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To: Poet who wrote (6071)	3/31/2002 6:13:46 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21057

Should God Be Replaced (Solon's thread)....

To: Poet who wrote (6071)	3/31/2002 6:30:30 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

We were discussing the relative vs. absolute existence of something and how such definitions may not produce a measurable difference between the objective fact that something exists versus the subject belief that something exists. In some situations, bravery and cowardice may not be discernibly different. A man who pretends to be brave while terrified can only be subjectively compared to an identical man acting out of courage due to a noble and lofty motivation idealized by society. God falls into this category for me. I won't use the term G-O-D. I use capitalized Cosmic Force to allude to that notion and I say each of us is a "cosmic force" (lower case) as in my screen name. There is very little conflicting mythological bagage with my definition. I believe such a culturally neutral term provides greater mutal understanding than arguments about the absolute existence of a divine creator that is based upon ancient mythology of disparate ethnic traditions. In many ways they are discussion of the same thing, except in discussing G-O-D we are discussing it in the view of our ancestors and our ethnic heritage, and using my terminology we are discussing it in a culturally neutral contemporary context. What G-0-D did or didn't do vis-a-vis the Hittites or Sodom isn't very relevant for me (or to me) today.