Showing posts with label Anselm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anselm. Show all posts

Sunday, July 22, 2007

The Greatest Being

"Now we believe that [the Lord] is something than which nothing greater can be imagined." - Anselm. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anselm%27s_argument#Anselm.27s_argument

I ponder Anselm's Ontological Argument, as I do sometimes. Can I imagine the Greatest Being?

I can. I can imagine an omnipotent being defying all rational contradictions and paradoxes; one that can create a burrito so spicy that even It cannot consume it.

But wait! There is an even Greater Being than the Greatest Being of my imagination! For there is the one that created it.

Me.

I am greater than the Greatest Being I can imagine. I created it, after all. But I am an illusion, aren't I? Born of the distinction of "I" and "not I"?

So "I" am the Greatest Being I can imagine. (Other than, of course, the I that created "I.")