At which point we will tranq him, tag his ear and release him back into the wild
to monitor his migration and mating habits.
[Storm Orphan:] At which point we will tranq him, tag his ear and release him back into the wild to monitor his migration and mating habits.
LOL Storm Orphan! The joke’s hilarious; but at bottom, it still involves a category error. I know you really don’t think you can find God running around on all fours somewhere within the space-time continuum -- not necessarily because you appreciate the problems of transcendence, which can be dicey; but because you don’t believe there’s any such thing as transcendence, let alone God.
IMHO, you seem to hold as true the ancient Sophist formulation, “man is the measure.” That is, what man can see from his own little narrow perspective, contingent on his position within space and time, and his finite nature as a part of the Whole which he can never see “whole” or entire, is all there is and all that there ever could be….
So with man as the measure of the “god problem,” the reasoning might go something like this: God is not a datum of immanent experience. Immanence is all there is. Therefore, God does not exist. Case closed.
Yet somehow, the human mind is so constituted that God is “thinkable”; yet God can never really be an object of cognition. The trouble in thinking about God is that the human mind, in order to think, has to intend objects. That’s the way the dianoetic mind is set up: We have to “objectivize” God to think about Him at all.
But if we are interested in the truth of God, we must never allow ourselves to fall into the error of thinking He is really an object among other objects, here in space-time reality. Or that He is somehow bound by His Creation – what is infinite and eternal cannot be bound by our little categories of space and time.
But please do enjoy your safari, Storm Orphan! Best, bb.