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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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RE: What is a 'god'? A poll for anyone with an opinion about what all the fuss is about.
March 2, 2014 at 6:43 am
(March 1, 2014 at 9:52 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Wassup Ray Wink

Did Allah not create angels and demons? I'm not saying that they could or should be the same as him/ her/ he/ she/ it, just possibly share this attribute. And how can you know that he didn't create anything infinite? Seems a bold statement. Just genuinely interested in your expression of faith.

S'all good, fr0d0. Alhamdulillah. Wink

But now coming to your question, I think that angels, demons, Heaven Hell, the afterlife, souls, etc. ... these things are not infinite because they had a beginning. Having a beginning conveys the idea that it did not exist at some point, which means that its length of time for existence is not infinite. But something absolutely infinite/eternal cannot be thought to not exist at some point because it is always there, it is present at all times (not just into the future but into the past as well).

Therefore God is the only one who is actually infinite. He has no beginning and no end.
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RE: What is a 'god'? A poll for anyone with an opinion about what all the fuss is about. - by Rayaan - March 2, 2014 at 6:43 am

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