We live in existence, though not see it
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Can you define your god?
- Thread starter nonbeliever_92
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PolyHedral
Superabacus Mystic
No, I see existent things. Existence is an abstract, and abstracts don't exist in themselves.
Then you support the idea of non-existent things?
I see what you did there.
Other than ask Poly a question that hopefully made him pause and think for a moment, what did I do?I see what you did there.
nonbeliever_92
Well-Known Member
You hope to make people stop and think when you post some of your stuff? Honestly most of the time I think you're joking because I can't tell if you know the difference between subjectivity and objectivity or just feigning that you don't. I've never found anything you say all that thought-provoking or even useful, but you're asking Polyhedral so nevaminds.
Gjallarhorn
N'yog-Sothep
My gods are mental concepts I have created or stolen to help me get through the day.
Sometimes I think I'm the only person who does know the difference.
rockstarwife628
Member
IMO, God is love (not that He is the emotion, but that the characteristic of love best describes His nature). While that sounds pretty overly simplistic I actually think it makes a lot of sense. See, I believe the way we reflect His character, or are "made" in His image, is in our ability to be humane, which consists of traits like love and compassion - all of which make up the idea of what love really is and entails. So I believe that His own character is made up of what we consider to be the ultimate expressions of humanity and love - wisdom, patience, compassion, understanding.....
I don't think of God as some judge sitting up on some throne keeping track of all of our rights and wrongs in this world, but instead see Him like a wise, old, sage, if that makes sense - I think it does, lol (make sense, that is), because when I think of saints and sages or other "holy" men/women (the Dalia Lama, for instance), I recognize their holiness, the way they seem to radiate God's presence and love, the way they seem to be *like* God, if you get what I mean...
Oh, and I use "He" and "Him" to talk about God, but I don't really believe God has a gender...
I don't think of God as some judge sitting up on some throne keeping track of all of our rights and wrongs in this world, but instead see Him like a wise, old, sage, if that makes sense - I think it does, lol (make sense, that is), because when I think of saints and sages or other "holy" men/women (the Dalia Lama, for instance), I recognize their holiness, the way they seem to radiate God's presence and love, the way they seem to be *like* God, if you get what I mean...
Oh, and I use "He" and "Him" to talk about God, but I don't really believe God has a gender...
AmbiguousGuy
Well-Known Member
Good answer. I would say that my God is a menagerie of mental concepts which I use to play with the meaning of the universe. In particular: life, human life, intelligent life... and stuff.
He's like the king and queen on my chessboard combined. Or something.
Without God to play around with, I'd be a lot more bored.
Orias
Left Hand Path
Don't you find it amazing that everything around Man was built off His imagination?
PolyHedral
Superabacus Mystic
In the normal, non-pedantic sense of "exist", yes.
ellenjanuary
Well-Known Member
I betcha everyone can define my god better than I can.
Yes, the materialistic one. (Nothing really "normal" about it --normatively, we use the idea correctly in sentences.)In the normal, non-pedantic sense of "exist", yes.
Materialism has quite ingrained itself in our worldview.
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Storm
ThrUU the Looking Glass
It's the juvenile organism whose body is the cosmos.
Cain
Member
He is just like Me, only better.
Materialism has not nearly enough ingrained itself, I fear. Our species will soon enough go extinct still hankering after fables, spirits, and false gods.
No doubt it will all end when some dick of a general at NORAD lets lose the rockets of hell because he or she is an Evangelical and convinced the next Harold Camping is right to say on such and such a date the world must end.
Or maybe it will end when some dick of a president in the middle east for religious reasons commits his or her rockets of hell to an attack on his or her neighbor.
Whatever, we're bound to go down -- and to go down clutching a holy scripture.
Materialism is not prevalent enough to save us. Most of us don't even endorse the values of the European Enlightenment.
Those who have materialism do not lack for "fables, spirits and false gods."
First, so say people who have not materialism. Me, I always take Toyota's word for what's wrong with GM, and McDonald's word for what's wrong with Burger King. Why shouldn't I believe you when you say materialism does not lack for fables, spirits, and false gods, but provide me with no examples? Second, if I ever get to Alberta, I am begging to take you to a restaurant. You've got one of the top dozen most interesting perspectives on this board. You always have.