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   From: tanghuyen@gmail.com   
      
   On 9/4/2016 9:18 AM, Ned Ludd wrote:   
      
   >  A ninja star with a direct line to God?  Kind of   
   > like an umbilical cord?  Wouldn't that make God   
   > a woman?   
   >   
   >  You have (recently) used the masculine pronoun   
   > more than once to refer to God.  Don't you think   
   > that's a little restrictive?  Especially in our current   
   > rigorously non-chauvinist age?   
      
   To use any kind of pointer for God, pronoun   
   or whatever, is a measure of total desperation,   
   as it points to something that cannot be   
   pointed to. As far as our thought and language   
   can carry, God is beyond them all, and our line   
   to God, umbilical or whatever, up and down, is   
   well described by Leibniz, Discours de   
   Métaphysique, 9, xiv, keeping in mind said   
   restrictions:   
      
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   "The created substances depend on God who   
   maintains and even continually produces them   
   by a manner of emanation as we produce our   
   thoughts. Because God, turning so to speak   
   on all sides and in all manners the general   
   system of phenomena that he finds good to   
   produce in order to manifest his glory and   
   looking at all the faces of the world in all   
   possible manners, because there is no   
   relation that escapes his all-knowledge, the   
   result of each view of the universe, as seen   
   from a certain place, is a substance that   
   expresses the universe according to that view,   
   if God finds it good to make his thought   
   effective and to produce this substance."   
      
   Tang Huyen   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)