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What is a 'god'? A poll for anyone with an opinion about what all the fuss is about.

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.
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March 2, 2014 at 12:58 pm
(March 2, 2014 at 8:37 am)whateverist Wrote: Are "infinite" and "eternal" the same thing where "God/Allah" are concerned?

I always took infinite to mean God's existence has no limits and is immense with no limit to his greatness. I always took eternal to mean he always existed.
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RE: What is a 'god'? A poll for anyone with an opinion about what all the fuss is about.
March 2, 2014 at 11:12 pm
(March 2, 2014 at 12:58 pm)MysticKnight Wrote:
(March 2, 2014 at 8:37 am)whateverist Wrote: Are "infinite" and "eternal" the same thing where "God/Allah" are concerned?

I always took infinite to mean God's existence has no limits and is immense with no limit to his greatness. I always took eternal to mean he always existed.

That would be Helium (He)
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
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