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One day you will be granted the chance to experience reality as I do, but until that day comes you will be confined by various types of limitations.
This is not a prophecy, but merely a possible perspective of the Deist in regard to their interpretation of a Creator.
originally posted by: Dark Ghost
What is my actual nature, you ask? While it is difficult to find a word to describe my nature that your current limitations will allow you to understand, I will say that I am an entity of contentedness.
originally posted by: AfterInfinity
Deists believe it is possible to determine the existence of a deity using reason and observation. Your first sentence says that this entity whom you played the role of in your OP is beyond our comprehension - in other words, beyond our ability to determine.
originally posted by: Dark Ghost
In other words, humans might know of my existence, but the way I exist and how I function remains unknowable in your current period of limitation.
originally posted by: swanne
Please allow me to ask, first: How do you define, "you"? Are "you" your spirit in all its ideologist simplicity? Or are "you" your body in all its marvellous (yet secularist) complexity?
How do you perceive yourself?
originally posted by: Dark Ghost
originally posted by: AfterInfinity
Deists believe it is possible to determine the existence of a deity using reason and observation. Your first sentence says that this entity whom you played the role of in your OP is beyond our comprehension - in other words, beyond our ability to determine.
What I meant is the nature of my existence is beyond comprehension - not that I exist or not. In other words, humans might know of my existence, but the way I exist and how I function remains unknowable in your current period of limitation.
I do apologise if this is not clear, but I sometimes find it difficult to translate the thoughts inside my head into written form.
originally posted by: Dark Ghost
originally posted by: swanne
Please allow me to ask, first: How do you define, "you"? Are "you" your spirit in all its ideologist simplicity? Or are "you" your body in all its marvellous (yet secularist) complexity?
How do you perceive yourself?
In the OP (in "character"), I define myself as the creator of all life; a source of energy that is behind the creation of everything in existence.
In real life, I struggle to determine what I mean by "me" and ask those questions every day.
originally posted by: AfterInfinity
The nature of your existence includes the fact that you exist. Or the fact that you don't exist. Is this supposed to be some kind of roleplay?
Consider the following example.
A father and his young son are watching a movie together, and the word "limousine" is mentioned by one of the characters. Let us assume the child had not heard the word before and asks his dad what it means. His dad responds that it is just a type of "fancy car".
The child now knows that limousines exist, but he does not know the look/build of one and could not explain it to somebody else besides saying it's a "fancy car".
originally posted by: AfterInfinity
I disagree. The child now knows that his father believes in a fancy car called a limousine. Technically speaking, he is not yet aware that they actually exist, except by taking his father at his word. Kinda sounds familiar, now that I think about it.
Technically speaking, what do we actually know exists for certain? Not a lot besides what our direct experience has revealed so far...
originally posted by: MX61000
Why would someone want to, " like you say Love and Create" in a world full of wickedness, un equality, mass deception and just plan evil people, that world must be hated and destroyed, thus producing a people of the like ready and waiting to put an end to it. a reply to: Dark Ghost