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A rock too heavy to lift would be a rock inside the event horizon of a black hole, if one can stipulate that the rock still "exists".

My own attitude toward paradoxes concerning God is that understanding is a gift - awesome in its comprehension of the universe from big bang to Planck length scale interactions. Nonetheless, the understanding given to us as finite beings will be incomplete and approximate. If we avoid every other end, dementia will eventually remove what little understanding we have. I hold that rejection of the gift of understanding - e.g., the six day materialist biblical interpretation - is a grave error. Nonetheless, I hold that entities (or sets of relations) exist for which I will never have a consistent or correct rational model - and that one of those is God. Other instances are my fellow humans, and even myself. It should go without saying, ignorance does not preclude fascination with, delight in, nor love for those beings.



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