Dinake wrote:Middle C wrote:I'm a determinist, myself, and I think even the gods are subject to determinism.
1. That applies to all of reality, that's the nature of noumena. However, God is treated as something much less comprehensible than conventional reality.
2. I said apathy was the
absence of love, not the opposite. Now a rock is apathetic, indifferent: is a rock evil?
1. OK..? God is present in all reality.
2. A rock isn't apathetic. God is present in everything. So, no.
1. Then there is no such thing as an element of reality that is "absence" of God. Are you a pantheist?
2.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apatheticBenuty wrote:Ah yes my fellow pedantrophile in action, but does anyone really care for the minor deities?
There many deities who are barely mentioned in the myths who play a significant part in home worship (as opposed to public worship).
Conscentia wrote:Chronos is not a minor deity.
Kronia is the probably the most significant Dodekatheist holldiay.
Skinia wrote:What is 'beyond good' or 'beyond evil'? You're making no sense.
A child's morality, innocent of good and evil. As Nietzsche said, for instance, "What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil."
What are you referring to as 'chaos'? Entropy? Disorder? Define your terms, please. This is all gibberish.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_%28cosmogony%29The Lotophagi wrote:Socrates would get a kick out of that particular claim.
Socrates was never convicted for any specific instance of blasphemy (you'll notice in his trial an exact instance is never cited), certainly not on grounds of denying a myth. The charge against him, "blasphemy", was intentionally nebulous, and the matter was probably a political one: at the time, Athens was using "spreading democracy" to justify its imperialism, and it was locked in a tight war with Sparta on supposedly ideological grounds. Socrates, and outspoken anti-democrat, was in Athens what an outspoken communist was in the U.S. during the Cold War.
I should also point out that saying the myths were bullshit in ancient Greece wasn't the same thing as saying the gods are bullshit. In fact, the most common charge against the myths was that they were irreverent.