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[MEGA] God v.2

B9 said:
^ What about if you were paid say $10,000 to do it tho?
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Depends how long it would take. Id do it as a JOB, ie, ill work for money.. but if it ends up being less than minimum wage at the end of it then no thanks.
 
The question is moot as no such 'rock' nor 'writing' could exist. I don't think this thought experiment experiments on the thoughts you desired.

As Sweet P correctly pointed out, Knowledge, Truth and Belief are all various epistemic models (which we continue to tinker with to this day, and remain central questions of epistemology). God generally falls into the belief category. Nothing (strictly speaking very few things) can disprove my belief. Noumena rarely disprove the supernouminal.
 
"I see god as the totality of existence; the entire universe, and the underlying algorithm that unites it as one system. I am a part of god and so are you. At least that's what I believe."

+1 Roger&Me

I dont see god as a being or an idea. God is the essence of everything, the very fact that this universe (and whatever is beyond it) is "here." God is light, energy, every particle that makes up this being i call me, and that being i call you. God is love and sadness, fear and hate.

Its fascinating and a bit sad that only humans have this need to classify god as "something tangable."

"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
-einstein
 
I think it's an idea. Like unicorns.

I also think it's a being. A non-existant being.
 
I got a halo 'round my head

/navarone/ said:
God is energy, god is strenght, god is justice, god is virtue, god is wisdom, god is love
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God is freedom
God is truth
God is power
God is proof
God is fashion
God is fame
God gives meaning
God gives pain

:)

We are also all of these.
 
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In Christianity (not that i am a christian..confirmed catholic but i dont believe in the shit.) it would seem god is a person, well entities, but it seems in most religions the concept of god is both that of an idea (as a creator) and a person (a messiah, in terms of jews saying he is coming, same with muslims and Jesus for christians, etc.)
 
God is an idea. A really bad idea. An unnecessary idea.

It's not even that the idea of god isn't a sufficient explanation; it doesn't even pass as an explanation. It explains nothing. If you use the idea to explain where we came from because "we had to come from somewhere", this doesn't answer the question so much as transfer the question onto that imaginary friend called god himself: after all, if "we had to come from somewhere", should not the same logic be applied to god? And the argument regarding how our complexity or design implies a creator like a coffee-maker implies the existence of a coffee-maker-maker: again, would not the same logic apply to the coffee-maker-maker? If we need a god, doesn't god need a god, and that god's god need a god, and...

And maybe it has to do with faith. Blind certitude. The absence of questioning. Equating critical thinking as with blasphemy. How ridiculous.

God is an idea. A bad idea. We are a social species, and we always look for our alpha male or female. We can't break ties with mommy or daddy so we imagine a cosmic parental figure to keep all the shit in life in line and explain things. We have the drive to find our alpha for the species, so cook up this imaginary friend, this imaginary father-figure, and we call this Uber-Alpha by the name of "god".

We need to grow up. Its an idea so astronomically bad it has stunted the intellectual evolution of our species.
 
rewiiired said:
God is an idea. A really bad idea. An unnecessary idea.
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Are you just speaking for yourself? I ask because I saw on your profile that you're into the occult. In my understanding of the Western Occult tradition, God is indeed an idea, namely, a person's anthropomorphization of Ultimate Being, which is formless and ineffable. But every occultist I've ever spoken to, even is he doesn't himself make use of this mental exercise or find it spiritually useful, is cool with the fact that other people do find it a useful for their purposes.
 
If I was asked this, I would hesitate to answer but if I really had to... i'd say god has to be everything. You can use a few different terms to mean the same all encompassing godhead.

I've been saying cosmos. or simply what "is"
 
God is not a concept, god is not a form, god is not restricted to any label or word or shape or size or taste, touch, smell, or sound, god is beyond good and evil, transcends everything yet is everything and contained within everything.

Everything appears within the boundlessness of God, dharmakaya, Brahman, Supreme being, The Tao or The way, or Allah, or God consciousness or Krishna Consciousness there are infinite symbols pointing towards that which is beyond mere conventions and words. It is the experience-less experience, immanent and transcendent, that which in everything appears.

Unchanging, infinite reality which is the Divine Ground of all matter, energy, time, space, being, and everything beyond in this Universe.

In Buddhist terms:

unmanifested, inconceivable aspect of a Buddha out of which Buddhas and indeed all phenomena arise and to which they return after their dissolution.

The unmanifest absolute in which all phenomenon appear, dance and dissolve back into the great expanse, or sky-like-mind.

It is also called love, pure, compassionate, all pervading like space, possesses clarity, and is self-illuminating.

God is Suchness.

No-thing
 
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God is an idea that has outlived it's usefulness. The world and the universe become much, much more interesting once you take any idea of god out of them. Cast away the ecclesiastical crutches and be free.
 
theseeker said:
God is an idea that has outlived it's usefulness. The world and the universe become much, much more interesting once you take any idea of god out of them. Cast away the ecclesiastical crutches and be free.
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God is not an entity, it's a concept.

We all think we know out own language, but do we really?
every word has avery profound and intricated meaning.
once u understand that, your one step above.
 
To me, God is an idea. It is the personification of supreme control, knowledge, and benevolence. It is an ideal state that religious humans aspire to, but that by definition is impossible to achieve. It is also the deification of human attempts to dominate others, the endless pursuit of control over the environment, and the ego.

What a lot of people here think of as God - that is, everything in the universe - is not something that I would call "a being". That implies that it exists outside of and apart from everything. To me, this is instead the connection that everything in the universe feels to everything else. In particular, the connection all Earthly life feels to all other Earthly life, because we are all a tiny branch of one big tree, part of the collective lifeforce of our planet. It is being itself, love, the spiritual equivalent of gravity.

I fall somewhere between an agnostic and an animist. I don't think the question of whether there is a God or not is relevant. I believe in respecting all forms of life without playing favorites, because in the grand scheme of existence we all follow the same laws. I believe in the power of being, not the power of a being.
 
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