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ORIGINAL: Sanity



What if the universe and everything in it is god.

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ORIGINAL: Moonhead

It's quite possible to imagine a universe without a God, but you couldn't have a God without a universe. Probably not relevant, but I just thought I'd mention that.

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ORIGINAL: switch2please

*disappears into nonexistence with a POOF of circular logic for not believing in herself*

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ORIGINAL: Kirata

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ORIGINAL: vincentML

I would have to expand my cosmology to imagine the unimaginable entity/force greater than all mass/energy/time existence...

Why?

See, this is what troubles me about some of the positions that are taken in these threads. The people taking them appear to have a very clear idea of what "God" is, or must necessarily be, which, equally clearly, they reject. But to reject your own notion of God, or one that you heard from somebody else, is to address only that limited specific notion, not all the possibilities for there being something else, something that mankind has completely obscured through his attempts to grasp and characterize what is ultimately only accessible to experience.

Just a wandering thought.

K.

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ORIGINAL: vincentML

Assuming for the moment that god was the creator, just humor me here, I have often wondered what he did during all the preceding eternity. Did he have conversations with himself, play games with himself, maybe even naughty games? What exactly does a god do in nothingness? Or does he fill up the nothingness with himself and so completely occupy himself with himself? And then to create a Universe does he have to move over, get himself out of the way, make a little room for the expanding matter and energy? He must have had to think it through carefully, don't you agree? Could have been a dilema - to create or not create; that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of a bunch of idiots saying nasty things on message boards, or just forget the whole thing. A crucial decision. Know what I mean?

Much as you may enjoy finding opportunities to indulge in some gratuitous ridicule, there's no need to go out of your way to create them. In this case the proposition was, "you couldn't have a God without a universe."

Know what I mean?

K.

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ORIGINAL: switch2please

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ORIGINAL: Sanity



What if the universe and everything in it is god.

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ORIGINAL: Moonhead

It's quite possible to imagine a universe without a God, but you couldn't have a God without a universe. Probably not relevant, but I just thought I'd mention that.

If there is a god, and he is everywhere and everything, then I'm definitely going to hell for not believing in him. Then again, if god is everywhere and everything - and everyone - then I am god. Gee, I feel special.

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ORIGINAL: vincentML

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ORIGINAL: Kirata

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ORIGINAL: vincentML

Assuming for the moment that god was the creator, just humor me here, I have often wondered what he did during all the preceding eternity. Did he have conversations with himself, play games with himself, maybe even naughty games? What exactly does a god do in nothingness? Or does he fill up the nothingness with himself and so completely occupy himself with himself? And then to create a Universe does he have to move over, get himself out of the way, make a little room for the expanding matter and energy? He must have had to think it through carefully, don't you agree? Could have been a dilema - to create or not create; that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of a bunch of idiots saying nasty things on message boards, or just forget the whole thing. A crucial decision. Know what I mean?

Much as you may enjoy finding opportunities to indulge in some gratuitous ridicule, there's no need to go out of your way to create them. In this case the proposition was, "you couldn't have a God without a universe."

Know what I mean?

K.

Let me have a little fun, K. That's what we are here for. It is what I am here for, at least. And if I learn a little all the better. Implicit in my poking around is my rejection of the original premise. Sorry I didn't spell it out for you. My Catholic upbringing (well, exposure at best) taught me that there was God before Universe. And I still wonder what he (the Abrahamic god) did with his time, if time even existed for him. Maybe he played solitare. Or maybe he just was. Don't you ever wonder of such things? I suspect you do.

Vincent

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ORIGINAL: switch2please

I did use 'theology' incorrectly. I was typing quickly and should have used another word
I meant that neither evolutionism or creationism can be proved beyond a shadow of a doubt, so neither can be construed as right or wrong. It's a matter of choice, and I choose evolution.
I don't demand proof, that's just my point - it's a matter of belief.

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ORIGINAL: switch2please

God is always referred to in the context of power - benevolent or not, omniscient or not, he is a 'creator', 'lord', 'savior', whatever.
Without a universe, god has power over nothing because there is nothing. Without a universe, god is out of context.
You can have a universe and god, or a universe. You can't have just god.

