The Concept of God

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  • LongestRoad
    LongestRoad Posts: 477
    BlackCircle said:
    God exists in the sense that you have the mental capacity to create God or "God's" or imaginary sea creatures.

    There is a voice inside your head that is not your present tangible self.  The voice inside your mind is simply your thoughts.  It can be turned off and therefore is not who you are.  

    Like people who suffer with multiple personality disorder or schizophrenia, those voices can often create conflict inside the individual.

    However, if those voices were shut off the person would still exist.  You and I would still exist if the voice inside out mind were silent.  

    God exist inside our mind as a creation of our imagination in order to provide a simple explanation to something we once could not explain as pre-histiric or ancient man.

    God has been inserted into our subconcious by the telling and retelling of God stories.

    Therefore, God exists only in the sense that we have created him. 
    I've prayed to God and my prayers have been answered. The impossible has been answered. I know God exists. God created us. 
  • my2hands
    my2hands Posts: 17,117
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    rgambs said:
    This has me all fired up today.

    Just on Monday I discovered my 6 year old niece being indoctrinated in Catholic culthood knows that my wife and I "don't go to church because they don't believe in Jesus and that's bad"

    :angry:
    my brother, his wife, and their 20 year old son all think I'm going to hell with all the homosexuals and trans people.  =)
    No offense, but they are fools
  • my2hands
    my2hands Posts: 17,117
    LongestRoad said:
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    rgambs said:
    This has me all fired up today.

    Just on Monday I discovered my 6 year old niece being indoctrinated in Catholic culthood knows that my wife and I "don't go to church because they don't believe in Jesus and that's bad"

    :angry:
    my brother, his wife, and their 20 year old son all think I'm going to hell with all the homosexuals and trans people.  =)
    I bet they don't. I bet they pray for you. 
    Do me a favor, dont ever pray for me. Call Santa Claus instead and tell him I would like a new turntable
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    LongestRoad said:
    BlackCircle said:
    God exists in the sense that you have the mental capacity to create God or "God's" or imaginary sea creatures.

    There is a voice inside your head that is not your present tangible self.  The voice inside your mind is simply your thoughts.  It can be turned off and therefore is not who you are.  

    Like people who suffer with multiple personality disorder or schizophrenia, those voices can often create conflict inside the individual.

    However, if those voices were shut off the person would still exist.  You and I would still exist if the voice inside out mind were silent.  

    God exist inside our mind as a creation of our imagination in order to provide a simple explanation to something we once could not explain as pre-histiric or ancient man.

    God has been inserted into our subconcious by the telling and retelling of God stories.

    Therefore, God exists only in the sense that we have created him. 
    I've prayed to God and my prayers have been answered. The impossible has been answered. I know God exists. God created us. 
    You are confused about the meaning of "know" and "believe".
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?
  • fife
    fife Posts: 3,327
    BlackCircle said:
    God exists in the sense that you have the mental capacity to create God or "God's" or imaginary sea creatures.

    There is a voice inside your head that is not your present tangible self.  The voice inside your mind is simply your thoughts.  It can be turned off and therefore is not who you are.  

    Like people who suffer with multiple personality disorder or schizophrenia, those voices can often create conflict inside the individual.

    However, if those voices were shut off the person would still exist.  You and I would still exist if the voice inside out mind were silent.  

    God exist inside our mind as a creation of our imagination in order to provide a simple explanation to something we once could not explain as pre-histiric or ancient man.

    God has been inserted into our subconcious by the telling and retelling of God stories.

    Therefore, God exists only in the sense that we have created him. 
    would it not be better to say that the idea of god exists?  just like the unicorns, we have an idea of unicorns that exists but unicorns themselves don't
     

  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    LongestRoad said:
    BlackCircle said:
    God exists in the sense that you have the mental capacity to create God or "God's" or imaginary sea creatures.

    There is a voice inside your head that is not your present tangible self.  The voice inside your mind is simply your thoughts.  It can be turned off and therefore is not who you are.  

    Like people who suffer with multiple personality disorder or schizophrenia, those voices can often create conflict inside the individual.

    However, if those voices were shut off the person would still exist.  You and I would still exist if the voice inside out mind were silent.  

