How would You Paint God?

I see 'God' as Einstein did. Therefore, I would paint the universe. Perhaps I would do so with a metaphor.. Hmm.. Maybe I should take out my paints and canvases :D

How would you paint God? With a lot of paint. God's big.

In my novel The Valley of Fire, I portray God as distant, funny, unknowable, desitic-inspired, and genderless. The last part is the toughest, writing dialogue for a character without using gender specific pronouns - but fun.

I've been working on a painting of Krishna for some time and I've finally realized that although He commonly is described as being blue the right hues for His divine person are various shades of purple.

I read somewhere that only Krishna's incarnation has blue, or purple skin, and in reality his divine form cannot be perceived properly by mortals. So, what we see of Him in paintings is simply a derivation of the artist, and is actually different for whosoever sees him, as is their own reality of maya. :D Unsure if it's true or not, but I have a very broad range of reading material. :)

Yes his Krishna's divine form is probably too intense for humans to handle when perceived. In the Gita when He discourses with Arjuna the latter keeps forgetting he is talking to God because uninterupted awareness of such discourse would be too intense for him as well. Krishna's name literally means "black" in Sanskrit, and many, such as Thomas Mann in his novella "The Transposed Heads", have made much of the cult of Krishna as having broken the color barriers that had initially been set up by the Aryan invaders of the Indian sub-continent so long ago, but I think the best description of Krishna's appearence comes from the Vedanta which says He has "a body colored like rain clouds, wrapped in garments resembling lightning and garlanded in forest flowers."

Those are lovely excerpts. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. :)

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Originally Posted by BookBeauty

I see 'God' as Einstein did. Therefore, I would paint the universe. Perhaps I would do so with a metaphor.. Hmm.. Maybe I should take out my paints and canvases :D

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Hey BookBeauty this sounds great.
Would you post it here?:smile5:

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Originally Posted by Brett Cottrell

How would you paint God? With a lot of paint. God's big.

In my novel The Valley of Fire, I portray God as distant, funny, unknowable, desitic-inspired, and genderless. The last part is the toughest, writing dialogue for a character without using gender specific pronouns - but fun.

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hey that sounds lots of fun.
I had somewhere discussed something about using a pronoun that describes both a man and a woman together.
I decided to make one up because there is not one at the minute.
It annoyed me then because my story was about a person that feels both a man and a woman .
I reckon youshould make your one up too.
Let your reader know that youmade it up and use it to write your story.

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Originally Posted by begirl001

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I'm confused...what is trolling?

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Originally Posted by BienvenuJDC

I'm confused...what is trolling?

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It's when you make a post that has absolutly nothing to do with the topic of discussion for the purposes of derailing a thread or making people angry. Ironically, whatserface's one-sentence post of "this is trolling" was, in fact, trolling.

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Originally Posted by JuniperWoolf

It's when you make a post that has absolutly nothing to do with the topic of discussion for the purposes of derailing a thread or making people angry. Ironically, whatserface's one-sentence post of "this is trolling" was, in fact, trolling.

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I understand what trolling is. What I meant was...What HERE is trolling. I didn't see anything in this thread that was trolling with exception of what you just pointed out.

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Originally Posted by BienvenuJDC

I understand what trolling is. What I meant was...What HERE is trolling.

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Haha, oh. Sorry.