CrackAndScrabble
Bluelighter
Ok this is mainly about God, I just didn't wanna throw another title with the word God in it. Like god damn every other thread today seems about god.
I just wanna throw in my 2 cents on what god "is". Some people on here don't really understand the angle I'm coming from when I read the word God.
God, gods, force, or spirit whatever fucking noun you wanna use, I read them all more or less the same way. They are describing a character in their life, real or unreal needs not matter. All that matters is the text and context in which they use it. Why? Because thats how we understand nouns.
There is a difference between someone thinking god is, and god is something. Saying "God is" is simply saying god is beyond us, an a priori force, or some undeniable fact. Saying god is something is giving the impression that you can image it. Suddenly, your impression changes from something unimaginable to something that is imaginable. What happens with imagined things is your image is affected by personal psychological conditions.
The problem with the word god is it can invoke two widely different feelings depending on how its used. If you perceive it as the natural human feeling of wonder about metaphysical problems, then your using it in a very vague lyrical sense. If you perceive the word god as an actual thing that does things, then you get some imagined psycho-cultural product.
The most audacious atheist will jump on someone that uses those words, even though on many metaphysical level they might agree, because of a mutual misconception from language.
People that think God watches them and listens to them is crazy in my opinion. Whenever someone attributes some human facets to god I just don't respect their opinion.
I just wanna throw in my 2 cents on what god "is". Some people on here don't really understand the angle I'm coming from when I read the word God.
God, gods, force, or spirit whatever fucking noun you wanna use, I read them all more or less the same way. They are describing a character in their life, real or unreal needs not matter. All that matters is the text and context in which they use it. Why? Because thats how we understand nouns.
There is a difference between someone thinking god is, and god is something. Saying "God is" is simply saying god is beyond us, an a priori force, or some undeniable fact. Saying god is something is giving the impression that you can image it. Suddenly, your impression changes from something unimaginable to something that is imaginable. What happens with imagined things is your image is affected by personal psychological conditions.
The problem with the word god is it can invoke two widely different feelings depending on how its used. If you perceive it as the natural human feeling of wonder about metaphysical problems, then your using it in a very vague lyrical sense. If you perceive the word god as an actual thing that does things, then you get some imagined psycho-cultural product.
The most audacious atheist will jump on someone that uses those words, even though on many metaphysical level they might agree, because of a mutual misconception from language.
People that think God watches them and listens to them is crazy in my opinion. Whenever someone attributes some human facets to god I just don't respect their opinion.