    God exist inside our mind as a creation of our imagination in order to provide a simple explanation to something we once could not explain as pre-histiric or ancient man.

    God has been inserted into our subconcious by the telling and retelling of God stories.

    Therefore, God exists only in the sense that we have created him. 
    I've prayed to God and my prayers have been answered. The impossible has been answered. I know God exists. God created us. 

    All of them?

    Or just random ones? Do you think those random prayers might have been answered through your own (or someone else's efforts)? Do you think maybe you are crediting God when credit lies elsewhere?
    "My brain's a good brain!"
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 40,028
    LongestRoad said:
    BlackCircle said:
    God exists in the sense that you have the mental capacity to create God or "God's" or imaginary sea creatures.

    There is a voice inside your head that is not your present tangible self.  The voice inside your mind is simply your thoughts.  It can be turned off and therefore is not who you are.  

    Like people who suffer with multiple personality disorder or schizophrenia, those voices can often create conflict inside the individual.

    However, if those voices were shut off the person would still exist.  You and I would still exist if the voice inside out mind were silent.  

    God exist inside our mind as a creation of our imagination in order to provide a simple explanation to something we once could not explain as pre-histiric or ancient man.

    God has been inserted into our subconcious by the telling and retelling of God stories.

    Therefore, God exists only in the sense that we have created him. 
    I've prayed to God and my prayers have been answered. The impossible has been answered. I know God exists. God created us. 
    and yet none of the prayers of all of the people living in extreme poverty and disease and civil war and genocide have been answered. pretty convenient for you, I'd say. 
    Your boos mean nothing to me, for I have seen what makes you cheer



  • fife
    fife Posts: 3,327
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    LongestRoad said:
    BlackCircle said:
    God exists in the sense that you have the mental capacity to create God or "God's" or imaginary sea creatures.

    There is a voice inside your head that is not your present tangible self.  The voice inside your mind is simply your thoughts.  It can be turned off and therefore is not who you are.  

    Like people who suffer with multiple personality disorder or schizophrenia, those voices can often create conflict inside the individual.

    However, if those voices were shut off the person would still exist.  You and I would still exist if the voice inside out mind were silent.  

    God exist inside our mind as a creation of our imagination in order to provide a simple explanation to something we once could not explain as pre-histiric or ancient man.

    God has been inserted into our subconcious by the telling and retelling of God stories.

    Therefore, God exists only in the sense that we have created him. 
    I've prayed to God and my prayers have been answered. The impossible has been answered. I know God exists. God created us. 
    and yet none of the prayers of all of the people living in extreme poverty and disease and civil war and genocide have been answered. pretty convenient for you, I'd say. 
    Maybe they are not praying right ;)
  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    LongestRoad said:
    BlackCircle said:
    God exists in the sense that you have the mental capacity to create God or "God's" or imaginary sea creatures.

    There is a voice inside your head that is not your present tangible self.  The voice inside your mind is simply your thoughts.  It can be turned off and therefore is not who you are.  

    Like people who suffer with multiple personality disorder or schizophrenia, those voices can often create conflict inside the individual.

    However, if those voices were shut off the person would still exist.  You and I would still exist if the voice inside out mind were silent.  

    God exist inside our mind as a creation of our imagination in order to provide a simple explanation to something we once could not explain as pre-histiric or ancient man.

    God has been inserted into our subconcious by the telling and retelling of God stories.

    Therefore, God exists only in the sense that we have created him. 
    I've prayed to God and my prayers have been answered. The impossible has been answered. I know God exists. God created us. 
    and yet none of the prayers of all of the people living in extreme poverty and disease and civil war and genocide have been answered. pretty convenient for you, I'd say. 

    Geez Hugh...

    I was going to get him to this... but nice and easy like. I wasn't just going to bludgeon him with it without a mild transition.

    This is going to be overload.
    "My brain's a good brain!"
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 40,028
    fife said:
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    LongestRoad said:
    BlackCircle said:
    God exists in the sense that you have the mental capacity to create God or "God's" or imaginary sea creatures.

    There is a voice inside your head that is not your present tangible self.  The voice inside your mind is simply your thoughts.  It can be turned off and therefore is not who you are.  

