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To: Nicholas Thompson who wrote (154624)	2/13/2009 3:21:37 PM
From: one_less	2 Recommendations Respond to of 173976

"What does God think? Thought is intentional by nature, with a central tendency involving care or concern. Concern has a direction and an object of concern; which is generally purposeful and driven by some value or another. So what you are suggesting when you imply 'God Thought' is a moral and purposeful universe. Certainly if thought is a real entity, then knowledge is a natural product of thought. Interpretation of knowledge requires a being who thinks and reflects on the object of thought. In this case you can not ask the question 'What does God think?' and expect results, unless you have a being who is an insider (of God) or unless you are a qualified interpreter who is privy to such thought. ... Even to make a statement like, 'God doesn't think that, or God wouldn't think that' requires you to be an interpreter of 'God Thought' (whatever that is). If a being can have thoughts about God, the natural conclusion to make is that the being is 'God,' 'of God', or irrational. If certain core thoughts are universally verifiable for thinking beings, 'An Omnicient and Beneficent God would authorize the character of good as being truth, justice, kindness and compassion vs bad as being deceit, corrupt and wicked.' ... then are those core thoughts an elemental aspect of the condition for thinking beings? It would, therefore, be rational to expect thinking beings to have such thoughts. If it is a condition of thinking beings is it any more or less essential than physical conditions, like taking breath or bread? The claim to be 'God' usually lands one in the luny bin, since the universally agreed interpretation is that us thinking human beings are not Omnicient, Omipotent, or Omnipresent. That leaves only one reasonable conclusion for your statement, we must be creatures 'of God'.