Sentences with phrase «own nonexistence»

In business, however, synergy is rare to the point of nonexistence.

I can understand you questioning his divinity but to suggest nonexistence of Jesus no one takes that serious.

God is invisible, undetectable, and irrelevant — as far as anyone can determine, which isn't much difference than nonexistence.

And you can't just will that into nonexistence.

This has been explained ad nauseum, but there is no need to prove god's nonexistence.

Like other atheists has often said: People does not seem so troubled about the billions of years of nonexistence before their birth, but most are very anxious about death and the probable nonexistance after that event.

Since from what you say «not assigning gods nonexistence a «true»» you aren't rejecting the possibility of a God only it can't be proven which like you said would be Agnostic Atheist and is not the same as someone who claims there is no god and rejects the possibility of it.

Actually, Corey, God's nonexistence does not impede the ability of the people of that church to love Lucas and each other and by so doing make everybody's lives better.

Judas ended up in the same state as we all will eventually... nonexistence.

Naturalism the belief that the universe self manifested from nonexistence and nothing exists beyond the material world is not a science but an age old philosophy.

On the contrary: The Mind of God is rather a reappraisal of reductionism (its sweeping generalizations about the nonexistence of things like the mind and the soul) and a most refreshing if also sober assessment of the limits of mathematics and the physical theories it supports.

The reasoning behind Stephen Fry's argument for the nonexistence of God would commit him to procreation being immoral, to wishing that he and those he... More

On account of the nonexistence of the supernatural ent - ities that would be credited with causing them.

Hence, only the first interpretation is meaningful, and it can not be used to deduce from the existence of (genuine) moral evil the nonexistence of benevolent omnipotence, since «whether the free men created by God would always do what is right would presumably be up to them» (GPE 271).

@Chad «no serious scholar buys into that nonsense: The Christ myth theory (also known as Jesus mythicism, the Jesus myth theory and the nonexistence hypothesis) is the idea that Jesus of Nazareth was not a historical person, but is a fictional or mythological character created by the early Christian community.

They might as well be empty unrealities initiated by nonexistence.

His interest in the existence or nonexistence of God stems from his death obsession.

I'm not trying to prove the nonexistence of any imaginary creatures.

'' Science can not prove the existence or nonexistence of a suprahuman force or whether such an ent.ity answers prayer.»

The Zen enlightenment experience is a revelation of the full relationality of all that exists, and hence of the nonexistence of any such selves, human or divine.

Of course, the existence or nonexistence of «the Devil» may be irrelevant.

«God's nonexistence is easy to prove.

It follows that if evil is nonetheless real, then atheism» i.e., the idea of the nonexistence of that evaluator or standard of evaluation» is not only an extraordinarily unappetizing prospect, it is also fundamentally untrue.

Thus we do have a basis for projecting that potentiality into the future as a continuing potentiality for division, despite the nonexistence of any future occasion, in much the same way that the potentiality is still perceived as pervading the past, despite the actual atomicity of the past world.

@ Moby, If you don't believe in angels based on the evidence or the lack thereof that's fine, but if you're claiming that the nonexistence of angels to be the absolute truth then you better provide the proof.

Its driving forces are commerce and urbanization, not scientific «proofs» for the nonexistence of God or the unreliability of the Bible or even discoveries about the nature of the material world.

Sunday services made much mention of «whizziness» and «wonder» — but rarely spoke of God's nonexistence.

By definition of their view they will never prove the nonexistence of God, just a lack of proof.

Feezell is also correct in pointing out the asymmetry we are willing to adopt regarding prenatal nonexistence and posthumous nonexistence (43).

In Hartshorne's earlier discussions (Creative Synthesis 271 - 72 and «Metaphysical and Empirical» 183), the zeros were interpreted as nonexistence (cf. Viney, «The Varieties of Theism» 212 - 13).

The lack of proof for the nonexistence of a god does not prove a god exists, any more than a lack of proof for the nonexistence of a planet somewhere in the universe made entirely of chocolate pudding proves that such a planet exists.

And if the atheists» concept of absolute nonexistence comes to play, you're dead, pal.

The total absence of all power is nonexistence, and the refusal to exercise the power we possess leads to destruction.

As a matter of fact, the existence of God gives Ivan far more agony than his nonexistence ever could.

though i find chad's views on the relationship of truth and faith and on the impossibility of god's nonexistence wildly entertaining, i do appreciate the civility of his discourse.

Neither did I say to myself, «I'm tired of dreading nonexistence — I shall will myself into faith!»

- It did not initially insist upon their nonexistence.

Otto made positive statements about the nonexistence of God, and the two theists criticized each...

Every night in bed I foresaw my pending nonexistence and trembled.

While this twofold claim is in accord with Cobb's interest in arguing for Jesus» «causally efficacious nonexistence,» or the «unmediated prehension by a presently concrescing actual occasion of occasions in the remote past,» it is not in accord with his remarks concerning the providential guidance of God.

What Cobb concludes, consequently, is that while all past actual occasions are technically nonexistent or no longer concrescing, theirs is most properly characterized nonetheless as a causally efficacious nonexistence (1:150).

It is an affront to mankind's ability to reason and should be ridiculed and ostracized into nonexistence.

In other words, God as the Unsurpassable One can not fail to exist, or the nonexistence of the Unsurpassable One is a selfcontradictory concept.

The second is the state of non-life — the nonexistence of self.

In the second and possibly better of two formulations of this argument, he reasoned as follows: Since a being greater than God is by definition inconceivable, and since a being whose nonexistence is inconceivable is greater than a being whose nonexistence is conceivable, therefore, God must be a being whose nonexistence is inconceivable.

I take your point though that if they hold to this nonexistence as certain truth even though there's no certain proof of it, they are taking at least a small leap of faith.

the existence or nonexistence of god is simply an unanswerable question.that is the hardest of all to swallow.

Not only has it given traditional theists such as Plantinga an «opportunity for an easy victory» but, more importantly, it has allowed such theists to avoid addressing the real question that evil poses: Given the incredible amount and pervasiveness of the pain and suffering that continues to be experienced by actual individuals, is there some plausible reason not to assume «that God is guilty of nonexistence» (ER 46)?

How can one deal constructively with the ultimate threat of nonexistence?

Are our lives not lived as though they were insurance policies against the nonexistence of God?