From: "Syd" 

On Mar 28, 10:11 am, stumper  wrote:
> Syd wrote:
> > On Mar 27, 4:05 pm, stumper  wrote:
> >> Syd wrote:
> >>> On Mar 26, 4:20 pm, stumper  wrote:
> >>>> Syd wrote:
> >>>>> On Mar 25, 6:00 pm, stumper
 wrote:
> >>>>>> Syd wrote:
> >>>>>>> On Mar 25, 2:21 pm, stumper
 wrote:
> >>>>>>>> Attila < wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 10:07:55
-0400, stumper 
in
> >>>>>>>>> alt.abortion with message-id
> >>>>>>>>>
 wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>> Ray Fischer wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>> stumper 
 wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>>> God does not have to
have any physical characteristics.
> >>>>>>>>>>>> That's probably what
it means when they say "God is a spirit."
> >>>>>>>>>>> I am always entertained
when people make assertions about the
nature
> >>>>>>>>>>> of a supposedly infinite
being that they've never seen.
> >>>>>>>>>> God is everything there ever
was, is, and will be.
> >>>>>>>>> Prove any god is anything.
> >>>>>>>>> Or even exists.
> >>>>>>>>>> Does such God exist?
> >>>>>>>>>> Is it even meaningful to ask
> >>>>>>>>>> whether such God exists or not?
> >>>>>>>>> It is always meaningful to ask if
anything exists.
> >>>>>>>> God exists by definition
> >>>>>>>> just like the universe.
> >>>>>>>> --
> >>>>>>>> ~Stumper
> >>>>>>> No.
> >>>>>>> PDW
> >>>>>> You exist by definition.
> >>>>>> How about me?
> >>>>>> --
> >>>>>> ~Stumper
> >>>>> What about you?
> >>>>> PDW
> >>>> You need to do a paradigm shift first to understand.
> >>> I other words, I need to believe to believe..
> >>> No thank you.
> >>>> God is better handled by social science
> >>>> than by natural science.
> >>>> My working hypothesis for this week is this:
> >>>> God is a world government in exile.
> >>> My working hypothesis for this week is:
> >>> Your a nut case.
> >>> PDW
> >> Good for you.
>
> >> Let's make the paradigm shift a little easier.
> >> If you think God does not exist
> >> and there are many people who insist that God exists,
> >> you might not be talking about the same thing.
>
> >> So you just say God as understood by you does not exist.
> >> But you cannot say that God as understood by them does not exist.
>
> >> To do that, you need to agree with them.
> >> Got it?
> >> You need to agree with Christians about what God is.
>
> >> Sure, they say God is this, God is that,
> >> and even insist that they mean it literally.
> >> But they clearly are not talking about God
> >> as understood by you, do they?
>
> >> So we need to talk about what God is
> >> before we argue about whether God exists or not.
>
> >> What is God?
>
> >> --
> >> ~Stumper
>
> > A character from someone else's book.
>
> > PDW
>
> A new working hypothesis:
>   God is a society of Christian faiths.
>
> It does have a nice recursive ring to it, doesn't it?
>
I guess.
My working hypothesis continues to be: Your a nutcase.

PDW, at work..

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