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What is Your Idea of God?

To me, "God" is a maximally great being. And as far as we know, a maximally great being is someone like Albert Einstein, who is dead. Therefore, as far as I can tell, God is probably dead.
 
God in my opinion is the deep order and the subtle equilibrium without which our universe could not exist. God is not anthropomorphised in my mind and can only be experienced indirectly through observation and study of the cosmos around us from the microcosm to the macrocosm. God is the majestic marriage of order and disorder producing structure and life out of entropy through the mystery of chaos. God will be the emerging consciousness of the universe through life. God created us so that by studying the cosmos we can indirectly create the God that will be. We are the crude neurons of the slowly forming cosmic brain which will one day spark into universal consiousness and on that day the phrase "fiat lux" will have occurred for real. We are the primitive neurons of the inchoate God to be and the searchers of the God that is and the creators of the God that was. Will-is-was or was-is-will; the holy trinity of the three faces of God.

Cheers and be well.
Evilroddy.
 
devildavid said:
It plays a major role in what sets us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom. Intelligence does not mean pure logic. All animals have emotions. Human beings seem best able to intelligently examine their emotions. That is really what sets us apart.
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I don’t think we are disagreeing here. I think we agree that of all animals, intelligence is most developed in humans. But even in humans, it is often not the most important component of their decision making.

Haven’t you heard of someone who is in love, or at least in lust, that “he is thinking with his d—k”?
 
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ataraxia said:
I don’t think we are disagreeing here. I think we agree that of all animals, intelligence is most developed in humans. But even in humans, it is often not the most important component of their decision making.

Haven’t you heard of someone who is in love, or at least in lust, that “he is thinking with his d—k”?
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It is the most important component that sets us apart in the animal kingdom. Other animals feel emotions quite like ours.
 
grip said:
You're correct, the supreme being is not made of fake energy.

I don't think one can give a tangible form to energy. As Feynman once said - "It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy is...It is an abstract thing in that it does not tell us the mechanism or the reasons for the various formulas." - "The Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol I."

Is it possible to give pure energy a tangible type of substance? - Quora
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Intangible means it does not exist. It is fake.
 
calamity said:
My take is pretty clear. If there is a god, it's something no one has figured out yet. It isn't described in any book or preached about by any man. It might live in our heads. Or, it might not. It probably didn't create the universe, but it might be something that binds it. Maybe life itself is a god. Maybe it is not.

I do know this, however. My god is king, at least of my hill. And, if we really think about it, that is sort of what a god is. Right? It's like a personal thing. After all, how else could we justify this God helping us with a trivial matter while a four year old down the street dies of brain cancer?
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Predominate emotional reflection: affirmation/empowerment, thus seeing God as permitting, self as feasible.

Elvira said:
...the promise of new world of God’s making, where He “will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be any more. The former things have passed away"...God promises that “he is making wars to cease to the extremity of the earth,” and there will be an “abundance of peace until the moon is no more"...meaning forever...1 John 2:17; Revelation 21:4; Psalm 46:9; 72:7....
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Predominate emotional reflection: craving/enslavement, thus seeing God as denying, self as disappointing.

grip said:
My best take on it. The supreme being's conscious essence (spirit) is pure energy that's infinite and intangible. We're limited extensions of this unlimited being, while we live in these temporal forms.

The brain is like hardware and the mind (conscious energy) is the software that runs on it. We all become unique, individual versions (souls) of god as we mature and develop. Once we pass, we become one with the supreme being in unlimited form as angels.
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Predominate emotional reflection: affirmation/empowerment, thus seeing God as permitting, self as feasible.

TypicalRussian said:
the christian idea
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Predominate emotional reflection: craving/enslavement, thus seeing God as denying, self as disappointing.

devildavid said:
There is no god. The idea of god is mainly humanity thinking it is somehow the most important life form ever. So it creates a god based on itself to feel important. God is merely a concept made up by mortal beings to reject their mortality. God is humanity's weak rebuttal to death.
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Predominate emotional reflection: anger/aggression, thus seeing God as vengeful, self as antagonistic.

