tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-795812307407166674.post8741353233736636106..comments2017-03-11T12:04:41.700-06:00Comments on scatter: winterbrtomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15402862111655891080noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-795812307407166674.post-67665390559113163802008-10-24T23:38:00.000-05:002008-10-24T23:38:00.000-05:00Not a definition. She's saying we're only capable ...Not a definition. She's saying we're only capable of imagining (as in "imaging") God ... and there are an infinite number of possible imagings. Which doesn't mean there's an infinite number of gods.<BR/><BR/>Yes, our theism/s is/are a human assertion about our belief/sense/thought/experience that there is some solid reality behind all of this existing. That reality (necessarily accompanied by our infinite imaginings of it) is God.<BR/><BR/>Our theism is inadequate. If agnostic is to question/critique and doubt our imagings of God, then it's agnosticism. But to acknowledge the limits of one's expression is not the same as doubting the existence of thing we're trying to express.brtomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15402862111655891080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-795812307407166674.post-78779230568609125592008-10-22T16:36:00.000-05:002008-10-22T16:36:00.000-05:00so is this meant to be a definition of god -- "the...so is this meant to be a definition of god -- "the god imagined..."? and if you ask about "the god imagined as a aprt of the comos" does that not suggest there is another god? many aspects sorted and gathered --so how many gods does such a statement allow for? and if atheism is a struggle against the inadequacy of our owm theism what is all the rest of this wandering and searching and grasping? what ARE we doing here anyway? is not all theism a product of man and as such by definition inadequate? why theism and not deism -- is it just a matter of degree? does this make one an agnostic to wander so? does not the fact of existence -- stated differently this attempt at life -- by itself egage one "of necessity [in] a struggle against the inadequacy of our own theism" what are we doing being here after all?mshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06785380341281251243noreply@blogger.com