How Often Do You Think About God?

[Vinidra]

I wouldn't say I think of her constantly, but I do think of her regularly and fairly often.

I also try to see her in everyone. I'm not so good at that yet.

 

[Nakosis]

Inspired by a thread in the Theists Only forum, which has limited participation preventing me and many others here from participating, it led me to wonder how often those who do not identify as theists think about the divine.

This thread is open to anyone, including atheists, to share how often they think about the God of Abraham or any other god(s.)

So then, how often do you think about God or god(s)? What evokes this thought? Do you find it productive? Counterproductive? Why?


For me it's practically every day, usually brought about by curiosity in what drives people's actions and behaviors. I find it productive in understanding how people think, how they behave as they do, and decisions they make in everyday life and helps me to better interact with them by understanding and empathizing with their perspective.

IMO, if a God exists, they are unknowable. So I find thinking about a God that is unknowable is counter-productive since anything we'd think about the unknowable is more likely to be wrong than right.

 

[Exaltist Ethan]

My primary crush in high school was a girl that never paid any attention to me, but for years upon years I have focused so much on her that there wouldn't be a day which I'd not think about her. But ever since I got my tattoos, been married to God in that sense, that girl has been on my mind a lot less and God has been on my mind ever more so. In fact, now that I equate God and reality of being two sides of the same coin, every single waking moment of my life I realize that I'm experiencing God in some unique way, just as we all are. God has replaced this girl I used to obsess about, but unlike that girl, this God always has time for me, always pays attention to me, as I find new and innovative ways to shape it in ways I want it to be like. Reality is now my bride, and I am her groom.

 

[Ashoka]

Inspired by a thread in the Theists Only forum, which has limited participation preventing me and many others here from participating, it led me to wonder how often those who do not identify as theists think about the divine.

This thread is open to anyone, including atheists, to share how often they think about the God of Abraham or any other god(s.)

So then, how often do you think about God or god(s)? What evokes this thought? Do you find it productive? Counterproductive? Why?


For me it's practically every day, usually brought about by curiosity in what drives people's actions and behaviors. I find it productive in understanding how people think, how they behave as they do, and decisions they make in everyday life and helps me to better interact with them by understanding and empathizing with their perspective.

For me it's the same as you. I try to see God (Krishna) in everyone and in everything. It for sure changes your perception of people and how you treat them and think of them. I think, for those reasons, it is productive.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

I often wonder what inspires someone who finds no meaning in God to join a religious forum such as this one and participate. I would imagine such a person had to think about God or gods at some point. Why else would they be here?

That sounds like me: at one point, I was thinking about a particular God and religion.

When I first joined, my wife (now ex-wife) was pressuring me to convert to her religion and I was unsuccessfully trying to sort out things that were getting in the way of this goal.

Now, more than 15 years later, I'm in a very different place and only think of gods when someone else brings them up.

I find theism interesting as a social phenomenon, but thinking about theism only rarely gets me thinking about gods... and when it does, it's mostly about how bizarre a god would be if we try to infer what it's like from what theists say its attributes/commands/actions/etc. are.

 

[Windwalker]

Inspired by a thread in the Theists Only forum, which has limited participation preventing me and many others here from participating, it led me to wonder how often those who do not identify as theists think about the divine.

I see it more as how often am I aware of the Divine. Thinking about God, or the Divine (which doesn't have be a personalized form of the Divine in the face of a deity form, per se), is looking into the mental conceptual domain, rather than awareness of the ever-present Reality that just is, free of our conceptual ideas and judgments. You could call it 'mindfulness', which is more seeing with my being, as opposed to thinking or seeing reality through my thoughts.

How often is that awareness occuring? The more I practice being present in the moment, and not lost in "thought world", or the 'thinking about" realm, the more that is being cultivated as the normal condition. The more that is the normal condition, the more noticeable being disconnected from that back into 'thought world' becomes, where I lose that awareness of the present-reality being lost inside my head, or seeing the world through conceptual frameworks, instead of the more simple childlike awareness we were born with.

These days, I'd have to say it's becoming more the norm, than the exception. And this is good. Life is far less a struggle without having to levearage all those conceptual worlds as the key to happiness. It's much simpler to just use those when necessary to do tasks, rather than to find myself.

 

[syo]

24/7

 

[Twilight Hue]

I figure why waste time thinking about a fake God when the real universe is so freaky and strange enough without one.