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To: laredo44
"So, what is man's moral purpose in your view?"

To seek knowledge.

Why?

Hank

274 posted on 05/01/2003 5:03:46 PM PDT by Hank Kerchief
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To: Hank Kerchief
"So, what is man's moral purpose in your view?"

To seek knowledge.

Why?

Because it is what we do. The history of man is the quest for knowledge. Periods when knowledge was suppressed are called "Dark"; where it is advanced, "Golden."

If you believe in an omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent god, seeking knowledge is an attempt to emulate, and in that way worship that god. Omnipotence and omnipresence are really just special cases of omniscience. So it all boils down to knowledge.

If you are unable to do something, either it can't be done or you don't know how. Omniscience means you know what is impossible and how to do all the possible things. You think you are not omnipotent because you cannot lift a 1000 pound rock? That is because, you can only exert a couple of hundred pounds of upward thrust, at best. Even god cannot lift a 1000 pound rock with 200 pounds of thrust. When you figure out how to exert the needed 1000 pounds of upward thrust, you can move the rock. In other words if you know how you can do it. If you can't do it it is because you don't know how, or it is impossible. Omniscient beings are omnipotent,

Omnipresnece? What does that mean? Everywhere present? Again, what does that mean? One way to think of being somewhere, is that you can see what's going on there and can act to influence things there. Again, if you are omniscient, you know everything, and certainly know what's going on everywhere. You can also influence events everywhere as a condition of your omniscience/omnipotence. There are other aspects to think about regarding omniprescence, but they all boil down to knowledge.

We exist to seek knowledge.

353 posted on 05/02/2003 3:03:59 AM PDT by laredo44
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