Thread: Is lucid dreaming satanic?

Originally Posted by Nailler

Or maybe it should be: "Should they exist..."

What if we are to the gods as goldfish are to us?

I read an article about how evolution tends to occur in spurts, every so many million years. Got me to thinking maybe the gods who set up this aquarium check back every now and again to make adjustments. Maybe next time they drop by they'll decide to clean the tank again, like they did when they got sick of the dinosaurs.

Could be. Indeed, it's just as likely to be true as all the rest. I just hope I'm gone before the next adjustment!

Maybe it depends upon the kind of love we're talking about. It's almost like we need different words for the different kinds of love. The experience of "love" the first time I "fell in love" with a girl was a very different experience from "loving" my dog, or my dad.

I would argue that the baseline "love" in all those experiences is identical. What is different is the amplification you make to the already rich feeling that the baseline emotion provides. When falling in love, you might be intellectually multiplying the cool effect (perhaps driven unconsciously by other procreational drivers, especially in cases of 'love at first sight') of the no doubt powerful injection of baseline love into your system. Since you are sentient, that effect can reach a point where that effect engulfs your imagination, and you construct a state of being "in love." In a sense, you created your deep love, designed by your imagination and fueled by your nature.

I guess what I'm saying is that that transcendental love you feel and share is created completely by you, and not some unique esoteric energy. There is of course nothing wrong with that -- hell, transcendental (or romantic) love is probably the greatest side-effect of sentience there is -- but there is also nothing magical or mystical about it.

Since there is nothing mystical about it, there is no reason to think that God loves at all, much less decide that God is love. I think the idea of a loving God might just be a bit of anthropomorphism, or perhaps just taking the best thing in our little lives and deciding that God must be that thing. I don't know. Who does?

Okay, now we're completely off topic from the off topic discussion we were having before! Maybe Brandon -- oh, crap, I mean maybe Sensei will get us back on track...