Anachronous Rex said:My point was not that I find any one of these more or less probable. It was that if the meaning of the word "god" (or, if you insist, "deity") is so amorphous as to describe all of these, then it's not clear in what sense the word even has a meaning. And if the word is meaningless, how can we possibly discuss whether or not the thing it describes exists?
That said, my money would be on Yog-Sothoth - or something like it. Just because of the alienness of it, if there were to be something that might be called a god, I suspect that it wouldn't be anthropomorphic, nor have motives accessible to our intellects.
ok "an Outer God and is coterminous with all time and space yet is supposedly locked outside of the universe we inhabit. " "The being is said to take the form of a conglomeration of glowing spheres"
This thing we'll call a deity, I want to make it a bit less unlikely by making it more generic. So it could have no appearance at all. it could be invisible.. or it could look just very alien..
or if that description is no good for you then let's leave it as "Yog-Sothoth - or something like it. "
of course, you don't believe it exists and you see no reason to believe it iexists..
do you believe it doesn't exist?
and if so, then how would you describe the strength or lack of strength, of that belief..
are you "sure"?
low confidence?
only suspect it doesn't exist?
or could you not even say that you believe it doesn't exist?