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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?
This poll is closed.
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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RE: What is a 'god'? A poll for anyone with an opinion about what all the fuss is about.
March 1, 2014 at 9:15 am
(March 1, 2014 at 4:23 am)fr0d0 Wrote: None apply. God is realised through conceptual thinking. I'd have to adjust #1 to include belief to be correct.

He also acts as well as observes.

Thanks for the clarification.

Hmm .. so I should have included a "God is a theory" or perhaps "God is an inescapable result of logic correctly applied"? Is that what you have in mind?

I considered specifying the capacity to act with His creation and/or His ongoing concern for His creation, but decided to avoid the theism/deism divide. I figured his stature as a being with some sort of consciousness, intentions and so on would catch both.
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RE: What is a 'god'? A poll for anyone with an opinion about what all the fuss is about. - by Whateverist - March 1, 2014 at 9:15 am

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