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What Isn't God?

Herr Heinrich

Herr Heinrich

Student of Mythology
Good question. Some would say everything is God, nothing is God, I am God, he/she/it is God. I think it also depends on what you mean by God. IMO everything is...everything else.
 
Erebus

Erebus

Well-Known Member
freethinker44 said:
I have a huge problem with this. That is, I am not god, and you are not god. If all is god then we must be part of god, consciousness is a defining aspect of life, if we are conscious and we are part of god, then we make up as a collective either part or all of gods consciousness. So, even if some entity existed and all of life made up its collective conscousness, I would never consider myself or any other form of life a god so why would such an entity deserve the label "god". What is special about it that sets it apart from everything else that exists that it should be called god when existence more accurately describes all that is. Why go the extra step and call it god.
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Perhaps you are simply an aspect of God's super ego, keeping God in check? :cool:

As for why you would call reality God, I can offer an explanation as to why I personally call it "God". Firstly all power and knowledge is contained within reality, making reality the wisest and most powerful "being" of all. Secondly, reality makes me who I am, it provides me with life, love, hate, death, experience and everything else needed to define who I am. Thirdly, reality contains the most wonderful and terrible actions, extremes that no individual entity could hope to achieve alone.
To me, reality as a whole is the only thing deserving of the title of "supreme being" or God (capital G).

By the way, you can replace the word "reality" with existence or the universe if you wish, the concept remains the same, but semantics can be a nightmare.

*edit* Needless to say, going off this model of "God" there is nothing that God is not.
 
Perfect Circle

Perfect Circle

Just Browsing
Which of the 2-gillion definitions for "God" are using for this thread? Because it honestly get's a little annoying trying to figure out what people mean when they say "God".

Can't we all just agree to go back to the old guy in the sky concept? That way we avoid threads that spend 40 pages bickering over semantics.
 
zenzero

zenzero

Its only a Label
Friend Perfect Circle,

Can't we all just agree to go back to the old guy in the sky concept? That way we avoid threads that spend 40 pages bickering over semantics.
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*god* itself is a concept being discussed and you are giving form to the concept by giving it shape of an old man and also a space which is the *sky*.
What actually needs to be done is to go to the root of where this concept developed which is the mind or the *thought* and this thought itself is the cause of the problem creating dualities as as soon as the concept of *god* develops the other part of the scale the *satan* by default takes birth..
One needs to grow in understanding about IT.

Love & rgds
 
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freethinker44

Well-Known Member
Shyanekh said:
Perhaps you are simply an aspect of God's super ego, keeping God in check? :cool:

As for why you would call reality God, I can offer an explanation as to why I personally call it "God". Firstly all power and knowledge is contained within reality, making reality the wisest and most powerful "being" of all. Secondly, reality makes me who I am, it provides me with life, love, hate, death, experience and everything else needed to define who I am. Thirdly, reality contains the most wonderful and terrible actions, extremes that no individual entity could hope to achieve alone.
To me, reality as a whole is the only thing deserving of the title of "supreme being" or God (capital G).

By the way, you can replace the word "reality" with existence or the universe if you wish, the concept remains the same, but semantics can be a nightmare.

*edit* Needless to say, going off this model of "God" there is nothing that God is not.
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So why not just keep it simple and stop at reality? Why does reality, existence, or the universe need to be called god? Or maybe a better question is why do humans need to call these things god?
 
Willamena

Willamena

Just me
Premium Member
freethinker44 said:
So why not just keep it simple and stop at reality? Why does reality, existence, or the universe need to be called god? Or maybe a better question is why do humans need to call these things god?
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Whose reality? And why would that be more simpler?
 
Erebus

Erebus

Well-Known Member
freethinker44 said:
So why not just keep it simple and stop at reality? Why does reality, existence, or the universe need to be called god? Or maybe a better question is why do humans need to call these things god?
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Simply because that's what people do. Some people need to feel like they're a part of something bigger or feel as though there's something more than the drab lives we have now. People like me would be bored stupid as a "made man", simply because the typical aspirations in western life don't appeal to us, we need something else.

Part of the reason I believe in reality as God as well as various "spirits" is because (other than personal experiences, which I know just aren't sufficient evidence for my ludicrous beliefs :cool:) having these beliefs helps me through life. I don't particularly care whether these entities exist only as mental constructs, since they make life a little easier for me I see no reason to get rid of them.

Don't get me wrong, I know that I could condition myself to stop believing in them (I know a fair bit about brainwashing techniques) and could make myself simply call reality reality instead of God, but after the months of intense psychological conditioning, what benefit am I left with?
 
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