What if YOU were GOD?

[FunctionalAtheist]

I just can't conceive of a nice god. I really can't. I was typing away and paid no attention to the circumstances you laid out. This would require great thought for me.

Fair enough. I'm looking for someone that can concieve of a god that made the universe as is! Someone who thinks there is no room for improvement! Except for those that seem to think it does not matter, i.e. that we are all looking for ourselves while hiding from ourselves.

 

[FunctionalAtheist]

I would have a heck of a crisis of faith, most probably.

And yet you may be overly qualified for the job. I don't imagine you are familiar with Futurama? Bender was god for a day, and he found the real god. He learned that god can only do his job when he does nothing at all.

 

[Amechania]

And yet you may be overly qualified for the job. I don't imagine you are familiar with Futurama? Bender was god for a day, and he found the real god. He learned that god can only do his job when he does nothing at all.

Bender found that God is doing his job best when it seems he has done nothing at all, if I'm not mistaken.

 

[FunctionalAtheist]

Bender found that God is doing his job best when it seems he has done nothing at all, if I'm not mistaken.

Ah yes!!!

The truth of whether god actually ever did anything at all was not revealed. But we know that, appearntly, god does nothing.

 

[LuisDantas]

Bender found that God is doing his job best when it seems he has done nothing at all, if I'm not mistaken.

That is so very Taoistic!

 

[Sha'irullah]

Fair enough. I'm looking for someone that can concieve of a god that made the universe as is! Someone who thinks there is no room for improvement! Except for those that seem to think it does not matter, i.e. that we are all looking for ourselves while hiding from ourselves.

Well by definition I am an atheist. I have no need to posit something inconceivable or meaningless to my existence.

 

[TheGunShoj]

I don't think that's much different than any current religion. The difference I would add is removal of the offender. A god that actually did what he says he will do! That is what I would expect from a real god. Thanks for your contribution.

It would be different than current religions. Christians claim slavery and rape are immoral, only because of secular morality which they have adopted. Nowhere in the bible does God say "Thou shalt not rape or own other human beings as property."

 

[columbus]

What if you were god?

Here's what would happen.

Little pamphlets would appear everywhere. Billions of them. They would tell you people the basics, stuff everyone already knows. Play nice, stop messing up the planet. Humans don't need more rules, they just need motivation to follow them. I'd let it be known that causing harm will have equal consequences.

Then I would provide some practical info, like a recipe for an all purpose antiviral, and an earthquake predictor.

Here's what would make this work. Each pamphlet would be identical, yet be understood by everyone regardless of language. Everyone would get exactly the same message, whether a Chinese peasant or Oxford professor or Mexican drug dealer. That's the miraculous part that will let everyone know it's from Me.

Tom

 

[FunctionalAtheist]

It would be different than current religions. Christians claim slavery and rape are immoral, only because of secular morality which they have adopted. Nowhere in the bible does God say "Thou shalt not rape or own other human beings as property."

Ah, very true. In fact god tells the hebrews they may make slaves of the strangers in their midst. Thanks!

 

[FunctionalAtheist]

Here's what would happen.

Little pamphlets would appear everywhere. Billions of them. They would tell you people the basics, stuff everyone already knows. Play nice, stop messing up the planet. Humans don't need more rules, they just need motivation to follow them. I'd let it be known that causing harm will have equal consequences.

Then I would provide some practical info, like a recipe for an all purpose antiviral, and an earthquake predictor.

Here's what would make this work. Each pamphlet would be identical, yet be understood by everyone regardless of language. Everyone would get exactly the same message, whether a Chinese peasant or Oxford professor or Mexican drug dealer. That's the miraculous part that will let everyone know it's from Me.

Tom

Lol, nice! Thanks!

 

[George-ananda]

I have thought about this before. I find two things in the idea of existence as god, god as the playwright, the play as existence, all of us as aspects of one.

First it is very poetic, it is tidy, it is neat, it avoids so many real issues other religions seem to create for themselves.

One point here is that the philosophy doesn't exist because it is neat and tidy and avoids issues BUT because this Oneness of all has been the direct experience of many Self-Realized individuals I have come to revere from objective study.

Second, there seems to be even less of a point to existence as one experiencing itself as many as there is in any other view.

What is the point to plays, drama, art? The best explanation I've heard is that the universe is the creative outpouring of the divine. Why the divine exists or why He has a creative aspect is beyond my knowledge.

How is it wisdom to identify our eternal self, when the whole game is based on hiding our eternal self from ourselves? How does one find inspiration in understanding our role, when it is we who defined the role, then hid it from ourselves?

Act 1 is creation and separation. Act 2 is the return to Oneness. That is the play. Again, why creation exists at all is beyond my knowledge. But it does exist and the cosmic experiences of the Self-Realized and mystics relayed as best as possible in human terms provides my best understanding.

 

[FunctionalAtheist]

One point here is that the philosophy doesn't exist because it is neat and tidy and avoids issues BUT because this Oneness of all has been the direct experience of many Self-Realized individuals I have come to revere from objective study.



What is the point to plays, drama, art? The best explanation I've heard is that the universe is the creative outpouring of the divine. Why the divine exists or why He has a creative aspect is beyond my knowledge.



Act 1 is creation and separation. Act 2 is the return to Oneness. That is the play. Again, why creation exists at all is beyond my knowledge. But it does exist and the cosmic experiences of the Self-Realized and mystics relayed as best as possible in human terms provides my best understanding.

Thank you for the measured response.