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Poll: What do you think gods are?
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God is a being with awareness of others and of everything in the physical world which he himself brought into being. Literally.
3.23%
1 3.23%
There is a propensity for people to attribute to God what is beyond their limited conscious mind, which lies hidden from them in the deeper levels of the unconscious mind.
12.90%
4 12.90%
God is an artifact of early man's attempt to understand the world around him. Essentially God is a mistake in understanding and that is all.
29.03%
9 29.03%
God is a kind of shared social hallucination. It is a form of insanity albeit a common one.
25.81%
8 25.81%
Belief in gods is a social practice. The perception of a god is the result of a kind of group hypnosis. Who knows how social practices come into being or why, but once established they are self perpetuating.
16.13%
5 16.13%
Other, please elaborate.
12.90%
4 12.90%
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What is a 'god'? A poll for anyone with an opinion about what all the fuss is about.
#31
RE: What is a 'god'? A poll for anyone with an opinion about what all the fuss is about.
(March 1, 2014 at 6:14 pm)fr0d0 Wrote:
(March 1, 2014 at 5:57 pm)truthBtold Wrote: Not his or her attributes. . Physically define god. . Can u do that for me?

God isn't physical.

Well that was easy

That wasnt hard to answer.
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#32
RE: What is a 'god'? A poll for anyone with an opinion about what all the fuss is about.
(March 1, 2014 at 6:13 pm)truthBtold Wrote: Are u saying that it exits?

Everything exists, truth be told.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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#33
RE: What is a 'god'? A poll for anyone with an opinion about what all the fuss is about.
(March 1, 2014 at 6:22 pm)Alice Wrote:
(March 1, 2014 at 6:13 pm)truthBtold Wrote: Are u saying that it exits?

Everything exists, truth be told.

Very good.. ur making a positive claim sooooo go on...
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#34
RE: What is a 'god'? A poll for anyone with an opinion about what all the fuss is about.
(March 1, 2014 at 6:15 pm)truthBtold Wrote:
(March 1, 2014 at 6:14 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: God isn't physical.

Well that was easy

That wasnt hard to answer.

So you're happy now?
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#35
RE: What is a 'god'? A poll for anyone with an opinion about what all the fuss is about.
(March 1, 2014 at 6:28 pm)fr0d0 Wrote:
(March 1, 2014 at 6:15 pm)truthBtold Wrote: That wasnt hard to answer.

So you're happy now?

Yes sir..
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#36
RE: What is a 'god'? A poll for anyone with an opinion about what all the fuss is about.
(March 1, 2014 at 6:24 pm)truthBtold Wrote: Very good.. ur making a positive claim sooooo go on...

I certainly can't name something that doesn't exist.

Truth be told, I don't think you're all that logical Smile
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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#37
RE: What is a 'god'? A poll for anyone with an opinion about what all the fuss is about.
(March 1, 2014 at 6:31 pm)Alice Wrote:
(March 1, 2014 at 6:24 pm)truthBtold Wrote: Very good.. ur making a positive claim sooooo go on...

I certainly can't name something that doesn't exist.

Truth be told, I don't think you're all that logical Smile

Ur making a poss claim again..
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#38
RE: What is a 'god'? A poll for anyone with an opinion about what all the fuss is about.
(March 1, 2014 at 6:42 pm)truthBtold Wrote: Ur making a poss claim again..

Well, thank goodness I am not making an impossible claim instead.

Does tautology upset you? Truth be told, I cannot see the issue for which you need a tissue. Perhaps you could illuminate this for me?
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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#39
RE: What is a 'god'? A poll for anyone with an opinion about what all the fuss is about.
Most interpretations hold that gods and spirits are *intangible*. Such could not be physically defined... *because they are not physical beings.*

this is ur claim... u believe in something with no evidence..
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#40
RE: What is a 'god'? A poll for anyone with an opinion about what all the fuss is about.
(March 1, 2014 at 4:21 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: The definitions serve an atheist view point, so that's hardly surprising. God is pretty comprehensively defined I find.

The poll alienates the non deists by pandering to deism, then alienated deism by factoring literalism, where deists want to be anything but tied down.

Sadly, this thread has turned into another atheist only naval gazing party, slagging off opposing views.

But consider the source. Figures I'd be more familiar with the varieties of atheist thought. Oh well it is a start. I'm not satisfied with the options either.
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