Tlrmln said:
To me, "God" is a maximally great being. And as far as we know, a maximally great being is someone like Albert Einstein, who is dead. Therefore, as far as I can tell, God is probably dead.
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Predominate emotional reflection: anger/aggression, thus seeing God as vengeful, self as antagonistic.

Evilroddy said:
God in my opinion is the deep order and the subtle equilibrium without which our universe could not exist. God is not anthropomorphised in my mind and can only be experienced indirectly through observation and study of the cosmos around us from the microcosm to the macrocosm. God is the majestic marriage of order and disorder producing structure and life out of entropy through the mystery of chaos. God will be the emerging consciousness of the universe through life...
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Predominate emotional reflection: optimism/intentionality, thus seeing God as Inspiring, self as hopeful.

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God, is a concept first, by which we express the maximal cause of all experience. (Predominate emotional reflection: understanding/abstraction, thus seeing God as wise, self as meaningful.) Of course, experiencing Truth makes such abstract concepts meaningless….

So to those, who see God as denying, within you is 'breath of life' to which you can surrender all doubt. "Thy Will be done"
To those, who see God as vengeful, your anger may sustain your life, but only by letting it go, may you see the world as it truly is…
To those, who see God as permitting, go strait for the narrow path shall show you what joy truly means.
Lastly, to the one who spoke of God as Inspiring, thank you. :)
 
Conaeolos said:
Predominate emotional reflection: affirmation/empowerment, thus seeing God as permitting, self as feasible.


Predominate emotional reflection: craving/enslavement, thus seeing God as denying, self as disappointing.


Predominate emotional reflection: affirmation/empowerment, thus seeing God as permitting, self as feasible.


Predominate emotional reflection: craving/enslavement, thus seeing God as denying, self as disappointing.


Predominate emotional reflection: anger/aggression, thus seeing God as vengeful, self as antagonistic.


Predominate emotional reflection: anger/aggression, thus seeing God as vengeful, self as antagonistic.


Predominate emotional reflection: optimism/intentionality, thus seeing God as Inspiring, self as hopeful.

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God, is a concept first, by which we express the maximal cause of all experience. (Predominate emotional reflection: understanding/abstraction, thus seeing God as wise, self as meaningful.) Of course, experiencing Truth makes such abstract concepts meaningless….

So to those, who see God as denying, within you is 'breath of life' to which you can surrender all doubt. "Thy Will be done"
To those, who see God as vengeful, your anger may sustain your life, but only by letting it go, may you see the world as it truly is…
To those, who see God as permitting, go strait for the narrow path shall show you what joy truly means.
Lastly, to the one who spoke of God as Inspiring, thank you. :)
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What a load!
 
devildavid said:
Intangible means it does not exist. It is fake.
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Again, you fail to comprehend the 'word's' meaning.

adjective
adjective: intangible

unable to be touched or grasped; not having physical presence.
"my companions do not care about cyberspace or anything else so intangible"
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noun
noun: intangible; plural noun: intangibles

an intangible thing.
"intangibles like self-confidence and responsibility"
 
grip said:
Again, you fail to comprehend the 'word's' meaning.

adjective
adjective: intangible

unable to be touched or grasped; not having physical presence.
"my companions do not care about cyberspace or anything else so intangible"
h
Similar:
impalpable


noun
noun: intangible; plural noun: intangibles

an intangible thing.
"intangibles like self-confidence and responsibility"
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Intangible means not real, does not exist. You cannot have intangible energy if that energy exists. Do you know what the word energy means?
 
devildavid said:
Intangible means not real, does not exist. You cannot have intangible energy if that energy exists. Do you know what the word energy means?
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I don't think one can give a tangible form to energy. As Feynman once said - "It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy is...It is an abstract thing in that it does not tell us the mechanism or the reasons for the various formulas." - "The Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol I."

