Why is a \"designer\" so compelling? (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Saturday, July 18, 2009, 19:39 (5605 days ago) @ xeno6696

I need to bring just a little more fruit on this topic. When I bring up my normative claim, "A human metaphysic must be humanly thinkable," I realize that this creates some possible ambiguity. - We can think UP a creator, but everything about this creator is unknowable. We can't apply any known tool to its properties, we can't apply things such as parsimony and rigorous logic to such an extent that we can call it studyable. Therefore we can't really think about it... we can't bring tools of thought to bear in a manner that would be productive or truly useful, and though raw speculation has its place I would challenge to find an instance where a deity has done more than provide a psychological framework for a human being in terms of how we work in our world.

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"