Something More

You believed I was done with oug. Didn't you? But no. 

Thought generates ideas to explain the unknown. Some ideas are so plausible or useful or pleasant or popular that we believe them and stop thinking. Everyone does this, even scientists who trade in their theories for "facts" (one of the names of god). However, an idea expressed in words cannot be the complete story. Beliefs are necessarily fallible and incomplete, offering us at best an Ontologically Untenable God (OUG). 

You thought I was done with OUG, but there was something more. So we return to the mystery and keep thinking because there is always something more. To be consistent, even this idea, the incompleteness of belief, must be incomplete. 

Don't disbelieve in incompleteness just yet. Consider the evidence.

Consider the many -isms lending diverse meaning to the thousand names of god: theism, pantheism, panentheism, polytheism, monotheism, henotheism, kathenotheism, monolatrism, deism, pandeism, polydeism, egotheism, eutheism, dystheism, maltheism, misotheism, humanism, naturalism, materialism, atheism, non-theism, agnosticism, alterity theism, apeirotheism, and we've just got started. Follow the links.

God is variously endowed with every imaginable attribute: caring, indifferent, remote, present, tribal, universal, archaic, eternal, unchanging, evolvimg, male, female, genderless, immanent, creative, judgmental, rational, passionate, vengeful, forgiving, powerful, demanding, jealous, angry, encouraging, loving, merciful, compassionate, active, passive, personal, impersonal, intentional, arbitrary, spiteful, gracious, selfish, self-sacrificing, existing, pre-existing, non-existing: fill up your god with whatever attributes you want; call it whatever name you want; or trust some prophet to do it for you. What you get is always an Ontologically Untenable God, a mystery that raises questions and gets you thinking. 

God is
something more
than what you think.