h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

God does exist because people want God to. I know it might sound very Terry Pratchettt, but God will fail to exist once people stop believing. You are right, finite/ infinite nodes of universe within an infinite timescale, "made" from nothing and whose properties and nature are subject to how, who, when and why it is being observed is perhaps a difficult concept to grasp for the mere mortal. Particularly when this mortal's position in the scheme of things compares to the brevity of a flash of lightning, and its instincts and desires are at odds with its needs to cooperate with other members of its species. Buddhists meditate for decades in order to gain some appreciation of this "reality", under very specialised conditions, so do give people some credit for not achieving it in their own lifetime. But "existence" in this particular "universe" feels real and it needs some kind of explanation. And this is where gods come into the equation. The whole mystifying mess ends up as somebody elses responsibility. Somebody who is a lot wiser than you and has very good reasons for smiting your children with leprosy.
Some schools of Buddhism say that gods do exist, but they are formerly Enlightened Beings who are now lower order beings because they got cosy and liked to show off a lot. So that kind of ties in with the regression that you were on about. But what's "above" Enlightened Beings? Well, according to Buddhists, that is "Nothing and Not-Nothing".
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

I have two words to say to you:
Fish

and


babel



so there!

That's 5.

only two were important!

Look this conversation is degenerating swiftly. Can't we be a little more adult, poo hole.

Alright then, w**k stain! ;-p

That was my mother's pet name for me. How did you know?

Because i am the almighty!

one other thing - which day did god create the sun and the moon on - coz if it wasn't the first - how were there any days?

As the almighty, all I have to say to you is William of Occam! Going back to an earlier string, I'd always felt the mone was more of a Derek. For there to have been days before sun and moon shows "god" must have be a radioactive being, living life out to the tune of his/her/its/spam own atomic clock...or something.

Possibly!

But William of Ockham, and his shaving device did not exist then, in fact he lived between 1285-1347/49, so could have had nothing to do with creation.
The principle was, in fact, invoked before Ockham by Durand de Saint-Pourcain, a French Dominican theologian and philosopher of dubious orthodoxy, who used it to explain that abstraction is the apprehension of some real entity.

Maybe that explains everything!

Hee, hee, I just found Robert Wagner's comments as well.
Anyway, it's all Aristotle's fault.

Why?

I lied, it's Plato's fault...Dualism.

Friday's, I was never very good at them.

M y b r a i n i s m e l t i n g .

get your head out of the oven. Who do you think you are???? The Witch from Hansel and Gretel???

Since the Moon cycles every twenty nine and a half days, the name should be Womoon...and what about OM instead of God, or has that already been done?

How do you know that I aren't?

If you were the witch from Hansel And Gretel then you would be dead already and not have your head in the oven at the moment. My guess is that you were thinking again and you mind overheated. Happens to my siblings all the time.

Try Luna (Moon) and Terra (Earth), although Sol for our Sun is a bit dull though.

Luna means moon in Russian. Both name and word. As for terra, it has no meaning in Russian so you can rest easy that the commies or not attacking. For that matter, there are not that many communists in Russia. Most are socialist. As for Bog, I think some kind of race of ogres in some video game(Warcraft, I think), probably on purpose.
Speaking of god, I got into an interesting discussion about dog a while back. I argued that the world began whan an atom caused the big bang. My friend said that he agreed with me, however he believed that bog created that atom. Where else did it come from?, he said. It is the same thing about the Ultrasiezeure (much better then god or bog). Where did it come from.