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Old 12-12-2007, 02:53 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Re: Can You Patent God?

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Originally Posted by Bryn Mawr View Post
In many areas of life, if you have an idea then you patent it.

The more accurately you define your idea, the more protection you get but you leave the door open for someone with an adaptation of that idea to gain his own patent.

If you go with a more general description of the idea then you protect yourself from copycats but you dilute the idea.

Can you define your concept of God tightly enough to satisfy your belief but widely enough to protect your comfort zone?

Maybe not phrased well but I'm sure you get the idea.

I'm not sure that I'm going to answer your question directly, Bryn, but I'm going with what it evoked in me....

My concept of God is scattered. It's as if the more I want to know, the more I have to let go of and the less I know...no comfort zone there. And I wonder, is there any belief either? I don't know. But there's a sense of something, mysterious and unfathomable, that doesn't desert me, but which doesn't lend itself to patenting.
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