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InvisibleJessica Swift
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The Creation of God * 1
    #16023036 - 03/31/12 08:25 AM (11 years, 9 months ago)



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Re: The Creation of God [Re: Jessica Swift]
    #16023123 - 03/31/12 08:57 AM (11 years, 9 months ago)

Something like that.  I suspect god(s) are a creation of our fears based on our impermanence/death.  Our need to placate the forces of nature over which we felt powerless and could destroy us at any moment. We needed to figure away to appease these forces in our favor. Thus the creation of  a powerful being that we could make sacrifice to so as to preserve our existence.  My guess.


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Re: The Creation of God [Re: Icelander]
    #16023188 - 03/31/12 09:13 AM (11 years, 9 months ago)

I've seen it proposed somewhere that Michelangelo was actually an atheist, and that, in the Creation of Adam, the shape formed by God and the angels and the sheet behind them closely resembles a brain, which would suggest that it's all in our head.  Not sure if it's true, but I thought it was interesting.


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Re: The Creation of God [Re: St. Stephen]
    #16024725 - 03/31/12 03:08 PM (11 years, 9 months ago)

If God is a figment of my imagination, its ok. He is my best creation after all, I cause Him to bring me much bliss, much joy. To create something beyond oneself, something beautiful beyond words, this is pure imagination. The great saint Ramakrishna said that God appears in the form we love most.

"God assumes forms for the sake of His devotees. Through ecstatic love a devotee sees God with form. Dhruva had a vision of the Lord. He said: 'Why don't your ear-rings move?' The Lord said, 'They will move if you move them.'"


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Re: The Creation of God [Re: Jessica Swift]
    #16027594 - 04/01/12 02:49 AM (11 years, 9 months ago)

for me the creation of god would be a thought bubble coming from a black hole with the word 'I' in it :lol:


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Re: The Creation of God [Re: Jessica Swift] * 1
    #16027771 - 04/01/12 04:49 AM (11 years, 9 months ago)

this post belongs in the philosophy forum


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Re: The Creation of God [Re: Chronic7] * 1
    #16028583 - 04/01/12 10:17 AM (11 years, 9 months ago)

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for me the creation of god would be a thought bubble coming from a black hole with the word 'I' in it :lol:




The two go hand in hand. There is no creation of God or "other" without the existence of "I."


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Re: The Creation of God [Re: Symbols]
    #16028625 - 04/01/12 10:31 AM (11 years, 9 months ago)

exactly :thumbup:


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Re: The Creation of God [Re: yeah]
    #16029920 - 04/01/12 04:09 PM (11 years, 9 months ago)

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yeah said:
this post belongs in the philosophy forum




It looks like the OP deals with a strictly spiritual topic to me.


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Re: The Creation of God [Re: Jessica Swift]
    #16029930 - 04/01/12 04:11 PM (11 years, 9 months ago)

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I've always imagined it differently :confused:


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Re: The Creation of God [Re: Kickle]
    #16029957 - 04/01/12 04:17 PM (11 years, 9 months ago)

Me too.  :yesnod:



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Re: The Creation of God [Re: deCypher] * 1
    #16030005 - 04/01/12 04:27 PM (11 years, 9 months ago)

:rofl2:

God: Rampant penis-tickler.


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as I’ll be with contemplation and study—
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Re: The Creation of God [Re: Kickle]
    #16030132 - 04/01/12 04:53 PM (11 years, 9 months ago)

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yeah said:
this post belongs in the philosophy forum




It looks like the OP deals with a strictly spiritual topic to me.




How is telling everyone you're an atheist and leaving it at that a spiritual discussion? It's not spiritual at all.


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Re: The Creation of God [Re: yeah]
    #16030162 - 04/01/12 05:02 PM (11 years, 9 months ago)

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yeah said:
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Kickle said:
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yeah said:
this post belongs in the philosophy forum




It looks like the OP deals with a strictly spiritual topic to me.




How is telling everyone you're an atheist and leaving it at that a spiritual discussion? It's not spiritual at all.




The OP didn't deny the existence of God in the slightest :shrug:


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Re: The Creation of God [Re: Jessica Swift]
    #16030404 - 04/01/12 06:05 PM (11 years, 9 months ago)

Has anyone here ever noticed that God is painted inside the shape of a human brain? From my scholarly endeavors, I have gotten that Michelangelo did that intentionally. Kind of makes this take on the painting redundant or is suggestive that the belief that God is an imaginary conjuration of our minds is in itself imaginary....
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Re: The Creation of God [Re: Kickle]
    #16030405 - 04/01/12 06:05 PM (11 years, 9 months ago)

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Kickle said:
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yeah said:
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Kickle said:
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yeah said:
this post belongs in the philosophy forum




It looks like the OP deals with a strictly spiritual topic to me.




How is telling everyone you're an atheist and leaving it at that a spiritual discussion? It's not spiritual at all.




The OP didn't deny the existence of God in the slightest :shrug:



Did you look at the image that was posted? Give me a break.


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Re: The Creation of God [Re: yeah] * 2
    #16031070 - 04/01/12 08:30 PM (11 years, 9 months ago)

Sure. Here is an alternative interpretation for you if the picture is so offensive to you. When you think about God, when God is on your mind, it is a way of reaching out to God.

Your negativity about the topic is wholly unnecessary IMO and well within your abilities to interpret as you see fit. The OP may be an atheist but did not state as much. And if the OP is making an atheistic statement it is still welcome in this forum, as it relates to their individual spirituality. Your personal qualms are of no consequence when no one is personally being attacked.


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Re: The Creation of God [Re: Kickle] * 1
    #16031635 - 04/01/12 11:45 PM (11 years, 9 months ago)

Thanks, Kickle.

And for the record, I'm not an "athiest," nor any other label or -ism. Boxes are for cereal and dead people, not my ever-expanding worldview. :wink:

Some days I even contradict myself. Oops! :shocked:


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Re: The Creation of God [Re: Jessica Swift]
    #16032214 - 04/02/12 03:49 AM (11 years, 9 months ago)

yes its a shape of a human brain indeed, The universe is mental held in the mind of the all. I suggest you to watch this youtube channels playlist http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6B46808F4660E38C&feature=plcp and the other interesting videos in there.


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Re: The Creation of God [Re: Guesstimate]
    #16057259 - 04/07/12 02:25 PM (11 years, 9 months ago)

God as a bearded dude who created the universe 6000 years ago is undoubtedly an exclusively imaginary construct.

God as the uncaused cause for all that exists, or the laws of physics, or a transcendent consciousness that is the ground of being (or Being itself), or all of the above, is not so easily dismissed.

Then again, the former is a metaphor for the latter if you ask me.


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