RE: My view of a god
February 18, 2014 at 10:29 pm
(This post was last modified: February 18, 2014 at 10:31 pm by Gooders1002.)
(February 18, 2014 at 8:50 pm)Shep Wrote: Hi Gooders,
So you'd believe in some kind of pantheistic/panentheistic god(s)?
I don't get quite those meanings, but I am unsure of its existence, so I believe that either there is no god or god is the universe and we are part of it, whether it knows and/or cares were there or not I have no clue.
(February 17, 2014 at 6:43 pm)houseofcantor Wrote: The problem with the term "god" is that it is an identity, subject to transference and projection. Identity is built from exclusion; the universe, by definition, inclusion.
I see what you mean, but I have no better word for it.
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful" - Edward Gibbon (Offen misattributed to Lucius Annaeus Seneca or Seneca the Younger) (Thanks to apophenia for the correction)
'I am driven by two main philosophies:
Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain
'I am driven by two main philosophies:
Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain
