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"Mackie" |
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28 Sep 2006 01:46:06 PM |
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Abortion on Toast for Brunch? |
"Larisa" <purple_bovine@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1159407155.426262.297010@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
As far as I am concerned, there is no justification for the literary
crime in question.
Outside of a book recommendation from Oprah, there are no literary
crimes.
--
Mackie http://vignettes-mackie.blogspot.com/
Think of it for a minute. Think of everything you can think of that
never existed. Okay? There never existed, instead of the snow-capped
peaks of the Peruvian Andes, the scrambled egg-capped peaks of the
Peruvian Andes.
And why? Because of Necessity. Were it necessary, we'd have the
scrambled egg-capped peaks of the Peruvian Andes. Everything that is
necessary, of necessity exists.
Now the hypothesis would be this: anything which is not of necessity is
absurd, such as e.g. the scrambled egg-capped peaks of the Peruvian
Andes. In other words, everything that can reasonably exist, everything
for which there is a possibility of existence, there is existence.
Anything for which it is not possible to exist, does not exist.
Everything that should exist, does exist, and nothing that does exist
is such a thing as should not have existed. Everything in which there
is invested the power to exist, does exist.
And when we speak of 'everything', it is to say "every thing", which
means every Substance, every genus of thing.
But there is more, and it is very simple: everything does exist.
Everything exists, except one thing, and that is God: God is the form
of everything that does not exist--which is just one thing, God.
We have everything and nothing. But nothing is actually one thing and
that is God--the one thing that does not exist.
But to say that God does not merely exist means that he is not to be
included among the things in Reality that are merely possible, merely
potential, merely of matter. God is more than potential, more than a
mere power of becoming. God never subsisted in a state of coming to be,
since God has always been. Been what?
*Actual*.
The Neo-Platonists spent a lot of time in their dialectics discussing
this dualism of the possible/actual. It is now seen, in part, as the
dualism of matter/energy. Matter is potential energy.
But this is only one face of the Substance of God. To say, "God is
energy" in that highly restrictive sense is not right. God is the
reason energy happens. God is the force behind all energy. God is the
law of Nature that makes E=MC*2 make sense.
Is God "anti-matter"? Yup.
Is God an alternative universe?
Sho' nuff.
Matter exists. Energy does not. Energy is the dissipation of
existence, of matter. Energy is the force of matter transforming into
non-matter, into the non-existent, into God.
We don't understand what 'nothing' is, because you simply can't say
that. You can't say, "nothing is"! Rather, nothing "is not".
But now you've got trouble, because it sounds like you just said,
"nothing is not." Did we just deny the possibility of nothing?
Yes. Nothing is not possible, it is actual.
But did we just say, "Nothing is not possible"?
Quite. It is not possible because it is actual, it is God.
But did we also say, "Nothing is impossible"?
Quite so! Verily, Verily, He said unto you: With God, nothing is
impossible.
No, nothing is not possible because it is actual; and has been ever
since the beginning, which is the end, in God, who is the Actual, the
acting engine of the possible, the existent.
Yes. There is no such thing as nothing, because nothing is not
nothing: it is God. God is the one Substance transcending existence.
He does not "exist" because there was nothing to create him, to make
him possible. He is more than the possible, he is also the impossible.
God is the one ousia ("substance") which is the form of all that does
not exist, shown forth by the form of all that does exist. Therefore,
he has a decided outline, which can be seen--in all that exists, in the
face of every flower, every nuclear explosion, every radiant display of
plumage upon every rain forest winged thing. Everything that does
exist forms the outlines of what does not: God.
God is the one "being" or which is better *ousia*, for whom it is
necessary He should not exist, in order that all else may exist.
See Christ dying on the cross.
See the Buddha lost to himself in meditation of the suffering of all
mankind.
*
*
*
See Mohammad slicing off the heads of his enemies.
--
Mackie
http://vignettes-mackie.blogspot.com/
"Do You Like Stinky Girls?"
http://doo-dads.blogspot.com/
Poetry?
http://whosenose.blogspot.com
Politics?
http://jpdavid.blogspot.com/
A Punk Rock Nancy Drew?
"It's like butter." Linda Richman
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| User: "Ghod" |
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| Title: Re: Abortion on Toast for Brunch? |
28 Sep 2006 03:09:44 PM |
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"Mackie" <mackiemesser@zoomshare.com> wrote in message
news:1159469166.263369.59170@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
[snip]
: Think of it for a minute. Think of everything you can think of that
: never existed. Okay? There never existed, instead of the
snow-capped
: peaks of the Peruvian Andes, the scrambled egg-capped peaks of the
: Peruvian Andes.
:
: And why? Because of Necessity. Were it necessary, we'd have the
: scrambled egg-capped peaks of the Peruvian Andes. Everything that
is
: necessary, of necessity exists.
[snip long bizarreness]
WTF? Are you deliberately not making sense?
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| User: "Mackie" |
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| Title: Re: Abortion on Toast for Brunch? |
29 Sep 2006 03:08:59 AM |
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Ghod wrote:
"Mackie" <mackiemesser@zoomshare.com> wrote in message
news:1159469166.263369.59170@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
[snip]
: Think of it for a minute. Think of everything you can think of that
: never existed. Okay? There never existed, instead of the
snow-capped
: peaks of the Peruvian Andes, the scrambled egg-capped peaks of the
: Peruvian Andes.
:
: And why? Because of Necessity. Were it necessary, we'd have the
: scrambled egg-capped peaks of the Peruvian Andes. Everything that
is
: necessary, of necessity exists.
[snip long bizarreness]
WTF? Are you deliberately not making sense?
It makes perfect sense to me. The idea is very simple: what exists,
does so because of necessity. There is nothing unnecessary that comes
into existence. The universe came into existence because it had to
happen. Ask yourself: Why would it happen otherwise? Would you suppose
that something could come out of nothing with a huge cosmic explosion
simply for the reason that it was unnecessary?
That doesn't make any sense--does it? You would be led to think that
there was some kind of sensible cause, some kind of a reason behind it.
We could have been sitting here with nothing--I speak of 'we' and
'sitting here' only in a figure of speech. We could have been not
sitting here. We could have been naught, nothing, nada.
Imagine a condition of absolute nothingness; no universe, no light, no
Arby's, no French fries, no New Riders of the Purple Sage, nothing.
If that were the case, we would be minded to think that there was
nothing to cause the French fries to come into being. We would be
fully justified to think there was no God. In a reality where there is
no French fries, there is no God. Nobody can argue otherwise.
But we have the French fries. We have the scrambled eggs, we got the
Arby's and therefore, we got God. We have God because there was clearly
never such a thing as "nothing". There was Him, instead. Before the
universe happened there was only the cause of the universe which was
not made of matter, not made of French fries and the Arby's. Only God
needs no French fries and Arby's to "exist" because he doesn't merely
exist on French fries and such, he doesn't do anything so lowly as to
"exist" so He doesn't need the stinking French fries, and he's like
that big, fat Mexican guy in the Treasure of the Sierra Madre who says,
"Badges? Badges! We don't neeeeeed no steeeeking badges."
Badges of existence God don't neeeeeeeed. He don't eat, he don't
exist, he is simply *real*, actual, happening.
You dig?
--
Mackie
http://vignettes-mackie.blogspot.com/
http://doo-dads.blogspot.com/
http://whosenose.blogspot.com
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| User: "Martin Edwards" |
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| Title: Re: Abortion on Toast for Brunch? |
29 Sep 2006 04:35:16 AM |
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Mackie wrote:
Ghod wrote:
"Mackie" <mackiemesser@zoomshare.com> wrote in message
news:1159469166.263369.59170@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
[snip]
: Think of it for a minute. Think of everything you can think of that
: never existed. Okay? There never existed, instead of the
snow-capped
: peaks of the Peruvian Andes, the scrambled egg-capped peaks of the
: Peruvian Andes.
:
: And why? Because of Necessity. Were it necessary, we'd have the
: scrambled egg-capped peaks of the Peruvian Andes. Everything that
is
: necessary, of necessity exists.
[snip long bizarreness]
WTF? Are you deliberately not making sense?
It makes perfect sense to me. The idea is very simple: what exists,
does so because of necessity. There is nothing unnecessary that comes
into existence. The universe came into existence because it had to
happen. Ask yourself: Why would it happen otherwise? Would you suppose
that something could come out of nothing with a huge cosmic explosion
simply for the reason that it was unnecessary?
That doesn't make any sense--does it? You would be led to think that
there was some kind of sensible cause, some kind of a reason behind it.
We could have been sitting here with nothing--I speak of 'we' and
'sitting here' only in a figure of speech. We could have been not
sitting here. We could have been naught, nothing, nada.
Imagine a condition of absolute nothingness; no universe, no light, no
Arby's, no French fries, no New Riders of the Purple Sage............
Don't be ridiculous.
--
You can't fool me: there ain't no Sanity Clause - Chico Marx
www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/1955
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| User: "Gene Ward Smith" |
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29 Sep 2006 05:27:26 AM |
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Ghod wrote:
WTF? Are you deliberately not making sense?
He's channeling Leibniz but not doing a very good job.
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| User: "The Hurkle Beast" |
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29 Sep 2006 09:07:21 AM |
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"Gene Ward Smith" <genewardsmith@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1159525646.147197.82100@c28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
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: Ghod wrote:
:
: > WTF? Are you deliberately not making sense?
:
: He's channeling Leibniz but not doing a very good job.
I couldn't remember what variety of usenet haunt he was, so I wasn't
sure if he was trying to be funny, or if he's just crackers.....I
think I understand, now.
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| User: "Scott Golden" |
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| Title: Re: Abortion on Toast for Brunch? |
28 Sep 2006 05:46:34 PM |
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716 words of linguistic psychobabble *****.
Mackie wrote:
Think of it for a minute. Think of everything you can think of that
never existed. Okay? There never existed, instead of the snow-capped
peaks of the Peruvian Andes, the scrambled egg-capped peaks of the
Peruvian Andes.
And why? Because of Necessity. Were it necessary, we'd have the
scrambled egg-capped peaks of the Peruvian Andes. Everything that is
necessary, of necessity exists.
Now the hypothesis would be this: anything which is not of necessity is
absurd, such as e.g. the scrambled egg-capped peaks of the Peruvian
Andes. In other words, everything that can reasonably exist, everything
for which there is a possibility of existence, there is existence.
Anything for which it is not possible to exist, does not exist.
Everything that should exist, does exist, and nothing that does exist
is such a thing as should not have existed. Everything in which there
is invested the power to exist, does exist.
And when we speak of 'everything', it is to say "every thing", which
means every Substance, every genus of thing.
But there is more, and it is very simple: everything does exist.
Everything exists, except one thing, and that is God: God is the form
of everything that does not exist--which is just one thing, God.
We have everything and nothing. But nothing is actually one thing and
that is God--the one thing that does not exist.
But to say that God does not merely exist means that he is not to be
included among the things in Reality that are merely possible, merely
potential, merely of matter. God is more than potential, more than a
mere power of becoming. God never subsisted in a state of coming to be,
since God has always been. Been what?
*Actual*.
The Neo-Platonists spent a lot of time in their dialectics discussing
this dualism of the possible/actual. It is now seen, in part, as the
dualism of matter/energy. Matter is potential energy.
But this is only one face of the Substance of God. To say, "God is
energy" in that highly restrictive sense is not right. God is the
reason energy happens. God is the force behind all energy. God is the
law of Nature that makes E=MC*2 make sense.
Is God "anti-matter"? Yup.
Is God an alternative universe?
Sho' nuff.
Matter exists. Energy does not. Energy is the dissipation of
existence, of matter. Energy is the force of matter transforming into
non-matter, into the non-existent, into God.
We don't understand what 'nothing' is, because you simply can't say
that. You can't say, "nothing is"! Rather, nothing "is not".
But now you've got trouble, because it sounds like you just said,
"nothing is not." Did we just deny the possibility of nothing?
Yes. Nothing is not possible, it is actual.
But did we just say, "Nothing is not possible"?
Quite. It is not possible because it is actual, it is God.
But did we also say, "Nothing is impossible"?
Quite so! Verily, Verily, He said unto you: With God, nothing is
impossible.
No, nothing is not possible because it is actual; and has been ever
since the beginning, which is the end, in God, who is the Actual, the
acting engine of the possible, the existent.
Yes. There is no such thing as nothing, because nothing is not
nothing: it is God. God is the one Substance transcending existence.
He does not "exist" because there was nothing to create him, to make
him possible. He is more than the possible, he is also the impossible.
God is the one ousia ("substance") which is the form of all that does
not exist, shown forth by the form of all that does exist. Therefore,
he has a decided outline, which can be seen--in all that exists, in the
face of every flower, every nuclear explosion, every radiant display of
plumage upon every rain forest winged thing. Everything that does
exist forms the outlines of what does not: God.
