can you not deny that there cannot not be the absence of a non existent God???
So you're admitting God exists
2007-09-11 10:50:51 · 43 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That has got to be the most pathetic effort yet.
2007-09-11 10:54:04 · answer #1 · answered by Scott M 7 · 11⤊ 0⤋
Oh, but I CAN deny it. By definition, a non-existent god can only be "absent". (It obviously couldn't be present if it didn't exist.) You phrase the question expecting the answer "no", but I don't have to cooperate.
Not all negatives are equal. "absence" modifies "God", not "non existent". You've limited the discussion to "non existent" gods only. A "non existent God" is "absent". Logically, it can and must be so, so there's no denying it. "Can you not" is an invitation to deny the fact under discussion. (i.e. - You would be surprised if I did.) So essentially, I am denying the possibility that a non existent god is not absent in defiance of your expectations. I'd have to, whether I believed in a god or not. It would be a logical paradox. If you had opened the discussion to include existent gods, my response would be formulated a little differently.
2007-09-11 11:15:02 · answer #2 · answered by skepsis 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Your question "do you know this? is a nonsense by reason that the part requiring the knowing is proposed as another question.. more properly stated ought to have been a statement.
I therefore readily consider that I can certainly know that your question is a nonsense ... and vis vis your third question... knowing this is by no means an admission that God exists.
As for your double negative word game, vis vis your second question, having removed all the double negatives, your question is more plainly stated "Can you accept that there can be the presence of god"... and one would have thought the answer obvious... just as Theists believe that there is a God, Atheists do not believe so.
Frankly semantics is best left for lawyers and bigots.
2007-09-11 12:56:34 · answer #3 · answered by Icy Gazpacho 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Hey Atheists, God lovers, realize this - neither of you have any proof over the next so the best spot is to shut up and accept reality.
You're bitching about something that has nothing to do with reality, just your own little "beliefs" but you don't even know what a "belief" is. Its a figment of your mind, that's why it's different between people. 1+1=2 between ALL people because THAT'S reality, that's logic.
Hey, this is called a "paradox" and in between a paradox is "the middle,"
2007-09-11 10:58:47 · answer #4 · answered by Corvus 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God does not exist. That's what I admit.
2007-09-11 11:00:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well then no one should claim that god damn god exists in the first place, right?
2007-09-11 10:54:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋
I suppose you also believe in the all the Greek gods since it can't be proved they don't exist.
2007-09-11 11:12:12 · answer #7 · answered by OPad 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I once heard a man use a quintuple negative and I stood there awed in absolute admiration of the butchering of the English language.
2007-09-11 10:56:05 · answer #8 · answered by meissen97 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋
I'm kinda confused there...my head hurts really, really bad.
I'm lost in all the negatives...It's like a CIA spy novel about the goings on of a quintuple agent...
2007-09-11 10:55:40 · answer #9 · answered by Hatir Ba Loon 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If there is a God, he/she is even now comforting my old high school grammar teacher in heaven for her distress over the structure of your question.
2007-09-11 10:56:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
I admit nothing without the presence of my lawyer.
An atheist
2007-09-11 10:58:10 · answer #11 · answered by Grotty Bodkin is not dead!!! 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