|
|
|
|
10-06-2008, 03:55 AM
|
#1 (permalink) |
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2007
Type: ENFJ
Posts: 744
 |
God
What does God mean to you? Is it something conscious? Do you believe in the literal existence of something you identify as God? Why or why not? Does this God exist in the same space and time as us? What do you believe God's meaning is in relation to humanity was a whole? Why is God important or not important at all?
__________________
ENFJ|2w3|RLUAI Chef: Have you ever heard of the Emancipation Proclamation? General: I don't listen to hip-hop. |
|
|
|
10-06-2008, 04:01 AM
|
#2 (permalink) |
|
Silence the discord
Join Date: Jul 2007
Type: eNtj
Location: Where
Posts: 1,944
 |
Brendan, are you high again?
__________________
 I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ....
I fight for the things I believe in, with all the weapons at my disposal and try to leave the other man dead so that I don't get nailed to a cross or any other place. |
|
|
|
10-06-2008, 04:04 AM
|
#4 (permalink) |
|
Silence the discord
Join Date: Jul 2007
Type: eNtj
Location: Where
Posts: 1,944
|
Roger, just checking
__________________
I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ....
I fight for the things I believe in, with all the weapons at my disposal and try to leave the other man dead so that I don't get nailed to a cross or any other place. |
|
|
|
|
10-06-2008, 04:16 AM
|
#5 (permalink) | ||||||
|
The Wise Anteater Returns
Join Date: Jun 2008
Type: INTP
Location: Southern California
Posts: 687
|
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
__________________
“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” -Stephen Roberts |
||||||
|
|
|
|
10-06-2008, 04:19 AM
|
#6 (permalink) |
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2008
Type: ENFP
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 1,389
 |
lol ^
__________________
"Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. " "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." Mahatma Gandhi Enneagram: 9w1 |
|
|
|
|
10-06-2008, 04:24 AM
|
#7 (permalink) |
|
The Wise Anteater Returns
Join Date: Jun 2008
Type: INTP
Location: Southern California
Posts: 687
|
What's so funny?
__________________
“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” -Stephen Roberts |
|
|
|
|
10-06-2008, 04:25 AM
|
#8 (permalink) |
|
Silence the discord
Join Date: Jul 2007
Type: eNtj
Location: Where
Posts: 1,944
|
The fact that he does the llama stare in his avatar gives him the right to say lol all the time.
__________________
I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ....
I fight for the things I believe in, with all the weapons at my disposal and try to leave the other man dead so that I don't get nailed to a cross or any other place. |
|
|
|
|
10-06-2008, 04:44 AM
|
#9 (permalink) |
|
Iconoclast
Join Date: Apr 2007
Type: INTP
Posts: 2,526
|
If we get a sample of the general population in the Western culture by addressing 20000 people. Ask each one of them to write a very short essay(no more than 500 words) on what their definition of God is and why. I guarantee you, very few people will agree upon what God is. We will have thousands of radically different ideas of what God should be defined as. We will even notice major discrepancies between the ideas of people who profess to be of the same faith, as for example, a 100 Pentacoste Christians will produce no less than 25 different notions of what God is.
Why is this the case? Because people were led to believe that God is something sublime and powerful. Yet it has never been explained clearly and consistently what exactly it means to be sublime and powerful and how these qualities of character ramify. Hence, people are led to believe that God is exactly that, yet it is left up to their imagination to fill in the gaps. For this reason, people end up with radically different ideas of God. However, in institutions of organized religion, the idea of God is investigated in greater detail. However, people are exhorted to do what they are told and memorize basic characteristics God supposedly has. However, in order to effectively store information, one must be able to think clearly. As for example, in order to clearly remember what you were told (especially if the idea is complex), you need to have a disciplined mind. If your mind is not disciplined, the notion you were informed of will be distorted. However, almost all of those people clearly understood one thing, that God is something they all must claim to believe in. Yet with regard to the metaphysical structure of this idea, they never bothered to shed light! As that requires much thinking about complicated matters, and to undertake this task, they have never acquired the inspiration. This is what Daniel Dennet in Breaking the Spell calls the 'Belief in Belief'. YouTube - Daniel Dennett part 1/2
__________________
'And the great deadly serpent Superstition, bred of fear and ignorance, keeps watch on the treasure of knowledge. Only he who has slain the serpent and knows not fear can bestride Odin's horse and ride through the wall of fire; only he who wields Odin's sword can draw near to that sleeping might and beauty, and sunder the stifling links of mail, and show the divine face to men.' 'To be a philosopher,you must first be a Spinozist; if you have not Spinozism, you have no philosophy at all' Hegel |
|
|
|
|
10-06-2008, 05:15 AM
|
#10 (permalink) |
|
Splashy
Join Date: May 2007
Type: XNTP
Location: Southern California
Posts: 5,424
|
I think the universe, including you, each of your experiences and the monitor you're looking at, is god. It's not a personal god, but something to be in awe of. Thinking it is one thing, but experiencing it intimately is another.
__________________
My other signature is something witty. |
|
|
|
 |
| Thread Tools | |
| Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads
|
||||
| Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
| I don't see how God could plausibly exist (Christian definition of God) | Didums | Philosophy and Spirituality | 140 | 02-18-2009 06:19 AM |
| Why I do not believe in God | SolitaryWalker | Philosophy and Spirituality | 235 | 01-20-2009 11:26 AM |
| The Probability of God | reason | Philosophy and Spirituality | 26 | 08-27-2008 05:18 AM |
| God, Public Morality and Evolution | SolitaryWalker | Philosophy and Spirituality | 16 | 01-30-2008 04:55 AM |
| Religious Testimonies & Authenticity | Jennifer | Philosophy and Spirituality | 12 | 04-30-2007 10:43 AM |
Linear Mode