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ORIGINAL: vincentML

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ORIGINAL: switch2please

God is always referred to in the context of power - benevolent or not, omniscient or not, he is a 'creator', 'lord', 'savior', whatever.
Without a universe, god has power over nothing because there is nothing. Without a universe, god is out of context.
You can have a universe and god, or a universe. You can't have just god.

You make a clever argument, switch. I agree according to your definition (not that you thought of it first - my aunt sally did in 1943, june 3rd to be exact) god without a universe is like an automobile without four wheels and an engine - going nowhere, doing nothing.

But here's the rub. Not my aunt sally but some tribal priests who proposed the definition.

Suppose for the sake of argument the definition is wrong. Suppose we do not know the correct definition. I think that's what Kirata was getting at. My guess, K. In which case, all bets are off. Unfortunately it leaves us in a very non-utilitarian place. What the hell do we do with an undefined god?

vincent

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ORIGINAL: vincentML

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ORIGINAL: Kirata

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ORIGINAL: vincentML

Assuming for the moment that god was the creator, just humor me here, I have often wondered what he did during all the preceding eternity. Did he have conversations with himself, play games with himself, maybe even naughty games? What exactly does a god do in nothingness? Or does he fill up the nothingness with himself and so completely occupy himself with himself? And then to create a Universe does he have to move over, get himself out of the way, make a little room for the expanding matter and energy? He must have had to think it through carefully, don't you agree? Could have been a dilema - to create or not create; that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of a bunch of idiots saying nasty things on message boards, or just forget the whole thing. A crucial decision. Know what I mean?

Much as you may enjoy finding opportunities to indulge in some gratuitous ridicule, there's no need to go out of your way to create them. In this case the proposition was, "you couldn't have a God without a universe."

Know what I mean?

K.

Let me have a little fun, K. That's what we are here for. It is what I am here for, at least. And if I learn a little all the better. Implicit in my poking around is my rejection of the original premise. Sorry I didn't spell it out for you. My Catholic upbringing (well, exposure at best) taught me that there was God before Universe. And I still wonder what he (the Abrahamic god) did with his time, if time even existed for him. Maybe he played solitare. Or maybe he just was. Don't you ever wonder of such things? I suspect you do.

Vincent

It's so funny that most of us that DO believe, don't spend our days trying to figure out what GOD does or has ever done with his time.

Man always tries to figure out and make everything fit into a little box in his little mind.
I would never presume or even attempt to think that I could figure out what is in the mind of my CREATOR.
I have enough sense to know that many concepts are beyond any mere mortal's realm of capability.
For most Believer's our belief's are enough to sustain us, it is the lot of most unBeliever's to spend their days trying to defend why they believe GOD does not exist.
That is why I only post on "these types of threads", maybe once or twice a year.
Then I move on.
I might post on another one of these types of threads in the summer.
 

Peace, Love and Joy to all

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

well if the universe aint forever according to god, they are going to have to be doing some tinkering on that the earth will be made anew lie they been telling.........maybe they are having some trouble with the contractors, seeing as they are all certainly in hell.

Satan

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ORIGINAL: willbeurdaddy

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ORIGINAL: vincentML

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ORIGINAL: switch2please

God is always referred to in the context of power - benevolent or not, omniscient or not, he is a 'creator', 'lord', 'savior', whatever.
Without a universe, god has power over nothing because there is nothing. Without a universe, god is out of context.
You can have a universe and god, or a universe. You can't have just god.

You make a clever argument, switch. I agree according to your definition (not that you thought of it first - my aunt sally did in 1943, june 3rd to be exact) god without a universe is like an automobile without four wheels and an engine - going nowhere, doing nothing.

But here's the rub. Not my aunt sally but some tribal priests who proposed the definition.

Suppose for the sake of argument the definition is wrong. Suppose we do not know the correct definition. I think that's what Kirata was getting at. My guess, K. In which case, all bets are off. Unfortunately it leaves us in a very non-utilitarian place. What the hell do we do with an undefined god?

vincent

Tithe 20% of your income, just in case thats what he/she/it really wants?

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ORIGINAL: switch2please


Without a universe, god has power over nothing because there is nothing. Without a universe, god is out of context.
You can have a universe and god, or a universe. You can't have just god.