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Re: how is is God? [Re: Love Cap]
#7820797 - 01/01/08 05:13 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Yes. My question was not when did they took place, but what about them.
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no, no... I don't think you understand MY question... say right now is the year 2008 AD. and then there's year 258 BC. well what about the year when jesus was 17? that's not AD or BC...?
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Re: how is is God? [Re: Love Cap]
#7820899 - 01/01/08 05:44 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Again, I perfectly understood your question. My question to you was: how is this relevant to this topic?
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A.D. doesn't stand for "After Death". It stands for "Anno Domine". http://archaeology.about.com/od/aterms/g/ad.htm
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Thank you, THAT answers my question.
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I suppose my question wasn't too relevant but who are you to ask that when you obviously didn't know the answer to my question?
The concept of God: I think is the under lying drive we have just being apart of nature. I think it's been alive as long there has been a universe, or anything, to put an age on it is to limit something that is infinite.
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Re: how is is God? [Re: Love Cap]
#7821243 - 01/01/08 07:14 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I think it's been alive as long there has been a universe
How do you know that? Do WE exist from the first moment that the universe has started to exist? Because that's what the question is about: how old is the concept of god (in the human mind - since we don't know if other animals or extra terrestrial beings have this concept). We can only talk about ourselves.
My guess is that the concept of god came out of the need to find an explanation to things/events which our minds could not grasp. So a more appropriate question would be: when was the first time that we didn't understand?
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that IS a better question.
Or when did HUMANS get the concept?
I say it's been alive as long as the universe because I think it's apart of the universe. We as humans came up with our own perspectives of it, but I think it's all of that together. I can almost comfortably say that god IS the universe, and everything living in it.
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Re: how is is God? [Re: Love Cap]
#7821315 - 01/01/08 07:32 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Then why call it god? The notion of god is TOO bonded by ambiguous and variating religious definitions. Why limit the complexity of this universe to such a term?
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MushroomTrip said: Then why call it god?
Because human beings get infected with viruses that they carry with them. People enjoy the feeling of being used by a meme to propagate itself further virally.
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Oh now you said it!  I am sure that manbearpig was created on the same principle
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MushroomTrip said: Then why call it god? The notion of god is TOO bonded by ambiguous and variating religious definitions. Why limit the complexity of this universe to such a term?
exactly. this is why i don't like the term 'god'. that's just what was used in this forum
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MushroomTrip said: Then why call it god? The notion of god is TOO bonded by ambiguous and variating religious definitions. Why limit the complexity of this universe to such a term?
So, what do you recommend people call "God" - to make you feel more comfortable with the term....? The term "you" is ambiguous to all of the complexities that are of YOU, but you are still simply you.... 
Three letter words seem to be key.... 
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This is true, but to grasp the concept of 'god' i think is beyond language, and expression all together.
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Re: how is is God? [Re: Love Cap]
#7821792 - 01/01/08 09:35 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Love Cap said: This is true, but to grasp the concept of 'god' i think is beyond language, and expression all together.
agreeed
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Re: how is is God? [Re: Love Cap]
#7821795 - 01/01/08 09:36 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Love Cap said: This is true, but to grasp the concept of 'god' i think is beyond language, and expression all together.
This is true.... But..... The same can also be said about the universe itself, or life, or a person, or an atom, or a painting, or a piece of music, or, or, or..... The words are terms given to help the listener understand the speaker's intent and direction.... We can't know you are talking about _____, unless you say that you are talking about _____.... Ya know....? 
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of course! This is why we have language! Describing life and your inner self I think is the same thing as describing god, because I think they are all essentially the same thing. But I think when it comes to a piece of music or a painting, it's different, because they are expressions in itself. Also, they are on a physical level, you can see it plainly, you can hear it plainly, therefor they are easier to put into language. As for god, the universe, our inner self, and so on, they are intangible, and I think that something like that, like a certain feeling, is almost impossible to express. Of course to talk about these kinds of things we DO come up with a way, but it's like going to church or something, these people can talk about it all day long, but they're not experiencing it for thierselves, which is about the only way you can grasp those kinds of things.
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Re: how old is God? [Re: Love Cap]
#7821858 - 01/01/08 09:57 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Love Cap said: But I think when it comes to a piece of music or a painting, it's different, because they are expressions in itself. Also, they are on a physical level, you can see it plainly, you can hear it plainly, therefor they are easier to put into language.
Can you have 10 or 20 people sit down independently and write a description about the same dramatic abstract painting and really convey the same emotion that the painting gives by invoking a feeling thru words.....? Will all of those descriptions of that one painting be the same.....? 
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Love Cap said: As for god, the universe, our inner self, and so on, they are intangible, and I think that something like that, like a certain feeling, is almost impossible to express.
Only in general terms.... Either way, a little bit is lost in the translation of personal perception/bias....
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you believe in God!!
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