vol 7: Notes
2008
Sunday 7 July
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[Sunday 6 July 2008 - Saturday 12 July 2008]
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Sunday 6 July 2008
Monday 7 July 2008
[page 66]
Tuesday 8 July 2008
[page 67]
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God is a very old idea. The key feature of god is the power and desire to make the world and to make it work. A reasonable question to ask such a model is who makes God? Many might answer that God is eternal, without birth or death and so the question is rendered meaningless. An alternative answer is that God makes itself.
We are soon to receive a visit from a world leader in the eternal God camp, the absolute monarch of the Vatican state, a religious leader with some billion followers.
One of the first recorded expressions of the eternal God theory was committed to writing about two thousand five hundred years ago by Parmenides. We have a fragment of a poem describing a journey from darkness to light . . . Parmenides, Parmenides-Wikipedia
Parmenides view lies at the heart of Catholic theology, that is the science of theology seen through Catholic eyes. The alternative to Parmenides eternal reality was expressed by Heraclitus of Ephesus about the same time. Heracleitus of Ephesus, Heraclitus - Wikipedia
This opposition may seem to be merely philosophical, but it has practical consequences. Because it seems illogical to identify an eternal god with our moving world, the eternal model of God requires that God and the world be distinct. It is upon this distinction that the whole business plan of the Roman Catholic Church is based. It claims a monopoly on communication
[page 68]
between the human race and God. God which is by nature common property has been made the property of the Church.
Wednesday 9 July 2008
Thursday 10 July 2008
All I am saying is that I think the Pope is on the wrong track. I think we shoud listen very carefully to what he says and test it against our own experience of the Universe.
Friday 11 July 2008
Saturday 12 July 2008
Links
| Heracleitus of Ephesus Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics 'Greek philosopher, born in Ephesus, thought of the universe as a place of ceaseless change (`becoming'), going so far as to suggest that the Sun was created anew each day. He believed the fundamental element was fire, because it was always changing, and that the Sun and Moon were bowls of fire. So too were stars, at great distances.' back |
| Heraclitus - Wikipedia Heraclitus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 'Heraclitus of Ephesus (ca. 535-475 BC) was a pre-Socratic Ionian philosopher, a native of Ephesus on the coast of Asia Minor. Heraclitus is known for his doctrine of change being central to the universe, and that the Logos is the fundamental order of all.' back |
| Parmenides Pdf file of Greek text and English translation of extant fragments. back |
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