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18723051 No.18723051 [Reply] [Original]

>The vulgar think the God by analogy to man and so worship Him in the form of the Gods. The learned think the God by analogy to principles and so worship Him in the form of Love or Truth. But the wise think the God not at all. They know that thought, which is finite, can only do violence to the God, who is infinite. It is enough, they say, that the God thinks them.

>> No.18723642

bump

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>> No.18723690

Doesn't sound like something a smug cigar-smoking pepe would say

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>>18723690
>.. a plague whose primary symptom was certainty. How the God could be equated with the absence of hesitation was something [he] had never understood. After all, what was the God but the mystery that burdened them all? What was hesitation but a dwelling-within this mystery?

>> No.18723738

>>18723051
Muslims have the right idea. God is inconceivable, unpicturable, it cannot be reprsented by the senses and has no temporal object of comparison. It can merely only be symbolized in language, if at all.

>> No.18724187

>>18723051
Kys frog