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[โ€“] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Why exclude humans, animals and bacteria? How about Sun? Jesus Christ? God-King Jayavarman II? A cat? Very small spirit of tiny stream? A holy stone (stone is not a human, nor animal or bacteria, a lot of stones were worshipped in various forms and meanings in history)? A tree chewed by pilgrims? Invisible Hand of the Market?

Incredibly arbitrary definition again constructed to wriggle your way from any concrete statement.

[โ€“] howrar@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don't think OP is asking about the existence of humans, or animals, or any other physical entity. If they were, you can trivially say that you exist, and therefore god exists. That's unless you want to go into ontology and question what it means to "exist", which I'm pretty sure also isn't what OP intended.

[โ€“] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I didn't asked about OP, i asked YOU to define it and you are weaseling out of it continously, you cannot even answer why did you exclude humans, animals and bacteria from your definition, while humans and animals have been historically worshipped in many cases.

[โ€“] howrar@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago

I'm trying to help OP reach an answer to their question, therefore the definitions I'm working with are the same as that of OP. What I personally believe should be categorized as a "higher being" is irrelevant because if it's different from OP's definition, it won't help them reach their desired answer.

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