What is God?

[Spirit of Light]

Many people (including me) speak about God.

But do people actually have a clue what a God truly are and what a God can do?
Honestly I don't believe i can truly answer this question my self. I would have to point to what scriptures say, but those aren't my own true understandings.

 

[The Hammer]

Many people (including me) speak about God.

But do people actually have a clue what a God truly are and what a God can do?
Honestly I don't believe i can truly answer this question my self. I would have to point to what scriptures say, but those aren't my own true understandings.

We can only theorize.

 

[Jimmy]

infinite space which is Gonzo!

 

[Spirit of Light]

infinite space which is Gonzo!

Can I ask how you come to that understanding and answer?

 

[Jimmy]

Can I ask how you come to that understanding and answer?

a good gonzo haha. with that theres nothing so id say its most important

 

[Suave]

Many people (including me) speak about God.

But do people actually have a clue what a God truly are and what a God can do?
Honestly I don't believe i can truly answer this question my self. I would have to point to what scriptures say, but those aren't my own true understandings.

I realize God is the controller of simulations, a reality based virtual world programmer of human consciousness.

 

[Exaltist Ethan]

God is a perfect environment. For Christians that means Yahweh, Jesus and Heaven. For Baha'is it's Baha'u'llah and the Kingdom of Abha. And for Moon it is Gonzo. I can deify anything I want. A pencil could be God, although I don't know how the graphite could handle such a task. Ha! Anyways, the way I see God all realities will exist and thus all environments will also exist. The afterlife is a transportation vessel, a wormhole (kind of) into the exact environment you want, because the post-human will make it. And you can shift between any realities you want, because your consciousness will be hybrid, and exist in many places. God is what nature is becoming.

 

[Aštra’el]

I responded to something similar earlier. What I said was pretty much the following:

The gods of my pantheon tell a story of my soul. The gods of every culture tell a story of their soul as a people, and as individuals.

Those who embrace God(s) and those who do not can sit here arguing all day about what gods may or may not be outside of us. Figments of the imagination, visual or auditory hallucinations, mind-generated apparitions, ancient extraterrestrials, interdimensional forces reaching out from the cosmos or beyond, avatars of life forms from beyond the simulation… etc. Or, they can talk about what we know gods to be within us… fountains of motivation and inspiration, beacons of light illuminating the way forward, fuel for our dreams and goals and ambitions, conduits of strength and power and wisdom and beauty, exalted shards of our spirit individually and often collectively, mascots of human nature, and the most epic embodiments of those sides of ourselves that a person or culture reveres.

I embrace the gods who I most resonate with, the ones who embody the most prominent aspects of who I am and who I will to be. I can understand that what my gods are to me, is often many of the very things other peoples’ gods are to them.

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

What is God?

An explanation of what we don't understand (yet). A groan of hope against what we fear most. A fiction that makes our reality seem less bleak, for so many people.

What is God? The collective agreement of a lot of folks, except that it is antithetical to the collective agreement of a lot of other folks, who also think they know what God is.

What is God? The name we give to our hope that life (and death) aren't just what they seem to be.

 

[Jimmy]

What is God?

An explanation of what we don't understand (yet). A groan of hope against what we fear most. A fiction that makes our reality seem less bleak, for so many people.

What is God? The collective agreement of a lot of folks, except that it is antithetical to the collective agreement of a lot of other folks, who also think they know what God is.

What is God? The name we give to our hope that life (and death) aren't just what they seem to be.

or you could cast aside hope for knowing as I do. or not...

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

or you could cast aside hope for knowing as I do. or not...

Hoping to know doesn't seem very useful to me. I can hope to be rich, but I'll do better if I try to earn more money, even if that means that I have to learn a new skill. I can hope to be smarter, but I'll do better if I put in the work to read more, study more, and ask more questions.

Hope is a good thing -- but it works a lot better if you put in a bit of effort.

 

[Jimmy]

We can only theorize.

i believe we can know

 

[Jimmy]

Hoping to know doesn't seem very useful to me. I can hope to be rich, but I'll do better if I try to earn more money, even if that means that I have to learn a new skill. I can hope to be smarter, but I'll do better if I put in the work to read more, study more, and ask more questions.

Hope is a good thing -- but it works a lot better if you put in a bit of effort.

hoping to know and knowing are different

 

[Jimmy]

Hoping to know doesn't seem very useful to me. I can hope to be rich, but I'll do better if I try to earn more money, even if that means that I have to learn a new skill. I can hope to be smarter, but I'll do better if I put in the work to read more, study more, and ask more questions.

Hope is a good thing -- but it works a lot better if you put in a bit of effort.

i hope for good health for me and my family etc

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

hoping to know and knowing are different

Quite true. And every person who makes a claim to "know" about God must be required to explain, first, what she knows, and second, how she knows.

i hope for good health for me and my family etc

Good for you -- I do the same. I find that taking care of our health, our nutrition, keeping up with our vaccinations, not smoking or sky-diving, wearing a mask in crowded places, all go a long way towards answering my hope.

 

[Exaltist Ethan]

Hoping to know doesn't seem very useful to me. I can hope to be rich, but I'll do better if I try to earn more money, even if that means that I have to learn a new skill. I can hope to be smarter, but I'll do better if I put in the work to read more, study more, and ask more questions.

Hope is a good thing -- but it works a lot better if you put in a bit of effort.

Well let's see.

70% of embryos die before birth.

25% of all pregnant women get an abortion.

Surviving as life itself is difficult just by sleeping, eating, breathing. I know who I am and I know my limitations. My intuition gets me in trouble and my thoughts need to decentralize every once in awhile. I take medication for this.

We all try to make our environment perfect in this life. The post-human will just make that reality better in many ways. Even the most mundane things will be exalted. Imagine sand becoming the silicon that powers our computers, but magnified a trillion more times. You have no idea what you are saying.

 

[sun rise]

But do people actually have a clue what a God truly are and what a God can do?
Honestly I don't believe i can truly answer this question my self. I would have to point to what scriptures say, but those aren't my own true understandings.

I could throw out words but they would of course be other people's words. Very very very very few have knowledge from experience. We call those pirs, sadgurus, qutub, saints and so forth.

 

[Goldemar]

Many people (including me) speak about God.

But do people actually have a clue what a God truly are and what a God can do?
Honestly I don't believe i can truly answer this question my self. I would have to point to what scriptures say, but those aren't my own true understandings.

God is for me the Purest Spirit and the King of Light. He is the Creator of Angelic and human spirits as expressions of His Creative Will, but not the creator of the material world.

 

[SalixIncendium]

Many people (including me) speak about God.

But do people actually have a clue what a God truly are and what a God can do?

A few, yes. Most, no.

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

Well let's see.

70% of embryos die before birth.

25% of all pregnant women get an abortion.

Surviving as life itself is difficult just by sleeping, eating, breathing. I know who I am and I know my limitations. My intuition gets me in trouble and my thoughts need to decentralize every once in awhile. I take medication for this.

We all try to make our environment perfect in this life. The post-human will just make that reality better in many ways. Even the most mundane things will be exalted. Imagine sand becoming the silicon that powers our computers, but magnified a trillion more times. You have no idea what you are saying.

I don't take medication for anything, but I do have quite a good idea what I'm saying.