So does this restrict the kinds of propositions about God that one can put forth? — uncanni
eternal First and Fundamental Being, with a creative Mind, — PoeticUniverse
What if the Mind isn't a part, but the totality of the First and Fundamental Being? — uncanni
Then we are all made of God-stuff, as the atman in the Brahman.
Or, without God's Mind, we are all made of the base existence.
All that 'is' already is, complete. — PoeticUniverse
I thought consensus, or something close, was the idea too. I called it what I called it because that's what I was looking for, if it was/is there to be found?
— Pattern-chaser
So does this restrict the kinds of propositions about God that one can put forth? I thought I was getting close to consensus with at least some folks, while others were never seeking consensus. — uncanni
I assumed that Everything was God; I thought we came to that conclusion--at least, I had. — uncanni
the activity of the reciprocation of bestowal and reception in perpetuity
Elohim — A Gnostic Agnostic
and this is how knowledge of good and evil is attained. — A Gnostic Agnostic
Whence evil? — uncanni
To sum it up: we just invented God that is like us: emotional, vengeful etc. , just because our limited imagination couldn't do better than that. Frankly, I think it's pitiful. — enqramot
I think we should focus on practical matters and things that we are able to grasp. And accept, that some things remain unexplicable. At least for now. — enqramot
It's when I contemplate evil, which I consider entirely human-made, that I'm left asking more and more questions. I never consider this issue from the standpoint of original sin or any other kind of origin of evil; I'm personally not concerned with origin in this case. — uncanni
We suspect as much, but this thread's OP ignores that kind of literal, Biblical 'God', since it is disproved by contradictions and science. — PoeticUniverse
Not sure what you mean there :)Still, it gets one to thinking about alternatives and what can and cannot coincide, philosophically, beyond the Person-Hood Mind aspect that gets abandoned, such as deriving Existence to be here all at once, as ever/eternal, and what that would further imply, as I've hinted earlier, such as it having to be an everything of no information content, as not anything in particular, for it seems to have no inputs of cause that can go into it, due to its no beginning, and so the effects would be as random. — PoeticUniverse
Not sure what you mean there — enqramot
Hidden in the word ‘Evolution’ which as an anagram…
is the meaning
Outlive On
which means literally metaphorically to outlive the others,
in order to survive and live on, and
Vile No Out
Vile On Out
which symbolically means that we can go either way, vile or not, and
Live On Out
which the wise old ancients took to mean to live well and look alive, and
Evil No Out
Evil On Out
which the symbolic Bible reveals to have a mixture of good and ‘bad’ is best, and
Novel I Out
which is the story of evolution read to us by the fossils, and
Ovule In To
Love In Out
which means for man and woman to know each other
in the Biblical way to procreate and recreate, and, finally
Love I Unto
which proves beyond all doubt that
evolution = love. — PoeticUniverse
How long did it take to originate? — ZhouBoTong
It was fast, for there are sites on the internet for making anagrams. — PoeticUniverse
The question you're asking is huge. People have literally written books on who/what god is, they still do all the time. I don't think it is realistic to find a one size fits all description it's just more of a personal answer thing. — Sunnyside
Laudable it certainly is, this is one of the most interesting discussions I have ever seen here or elsewhere. — Sunnyside
Happy to see that you're not from the dark side. — PoeticUniverse
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