Gregory

Even those who believe they have a demonstration of God's existence (however that looks) will talk about "faith in God". I admit the whole thing from ...

If God's laws and his free will are the same thing, then he is not bound by anything. Illogical things, like creating a square triangle and destroying...

As I've tried to explain above, I can only see consciousness existing with a sense of self. Those seem self evidently identical to me. It's just meani...

I think in all Buddhism gods are part of samsara but have been released. I haven't seen Buddhist talk about a being that is necessary existence

For me identity is the same as consciousness.

I feel like I need a rational understanding of the goal. Ego is one thing, but identity is another. To destroy the identity through self humiliation i...

It seems to me that to live without human ego is to live as God. God no longer an object of thoughts or devotion, but know as the true identity. Even ...

One aspect of the God question is how our thoughts mirror reality. If the object of our highest idea doesn't exists, what does it tell us about our ow...

I think he's a bot

You're probably right

So if God (since you don't understand what all-power means) in your view can cease to exist while making the "appearance" of his existence remain, you...

You believe God can exist, not exist, be bad, and be Satan himself all at the same time. Talk about acid nonsense

You don't think of God in a spiritual way as evidence that you don't understand aseity

The nature is the purely simple union of will, essence, and existence

God is his nature. His free will and his nature are one and good. His choices are his nature and he is necessary. A divine being can be free in that w...

Then explain exactly how Descartes's ontological argument is different from Anslem

Descartes had a big ego, plus another actually unique argument for God in the Third Meditation

Descartes said it was different from Anselm's but it's exactly the same. Necessary being must exist by definition. Ergo, God exists

Than state how it's unique

Descartes says that existence is necessary to God therefore God exists

It's the same as Anselm's

Descartes ontological argument works for him only when God if necessary

You're an atheist plain and simple

You are really incapable of understanding the answer to the rock paradox? I figured that out when I was a kid

A necessary being can't die by definition

Every theist believes God can do anything. Destroying himself is not something

Provide the quotes from Descartes that God has no nature and can destroy himself. He said God is necessary

You don't know how his two arguments for God work together

I've read Descartes's Replies and as I showed, he says God is necessary. He said "always exists" and "necessary". That why the ontological argument wo...

Those books look amazing. I shall order them

Dark matter is an example of science assuming some thing instead of nothing

Thanks for the resources. The quote about dependent origination is interesting because it directly contradicts the Prime Mover argument

I think they can make energy from matter with nuclear power, but yes this is not something from absolutely nothing

Yes, but only excerpts in textbooks and such. I want find find detailed arguments about philosophy from Buddhists, but maybe they are hard to come by,...

The Prime Mover argument says that whether we extend the past to infinity by days, or by fractions in the way Zeno would divide his segment, the infin...

Some Hindus speak of nirguna Brahman, who has only sat (existence), chit (consciousness), and ananda (bliss). Some even speak of the saguna of Brahman...

Is Buddhism even concerned about philosophical truth?

"If first there is nothing", notice that this is not saying anything. It's saying what is not (already coming from our knowledge of something). Don't ...

The last book I read on Buddhism was Thoughts without a Thinker by Mark Epstein. I read articles too My general concern here is how Buddhist reject su...

Yes. And since he thinks God can do contradictions, maybe his God has made you and I right in these discussions and given him no truth. He would have ...

Yes. And since he thinks God can do contradictions, maybe his God has made you and I right in these discussions and given him no truth. He would have ...

The world is appearance just as the ego is, however. Phenomenology has much to say about our being in the world

Non-dualist philosophy does say we lose ego, but we don't know what the absence of ego really means until it happens. Discussing how we do this is use...

A necessary being can do anything except kill himself or go against his nature. Those "actions" are not real possibilities. A rock God cannot pick up ...

The opposite of our contingent state might seem like absolute nothingness from our perspective in this life, but once there it might be the fullness o...

False. That doesn't logically follow. I got more quotes from Descartes: "When we attend to immense power of this being, we shall be unable to think of...

Again, you've put your interpretation of omnipotence in the mouth of Jesus and Descartes. Descartes arguments for God only make sense with a necessary...

Death is the ultimate mystery for humans. I think it's possible that when we die our consciousness enters another body and we can call this reincarnat...

You say God is contingent. Descartes says he is necessary. You say God can change. Descartes says he is changeless and always exists (not "always exis...

I think this discussion is helpful: https://www.reasonablefaith.org/writings/scholarly-writings/the-existence-of-god/the-origin-and-creation-of-the-un...