How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

[sdi]

I'm pretty frustrated with this week's commentary on the Ecosophia Open Post, but I recognize that many over there are not spiritual, so I'll respond over here.

1. Every god is essentially good. [A]
2. The sun is a god. [A]
3. An essentially good being cannot perform a bad action. [A]
4. A Carrington-Level Event, should one occur, would be an action the sun performs. [A]
5. The sun is essentially good. [I, II]
6. The sun cannot perform a bad action. [III, V]
7. A Carrington-Level Event, should one occur, would not be a bad action. [IV, VI]

We mustn't fear the acts of god, for the acts of god are beneficent!

Comments

[k_a_nitz]

It is a common misperception that inconvenient equals bad.

[sdi]

A fair point. I get confused on it, since I find life itself to be dreadfully inconvenient.

[thinking_turtle]

It seems to me that using human logic on the Gods overestimates logic. Logic is useful for creating and improving a model of truth, but it is not itself true.

Having said that, we can have fun trying! [1] Notions of good and evil change over time. [2] Every god is essentially good. So either a god changes or a god has been evil at some point in time. How would you explain this?

[sdi]

Your axioms are underspecified. When you say [1], you really mean that human notions of good and evil change over time. Gods aren't affected by human notions, of course.

That's the thing with logic: your conclusions are only as good as your axioms. It is only a useful way of either verifying a line of argument, or of teaching an argument to somebody, or something like that: logic doesn't deal with truth, only provability.

[sdi]

(I might also not that your inference is suspect. [1] and [2], together, imply that human notions of the gods' essences change over time, not that the gods change. Which, of course, we see throughout history.)

[thinking_turtle]

What can words you or I write be other than a human notion?

[sdi]

The point of this post wasn't "let's put the gods in a box," it was "don't worry about things you can't control!" The idea is not to draw the gods down to earth, but rather to raise ourselves to the heavens. Not only is that the proper use of logic—to double-check with discursive reason what we think we know via intuition—but it is also how we start to transcend human notions!

[thinking_turtle]

Thanks for clarifying the idea of the post. I had to read it a few times to before seeing what you mean.

[lincoln_lynx]

I attribute that to a lot of JMG's followers, even the ones that aren't necessarily Christian now or in the past, often coming from a Christian background, and having serious hang-ups on the subject.