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Originally Posted by footfootfoot
I define god as being non-definable, despite that, itself, being a definition. Essentially any attempt at defining god, limits god and therefore misses what god is.
cf:
"The Tao that can be spoken of is not the eternal Tao."
-- Lao Tzu Tao Teh Ching, Ch. 1
"The moment you open your mouth, (to speak of the Dharma) you are thousands of miles away from it."
--Zen maxim
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To me, stuff like this is the result of someone too steeped or otherwise invested in religion to give up on the idea, but realizing that any attempt to define it properly results in absurdity, they create a pseudo-virtue out of lack of knowledge.