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can you even imagine there is a god?

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Originally posted by: NSFW
God is unimaginable. He is so much more than we could even begin to comprehend.
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And yet so many people seem to know exactly what he wants - which is why everyone who's found religion is in perfect agreement on such things. 😛



Originally posted by: Nik
Your mind < your body < your state < your country < your continent < your planet < your solar system < your galaxy < your universe < your dimension

Yes, it's entirely possible that a "god" exists. Whether it's the god you read in Terran literature or not is highly questionable.
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Now THIS I can agree with. A powerful life form, one which would appear godlike to us, may well exist. We hold immense powers that a bacterium couldn't every hope to comprehend. Try to imagine a life form that is to us as we are to that bacterium. But it's still not a god, no more than we are.
And the god(s) depicted in "Terran literature" are, at best, entertaining, at worst, utterly psychotic, overpowered, and childish.

 
Originally posted by: Jeff7
Originally posted by: NSFW
God is unimaginable. He is so much more than we could even begin to comprehend.
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And yet so many people seem to know exactly what he wants - which is why everyone who's found religion is in perfect agreement on such things. 😛



Originally posted by: Nik
Your mind < your body < your state < your country < your continent < your planet < your solar system < your galaxy < your universe < your dimension

Yes, it's entirely possible that a "god" exists. Whether it's the god you read in Terran literature or not is highly questionable.
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Now THIS I can agree with. A powerful life form, one which would appear godlike to us, may well exist. We hold immense powers that a bacterium couldn't every hope to comprehend. Try to imagine a life form that is to us as we are to that bacterium. But it's still not a god, no more than we are.
And the god(s) depicted in "Terran literature" are, at best, entertaining, at worst, utterly psychotic, overpowered, and childish.
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strangely enough the original plot of Heavy Metal: FAKK2 revolved around the concept of an utterly alien God. Which she then kills.
 
Imagine there's no dairy
It isn't hard to do
No cheese or butter
Nothing to say "moo"

Now you may say that I'm a creamer
That I'm Kaolin and guar gum
Rice cream sundaes with cool whip
And I just might get me some
 
Originally posted by: dahunan
If there is a god... then why are religious people so intolerant and murderous?
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God despises rhetorical questions. They have the stench of seventy goats in his mighty nostrils.
 
its not that hard.
but based on the evidence any god that could exist would be basically amoral or completely disinterested. so it really doesn't matter either way.
 
Part of me wants to believe that there's some...being...force...gawd out there that created the heavens and earth.

BUT, what did "he" create them from, where did he create them if there was nothing there...and where was the nothing?

Where did this god come from? Is he from Jersey? Is that why things are so fucked up?

IF there actually is some omnipotent god, why would he/she/it want my worship and obedience anymore than I want worship/obedience from the ants beneath my feet?
 
Originally posted by: BoomerD
Part of me wants to believe that there's some...being...force...gawd out there that created the heavens and earth.

BUT, what did "he" create them from, where did he create them if there was nothing there...and where was the nothing?

Where did this god come from? Is he from Jersey? Is that why things are so fucked up?

IF there actually is some omnipotent god, why would he/she/it want my worship and obedience anymore than I want worship/obedience from the ants beneath my feet?
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God gets a "Get Out of Causality Free Card," but no one can put forth any reason other than "It says so in this ancient book written by nomads experiencing hallucinations while freebasing camel dung."
So God gets the automatic exemption from causality, but nothing else does.

I've been in New Jersey and didn't experience any odd temporal anomalies or sexual encounters with Jar Jar Binks, so I'm going to say that spacetime is still reasonably intact there.


 
Originally posted by: ProfJohn
Every time I see the sunset.
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A sunset is like a great big neon sign from god that says "Here I am"!


Except it isn't neon, and doesn't say anything, and is caused by the light of an ancient ball of burning gas moving through the earth's atmosphere at an extreme angle before passing over the horizon, and my appreciation for it is the result of being an organism that evolved over millions of years to fit this environment who would naturally find many of its benign aspects to be beautiful whether a God is responsible for them or not. Thanks god!
 
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