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From: davido@mmintl.UUCP (David Ornstein)
Newsgroups: net.philosophy
Subject: Re: Mutually Exclusive Claim.
Message-ID: <439@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Jun-85 12:29:46 EDT
Article-I.D.: mmintl.439
Posted: Tue Jun  4 12:29:46 1985
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References: <2336@decwrl.UUCP> <1723@aecom.UUCP>
Reply-To: davido@mmintl.UUCP (David Ornstein)
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In Article: <1723@aecom.UUCP>, berger@aecom.UUCP (Mitchell Berger) writes:
>> >      Why is that trouble?  If God is not part of the  universe,
>> > what prevents Him from acting, affecting, or manifesting in the
>> > universe?  Further, what prevents God from  doing  whatever  He
>> > wishes to do?
>> 
>>      You assume a  "  creator  ",  along  with  some  form  of  "
>> substance  ".   A " GOD " would reside in a hierarchically higher
>> dimensional level than our limited dimensions.  However, there is
>> a  limit to the hierarchy, and it is not clear that we exist in a
>> lower one, that is, it is possible that we ARE the highest  level
>> in this particular system.
>
>There is an alternative here that I don't see anyone else discussing.
>There is such a thing as un-dimentional, not zero dimentional (a point),
>or infinitely dimentional, but a mode of existance in which the concept
>is meaningless. As an example, look at mass. When I say that a force 
>has no mass, am I really saying that the mass is zero? Maybe Gd exists
>in a non-dimentional non-universe. How many dimentions do emotions have?
>	.
>	.
>	.
>Micha Berger
>2525 Amsterdam Ave. Suite M406  NY, NY 10033     (212) 781-0756
>{philabs|cucard|pegasus|rocky2}!aecom!berger


I tend to believe that in these cases, it is language, perception and
interpretation that make the difference.  I believe that emotion has as much
"right" to be dimensional as does space or time.  It seems to me that it is
all a question of subjective assignment.  If I choose to say that emotion is
a 9 dimensional form (degrees of some quantities that I choose to call:
love, want, lust, interest, help_thy_neighborness, etc.) who is to say that
it is not.  Emotion (and all other things that we choose to isolate from
each other) are what they are.  Each person has a subjective (and equally
"correct") way of measuring and analyzing these things.  I live my life by
communicating with other people.  The method I use (consciously) is to try
and quess what various words mean to the person I am speaking to.  Then I
construct my sentence.  It seems obvious to me that all these concepts are
as real as anything else we choose to evaluate in isolation.


					Davido

How'd I do?



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