What is your God?

[Unveiled Artist]

Think out the box for at least a min. Years ago I watched an UU sermon online. Majority of members are either atheist to one degree or another and/or just don't identify with organized religion.

The pastor described God by saying if there are a list of value(s) you want to have or strengthen that you would "call to" what would they be?

What are your most important values that in your worse moment you'd need them most?

God-quisi idiom not a man in the sky.

Acceptance
Accomplishment
Accountability
Accuracy
Achievement
Adaptability
Alertness
Altruism
Ambition
Amusement
Assertiveness
Attentive
Awareness
Balance
Beauty
Boldness
Bravery
Brilliance
Calm
Candor
Capable
Careful
Certainty
Challenge
Charity
Cleanliness
Clear
Clever
Comfort
Commitment
Common sense
Communication
Community
Compassion
Competence
Concentration
Confidence
Connection
Consciousness
Consistency
Contentment
Contribution
Control
Conviction
Cooperation
Courage
Courtesy
Creation
Creativity
Credibility
Curiosity
Decisive
Decisiveness
Dedication

Core Values List: Over 200 Personal Values to Live By Today


There are 200 "gods" so I couldn't list them all.

In my worse moment, I'd call to:

Freedom
Sound mind
Expression
Strength
Vitality

What are your gods?

 

[The Hammer]

Wisdom
Trust
Patience
Individuality
Experience
Balance
Acceptance

 

[sun rise]

I have trouble with the OP since the title is monotheistic, there's a polytheistic reference to gods and then the question is about values or perhaps they can be called divine attributes. So I'll answer this question and ignore the rest

What are your most important values that in your worse moment you'd need them most?

In my worst moments, my answer is surrender, acceptance and patience.

 

[Lain]

Think out the box for at least a min. Years ago I watched an UU sermon online. Majority of members are either atheist to one degree or another and/or just don't identify with organized religion.

The pastor described God by saying if there are a list of value(s) you want to have or strengthen that you would "call to" what would they be?

What are your most important values that in your worse moment you'd need them most?

God-quisi idiom not a man in the sky.



Core Values List: Over 200 Personal Values to Live By Today


There are 200 "gods" so I couldn't list them all.

In my worse moment, I'd call to:

Freedom
Be of sound mind
Expression
Strength
Vitality

What are your gods?

In the sense that you defined it there, I would say:

Labor/work ethic.
Honor/respect.
Stability.
Timeliness.
Sacrifice/empathy.
Duty.
Prudence.
Willpower (mainly in the sense of being able to withstand suffering and not break mentally, emotionally, etc).
Dispassionate nature.
Secrecy/privacy.
Community/self-effacement.
Mutual servitude.

I think that about covers 'em.

 

[SalixIncendium]

Of the 230, consciousness.

Existence and bliss aren't listed.

Satcitananda.

 

[Aupmanyav]

Only Satya - Truth, and nothing else. Lord Rama in Valmiki's Ramayana:

"satyam eva īśvaro loke, satyam padmā samāśritā l
satya mūlāni sarvāṇi, satyān na asti param padam ll"
Valmiki Ramayana - Ayodhya Kanda - Sarga 109, Verse 13

"Truth alone is the god in the world, all virtues reside in truth; all are rooted in truth, there is no position higher than truth."

 

[`mud]

