Imagine the kind of intellectual corruption one must have to deny the reality of change or of becoming.
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Did I take the wrong turn and end up in Pantheistwood again?
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Hey am I wrong or not? Name calling isn't gonna do much, no?
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I mean you just asked, but I do think it's a wrongly framed question. Yhere are things which are neither God, nor parts of God. In other words, things exist, yes.
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But are there things which are wholly apart from God?
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Not in that they can exist without Him, but for a thing to be a thing in itself, it has to be, in a sense, wholly apart from God. The problem w/ this, much like that w/ Parmenides, is ambiguity. But we stand on the shoulders of giants he couldn't count on, so we gotta be precise.
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But is it not so that if a thing is wholly dependent on God for its existence, it must be in some way be connected to God, and to be connected is to not be wholly apart, no?
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It is true that things that are have a likeness to God simply by the fact they are and are caused to be by God but things which are not God really are caused *to be*.
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It does seem that way, but the being of the things is conditioned and contingent, no?
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