User:Silence/Gods


 * A - Active. Intervenes in the world after its origin.
 * A¹ - Regularly answers prayers or spells.
 * A² - Active during some past period of human history, but not presently.
 * A³ - Active during some future time, but not presently.


 * B - Baseless. Uncaused. Lacking any extrinsic, sufficient cause.
 * B¹ - Ontologically primary. Basic. Exists in some sense 'before' or 'more basically than' all other things.
 * B² - Inexplicable. Absurd. Without explanatory ontological ground.
 * B³ - Causa sui, self-generating.
 * B⁴ - Necessary. Exists in every possible world. Can't not exist.
 * B⁵ - Exists by definition. Knowable analytically.
 * B⁶ - Knowable a priori or intuitively, without appeal to conceptual analysis.


 * C - Cause of the world.
 * C¹ - Immediate cause of everything.
 * C² - Sustainer of everything. Maintains every entity in a continuous or repetitious creative act.
 * C³ - Immediate ground of everything. Universal substance. Exists as an ontologically intimate substrate for all things.
 * C⁴ - Creator of our space-time continuum / universe.
 * C⁵ - Fine Tuner of the universe's physical constants.
 * C⁶ - Directly intervened to create our planet.


 * D - Designer of life for some purpose.
 * D¹ - Originated life.
 * D² - Formed living things from own body, asexually.
 * D³ - Formed living things through sexual reproduction of some sort.
 * D⁴ - Guided the evolution of life.
 * D⁵ - Intervened to create humans from scratch.
 * D⁶ - Intervened to guide the evolution of humans from non-human animals.


 * E - Elemental. Identical with some particular mundane phenomenon.
 * E - Identical with some particular natural phenomenon.
 * E - Identical with some particular social or psychological phenomenon.
 * E - Identical with most phenomena.
 * E - Pantheistic. Identical with all phenomena.
 * E - Identical with Being as such, but not with some negative element of reality, non-being.
 * E - Strongly associated with or in dominion over some particular natural phenomenon.
 * E - Strongly associated with or in dominion over some particular social or psychological phenomenon.


 * F - Flawless. Devoid of blemish or error.
 * F¹ - Maximally great. Devoid of shortcoming or deficiency.


 * G - Omnibenevolent. Perfectly good.
 * G - Generally good.
 * G - Incapable of moral or immoral action.
 * G - Impossible to legitimately judge as good.
 * G - Impossible to legitimately judge as bad or evil.


 * G - Arbitrary creator of normativity.
 * G - Non-arbitrary creator of normativity.
 * G - Limited or restricted in conduct by the scope of morality. 'Subject to' what is right.
 * G - Identical with some primordial principle of Goodness.
 * G - Identical with the moral law, or with all binding rules and norms.
 * G - Identical with the sum of all good experiences.
 * G - Identical with the sum of all good deeds.
 * G - Identical with the sum of all good things.


 * G - Just. Generally gives people what they deserve.
 * G - All-just. Always gives people exactly what they deserve.
 * G - Merciful. Generally treats people more leniently than they deserve.
 * G - All-merciful. Treats people perfectly leniently in all cases.
 * G - Wrathful. Generally treats people more harshly than they deserve.
 * G - All-wrathful. Treats people perfectly harshly in all cases.


 * H - Humanlike. Anthropic. Bearing some important resemblance to humans, who are 'in its image.'
 * H¹ - A person.
 * H² - Anthropomorphic. Human-shaped. Generally human in form.
 * H³ - Anthropoprosopic. Has a human head and face.
 * H - Male. Bears something akin to the male primary sex characteristics.
 * H - Masculine. Has a stereotypically male gender or other attributes.
 * H - Female. Bears something akin to the female primary sex characteristics.
 * H - Feminine. Has a stereotypically female gender or other attributes.


 * I


 * J - Jealous. Demands worship.
 * J¹ - Demands exclusive worship. Henotheistic.
 * J - Proud. Performs wonders in order to demonstrate power and majesty to others.


