Home | Community | Message Board
You are not signed in.
Sign In New Account
Forum Index Search Posts Trusted Vendors Highlights Galleries FAQ User List Chat Store Random Growery


This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.

General Interest > Spirituality & Mysticism
Threaded Mode Threaded  Previous topic Previous  View all topics Index  Next topic Next 

Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Shop: Unfolding Nature Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order   Myyco.com Golden Teacher Liquid Culture For Sale

Jump to first unread post Pages: | 1 | 2  [ show all ]
Re: Survey on God? [Re: crunchytoast]
    #4775444 -

There are billions of universes inside the Absolutum. There are thought to be more Absolutums outside of our own, but that is unknown. God is the Absolutum. We are part of a universe in a Absolutum, we are God. :laugh:


--------------------

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Survey on God? [Re: Shroomism]
    #4776399 -

:laugh:*KungFu_Shaman bows to all who have posted or read* :laugh:

Thank you everybody...I hope the thread keeps going.


--------------------
Feel the wrath of Skeletor's breakfast burrito!

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Survey on God? [Re: KungFu_Shaman]
    #4776636 -

KungFu_Shaman said:
What is God? I'm just curious, on a personal level. I'd like to hear a short concise an answer of less than three sentances.

Answer in a Zen koan
Answer with theology or...
Answer from a scientific viewpoint

I'm just curious...

Thanks guys  :grin:



"God" is a word with obvious religious connotations, therefore I choose not to use it in descriptions of my experiences, as I don't think it is possible to use the word in a sense that does not conjure religious imagery.

However, having some sense of what you are asking...

"God" can be seen in ego loss.
"God" is my consciousness when I can get away from the concept of self to see the functionings of the world in such a way that there is no mystery. The divine sense of understanding the universe.
"God" is the creative force that drives the world.

And to clarify:

"God" is NOT some irrational super-entity who created us and controls our lives.
"God" is NOT our saviour.

"God" is a state of consciousness or being.


--------------------

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Survey on God? [Re: absolute zero]
    #4778207 -

Synonyms for God:

The Great Mystery
The Universe
The Source of All Being
Existance
Unity
Duality
Manna
Life Force
Tao
Buddha Nature
The Great Natural Perfection
Allah
Gnosis
Math
Consciousness
The Universal Consciousness
The Higher Self
The Realized Self
The Lack of Self
I Am
Self Aware Existance

Shall I go on? :crankey:


--------------------

http://www.myspace.com/sarasotafnb
http://www.wcwtampa.com

Edited by dr0mni (10/09/05 06:05 PM)

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Survey on God? [Re: KungFu_Shaman]
    #4780851 -

KungFu_Shaman said:
What is God? I'm just curious, on a personal level. I'd like to hear a short concise an answer of less than three sentances.

Answer in a Zen koan
Answer with theology or...
Answer from a scientific viewpoint

I'm just curious...

Thanks guys  :grin:


God is. He aswered the question himself. He is. That is the ultimate truth. God is.


--------------------
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Survey on God? [Re: Silversoul]
    #4780855 -

Paradigm said:
An excuse used by people too weak to take responsibility for their own life or too uncomfortable with uncertainty.


So you think falling short of what God intended us to be is a way to shirk responsiblility?


--------------------
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Survey on God? [Re: psyka]
    #4781633 -

" I do not understand where this "beauty" and "harmony" are supposed to be found. Throughout the animal kingdom, animals ruthlessly prey upon each other. Most of them are either cruelly killed by other animals or slowly die of hunger. For my part, I am unable to see any great beauty or harmony in the tapeworm. Let it not be said that this creature is sent as a punishment for our sins, for it is more prevalent among animals than among humans. I suppose the questioner is thinking of such things as the beauty of the starry heavens. But one should remember that stars every now and again explode and reduce everything in their neighborhood to a vague mist. Beauty, in any case, is subjective and exists only in the eye of the beholder. " - Bertrand Russell

psyka said:
God is beauty.







Behold, the sons of God.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Survey on God? [Re: newuser1492]
    #4782649 -

Quote:

    cb9fl said:
"Beauty, in any case, is subjective and exists only in the eye of the beholder. " - Bertrand Russell

  Quote:
psyka said:
God is beauty.


