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To: DelphiUser
If I make a Lego™ car, and then decide to destroy it, I do not have to ask anyone’s permission. It does not matter if I have a father who can build with Lego’s or if he has a father, only that the car belongs to me, I created it. End of chain of authority.

Sorry. Doesn't compute in an absolute way. Let's say you take that lego, and you put it in a cannon alongside ammunition, and you decide that your means of "destroying" the lego house is to fire it into a real house that doesn't belong to you (beyond your authority). It doesn't matter that you created the legohouse. It doesn't give you the authority to do anything you want with it. You are thereby limited, as your authority is. Someone who has Kolobian authority, for example, doesn't necessarily have Jupiterian authority, or Marsian authority.

So, if your immediate gods are limited in their authority either by planetary boundaries, galaxy boundaries, universal boundaries, or some other dimensional boundaries, then they are limited. They are not a totally free, sovereign god. There are limitations to their authority, for there was once upon a time when they had no authority. They were totally reliant upon other another god or gods for deriving it.

373 posted on 05/05/2006 11:41:41 AM PDT by Colofornian
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To: Colofornian

>> Sorry. Doesn't compute in an absolute way.

Few analogies stand up to being twisted, they only go as far as the point being made at the time, unless you are capable of infinite recursion, I’m not right now, maybe after I recover from this Flu…

>> So, if your immediate gods are limited in their authority either by planetary boundaries … then they are limited.

What is 1 / 2 of infinity? (Did you ever get to higher math?)

In my opinion, the rest of your post is hyperbole.


386 posted on 05/05/2006 1:28:56 PM PDT by DelphiUser ("You can lead a man to knowledge, but you can't make him think")
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