{"id":3177,"date":"2011-08-29T12:37:41","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T19:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/?p=3177"},"modified":"2021-08-29T09:51:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T16:51:26","slug":"ain-sof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2011\/08\/ain-sof","title":{"rendered":"Ain Sof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sufis express divinity as the Not Not.<sup>[<a href=\"#footnote_1_3177\" id=\"identifier_1_3177\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"&rdquo;Ism\u0101\u02bf\u012bl\u012b apophaticism for the divine essence utilized the two strategies of repetitive negation and double-negation and placed God&rsquo;s essence beyond all discursive possibilities, including negation itself. While the repetitive negation was formulated as &ldquo;God is not X; God is not not-X&rdquo;, the double negation, framed with joint denial as &ldquo;Neither (God is X), nor (God is not-X),&rdquo; was more popularly employed than the former.&rdquo; ([Book Review] Unsaying God: Negative Theology in Medieval Islam by Aydogan Kars | Reviewed by Mehmet Emin Gulecyuz 5 March 2020\">1<\/a>]<\/sup> Mekubalim express divinity as the Without End. Positivists demand language to be so sufficient for expressing truths that non-falsifiable terms like &#8216;God&#8217; are meaningless. Theological <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Non-cognitivism\">noncognitivists<\/a> find in the word &#8216;God&#8217; an abstraction so absent of reference that the word is cognitively void. Everything we think is an invention, and some things we think are so fertile that they are emergent, take a life of their own, and change us in the process.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Reposting from Facebook, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aharonium\/posts\/10150295336178718\">29 August 2011<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol class=\"footnotes\"><li id=\"footnote_1_3177\" class=\"footnote\">&#8221;Ism\u0101\u02bf\u012bl\u012b apophaticism for the divine essence utilized the two strategies of repetitive negation and double-negation and placed God\u2019s essence beyond all discursive possibilities, including negation itself. 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