Is it possible to give pure energy a tangible type of substance? - Quora
 
devildavid said:
What a load!
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You do not agree, that your feelings on the concept of God are predominately anger/aggression? That such an emotional lens will paint a vengeful picture? Or that the reaction to such a picture would be to act antagonistically?
 
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God is love. Not a deity.
 
devildavid said:
Intangible means it does not exist. It is fake.
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Like Trump you unashamedly lie repeatedly, the truth is irrelevant to you.

The word "intangible" does mean "fake", you are a liar.
 
grip said:
I don't think one can give a tangible form to energy. As Feynman once said - "It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy is...It is an abstract thing in that it does not tell us the mechanism or the reasons for the various formulas." - "The Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol I."

Is it possible to give pure energy a tangible type of substance? - Quora
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You're wasting your breath. David lies regularly in his posts, citing Feynman won't help here either, like Trump, David simply dismisses any facts that he doesn't like, he'll make up blunt one liner assertions yet never rationally argue his case.
 
Sherlock Holmes said:
You're wasting your breath. David lies regularly in his posts, citing Feynman won't help here either, like Trump, David simply dismisses any facts that he doesn't like, he'll make up blunt one liner assertions yet never rationally argue his case.
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Oh, I know it's a waste. He likes to, continually, bash anything I say about the abstract as being nonexistent, though he always loses the argument. :lol:
 
grip said:
I don't think one can give a tangible form to energy. As Feynman once said - "It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy is...It is an abstract thing in that it does not tell us the mechanism or the reasons for the various formulas." - "The Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol I."

Is it possible to give pure energy a tangible type of substance? - Quora
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Feynman did not say that energy was not physical or did not exist physically.
 
Conaeolos said:
You do not agree, that your feelings on the concept of God are predominately anger/aggression? That such an emotional lens will paint a vengeful picture? Or that the reaction to such a picture would be to act antagonistically?
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No, my knowledge that god is a make believe concept is arrived at logically. Nothing to do with anger or emotion. But I do have little patience with people who make up stuff and claim that they know it. So it often is with god believers.
 
grip said:
Oh, I know it's a waste. He likes to, continually, bash anything I say about the abstract as being nonexistent, though he always loses the argument. :lol:
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I don't take anything seriously that is obviously a made up belief based on nothing.
 
Conaeolos said:
Predominate emotional reflection: affirmation/empowerment, thus seeing God as permitting, self as feasible.


Predominate emotional reflection: craving/enslavement, thus seeing God as denying, self as disappointing.


Predominate emotional reflection: affirmation/empowerment, thus seeing God as permitting, self as feasible.


Predominate emotional reflection: craving/enslavement, thus seeing God as denying, self as disappointing.


Predominate emotional reflection: anger/aggression, thus seeing God as vengeful, self as antagonistic.


Predominate emotional reflection: anger/aggression, thus seeing God as vengeful, self as antagonistic.


Predominate emotional reflection: optimism/intentionality, thus seeing God as Inspiring, self as hopeful.

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God, is a concept first, by which we express the maximal cause of all experience. (Predominate emotional reflection: understanding/abstraction, thus seeing God as wise, self as meaningful.) Of course, experiencing Truth makes such abstract concepts meaningless….

So to those, who see God as denying, within you is 'breath of life' to which you can surrender all doubt. "Thy Will be done"
To those, who see God as vengeful, your anger may sustain your life, but only by letting it go, may you see the world as it truly is…
To those, who see God as permitting, go strait for the narrow path shall show you what joy truly means.
Lastly, to the one who spoke of God as Inspiring, thank you. :)
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Conaeolos:

I have no idea what your on about. All things, all matter and all experience are internal concepts created by our brains to explain the data our senses collect from our environment. It's all concepts. "Predominate emotional reflection"; please translate what you mean. As observers all observations are to some degree a reflection of self as both the phenomenon being observed and the observer are codeterminants in what is observed.

Cheers and be well.
Evilroddy.
 
devildavid said:
Feynman did not say that energy was not physical or did not exist physically.
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What? The quoted source is right there. You're not making any sense now.
 
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