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What do you think God is?

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God is the three person God of the Bible - father, son, holy spirit. He is love, but he is wrath too. He is perfection. And he is infinite. He is glorious.

mm...sushi.

but as to the comment: "This should not be discussed here do to the the multiple views on this subject." That is the wors reason for locking a thread i have ever heard. I mean, come on... please lock because people might disagree? Because people might not be intelligent enough to discuss this? Are we all elitist now? Hello nietzche...
 
I believe my washing-machine is god. I mean, I pour dirty clothes in it and turn it on. A bit later all those dirty clothes are clean! It must be somekind of divine intervention!
 
I believe that people are largely unconscious of what they feel. This means that people have feelings that they are not aware of, not that they have no feelings. The implication and result of this fact is the phenomenon of projection. People think that others are feeling what they don't realize they are feeling. But it goes deeper. The fear of getting hit by lightning in an electrical storm is the result of guilt and self hate. You deserve to get hit. Somebody is watching because, actually, you are watching. The world is full of spirits because we are unconscious of our feelings and animate the world with our projections. We also think by the process of associations. The human mind is a gigantic association machine. I think about wishing my Mommy was dead and she dies. I did it. I killed my Mommy. I call this magical thinking. This was the world we lived in for a million years, the world where there was no boundary between what we feel and what happens. It is the world we still live in as children.

Humans have abilities. They can feel like happy chimps. That is how we are born. Happy chimps who like bananas, smile when they taste those sweet sweet treats. We are puppy dogs without tails. We wag inside. We have big toothy grins. Swinging through the trees, the aerial dance is joy. We were meant to fly through space. Aheeeaheeeeah.

When you take this happy brilliant chimp and crush him, teach him words like, 'you miserable piece of sh!t' why can't you be like DeadFred next door, you teach him to hate being a happy chimp, because being a happy chimp always leads t trouble. So we become deadmonkey, the little engine that could, but won't ever again.

So what happened to HappyChimp who died almost before he was born? What would have become of him had he lived? He gets projected too. He is what we call God. He is want we could have become.

Once in a while, for various curious reasons, HappyChimp comes to visit. He has a great big toothy grin. He will bring a wisdom that we will hate to hear, because no matter what, we don't ever want to think about HappyChimp again. He will say things like, 'He who looses DeadChimp in my name shall find HappyChimp swinging in his jungle.' Or 'The jungle is within you,' You can never tell. He might say that under all your pain is a bunch of bananas, or if you have a pumpkin I'll give you one and if you don't I'll take it away.

Now HappyChimp, to my knowledge has never called himself HappyChimp. That's just this monkey's way of talking about something he heard from a fellow with a very big toothy smile.
 
NO

Something someone made up to get money out of suckers like you, that and have you follow them as "GOD" put them in charge
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Now HappyChimp, to my knowledge has never called himself HappyChimp. That's just this monkey's way of talking about something he heard from a fellow with a very big toothy smile.
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Well said.
 
Originally posted by: Zorro
This should not be discussed here do to the the multiple views on this subject.
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multiple views on subjects is what makes ATOT, ATOT!

btw, there is no god.
 
I don't know what he is, but I did a pic search on google and his Pic sure doesn't look to inviting.
 
Originally posted by: Marlin1975
NO

Something someone made up to get money out of suckers like you, that and have you follow them as "GOD" put them in charge
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You know...I heard a lot of comlaints from people like you when I went treeplanting last year, and do you wanna know what I found to be the main cause? the catholic religion, frankly its one of the main reasons I dont agree with it, for years upon years they've been trying to sap the money outta people (comon...look at indulgences). Also theres the thought of the pope being at the top....your just generalizing religion God with that religion marlin....at my church, we never have to give any money, we dont even pass around an offering plate. Much less we dont put people in charge, our pastor's even been teaching in the last weeks how God wanted us all to be ministers for Him, not just a select few. And if you think putting a pastor at the head of church is the same thing, think about this, we can get rid of our pastor the second what he does doesnt seem right by God - afterall hes just there to teach us more about God, not to be Him.
 
I think for the most part that god does exist but he just wants us to be nice to each other.
because if we were all plesant and decent people to one another there would be no crime, no need no anything. there'd be no need for it.
 
God is the conciousness that will be created when enough computers connect to the internet.

Seriously, I feel that there is something greater than myslef, then all of us. I know not what it is, but I feel that it is there. I do not believe in a man sitting in a throne with long flowing white robes. I do think there is something though.
 
Originally posted by: FrozenYak
Ive always heard that like 95% of the world believes there is a God, yet from the way most of us act it seems we think he cant affect our lives. I met a guy once who thought that if God were to ever show himself to the world that he could be killed just like everyone else....so im wondering...what do you guys think God is? An omnipotent/omniscient being who we owe our very lives to? Or is he simply a being that watches us and helps when he feels like it? (and many of the other possible options.)
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For me, I believe in the God who is omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent, who has a plan for our lives, which we can follow or not. His son Jesus died so we can have a right relationship with Him.
 
I have no idea what God would be. It would be like asking an ant to define Bach. I am an ant, and I doubt my fellow ants know much more than another.
 
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