Quite simply :

~~~~LIFE~~~~

 

[Unveiled Artist]

I have trouble with the OP since the title is monotheistic, there's a polytheistic reference to gods and then the question is about values or perhaps they can be called divine attributes. So I'll answer this question and ignore the rest



In my worst moments, my answer is surrender, acceptance and patience.

The word God is a quisi idiom meaning what value(s) or gods that are most important to you that you call for them in your last breath.

It's not monotheism and polytheism.

Your second half of your comment is what I'm getting at.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

Of the 230, consciousness.

Existence and bliss aren't listed.

Satcitananda.

Darn it. How dare them.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

Can you guys give an example of why you picked one or two of the values most important to you?

Freedom because I never liked doing anything against my will. I feel trapped and it effects me mentally. I had two bad experiences in mental health and trauma years ago that, especially with current events, that value is being tested. Now I've lived alone for 12 years free and can express myself. Strength to keep me afloat. Vitality or life-which fosters appreciation and gratitude for living and the spirit in which my life is animated and expressed.

 

[SalixIncendium]

Can you guys give an example of why you picked one or two of the values most important to you?

As I see it, all others are illusory and are appearances in transactional reality.

And it's not really about being important to me. It's about being true to me.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

As I see it, all others are illusory and are appearances in transactional reality.

And it's not really about being important to me. It's about being true to me.

What is the difference? If something is true to you it would be important?

 

[SalixIncendium]

What is the difference? If something is true to you it would be important?

You said "most important."

If there is only one thing, what can it be more important than?

 

[A Vestigial Mote]

Accuracy - in a clutch, you want each of your actions to be effective to their purpose
Adaptability - be on your toes, ready for the change up as it arrives
Alertness - awareness of the situation, attention to detail
Calm - no panic, on task
Creativity - useful for coming up with a variety of solutions to problems
Fortitude - steadfastness in the face of the challenge
Knowledge - creativity doesn't get you too very far without a good base of knowledge to apply it to
Patience - waiting for the right moment to act, knowing when to let things lie
Simplicity - judge a thing/situation for what it is, not what you feel it is or should be

 

[Unveiled Artist]

You said "most important."

If there is only one thing, what can it be more important than?

The context is the same despite the word most.

 

[Lain]

Can you guys give an example of why you picked one or two of the values most important to you?

Freedom because I never liked doing anything against my will. I feel trapped and it effects me mentally. I had two bad experiences in mental health and trauma years ago that, especially with current events, that value is being tested. Now I've lived alone for 12 years free and can express myself. Strength to keep me afloat. Vitality or life-which fosters appreciation and gratitude for living and the spirit in which my life is animated and expressed.

Labor/work ethic: because while God cursed the products and objects of work with futility (death, corruptibility, unproductivity, how it will all eventually fade, etc) the process itself is still a blessing and brings joy to the soul. In my worst moments by exerting myself in work I know I'll get through it, a day begun with it will be a good day no matter if the world is burning down around me.

Honor/respect: that is, to do the honorable thing (that which God glorifies) and to respect or honor others, by treating them as beings that God has honored and giving them their due. In bad times often the right action is found considering this, and it is always worth doing no matter the personal cost.

Stability: because shifting around, especially mentally thought-to-thought only brings chaos, but "they that trust in the Lord shall be like Mount Zion, he shall not be moved forever who dwells in Jerusalem." So grounding myself mentally in that way and not turning to the right or the left in thought gets me through bad situations, a singular focus based in the Lord but aiming toward one goal at a time, no matter how many things seem to be happening there is an order to do them in, and being stable in that is important.

Timeliness: never be late, always be fashionably early. This removes a lot of anxiety about bad things and allows for more planning.

 

[SalixIncendium]

The context is the same despite the word most.

If you are alone in a room, is there any point to saying you’re the most important person in the room?

Is there any point in asking a monotheist who the most important god is?

 

[Unveiled Artist]

If you are alone in a room, is there any point to saying you’re the most important person in the room?

Is there any point in asking a monotheist who the most important god is?

I just wanted to know the difference between truth and importance.

You said truth is your value not importance and I asked what's the difference.

It's not challenging what you said, It's being inquisitive. A conversation.

 

[SalixIncendium]

I just wanted to know the difference between truth and importance.

You said truth is your value not importance and I asked what's the difference.

It's not challenging what you said, It's being inquisitive. A conversation.

I never claimed there was any difference.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

Labor/work ethic: because while God cursed the products and objects of work with futility (death, corruptibility, unproductivity, how it will all eventually fade, etc) the process itself is still a blessing and brings joy to the soul. In my worst moments by exerting myself in work I know I'll get through it, a day begun with it will be a good day no matter if the world is burning down around me.

Honor/respect: that is, to do the honorable thing (that which God glorifies) and to respect or honor others, by treating them as beings that God has honored and giving them their due. In bad times often the right action is found considering this, and it is always worth doing no matter the personal cost.

Stability: because shifting around, especially mentally thought-to-thought only brings chaos, but "they that trust in the Lord shall be like Mount Zion, he shall not be moved forever who dwells in Jerusalem." So grounding myself mentally in that way and not turning to the right or the left in thought gets me through bad situations, a singular focus based in the Lord but aiming toward one goal at a time, no matter how many things seem to be happening there is an order to do them in, and being stable in that is important.

Timeliness: never be late, always be fashionably early. This removes a lot of anxiety about bad things and allows for more planning.

Wow. This must have taken years express values so distinctively. You have a beautiful foundation.