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Subject: It's there


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Damoclese
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Date Posted: 03/15/04 4:50pm
In reply to: Wade A. Tisthammer 's message, "Oh yes it is." on 03/15/04 12:15pm

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>So if God is greater than nothing, God has to be
>non-existent? Again, that's a non sequitur.
>It seems clear that to have the greatest state of
>being would not be non-being.

It seems that way, but I have non-being defined as the null state of being. Hence, not being is simply a subset of being, it's just zero being.

Therefore, if god is the greatest being, he must also have the greatest null being, that being zero, or non-being.

If he doesn't, then not being (null being, 0 being) has greater or as great of existence as he does.

The only viable objection to this argument that I can see is that nothing is not null being. In other words, it's not a subset of being.

Of course, that puts us in clearly negative logical territory, and one could argue that nothing is only conceivable in terms of being.

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Non-being is the lowest form of being, not the greatest.Wade A. Tisthammer03/15/04 8:05pm


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