God is beauty.
But beauty is subjective, it exists only in the eye of the beholder.
God is beauty, but God only exists to the beholder.
Everyone has a concept of beauty (beauty = God)
Therefore everyone has a different concept of God.
Regardless, a concept of God (beauty) exists for everyone

Its circular, I know. But I just thought the connection between the Russell quote and what psyka said was interesting.

Please continue :laugh:


--------------------
Feel the wrath of Skeletor's breakfast burrito!

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Survey on God? [Re: KungFu_Shaman]
    #4782666 -

To paraphrase the great philosopher Pogo:

"We have met the deity, and he is us."

:heart:

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Survey on God? [Re: Veritas]
    #4784949 -

Bertrand Russell is a bit of a turd...


--------------------

http://www.myspace.com/sarasotafnb
http://www.wcwtampa.com

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Survey on God? [Re: dr0mni]
    #4785450 -

Agreed. His contributions to formalizing logic were incredible though.


--------------------
Feel the wrath of Skeletor's breakfast burrito!

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Survey on God? [Re: KungFu_Shaman]
    #4788879 -

Is Agape...pure selfless love God?


--------------------
Feel the wrath of Skeletor's breakfast burrito!

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Survey on God? [Re: KungFu_Shaman]
    #4789346 -

God is a human attempt to give understandable characteristics to the unexplainable and the unknowable. Naturally, this leads to anthropomorphic qualities being assigned to the concept.


--------------------
Money doesn't grow on trees, but deficits do grow under Bushes.

You can accept, reject, or examine and test any new idea that comes to you. The wise man chooses the third way.
- Tom Willhite

Disclaimer: I reserve the right to change my opinions should I become aware of additional facts, the falsification of information or different perspectives. Articles written by others which I post may not necessarily reflect my opinions in part or in whole, my opinions may be in direct opposition, the topic may be one on which I have yet to formulate an opinion or have doubts about, an article may be posted solely with the intent to stimulate discussion or contemplation.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Survey on God? [Re: Prosgeopax]
    #4789583 -

:thumbup:


--------------------
Feel the wrath of Skeletor's breakfast burrito!

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Survey on God? [Re: Deviate]
    #4789720 -

Quote:
brahman


They named a noodle soup after God!!

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Survey on God? [Re: CaptainExtra]
    #4799136 -

mmmmm....tastes divine...


--------------------
Feel the wrath of Skeletor's breakfast burrito!

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: | 1 | 2  [ show all ]

Shop: Unfolding Nature Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order   Myyco.com Golden Teacher Liquid Culture For Sale

General Interest > Spirituality & Mysticism
Threaded Mode Threaded  Previous topic Previous  View all topics Index  Next topic Next 

Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* Heaven is coming to earth *the sequel*
( 1 2 3 4 ... 51 52 )		 zorbman 182,880 1,020 03/15/18 06:53 PM
by BrendanFlock
* Alien offers humankind the secrets of the Universe ShroomismM 6,828 14 11/18/13 01:19 AM
by Yesod
* Psychological and metaphysical aspects of Music
( 1 2 3 4 5 6 all )		 Blastrid 34,635 107 12/08/16 01:45 AM
by Fractaliopsybe
* Dream Thread
( 1 2 3 4 ... 12 13 )		 ShroomismM 52,386 253 05/24/24 03:39 AM
by Buster_Brown
* questions on chakras
( 1 2 all )		 exclusive58 10,307 24 04/26/16 06:15 PM
by MarkostheGnostic
* public apology tryptonite 312 1 03/03/18 08:28 AM
by Monkey92
* Om Alaipzi - A Spirit Song set to Music AsanteM 433 6 03/03/18 05:18 PM
by Asante
* Christ
( 1 2 3 4 5 all )		 flickedbic 5,820 93 03/04/18 05:19 PM
by MarkostheGnostic

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: Middleman, Asante, Shroomism, Rose, Kickle, yogabunny, Northerner, DividedQuantum
7,345 topic views. 0 members, 132 guests and 16 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2026 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.028 seconds spending 0.007 seconds on 15 queries.