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Originally Posted by willravel
That's contradictory. You are labeling something complicated 'simple'. You can't have it both ways. You are saying, in so many words, that 'The simplicity of god is complicated." The heat of god is cold, the up of god is down.
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No, I'm pointing out that the term is equivocal. "Divine Simplicity" means "identical with his properties." Not "easy to understand".
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That's why I used Shiva, who I'm sure very few claim is the same deity as the Judeo-Christian god. So you're either going to tell me that Shiva is real, or that Shiva isn't perfect. The problem is, that you'll be falling into my devious trap. Anything you can say to suggest that Shiva isn't perfect, I can claim to be subjective and then you'd be agreeing that the 'perfection' of a deity is subjective.
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I'd argue that, given the description of Shiva in (what book would it be? I don't know much about Hinduism), Shiva's not perfect. For one thing, Shiva lacks omnipotence, and since it's better to have power than not to have power, that must mean Shiva's not perfect.
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So Shiva isn't the same as the Judeo-Christian god? Or they are the same? I'm afraid you've lost me in your postulated scenario.
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I can see how that would be confusing -- I think I confused myself. I don't know whether there's a sense in which I would want to say that Shiva is the Judeo-Christian God. From what I know of Shiva, there's not a lot of resemblance there, so I'd be somewhat disinclined.
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You suspect that going back in time and killing my grandfather is possible? Looking past the obvious difficulties of time travel, are you sure that time stream theory is correct? The only way around the grandfather paradox is time stream, and time stream has no proof. If time stream isn't right, then I've just imagined, in my mind, a true paradox. A paradox negates the second postulation.
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I don't follow. Note that it's possible that the laws of nature are different from what they are. That is, there is some possible world in which there are different laws of nature. I'm not familiar with all the theories, but the 'fact' that time stream has no proof isn't going to be sufficient -- if it's possible, then killing your grandfather is possible.