Thread: What do you call a dream that continues after you wake up?

It has been proven that praying changes the way your brain works, but it does the same thing when you meditate. The act of praying can help with lucid dreaming, but no more than meditating, and it's not by an god's hand that you become lucid.

Open mindedness alone is not a good thing. It must be paired with a healthy level of skepticism, else one risks becoming gullible. To quote Noogah, "Careful. Being too open minded will make your brains fall out." I'm not saying that there is no god. For all we know, god very well could have created the universe. I'm saying that there is no proof of him/her ever touching the Earth or altering it in any way. Because of this, all human religions are but superstitions, losing all credence. They are an immature means for early mankind to make sense of that which was, until recently, beyond understanding.

Originally Posted by Conkt

..there is no proof of him/her ever touching the Earth or altering it in any way.

Well.. hmmmm..

"String Theory" posits something that may point to the existence of "God".

I'll try to explain as I understand it:

"God" as "Creator".. "God" as the source of all life/energy..

According to String Theory, the Universe that we inhabit, although inordinately large, is essentially finite..

And at the limits of the Universe is a cocoon-like structure of intermeshed lines of "energy" which are the source of all "energy" contained in the universe, and that includes you and me, the stones, the dust, everything.

So.. if this turns out to be true, then, being the source of all energy, this cocoon could well be termed "God".. not a human-like God who hears our prayers and who cares for us, but a rather impersonal entity, who couldn't really give a damn one way or the other, because it is too far removed from the human to be affected by our petty machinations.

Just a thought.

I agree. If there is a god, it is not a white man with a beard who lives on a cloud, as many people seem to believe. I will believe in god once adequate proof of its existence is discovered.
String theory is rather strange, though. Here is a visual representation:

Is it not possible that all gods of all religions were actually human beings in some far ahead future tampering with the timeline in order to fix something that would have inevitably doomed us, creating a paradox with an explanation that is so complex that we could only classify it as gods due to the inability to explain it to people who don't even know what electricity is, much less quantum mechanics.

now magnify the complexity of that by one thousand and you have the string theory

That's called science fiction.

Locking the thread for now, may move it to R/S if it continues to get too far off track.

And guys, let's please not derail every thread where someone mentions having some kind of religious beliefs, especially in the on-topic forums.