Kali_Ava wrote:
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wolf364 wrote:
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Looks like we're thinking along the same lines, buddy!
Gazing Rabbit wrote:
If we think God to be metaphysical, then technicaly he *does* exist as a metaphysical concept. If you believe in God, than there is a manifastation of that belife called God. The manifastation will be at the same level/plane of your beliefs[.]
http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/metaphysical wrote:
Meaning of METAPHYSICAL
Pronunciation: `metu'fizikul
WordNet Dictionary
Definition:
[adj] highly abstract and over-theoretical; "metaphysical reasoning"
[adj] without material form or substance; "metaphysical forces"
[adj] <b>pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics; "metaphysical philosophy"</b>
http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/metaphysics wrote:
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Definition: \Met`a*phys"ics\, n. [Gr. ? ? ? after those things
which relate to external nature, after physics, fr. ? beyond,
after + ? relating to external nature, natural, physical, fr.
? nature: cf. F. m['e]taphysique. See {Physics}. The term was
first used by the followers of Aristotle as a name for that
part of his writings which came after, or followed, the part
which treated of physics.]
1. The science of real as distinguished from phenomenal
being; ontology; also, the science of being, with
reference to its abstract and universal conditions, as
distinguished from the science of determined or concrete
being; <b>the science of the conceptions and relations which
are necessarily implied as true of every kind of being</b>;
phylosophy in general; first principles, or the science of
first principles.
Note: Metaphysics is distinguished as general and special.
{General metaphysics} is the science of all being as
being. {Special metaphysics} is the science of one kind
of being; as, the metaphysics of chemistry, of morals,
or of politics. According to Kant, a systematic
exposition of those notions and truths, the knowledge
of which is altogether independent of experience, would
constitute the science of metaphysics.
Commonly, in the schools, called metaphysics, as
being part of the philosophy of Aristotle, which
hath that for title; but it is in another sense:
for there it signifieth as much as ``books
written or placed after his natural philosophy.''
But the schools take them for ``books of
supernatural philosophy;'' for the word
metaphysic will bear both these senses. --Hobbes.
Now the science conversant about all such
inferences of unknown being from its known
manifestations, is called ontology, or
metaphysics proper. --Sir W.
Hamilton.
Metaphysics are [is] the science which determines
what can and what can not be known of being, and
the laws of being, a priori. --Coleridge.
2. Hence: The scientific knowledge of mental phenomena;
mental philosophy; psychology.
Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken,
is a science or complement of sciences exclusively
occupied with mind. --Sir W.
Hamilton.
Whether, after all, A larger metaphysics might not
help Our physics. --Mrs.
Browning.
Now that we all properly understand what context a metaphysical God could exist in is... it's easier to just sum the idea of God as a meme.
www.silcom.com/~barnowl/chain-letter/glossary.htm wrote:
As defined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976): "a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation." "Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs, so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which, in the broad sense, can be called imitation." In this sense, chain letter components are memes.
However, this is just the beginning. For memes and meme complexes only exist in theory, belief, the metaphysical, etc. What we're trying to argue is whether this meme transcends all that and is actually a changing force of nature that truly exists and links/governs/inhabits us all. (Am I wrong? Feel free to correct me, because I'm not entirely sure what definition limitations there are...)
Gazing Rabbit wrote:
[S]o if you were to turn the thoughts containing God into 'hard' reality's energy, you'll have God in our space/time continuum, no?"
The question I'm coming up with, is how would we convert metaphysical energy into *physical* energy? Well, whatever energy "reality" is aligned with anyways...