God is the one "being" or which is better *ousia*, for whom it is
necessary He should not exist, in order that all else may exist.
See Christ dying on the cross.
See the Buddha lost to himself in meditation of the suffering of all
mankind.
*
*
*
See Mohammad slicing off the heads of his enemies.
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| User: "Mackie" |
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| Title: Re: Abortion on Toast for Brunch? |
29 Sep 2006 02:35:50 AM |
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"Scott Golden" <gypsyluc@aol.com> wrote in message
news:ehYSg.203$Lv3.126@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...
716 words of linguistic psychobabble *****.
What do you expect from nothing?
Send me the price of a hamburger and I'll fix you up with a nice
steaming warmed over order of the same, but with a fortune cookie.
That will explain to you the highly esoteric meaning of the word,
"psychobabble".
Just let me know how you want it: with the "linguistic" linguine, or
the pickles.
--
Have a Nice Judgment Day, atheist scum :-)
Mackie wrote:
Think of it for a minute. Think of everything you can think of that
never existed. Okay? There never existed, instead of the snow-capped
peaks of the Peruvian Andes, the scrambled egg-capped peaks of the
Peruvian Andes.
And why? Because of Necessity. Were it necessary, we'd have the
scrambled egg-capped peaks of the Peruvian Andes. Everything that is
necessary, of necessity exists.
Now the hypothesis would be this: anything which is not of necessity is
absurd, such as e.g. the scrambled egg-capped peaks of the Peruvian
Andes. In other words, everything that can reasonably exist, everything
for which there is a possibility of existence, there is existence.
Anything for which it is not possible to exist, does not exist.
Everything that should exist, does exist, and nothing that does exist
is such a thing as should not have existed. Everything in which there
is invested the power to exist, does exist.
And when we speak of 'everything', it is to say "every thing", which
means every Substance, every genus of thing.
But there is more, and it is very simple: everything does exist.
Everything exists, except one thing, and that is God: God is the form
of everything that does not exist--which is just one thing, God.
We have everything and nothing. But nothing is actually one thing and
that is God--the one thing that does not exist.
But to say that God does not merely exist means that he is not to be
included among the things in Reality that are merely possible, merely
potential, merely of matter. God is more than potential, more than a
mere power of becoming. God never subsisted in a state of coming to be,
since God has always been. Been what?
*Actual*.
The Neo-Platonists spent a lot of time in their dialectics discussing
this dualism of the possible/actual. It is now seen, in part, as the
dualism of matter/energy. Matter is potential energy.
But this is only one face of the Substance of God. To say, "God is
energy" in that highly restrictive sense is not right. God is the
reason energy happens. God is the force behind all energy. God is the
law of Nature that makes E=MC*2 make sense.
Is God "anti-matter"? Yup.
Is God an alternative universe?
Sho' nuff.
Matter exists. Energy does not. Energy is the dissipation of
existence, of matter. Energy is the force of matter transforming into
non-matter, into the non-existent, into God.
We don't understand what 'nothing' is, because you simply can't say
that. You can't say, "nothing is"! Rather, nothing "is not".
But now you've got trouble, because it sounds like you just said,
"nothing is not." Did we just deny the possibility of nothing?
Yes. Nothing is not possible, it is actual.
But did we just say, "Nothing is not possible"?
Quite. It is not possible because it is actual, it is God.
But did we also say, "Nothing is impossible"?
Quite so! Verily, Verily, He said unto you: With God, nothing is
impossible.
No, nothing is not possible because it is actual; and has been ever
since the beginning, which is the end, in God, who is the Actual, the
acting engine of the possible, the existent.
Yes. There is no such thing as nothing, because nothing is not
nothing: it is God. God is the one Substance transcending existence.
He does not "exist" because there was nothing to create him, to make
him possible. He is more than the possible, he is also the impossible.
God is the one ousia ("substance") which is the form of all that does
not exist, shown forth by the form of all that does exist. Therefore,
he has a decided outline, which can be seen--in all that exists, in the
face of every flower, every nuclear explosion, every radiant display of
plumage upon every rain forest winged thing. Everything that does
exist forms the outlines of what does not: God.
God is the one "being" or which is better *ousia*, for whom it is
necessary He should not exist, in order that all else may exist.
See Christ dying on the cross.
See the Buddha lost to himself in meditation of the suffering of all
mankind.
*
*
*
See Mohammad slicing off the heads of his enemies.
