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How do you see God?
  • SephSeph December 2012
    Posts: 5,487
    It's too large to post here so I'll just post it's link.
    "Most High God"

    Simply where I spiritually find myself today.
    Not sure how people here are going to find this one (yikes!)
    But, never-the-less, here you are.
    It is what it is, and I am what I am.
    Syncretism is akin to wringing the truth out of ten thousand lies

    The Woven
    The Symbiot; a novella

    "It seems in some circles, thinking is heretical"
    ringnut
  • GaladrielGaladriel December 2012
    Posts: 12,443
    I think of "God" as a metaphor for everything you can't explain with scientific methods.

    There was a time when we didn't understand stuff like disease, droughts or why stars fill up the sky at night. I believe people searched for answers to these questions through what they already knew about the world. When there were no answers they turned to mystical reasons to explain why the crops didn't grow this year or why certain people get sick while others do not.

    This doesn't mean that there's no God, of course. I'm open to the possibility of it...I just highly doubt there's an old white man sitting in the clouds keeping track of our sins in order to judge us after death. ;)

    I agree with you here:

    "God's nature is so absolutely different from our existence that it is utterly incomprehensible. “God” is by nature one which language cannot describe."

    Assuming there is someone or something up there that created the world s/he (it? they? we?) isn't a person the way you and I are people. While I completely understand why one would want to ascribe human emotions and motivations to a creator it's kind of like trying to understand why your spouse was grouchy yesterday by watching ants march on the sidewalk. Times a billion.

    But I know we have more traditional Oozers running around here. I'm looking forward to seeing how you answer this question!


  • MarvinMarvin December 2012
    Posts: 236

    God lives at the intersection of: (The immanent and the transcendent), (The physical and the non-physical), (Finitude and Infinitude), (Ontological being and the self), (Necessity and possibility), (The temporal and the Eternal), (The abstract and the concrete), (The horizontal dimension of life and the vertical dimension of life).
    To the Things Themselves

    The Humility that comes from others having faith in you

    http://gamnot27.wordpress.com/
  • SephSeph December 2012
    Posts: 5,487
    Galadriel said:


    But I know we have more traditional Oozers running around here. I'm looking forward to seeing how you answer this question!


    Although I ramble on quite a bit in Most High God I think the simplest way to describe "God" is damn close to what Taoists refer to as the Eternal Tao.
    It is the great 'nothing' at the centre of creation. Pure potential. Impersonal. Indescribable.
    Syncretism is akin to wringing the truth out of ten thousand lies

    The Woven
    The Symbiot; a novella

    "It seems in some circles, thinking is heretical"
    ringnut
  • ringnutringnut December 2012
    Posts: 1,668
    Marvin said:


    God lives at the intersection of: (The immanent and the transcendent), (The physical and the non-physical), (Finitude and Infinitude), (Ontological being and the self), (Necessity and possibility), (The temporal and the Eternal), (The abstract and the concrete), (The horizontal dimension of life and the vertical dimension of life).



    This makes sense to me. And the intersection forms a cross.

    'Never underestimate what god can do with really shitty materials.' Robin V
  • JonasJonas January 18
    Posts: 7
    I honestly am not sure how I see God. I don't see him/her as anything honestly. Just someone up there if you will
  • AndromedaAndromeda January 22
    Posts: 28
    I suppose I think of God as a giant mind (if minds can be giant) and maybe all of reality existing inside of it.