You may wonder what the point of my posts are as they're getting a bit strange,
Methinks you (and me!) are in the right place for that :tongue:
I'm trying to question the way we see God as being real, people compare God to Father Christmas or the Tooth Fairy, but clearly God isn't a person, it's pointless to think of Him in those terms,
"Clearly God isn't a Person" - Do you
know something?!! Or are you just coming up with an idea that fits for you?.......the process that you are going through is much the same as the more succesful religions have used in developing the God Story to fit with what folk will still accept given their ever increasing knowledge and ability to question Religions.....although some in the West will still accept what a fella in a funny hat says as coming straight from God, most will not simply accept everything without questioning as they would have done in Centuries past.......and instead come up with a variation that "works" for them. But this doesn't make any of it true.
Not pointless to compare the God Stories to those about Santa or the Tooth Fairy because they are all based on the same evidence for being true. i.e. Zero.
Wanting something to be true does not make it so. That's called wishful thinking.
Not knowing the answer does not make the answer unknowable, magical, extraterrestial or God based.
so should we think of God in other ways, perhaps as an energy or a force instead? So here's another way to think about God...
As we know the human mind is a mass of connected cells, now let's imagine these individual cells were conscious and could communicate. They'd give themselves names, they'd live, die, try to understand themselves and their purpose for existance.
Would they work out that they were simply part of a greater mind - the Human mind, or would they believe they were only experiencing their own minds? So in the same way isn't it just possible that all living things are part of the mind of God? Because if God is everywhere, as Christians claim, then everything must form part of God, which is what Panthists believe.
Yer can think / make up whatever yer want and makes you happy. Does not make it true......In practice and IME nothing wrong with a touch of self deception sometimes....but that is all it is.
I lost me Brother and then me Wife in Oct and Nov 07 (not why I started coming here!)......I know neither of them have "gone" anywhere - which if I am honest has both minuses and plusses.....but sometimes I pretend to myself that the Missus has gone to the Moon (she equated getting to the Moon as the top of the scale of happiness - which she never thought she would see - although she trusted me to try and help her).....it works for me cos' it is personal to her / us and is also visual and staring up at the night sky and thinking has been done since time immemorial.......doesn't mean she is actually on the Moon. Probably :tongue:
If their was a Xtian style God me brother would have gone up :biggrin:. But me Missus would have gone down
.......albeit a 50/50 chance
she would be roasting Satan's nuts over a BBQ rather than anything Vice Verce :tongue:......but if I genuinely thought their was even the remotest chance she was now somewhere in trouble then being on the other side of death would not matter to me - I would go and help her. Cos' I
know she would have done the same for me.........took a longgggggg time and a lotta shit on both sides to get their, but once we had crossed our personal Rubicon - the River Styx would be a minor detail........
As I said in an earlier post, I have nothing against their being a God(s) and I would like their to be one.........but this alone doesn't make it true.