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An article about Roger Federer moves from a discussion of his skills as a tennis player to a meditation on sports as "prime venue for the expression of human beauty" to musings about "whatever deity, entity, energy or random genetic flux" that could have produced both sick children and a paragon of grace like this athlete.
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After an only partly successful trial-run with personal names, including Homeric and mythological ones (391c-397b), Socrands and Hermogenes set out to work through the vocabulary of cosmology (397c-410e): thierarchychy of intelligent beings; soul and body; names of deities; astronomical entities; the elements; and the principles of temporal regularity.
Like a dork, I looked up the word "naga" in Wikipedia, and it turns out that it refers to "a deity or class of entity or being, taking the form of a very great snake specifically the King Cobra, found in Hinduism and Buddhism".
They operate by eroding your trust in your own intellect and gradually convince you to put your trust into some external entity, such as a deity, or great book, convincing you that without these you would be lost.
Will was one of the traditional terms used by medieval theologians to identify the entity intermediate between the transcendent Deity and the world or the aspect of the Deity involved in creation.
Some ancient and modern religions are referred to as atheistic, as they either have no concepts of deities or deny a creator deity, yet still revere other god-like entities.
The bad guy in the story is Infidelity (the tenor Enrico Onofri), who in sputtering recitatives and sneering arias debunks the idea that three entities can reside in a single deity.
Although the ultimate deity may be seen as the creator of all, that entity, deity or consciousness is not held responsible for the creation of evil and isn't held accountable for dealing with it.
If you get into a tight spot and want to end the discussion, remember that a deity (EVERY deity, even Scientology's deity) is a philosophical entity that can be neither proved nor disproved.
Some religions revere the snake as a representation of a deity, while other religions, such as Christianity, view the snake as an evil entity bent on bringing ill fortune, sin, and chaos to the world.
As with the physical and mental poles of actual entities, so the two "natures" are distinguishable but inseparable aspects of deity.
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