--
Mackie
http://vignettes-mackie.blogspot.com/
http://doo-dads.blogspot.com/
http://whosenose.blogspot.com
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| User: "Snakes and Babies" |
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| Title: Re: Abortion on Toast for Brunch? |
29 Sep 2006 08:11:57 AM |
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Mackie wrote:
Have a Nice Judgment Day, atheist scum :-)
That's the title of my next book! How did you know?
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| User: "Limbau for President" |
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04 Oct 2006 01:52:33 AM |
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Off topic - abuse complaint filed.
Mackie wrote:
"Larisa" <purple_bovine@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1159407155.426262.297010@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
As far as I am concerned, there is no justification for the literary
crime in question.
Outside of a book recommendation from Oprah, there are no literary
crimes.
--
Mackie http://vignettes-mackie.blogspot.com/
Think of it for a minute. Think of everything you can think of that
never existed. Okay? There never existed, instead of the snow-capped
peaks of the Peruvian Andes, the scrambled egg-capped peaks of the
Peruvian Andes.
And why? Because of Necessity. Were it necessary, we'd have the
scrambled egg-capped peaks of the Peruvian Andes. Everything that is
necessary, of necessity exists.
Now the hypothesis would be this: anything which is not of necessity is
absurd, such as e.g. the scrambled egg-capped peaks of the Peruvian
Andes. In other words, everything that can reasonably exist, everything
for which there is a possibility of existence, there is existence.
Anything for which it is not possible to exist, does not exist.
Everything that should exist, does exist, and nothing that does exist
is such a thing as should not have existed. Everything in which there
is invested the power to exist, does exist.
And when we speak of 'everything', it is to say "every thing", which
means every Substance, every genus of thing.
But there is more, and it is very simple: everything does exist.
Everything exists, except one thing, and that is God: God is the form
of everything that does not exist--which is just one thing, God.
We have everything and nothing. But nothing is actually one thing and
that is God--the one thing that does not exist.
But to say that God does not merely exist means that he is not to be
included among the things in Reality that are merely possible, merely
potential, merely of matter. God is more than potential, more than a
mere power of becoming. God never subsisted in a state of coming to be,
since God has always been. Been what?
*Actual*.
The Neo-Platonists spent a lot of time in their dialectics discussing
this dualism of the possible/actual. It is now seen, in part, as the
dualism of matter/energy. Matter is potential energy.
But this is only one face of the Substance of God. To say, "God is
energy" in that highly restrictive sense is not right. God is the
reason energy happens. God is the force behind all energy. God is the
law of Nature that makes E=MC*2 make sense.
Is God "anti-matter"? Yup.
Is God an alternative universe?
Sho' nuff.
Matter exists. Energy does not. Energy is the dissipation of
existence, of matter. Energy is the force of matter transforming into
non-matter, into the non-existent, into God.
We don't understand what 'nothing' is, because you simply can't say
that. You can't say, "nothing is"! Rather, nothing "is not".
But now you've got trouble, because it sounds like you just said,
"nothing is not." Did we just deny the possibility of nothing?
Yes. Nothing is not possible, it is actual.
But did we just say, "Nothing is not possible"?
Quite. It is not possible because it is actual, it is God.
But did we also say, "Nothing is impossible"?
Quite so! Verily, Verily, He said unto you: With God, nothing is
impossible.
No, nothing is not possible because it is actual; and has been ever
since the beginning, which is the end, in God, who is the Actual, the
acting engine of the possible, the existent.
Yes. There is no such thing as nothing, because nothing is not
nothing: it is God. God is the one Substance transcending existence.
He does not "exist" because there was nothing to create him, to make
him possible. He is more than the possible, he is also the impossible.
God is the one ousia ("substance") which is the form of all that does
not exist, shown forth by the form of all that does exist. Therefore,
he has a decided outline, which can be seen--in all that exists, in the
face of every flower, every nuclear explosion, every radiant display of
plumage upon every rain forest winged thing. Everything that does
exist forms the outlines of what does not: God.
God is the one "being" or which is better *ousia*, for whom it is
necessary He should not exist, in order that all else may exist.
See Christ dying on the cross.
See the Buddha lost to himself in meditation of the suffering of all
mankind.
*
*
*
See Mohammad slicing off the heads of his enemies.
