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- From: emarsh@hernes-sun.Eng.Sun.COM (Eric Marsh)
- Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc,alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: Buddhism and the Absolute God
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 18:02:10 GMT
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- This looks like fun...
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- OK, I'll play.
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- In article <C1JC5F.4qB@news.cso.uiuc.edu> cobb@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Mike Cobb) writes:
- >Can you make liquid water that is not wet?
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- I can paint a picture of the ocean.
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- >Can you exist and not exist at the same time?
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- If I were to become unconscious, "I" would not exist, yet my
- body would exists.
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- >Can you make a square circle?
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- Move the circle from 2-D space to 3-D space, and extend it into
- the z axis the same amount as its diameter. It is now both a square
- and a circle.
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- >Can you make 2+2=5
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- Sure - "2+2=5"
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- >Can you make it rain and not rain in the same place at the same time?
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- Yes. Enclose the Earth in a big box. It is now raining and not raining
- in the same place (the box) at the same time.
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- >Aren't these logical impossibilities, and therefor not a limitation of power?
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- Are they impossibilities?
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- >MAC
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- How many did I get right?
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- Eric
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