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- From: jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez)
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- Subject: Re: Structure of Time (LAST COMMENT)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.142836.16122@galois.mit.edu>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 14:28:36 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul31.091010.1@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi> hporopudas@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi writes:
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- > I would only like to say about Hanna-Maria that I'am a religious man,
- > I believe that God exists, because He is Existence Himself, and if someone
- > is arguing that Existence Himself does not exist, then he/she argues at the
- > same time that he/she himself/herself does not exist.
-
- This is one of the funnier versions of the ontological argument for the
- existence of god that I've heard. But don't you mean to say that "I
- believe that God exists, because He/She is Existence Himself/Herself"?
-
- I believe in existence (I think) but calling it "god" is rather misleading.
-
- >I also believe that
- > almost everything is possible for our God. This is a matter that we don't
- > understand at the moment, because we are still so undeveloped compared
- > to Him. These are the main reasons why I don't need to explain to myself
- > this Hanna-Maria's part in my paper "Structure of Time". I simply believe it.
-
- For the same reasons, I don't need to explain why you and your
- daughter's ideas are a bunch of baloney. I simply attribute it to the
- great ability of God to create confused people. See? This works both ways.
-