Get To Know God (GTKG) 101

This doesn't make much sense to me. There's no other way to talk about something except by using one's "idea of it."

There's no way to get rid of "preconceptions" or
even "conceptions," "pre-" or not.

Is this ultimate reality a being or a thing?

Yes, but it's important for us to know if ultimate reality is a being or a thing.If it's a being, theism is true.If it's a thing, atheism is true.So the distinction is crucial.

By "being" I mean an entity that possesses consciousness."Things" I'm defining as entities that do not possess consciousness.It has to be one or the other.

Yes, I'm a being, you're a being, and probably certain animals are beings, like raccoons and cats. Other animals are probably things, like worms and beetles. And then there are those entities that we are fairly certain are things, such as trees, planets, and electrons.It's a way of classifying reality that is important to philosophy and religion. You could sort entities out in other ways if you wanted to. You could classify them according to color, for example, or according to size, but such schemes would not seem to be very helpful in regard to helping us form our worldviews.If we just say there's an "ultimate reality" and we don't what it is and if we try to figure out what it is, then we falsify it because we think in terms of categories, we have not made any progress. Why even bother calling It or He or whatever an "ultimate" reality? We might as well just call it reality, unless you are suggesting there are realities that are not ultimate. What would that mean? That such entities are half-real but not all the way real, but there is Something that is all-the-way real?This is why I say that these Eastern religions are steeped in vagueness. Edited by AdminPD, : Off Topic Warning

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