>God invented and made the universe — like a man making a picture or composing a tune. A painter is not a picture, and he does not die if his picture is destroyed. You may say, "He's put a lot of himself into it," but you only mean that all its beauty and interest has come out of his head. His skill is not in the picture in the same way that it is in his head, or even in his hands.but what’s the paint and canvas supposed to be?
>canvasThe universe. Space-time.>the paintMatter and Energy. The Four Elements, if you want to get poetic.
>>24716763>paintthe word>canvasthe opposite of nothing
>>24716763It’s a metaphor, not a description of a physical mechanical system. Reality isn’t fundamentally and only material, literal, dead, and rational.
>>24716773>polytheism
That’s probably the only truly terrible chapter in MC. Namedrops Hegel and Hindusim just to reveal his lack of knowledge of them, claims to stand for the entire world church with his own opinion, and then proceeds to cuss and insult his opponents?
The canvas is nothingness/non-existence. A blank page.The paint is the underlying substrate of the universe/reality or what it's all made of; energy or information, a divine substance, et cetera.
>>24716829>nothingness/non-existencenonsense category
>>24716858this. there was no beginning imo
does flux/chaos count as nothing or is it still 'something'
Why is it absurd to posit nothingness as a concept and indeed a reality? Too simple, too obvious? The nothingness underlying all that is. The nothingness on which the buddhist ascetic meditates. The nothingness before God spoke the world into being. That which is not as opposed to that which is. And which it is now fashionable to recant as if it were a heresy.