--
Mackie
http://vignettes-mackie.blogspot.com/
"Do You Like Stinky Girls?"
http://doo-dads.blogspot.com/
Poetry?
http://whosenose.blogspot.com
Politics?
http://jpdavid.blogspot.com/
A Punk Rock Nancy Drew?
"It's like butter." Linda Richman
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| User: "raven1" |
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| Title: Re: Abortion on Toast for Brunch? |
29 Sep 2006 05:06:46 PM |
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On 28 Sep 2006 11:46:06 -0700, "Mackie" <mackiemesser@zoomshare.com>
wrote:
"Larisa" <purple_bovine@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1159407155.426262.297010@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
As far as I am concerned, there is no justification for the literary
crime in question.
Outside of a book recommendation from Oprah, there are no literary
crimes.
Other than the bizarre tripe below...
--
Mackie http://vignettes-mackie.blogspot.com/
Think of it for a minute. Think of everything you can think of that
never existed. Okay? There never existed, instead of the snow-capped
peaks of the Peruvian Andes, the scrambled egg-capped peaks of the
Peruvian Andes.
And why? Because of Necessity. Were it necessary, we'd have the
scrambled egg-capped peaks of the Peruvian Andes. Everything that is
necessary, of necessity exists.
Now the hypothesis would be this: anything which is not of necessity is
absurd, such as e.g. the scrambled egg-capped peaks of the Peruvian
Andes. In other words, everything that can reasonably exist, everything
for which there is a possibility of existence, there is existence.
Anything for which it is not possible to exist, does not exist.
Everything that should exist, does exist, and nothing that does exist
is such a thing as should not have existed. Everything in which there
is invested the power to exist, does exist.
And when we speak of 'everything', it is to say "every thing", which
means every Substance, every genus of thing.
But there is more, and it is very simple: everything does exist.
Everything exists, except one thing, and that is God: God is the form
of everything that does not exist--which is just one thing, God.
We have everything and nothing. But nothing is actually one thing and
that is God--the one thing that does not exist.
But to say that God does not merely exist means that he is not to be
included among the things in Reality that are merely possible, merely
potential, merely of matter. God is more than potential, more than a
mere power of becoming. God never subsisted in a state of coming to be,
since God has always been. Been what?
*Actual*.
The Neo-Platonists spent a lot of time in their dialectics discussing
this dualism of the possible/actual. It is now seen, in part, as the
dualism of matter/energy. Matter is potential energy.
But this is only one face of the Substance of God. To say, "God is
energy" in that highly restrictive sense is not right. God is the
reason energy happens. God is the force behind all energy. God is the
law of Nature that makes E=MC*2 make sense.
Is God "anti-matter"? Yup.
Is God an alternative universe?
Sho' nuff.
Matter exists. Energy does not. Energy is the dissipation of
existence, of matter. Energy is the force of matter transforming into
non-matter, into the non-existent, into God.
We don't understand what 'nothing' is, because you simply can't say
that. You can't say, "nothing is"! Rather, nothing "is not".
But now you've got trouble, because it sounds like you just said,
"nothing is not." Did we just deny the possibility of nothing?
Yes. Nothing is not possible, it is actual.
But did we just say, "Nothing is not possible"?
Quite. It is not possible because it is actual, it is God.
But did we also say, "Nothing is impossible"?
Quite so! Verily, Verily, He said unto you: With God, nothing is
impossible.
No, nothing is not possible because it is actual; and has been ever
since the beginning, which is the end, in God, who is the Actual, the
acting engine of the possible, the existent.
Yes. There is no such thing as nothing, because nothing is not
nothing: it is God. God is the one Substance transcending existence.
He does not "exist" because there was nothing to create him, to make
him possible. He is more than the possible, he is also the impossible.
God is the one ousia ("substance") which is the form of all that does
not exist, shown forth by the form of all that does exist. Therefore,
he has a decided outline, which can be seen--in all that exists, in the
face of every flower, every nuclear explosion, every radiant display of
plumage upon every rain forest winged thing. Everything that does
exist forms the outlines of what does not: God.
God is the one "being" or which is better *ousia*, for whom it is
necessary He should not exist, in order that all else may exist.
See Christ dying on the cross.
See the Buddha lost to himself in meditation of the suffering of all
mankind.
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See Mohammad slicing off the heads of his enemies.
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"O Sybilli, si ergo
Fortibus es in ero
O Nobili! Themis trux
Sivat sinem? Causen Dux"
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