    Like people who suffer with multiple personality disorder or schizophrenia, those voices can often create conflict inside the individual.

    However, if those voices were shut off the person would still exist.  You and I would still exist if the voice inside out mind were silent.  

    God exist inside our mind as a creation of our imagination in order to provide a simple explanation to something we once could not explain as pre-histiric or ancient man.

    God has been inserted into our subconcious by the telling and retelling of God stories.

    Therefore, God exists only in the sense that we have created him. 
    I've prayed to God and my prayers have been answered. The impossible has been answered. I know God exists. God created us. 
    and yet none of the prayers of all of the people living in extreme poverty and disease and civil war and genocide have been answered. pretty convenient for you, I'd say. 
    Maybe they are not praying right ;)
    oh, right, I forgot, wrong god! LOL
    Your boos mean nothing to me, for I have seen what makes you cheer



  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    I used to love the battle scenes in movies where two sides are both praying to God prior to battle.

    What a conundrum for God.
    "My brain's a good brain!"
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 40,028
    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:
    I used to love the battle scenes in movies where two sides are both praying to God prior to battle.

    What a conundrum for God.
    he just flips his coin where jesus is heads and mary is tails. 
    Your boos mean nothing to me, for I have seen what makes you cheer



  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:
    I used to love the battle scenes in movies where two sides are both praying to God prior to battle.

    What a conundrum for God.
    he just flips his coin where jesus is heads and mary is tails. 

    "F**k guys... we won the coin toss. We're gonna kick a little assss!"
    "My brain's a good brain!"
  • LongestRoad
    LongestRoad Posts: 477
    fife said:
    BlackCircle said:
    God exists in the sense that you have the mental capacity to create God or "God's" or imaginary sea creatures.

    There is a voice inside your head that is not your present tangible self.  The voice inside your mind is simply your thoughts.  It can be turned off and therefore is not who you are.  

    Like people who suffer with multiple personality disorder or schizophrenia, those voices can often create conflict inside the individual.

    However, if those voices were shut off the person would still exist.  You and I would still exist if the voice inside out mind were silent.  

    God exist inside our mind as a creation of our imagination in order to provide a simple explanation to something we once could not explain as pre-histiric or ancient man.

    God has been inserted into our subconcious by the telling and retelling of God stories.

    Therefore, God exists only in the sense that we have created him. 
    would it not be better to say that the idea of god exists?  just like the unicorns, we have an idea of unicorns that exists but unicorns themselves don't
     

    Unicorns do not exist. I know God exists. 
    Believe. 
  • LongestRoad
    LongestRoad Posts: 477
    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:
    I used to love the battle scenes in movies where two sides are both praying to God prior to battle.

    What a conundrum for God.
    he just flips his coin where jesus is heads and mary is tails. 

    "F**k guys... we won the coin toss. We're gonna kick a little assss!"
    There's a reason and a lesson. Believe. 
  • jeffbr
    jeffbr Seattle Posts: 7,177
    edited August 2018
    LongestRoad said:
    fife said:
    BlackCircle said:
    God exists in the sense that you have the mental capacity to create God or "God's" or imaginary sea creatures.

    There is a voice inside your head that is not your present tangible self.  The voice inside your mind is simply your thoughts.  It can be turned off and therefore is not who you are.  

    Like people who suffer with multiple personality disorder or schizophrenia, those voices can often create conflict inside the individual.

    However, if those voices were shut off the person would still exist.  You and I would still exist if the voice inside out mind were silent.  

    God exist inside our mind as a creation of our imagination in order to provide a simple explanation to something we once could not explain as pre-histiric or ancient man.

    God has been inserted into our subconcious by the telling and retelling of God stories.

    Therefore, God exists only in the sense that we have created him. 
    would it not be better to say that the idea of god exists?  just like the unicorns, we have an idea of unicorns that exists but unicorns themselves don't
     

    Unicorns do not exist. I know God exists. 
    Believe. 
    The point is that you can't know. You can hope. You can believe. You can have faith. But you can't know, unless you've got some sort of tangible proof, in which case it obviates the need for faith.

