Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Deist Check Off List
    Unavailable
    Deist Check Off List
    Unavailable
    Deist Check Off List
    Ebook37 pages41 minutes

    Deist Check Off List

    By Edward E. Rochon

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    A brief preface describes the scope of the work. We note the difference between the physical world and the metaphysical world. I go on to mathematical forms to show that the finite and infinite coexist, that the infinite conforms to deist notions. It goes on to show that the evidence supports what most men have accepted throughout history, that consciousness is immaterial and in conformance with the evidence, both empirical and logical. Next, note that an immaterial mind could be seen as both within and without the body, conforming to solipsism in outward form while still affirming the material world. I even bring Jean-Paul Sartre to bear to suggest that consciousness can logically be seen to exist outside the brain by common perception and reasonable assertions. I forcefully advance the evidence that ideas must be independent of the things they describe and so more evidence of immateriality and so of God. We attack David Hume, Bishop Berkeley and John Locke in several ways. I go on to show that scepticism is a foolish path as opposed to faith. A man of faith is less prone to delusion, irrational motivations than a sceptic, that in fact scepticism is not founded on logic, or moral courage, but only on stupidity and cowardice. We note that Christianity cannot be shown to justify defeatism, acceptance of evil, poverty or superstitious opinions in this world. In answer to atheist charges that faith is motivated by wishful thinking, ignorance and the like, I point out the many reasons why atheism can be comforting to many people for otherwise irrational or at any rate unprovable reasons. Using other supports, we assert there are three basic linguistic modes. In addition to the literal and metaphorical, we posit a metaphysical mode. This last mode is forced to use concrete imagery from nature due to the indefinable nature of the immaterial. The metaphor uses other concrete images to poetically describe other concrete things and events, while the writer would still be able to use literal prose. But metaphysical language has no such option. The concrete must be used of necessity to describe what is indefinable. The speaker must rely on the human capacity to grasp the indefinable. It is observed that polytheism helps lay a middle ground in dealing with the problem of evil as in the Book of Job. Gods are more like men and easier to comprehend and dicker with. A transcendent God makes the suffering of Job harder to understand. Atheism is hard to support by reason, so polytheism has often been a middle course. The next part deals with the accusation that Deism promotes evil. I note the recent atheist regimes have committed horrendous crime under the pretext of their ideologies in France, Russia, China, North Korea, and Cambodia. I note that lust is the cause of evil that deludes the mind to justify it, so am sceptical of the notion that belief in God is necessary to directly promote ethical behavior. My view is that affirmation of Deism is necessary to promote truth in life, science and art, and so indirectly promoting good through that avenue. My work ends with a brief summary of my main points. Several areas covered by me previously in support of Deism are omitted other than by brief mention.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEdward E. Rochon
    Release dateSep 1, 2016
    ISBN9781370934461
    Unavailable
    Deist Check Off List
    Author

    Edward E. Rochon

    I write for my health and the health of the world. Often the cure rivals the disease in grief and aches. My writing career started at twelve when I attempted to write a sequel to Huckleberry Finn but never finished it. My writings have included poetry, plays, a novel, non-fiction and writing newsletters for here and there. Recently, I am dabbling into short stories. Apart from newsletters, nothing has been published in print. I bought an audio recording of one of my poems but threw it away in disgust due to an inappropriate reading by the narrator. 'Contra Pantheism...' was my first eBook. About a hundred eBooks have been published since including some books of verse, and my essays collected into five volumes, and one volume of collected poems. A few other types of literature are on my list of published works. My essays deal with fundamental questions of philosophy as well as natural philosophy (science.) On the whole, my works are as far above the writings of Plato and Aristotle as the material power of the United States is over that of Ancient Greece. I once asked myself if I had ever written anything memorable, but couldn't remember exactly what I had written. I started to check my manuscripts but stopped as it seemed the answer to the question was obvious. Gore Vidal mentioned in one of his memoirs that writers tend to forget what they write and are a bad source to ask about their works. Gore knew a lot of writers. I have not and may have been a bit hard on myself. Apart from self-improvement and maybe making a few bucks, my main goal is to bring about a golden age for mankind. Being a man, this sounds appealing. It is pointless to desist and all small measures are worth the effort. Albert Camus thought suicide the only serious philosophical question. He was a fool and died young. Suicide is a waste of time. The most important functional question is: How do I get what I want? The one question that trumps this is the ultimate question of intent: What should I want? As Goethe pointed out: Be careful what you wish for in your youth, you might get it in middle age.

