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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nifft" data-source="post: 898879" data-attributes="member: 6562">A theory with no practical implications is "merely mincing" and "an exercise in semantics". If you can test and use the results of a theory, it ain't mere anything.Some examples for the weak of imagination:THEORY: "The Gods are not true entities, they are the collective unconscious of all living beings, powered and controlled by their worshippers."IMPLICATION: You can kill a god by killing the idea of the god in its worshippers. Alternately, you can "poison" a god by changing its worshippers' mental gestalt. Perhaps you can become a god by gaining enough worshippers.THEORY: "There is a power beyond the gods from which they draw their strength. This entity is the True God."IMPLICATION: You can kill a god by convincing the Entity that it needs killin'. Alternately, you can become a god by somehow getting power from the Entity.THEORY: "The gods are mere Celestials -- powerful and immortal, but no more justified in their agendas than the Arch-Fiends they oppose."IMPLICATION: Demon and devil worshippers get to draw "Divine" power just like god worshippers. What if the entity you thought was a Good god turned out to be an Evil (but very calculating) fiend? As above, it yeilds a path to becoming a god, too.Each of these questions the nature of divinity. Not the fact of the gods' existance or power -- that's just silly -- but whether they deserve to be defined as "the creative source of man and the world who transcends yet is immanent in the world" (from Merriam-Webster's definition of theism). -- Nifft</blockquote>

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