 * K - Dominant. Ruling. Supreme. Authoritative.
 * K¹ - Has absolute normative authority over human affairs.
 * K² - In command of other supermundane agents.
 * K³ - Lacks any entities of the same class or type. [i]Sui generis[/i]. Unique.
 * K⁴ - Lacks any adversary or competitor of comparable power.
 * K⁵ - Lacks any supermundane adversary.


 * L - Libertarian. Respectful of others' Free Will.
 * L¹ - Can't foresee free human acts.
 * L² - Doesn't actively cause free human acts.


 * M - Material. Corporeal. Physical. Embodied. Existing in space.
 * M - Composed entirely of spatial stuff.
 * M - Consisting in or identical with all physical entities.
 * M - Embodied at some time, but not presently.


 * N - Omnipresent. Existing everywhere in the universe.
 * N¹ - Immanent. Located in at least one place in the universe.
 * N² - Dislocated. Located in multiple non-contiguous regions of space.


 * O - Omnitemporal. Existing at all times.
 * O¹ - Temporal. Existing within time for at least one moment.
 * O - Undying. Immortal. Indestructible. Never ceasing to exist once it begins to exist.
 * O - Persisting within time for all time subsequent to the first moment it exists.
 * O - Immutable. Unchanging. Undergoing no modification.
 * O - Intrinsically immutable. Undergoing no modification in some essential core.
 * O - Flashing. Located in multiple non-contiguous regions of time.
 * V¹ - Omnitemporal. Existing for the whole of time.
 * V² - Atemporal. Existing outside of time.
 * V³ - Unchanging. Immutable. Constant.


 * P - Omnipotent. Able to do anything possible.
 * P¹ - Able to do at least one thing.
 * P² - Significantly more powerful than any human.
 * P³ - Supremely powerful. The most powerful being.
 * P⁴ - Dialethically powerful. Able to do contradictory things.


 * Q - Conscious. Aware. Having a mind of its own.
 * Q - Composed entirely of mind.
 * Q - Consisting in or identical with all minds.
 * Q - Capable of concrete, sensory thought.
 * Q - Capable of abstract, conceptual thought.


 * R - Rational. Does everything for a reason.
 * R - Apathetic. Has no felt values, interests, cares, or concerns.
 * R - Has a completely specified goal for the universe in mind.
 * R - Has a partly specified goal for the universe in mind.
 * R - Has a range of preferences between different possible states of the world that are not ideal.


 * S - Omniscient. All-knowing. Recognizing the truth of every true proposition.
 * S¹ - Knows at least one thing.
 * S² - Knows significantly more things than any human could.
 * S³ - Supremely knowledgeable. The most knowledgeable being.
 * S³ - Knows all present physical states.
 * S⁴ - Knows all present mental states.
 * S⁵ - Knows all future mental states.
 * S⁶ - Consists in or commingles with all minds.
 * S⁷ - Deterministic precognition. Knows with certainty and determinacy all future states of this world.
 * S⁸ - Many-Worlds precognition. Knows with certainty all future timelines the world will split into.
 * S⁹ - Probabilistic precognition. For some events, knows the range of possible outcomes and their epistemic or (given indeterminism) ontological probabilities, but not which outcome will obtain.


 * T - Transcendent. Existing outside of the universe.


 * U - Unknowable. Ineffable. Incomprehensible to humans in some respect.
 * U¹ - Incomprehensible to humans in all respects.


 * V - Veiled. Secretive. In hiding. Choosing or wishing to be unknown to humans.


 * W - Unique. Sui generis. One-of-a-kind. Unaccompanied by entities of the same kind or class.


 * X - Simple. Lacking parts. Indivisible.


 * Y - Aspectual. Containing or manifesting as multiple distinct entities.
 * Y - Exhibiting a hierarchy of more derivatively real vs. more ultimately real aspects.
 * Y - Truly describable in terms of multiple distinct aspects.
 * Y - Irreducibly possessing multiple incompatible aspects.
 * Y - Truly describable in terms of multiple incompatible aspects.


 * Z - Reported. Accurately described in a holy text.