/lit/ - Literature

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Why say that it's impossible to say that God is some sort of pure-nothingness in St Psd. Dionysius? It becomes possible to say that God exists still, you just need to qualify it by saying that God's existence isn't the same as ours. It's an utterly uncreated existence, an atemporal existence, one that has no becoming in its self. You can apply predicates, just understand that while they are completely true, they aren't 'fundamentally' true. Pic related helps explain what I'm talking about.

I think you're interpreting the utterly unknowability and imperceivability of God as a complete darkness. The better way to understand it is as an absolutely blinding sun that you cannot see directly, but you could feel its warmth upon you and perhaps see indirectly with some construction of yours, but it'd be an image instead of the thing its self. You can directly experience it, you still feel its warmth. You can know its effects, it shines light on your surroundings. But your mind can't quite grasp it, so it has indirect ways of doing its best.