I used to think about God as person... but... things changed... I think god is immaterial thing behind, uncaring. Maybe even not personal... maybe it is just a force. |
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I used to blindly believe in a God in the heavens, then I began to believe that God is the energy of the universe. I have my own conclusion now, but I am very interested in hearing others feelings, points of view and philosophy on the subject. |
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I used to think about God as person... but... things changed... I think god is immaterial thing behind, uncaring. Maybe even not personal... maybe it is just a force. |
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An evil villain that re-occurs in a series of books called the scriptures. Not worth the read though, it's full of plot holes. |
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God is what you want him to be, Heaven is your World your Canvas, God is in your Heart. |
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Last edited by blazingnyancat; 08-12-2014 at 03:45 PM.
Throughout my experiences in my life, I think we all have a little bit of God in us. When I say "God", I mean a power that is within us that allows us to reach our farthest goals, a part of us that enables us to do the unthinkable. By all of us having that part of "God" in us, we are all connected. Its kind of hard to explain, I hope you guys understood what I was trying to get across lol |
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"If we doubted our fears instead of doubting our dreams, imagine how much in life we'd accomplish." ~Joel Brown
"Your background and circumstances may have influenced who you are, but you are responsible for who you become." ~Darren Hardy
Goals:
-Become Lucid in every dream every night
-Perfect the time dilation watch
-Continue to have a dream plan for most of my lucid dreams
When I grew up I had to fuse religion and science somehow. I believe there is more than we can measure out there. The best proof is that we discover so many new things even today that we didnt believe in before. For me, god is a kind of power that existed from the big bang on. maybe it is intelligent, maybe just a force, I can´t tell that really... |
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God is 42 |
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A scapegoat onto which a society collectively projects their fears and desires and the responsibilities they don't want to shoulder themselves. |
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Nothing I can describe used human concepts and words. |
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I like destruction and reality, and one invariably leads to the other.
'Dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of life?'
'We die to remember what we live to forget'
Gods are psychological entities with characteristics and power that are partially determined by the way we think about them. But saying they are psychological doesn't mean they're pretend, they're also intelligent and conscious, in a different way than we are. |
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Something like archetypes then? Ok, that makes perfect sense. I suppose believing in a god would activate an archetype or a group of them. An archetype is very real and very powerful, much more so than mere personal thoughts, but only at certain times - usually times of crisis or some powerful emotion. It's like a complex, like a persecution complex for instance. Real or imaginary? Well, it's actually just as real as any other thoughts in the person's head and more powerful than them because it comes from deeper and directs thought and emotion. |
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Last edited by Darkmatters; 08-13-2014 at 02:18 AM.
This word 'god' seems to me like asghojasdrhoah or pdbddbnjdohaasbndafo. It's nonsense - literally. You can no sense it. It doesn't exist. Only thing you can do is believe it. And a man can believe in anything, so I believe in the word asorgasgoargnawrg more than the word god. |
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Last edited by Nfri; 08-13-2014 at 01:49 AM.
One morning long ago a caveman woke up, stepped out of his cave, sretched, basked in the sunshine, and became self aware. This very first onset of sentience was followed by two breathless observations: |
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Last edited by Sageous; 08-13-2014 at 06:18 AM.
Creatures used in mythology, shown as ones of great power. Can be evil or good, sometimes worshipped. For some reason people worship far more the evil ones though. |
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This isn't relevant to the spirit of your post, but I feel like pointing out that the Old Testament Hebrew religion has a strong tribal God but no concept of an afterlife. Maybe the afterlife ideas were introduced later through interaction with Greeks, etc. when they were a part of the Roman Empire. |
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^^ Not so much no afterlife, if I remember correctly, but more a permanent barrier to the afterlife, thanks to original sin. This barrier will only be lifted upon the arrival of the messiah. |
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Last edited by Sageous; 08-13-2014 at 06:39 PM.
An ocean of ones and zeros that is searching for the optimal way to order itself. |
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"A God is a being who recognizes good without evil as a point of reference" |
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The Adam and Eve story attributes mortality to sin, but this concerns the span and health of a human life, not an invisible 'afterlife' that occurs after physical death. There's no concept of an afterlife, denied or otherwise, anywhere in the old testament. In Ecclesiastes, which is philosophically the most modern of the Old Testament books, the spirit returns to God at death. Then the idea of a physical resurrection appears in the New Testament, but there is no idea of a spiritual 'heaven' afterlife. This seems to have been invented later, and became a standard part of Christian theology, possibly because St. Paul's more concrete Zombie Awakening version of salvation doesn't sit as easily with the modern mind. But the idea of a spiritual afterlife is not in the Bible. |
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^^ Okay then. |
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Last edited by Sageous; 08-13-2014 at 08:26 PM.
Who or what is God to you? |
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Lucid Dream Goal:
A perfect week!
One week with at least 1 Lucid Dream in every night.
I find it remarkable that Christians generally know so little about the Bible in some regards, considering that its not really that long, and many of them believe it to be the Word of God and study it weekly. It seems everyone reads it with a theological filter already in place. |
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^^ Nice. |
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Just to clear things up, American Christianity isn't true christianity at all(Not sure if you were referring to america at all lol, just saying in case you were). Americans have changed so much of it and made it to fit them. Doesn't work like that though, so I see where you are coming from. There are very few True Christians in America today, very few who follow the original religion. Today we have so many denominations, Its rather sad. Many christians study the Bible everyday, it acts as a refresher considering the book is 1500 pages long in some formats. Anyone that follows their own religion will indeed make it a big deal in their life , if they are true to that religion that is. |
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"If we doubted our fears instead of doubting our dreams, imagine how much in life we'd accomplish." ~Joel Brown
"Your background and circumstances may have influenced who you are, but you are responsible for who you become." ~Darren Hardy
Goals:
-Become Lucid in every dream every night
-Perfect the time dilation watch
-Continue to have a dream plan for most of my lucid dreams
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