    Related to Deist Check Off List

    Related ebooks

    Philosophy For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Deepest Uncertainty

      May 16, 2019

      Georg Cantor died in 1918 in a sanatorium in Halle, Germany. A pre-eminent mathematician, he had laid the foundation for the theory of infinite numbers in the 1870s. At the time, his ideas received hostile opposition from prominent mathematicians in

      4 min read

    • Article

      The Deepest Uncertainty: When a hypothesis is neither true nor false.

      Jun 6, 2013

      Georg Cantor died in 1918 in a sanatorium in Halle, Germany. A pre-eminent mathematician, he had laid the foundation for the theory of infinite numbers in the 1870s. At the time, his ideas received hostile opposition from prominent mathematicians in

      4 min read

    • Article

      Infinity Comes In Several Versions

      Nov 17, 2021

      In everyday life, the saying about the whole being more than the sum of its parts often applies, but in maths, it is different. A paradox becomes clear when you look at numbers. Numbers that can represent a distance along a line are known as real num

      1 min read

    • Article

      The Uncertainty Principle

      Mar 2, 2020

      The Uncertainty Principle
      18 min read

    • Article

      Angst And The Empty Set

      Sep 19, 2019

      Suppose you open your handbag one day expecting to find your wallet there, but don’t. Do you literally see the absence of your wallet in your handbag? If you do, it means something important: Absences have a positive presence in your perception that

      4 min read

    • Article

      Angst and the Empty Set: We Can Experience Nothingness, but Does It Actually Exist?: We can experience nothingness, but does it actually exist?

      Aug 28, 2014

      Suppose you open your handbag one day expecting to find your wallet there, but don’t. Do you literally see the absence of your wallet in your handbag? If you do, it means something important: Absences have a positive presence in your perception that

      4 min read

    • Article

      Blossom Theory

      Dec 2, 2020

      Blossom Theory
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Trouble with Theories of Everything: There is no known physics theory that is true at every scale—there may never be.

      Oct 1, 2015

      Whenever you say anything about your daily life, a scale is implied. Try it out. “I’m too busy” only works for an assumed time scale: today, for example, or this week. Not this century or this nanosecond. “Taxes are onerous” only makes sense for a ce

      8 min read

    • Article

      The String Theory Multiverse

      Jul 27, 2022

      The String Theory Multiverse
      1 min read

    • Article

      The Math That Takes Newton Into the Quantum World

      Feb 28, 2019

      In my 50s, too old to become a real expert, I have finally fallen in love with algebraic geometry. As the name suggests, this is the study of geometry using algebra. Around 1637, René Descartes laid the groundwork for this subject by taking a plane,

      9 min read

    • Article

      The Universe Began With a Big Melt, Not a Big Bang

      Oct 5, 2017

      There are two tantalizing mysteries about our universe, one dealing with its final fate and the other with its beginning, that have intrigued cosmologists for decades. The community has always believed these to be independent problems—but what if the

      10 min read

    • Article

      Chaos Makes the Multiverse Unnecessary

      Nov 29, 2018

      Scientists look around the universe and see amazing structure. There are objects and processes of fantastic complexity. Every action in our universe follows exact laws of nature that are perfectly expressed in a mathematical language. These laws of n

      17 min read

    • Article

      Chaos Makes the Multiverse Unnecessary

      Nov 29, 2018

      Scientists look around the universe and see amazing structure. There are objects and processes of fantastic complexity. Every action in our universe follows exact laws of nature that are perfectly expressed in a mathematical language. These laws of n

      17 min read

    • Article

      Let’s Rethink Space: Does space exist without objects, or is it made by them?

      Jan 14, 2016

      Space is brutally egalitarian. When you become separated from your lover, the two of you retain no tighter a physical connection than do two lumps of coal. In this way, space serves as the organizing principle of the natural world—the glue that binds

      26 min read

    • Article

      Chaos Makes the Multiverse Unnecessary

      Jun 22, 2017

      Scientists look around the universe and see amazing structure. There are objects and processes of fantastic complexity. Every action in our universe follows exact laws of nature that are perfectly expressed in a mathematical language. These laws of n

      17 min read

    • Article

      Infinite Energy

      Apr 19, 2021

      Infinite Energy
      11 min read

    • Article

      Life Is a Braid in Spacetime: How to see yourself in a world where only math is real.

      Oct 1, 2015

      Excuse me, but what’s the time?” I’m guessing that you, like me, are guilty of having asked this question, as if it were obvious that there is such a thing as the time. Yet you’ve probably never approached a stranger and asked “Excuse me, but what’s

      7 min read

    • Article

      When Words Are Not Enough

      Sep 1, 2021

      When Words Are Not Enough
      12 min read

    Reviews for Deist Check Off List

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words