Randomly thinking about it today at work (and I think of the most random stuff at work for some reason), I was trying to think of a way to explain my idea of God. I have tried multiple ways, but it's really hard. Not sure if it's too complicated to explain, or if I simply suck at explaining things, or both.
The best way I've done it so far is by explaining how I see a pattern in the universe that makes it seem like it's acting as one, whole, entire body, but the unique thing about this body is that it is its own energy source. It reuses everything. It doesn't eliminate things that threaten it, it simply reconstructs them to be a productive thing. Anyways, I'd have to go into entire paragraphs of detail to explain this pattern.
"Pantheism" doesn't get the point across really, it's too broad of a word. Pantheism could break down into lots of branches if you think about it: Is everything individually God when separated or Is everything together God? Is God conscious or unconscious? Is the divinity found in nature more philosophical or is it literal? etc. etc.
And simply saying "all is God" is as broad as a metalhead saying their favorite genre is metal.
I thought of a way to explain it; and thought I'd like to share it to see if anyone thinks it clears it up well enough to get the point. God as the sum of total parts.
It hit me when I spilled a full feedcart accidentally running over a stillborn. I'm not sure why, but when I'm angry about something that happened under natural conditions I curse out "Thanks God!" sarcastically, usually thinking about Yahweh. Just in case Yahweh is the true God of man, I'm not letting him get by that easy for something he could've prevented
Well, then i thought about my determinism. Every action, done by either a living or non-living thing, is a cause of the sum of all other actions.
"Well, let's put this in my worldview's perspective" I thought. "It wouldn't have happened if someone hadn't laid the dead in the middle of the damn hallway. But then again, that person wouldn't have laid it in the hallway if they didn't have something else to do preventing them from actually putting it where it belongs. THEN again, that wouldn't have happened if X didn't happen to make them have to do that something else that made them busy... etc. etc."
All events occurring and all events that have occurred are simply the sum of all other events before it.
A yard gets full of leaves because the leaves fell off the tree. The leaves fell off the tree because there was wind. There was wind because of atmospheric pressure. There was that level of atmospheric pressure because of the unequal heating of the earth's surface. There was unequal heating because of something with the sun (thanks google), etc. It all traces back to the one and only chaotic event to have ever happen, the only occurrence that didn't happen by influence of another thing... the beginning of existence (by logic, the beginning of existence could not be influenced by anything else because that would imply there was something existing that caused it, which would mean existence already existed).
And out of that I came up with a way to sum it up: God is the sum of total parts. Basically, God is every event that occurs. Or at least God's will is every event that occurs (to not limit God to a verb), and that would make God all things, but all things pretty much is every event that occurs.
does this make sense at all?
The best way I've done it so far is by explaining how I see a pattern in the universe that makes it seem like it's acting as one, whole, entire body, but the unique thing about this body is that it is its own energy source. It reuses everything. It doesn't eliminate things that threaten it, it simply reconstructs them to be a productive thing. Anyways, I'd have to go into entire paragraphs of detail to explain this pattern.
"Pantheism" doesn't get the point across really, it's too broad of a word. Pantheism could break down into lots of branches if you think about it: Is everything individually God when separated or Is everything together God? Is God conscious or unconscious? Is the divinity found in nature more philosophical or is it literal? etc. etc.
And simply saying "all is God" is as broad as a metalhead saying their favorite genre is metal.
I thought of a way to explain it; and thought I'd like to share it to see if anyone thinks it clears it up well enough to get the point. God as the sum of total parts.
It hit me when I spilled a full feedcart accidentally running over a stillborn. I'm not sure why, but when I'm angry about something that happened under natural conditions I curse out "Thanks God!" sarcastically, usually thinking about Yahweh. Just in case Yahweh is the true God of man, I'm not letting him get by that easy for something he could've prevented
Well, then i thought about my determinism. Every action, done by either a living or non-living thing, is a cause of the sum of all other actions.
"Well, let's put this in my worldview's perspective" I thought. "It wouldn't have happened if someone hadn't laid the dead in the middle of the damn hallway. But then again, that person wouldn't have laid it in the hallway if they didn't have something else to do preventing them from actually putting it where it belongs. THEN again, that wouldn't have happened if X didn't happen to make them have to do that something else that made them busy... etc. etc."
All events occurring and all events that have occurred are simply the sum of all other events before it.
A yard gets full of leaves because the leaves fell off the tree. The leaves fell off the tree because there was wind. There was wind because of atmospheric pressure. There was that level of atmospheric pressure because of the unequal heating of the earth's surface. There was unequal heating because of something with the sun (thanks google), etc. It all traces back to the one and only chaotic event to have ever happen, the only occurrence that didn't happen by influence of another thing... the beginning of existence (by logic, the beginning of existence could not be influenced by anything else because that would imply there was something existing that caused it, which would mean existence already existed).
And out of that I came up with a way to sum it up: God is the sum of total parts. Basically, God is every event that occurs. Or at least God's will is every event that occurs (to not limit God to a verb), and that would make God all things, but all things pretty much is every event that occurs.
does this make sense at all?
