, taking some drugs, meeting nice people, etc.)
Somehow life expand consciousness, despite the blind alleys. But the
blind alleys result themselves from the existence of consciousness.
Currently I don't think we can decide if "God" is a person or a thing,
just from comp. Even assuming the arithmetical intepretation of the
hypostases. Open problem, but I am interested. Actually I don't really
decipher Plotinus on that question, but I keep trying.
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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Received on Tue May 05 2009 - 19:48:56 PDT