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Of course God exists, and He exists differently than our cerebral capacities can comprehend, and of course he is so powerful that he had given clues about him but very little. Maybe we must have a bigger cerebrum to comprehend the nature of God. There are no clues regarding the existence of God, and the one we have is also not with full evidence. Yet it is really interesting to believe God that gives us great amounts of comfort and warmth in life
I second that notion.
God exists and differently of course than what we normally base our ideas on mythological ideas and as a matter of fact I feel that there is some source of consciousness. I cannot subscribe to the ideas that nature is just chaotic. What we call nature is also a combination of different beings. I beleive that there is no entirely inanimate things in nature. Even all inanimate beings there is some vibrations and that vibrant is something close to life.
I feel that even rocks, rivers, mountains, soil all are kind of living beings, and something of life passes through them. '
We humans are totally ignorant of something that goes with nature.
And God is that spirit, that universal spirit that goes with everything in nature in point of fact.
I never can stop thinking about God.
This is not a church. To paraphrase Nietzsche, a deep thought makes it no truer than strong faith makes something true. I criticize not your attempt to prove the existence of god, but the rather weak attempt at converting people or inspiring stronger faith through the use of a not even superficial allegorical tale. To attempt to convert others, it will take other measures of far greater complexity to convert a person convinced that god does not exist, and to strengthen the faith of a believer typically it is a tragedy happening to said person to inspire greater reliance on a deity to deal with the pain. Otherwise, I imagine to a believer this is no more than a "nice thought", such is the nature of chain mail philosophy.
Considering other peoples beliefs are to be respected, I am not criticizing your belief -- that is a persons personal choice and despite my own convictions every man and woman is entitled to whatever he or she would like to believe on -- merely your approach at inspiring belief.
God is something that is not different from what we see, nature, the construct of it and all in togetherness, in integrity boils down to the meaning of God.
I may oftentimes contradict myself in some places. We are not always sure of the thing we say at times and ideas change every so often.
Is God then decay, effluent, mindless slaughter, pain and suffering, ugliness, death and injustice?Quote:
Originally Posted by blazeofglory
What God is and is not is a great question and we can hardly answer this. To me God is what we see everyday and what we do everyday. God is just not a being or non-being. God is this cosmos and all creatures included. The problem is not with Godliness or Godlessness, but with our understanding of God. We try to God' capacities in terms scientific or theological gauges. God is all these phenomena plus something more, something that cannot be contained in our cerebral contexts.
Or else what man is, his imaginative and inventive faculties. Man is not confined to physical peripheries, and he transcends physical entities and traverses immeasurable distances, and there is something, I do not know what that energizes or empowers man to do something unthinkable in point of fact. Is that God. That is the question.
God is indefinable. Man has searched for centuries to define god, but never will. Because god is a man-made concept, with indistinct boundaries and unclear attributes, man will forever find unsatisfactory and insufficient approximations of god. All language used to describe god sounds unconvincing and ephemeral, because the language is not referring to something that we can all perceive, but rather to an idea that is forever adapting to the times.
God is something we are always occupied with and we can not escape from God at least the thought of it. And we will be placed in a comfort zone with the thought of God.
It is really interesting to think about God for now without the thought of God we may be disoriented culturally too. I am really afraid.
blaze of glory,
you are really afraid? of what?
What I am really afraid of is today if we are culturally disoriented there is likelihood that we lose the harmony we are living over centuries
I suppose it depends on whether you actually are culturally disoriented or not. What exactly does this mean?
My cultural compass is just fine.
Culture always adapts if it is to remain alive. i cannot see that culture can become disoriented. it is more likely that we become disoriented towards our culture, because we fail to adapt to change.
If someone is "culturally disoriented" that means that the individual is disoriented (in respect to culture), just as a person who is "occasionally unhappy" is unhappy only sometimes. So I think blaze and the others are in agreement with you on this point.Quote:
Originally Posted by atiguhya padma
I think it would usually mean that a person lacks understanding of expectations regarding cultural structures and norms (e.g. what's funny; what is acceptable; what symbols, rituals, social transactions, etc. mean; maybe what one's place in the culture is; and other things like that). Moving to another country, people sometimes experience culture shock (their compass is often 'shockingly' wrong)--I think that's kind of what it might mean.Quote:
Originally Posted by Red-Headed
Yes, I can see that. I was just puzzled by the original post's generalisation. Anyway, I thought that was the whole point of the postmodern world we now live in! :nod: :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by billl
I agree with your points. It must assimilate new ideas always so that it will be strongerQuote:
Originally Posted by atiguhya padma