InvestigateTruth
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If you believe in God, where is God?
Up there?
Up there?
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Where is God?
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InvestigateTruth
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So do you ever talk to God, or pray to God?
Starlight
Spiritual but not religious, new age and omnist
I often pray to God
I don't know. Whose day was it to watch him? Yours?
Someone had better find God before God forgets who God is again...
InvestigateTruth
Veteran Member
So, when you pray to Him, where do you imagine Him to talk to?
Apostle John
“Go ahead, look up Revelation 6”
I like the fact the immortal invisible Christian God is and always will be around, that not all know that but always had a chance to know that when they were breathing.
The inability to answer that question meaningfully contributed to my abandon theologies centered around God as a kid. The problem with that god-concept - that transcendent one-god who is hewn from the universe and considered supernatural - is that such a god is nowhere. And being uneducated about theological alternatives, I ended up atheist for a decade and change. Then learned theism was more than what I'd been told. Did research. Came across this weird thing where the world was the gods, that this is how polytheism, pantheism, animism worked. And it made sense to me, because when your gods are the universe and all its aspects, it's very easy to point to them.
There. Right there.
The ground beneath feet, whether they come on two or four. The sun and the moon, whose radiance and rhythms guide the experiences of all creatures of the surface. The forces of evolution and change, who shaped a startling menagerie of biological diversity era after era after era. The power of senses, that make the real real, bringing arts and sciences, song and story.
All the things. It's just all the things. Point at any of it and there's gods - something worthy of worship - right there.
Even you, who read.
There. Right there.
The ground beneath feet, whether they come on two or four. The sun and the moon, whose radiance and rhythms guide the experiences of all creatures of the surface. The forces of evolution and change, who shaped a startling menagerie of biological diversity era after era after era. The power of senses, that make the real real, bringing arts and sciences, song and story.
All the things. It's just all the things. Point at any of it and there's gods - something worthy of worship - right there.
Even you, who read.
dybmh
דניאל יוסף בן מאיר הירש
here and there
RestlessSoul
Well-Known Member
All around. Within us and without us.
mikkel_the_dane
My own religion
There is no way to God, only one way to God and many ways to God and thus it depends on how you do that versus how I do that.
Hermit Philosopher
Selflessly here for you
I believe in God but to me, the question you pose is misphrased, because I’d say that we are in God.
Humbly,
Hermit
syo
Well-Known Member
In god world.
In my nondualist (God and creation are not-two) belief, everything in the universe is made of God/Brahman thoughts.
Thoughts? With what apparatus does Brahman think?
Good question. Brahman/God is held to be pure consciousness with a creative aspect. What consciousness ‘is’ and its creative aspect is a mystery to our minds.
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If pure conscious is with a creative aspect, how can that consciousness be deemed pure?
Maybe ‘pure’ is not the best word. It is consciousness without matter. It is fundamental and not understandable by derived concepts. It can be experienced by those few that can reach the deepest meditative state.
Here's how Britannica escribes the creative aspect called Maya/Illusion:
maya, (Sanskrit: “magic” or “illusion”) a fundamental concept in Hindu philosophy, notably in the Advaita (Nondualist) school of Vedanta. Maya originally denoted the magic power with which a god can make human beings believe in what turns out to be an illusion. By extension, it later came to mean the powerful force that creates the cosmic illusion that the phenomenal world is real. For the Nondualists, maya is thus that cosmic force that presents the infinite brahman (the supreme being) as the finite phenomenal world. Maya is reflected on the individual level by human ignorance (ajnana) of the real nature of the self, which is mistaken for the empirical ego but which is in reality identical with brahman.
InvestigateTruth
Veteran Member
So, in your view God has a location. God moves from one location to another, or is God fixed somewhere without moving?