    For me, god and unicorns are on the same level. I've never seen either one, so I don't believe either exists. But I'm always open to changing my position on either with tangible proof.
    Post edited by jeffbr on
    "I'll use the magic word - let's just shut the fuck up, please." EV, 04/13/08
  • LongestRoad
    LongestRoad Posts: 477
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    LongestRoad said:
    BlackCircle said:
    God exists in the sense that you have the mental capacity to create God or "God's" or imaginary sea creatures.

    There is a voice inside your head that is not your present tangible self.  The voice inside your mind is simply your thoughts.  It can be turned off and therefore is not who you are.  

    Like people who suffer with multiple personality disorder or schizophrenia, those voices can often create conflict inside the individual.

    However, if those voices were shut off the person would still exist.  You and I would still exist if the voice inside out mind were silent.  

    God exist inside our mind as a creation of our imagination in order to provide a simple explanation to something we once could not explain as pre-histiric or ancient man.

    God has been inserted into our subconcious by the telling and retelling of God stories.

    Therefore, God exists only in the sense that we have created him. 
    I've prayed to God and my prayers have been answered. The impossible has been answered. I know God exists. God created us. 
    and yet none of the prayers of all of the people living in extreme poverty and disease and civil war and genocide have been answered. pretty convenient for you, I'd say. 
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b_RjndG0IX8
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,778
    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:
    I used to love the battle scenes in movies where two sides are both praying to God prior to battle.

    What a conundrum for God.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAgAvnvXF9U

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • LongestRoad
    LongestRoad Posts: 477
    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:
    LongestRoad said:
    BlackCircle said:
    God exists in the sense that you have the mental capacity to create God or "God's" or imaginary sea creatures.

    There is a voice inside your head that is not your present tangible self.  The voice inside your mind is simply your thoughts.  It can be turned off and therefore is not who you are.  

    Like people who suffer with multiple personality disorder or schizophrenia, those voices can often create conflict inside the individual.

    However, if those voices were shut off the person would still exist.  You and I would still exist if the voice inside out mind were silent.  

    God exist inside our mind as a creation of our imagination in order to provide a simple explanation to something we once could not explain as pre-histiric or ancient man.

    God has been inserted into our subconcious by the telling and retelling of God stories.

    Therefore, God exists only in the sense that we have created him. 
    I've prayed to God and my prayers have been answered. The impossible has been answered. I know God exists. God created us. 

    All of them?

    Or just random ones? Do you think those random prayers might have been answered through your own (or someone else's efforts)? Do you think maybe you are crediting God when credit lies elsewhere?
     If it's God's will it will be answered. God has answered my prayers but if I don't take the answer for invalid and/or stupid misconseptions or being afraid to accept the answer then it's my fault.  
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 40,028
    LongestRoad said:
    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:
    LongestRoad said:
    BlackCircle said:
    God exists in the sense that you have the mental capacity to create God or "God's" or imaginary sea creatures.

    There is a voice inside your head that is not your present tangible self.  The voice inside your mind is simply your thoughts.  It can be turned off and therefore is not who you are.  

    Like people who suffer with multiple personality disorder or schizophrenia, those voices can often create conflict inside the individual.

    However, if those voices were shut off the person would still exist.  You and I would still exist if the voice inside out mind were silent.  

    God exist inside our mind as a creation of our imagination in order to provide a simple explanation to something we once could not explain as pre-histiric or ancient man.

    God has been inserted into our subconcious by the telling and retelling of God stories.

    Therefore, God exists only in the sense that we have created him. 
    I've prayed to God and my prayers have been answered. The impossible has been answered. I know God exists. God created us. 

    All of them?

    Or just random ones? Do you think those random prayers might have been answered through your own (or someone else's efforts)? Do you think maybe you are crediting God when credit lies elsewhere?
     If it's God's will it will be answered. God has answered my prayers but if I don't take the answer for invalid and/or stupid misconseptions or being afraid to accept the answer then it's my fault.  
    so that's not really prayers being answered in how I've always understood it. from what you are saying here, he didn't choose to reward you with your request. it was a happy accident he wanted to give what you wanted. kind of like a lottery ticket. 
    Your boos mean nothing to me, for I have seen what makes you cheer



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