(August 24, 2014 at 10:53 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Saying the universe is God doesn't achieve anything but a semantic conflation. It does not have any useful implications, unless you define either the universe or God in a way to merit the use of both terms.To me the g-word is a metaphor for the consciousness of the big picture. It's important to be conscious of the big picture. It's a valuable point of reference. I recognize mass psychology as the behavior of one character. The big picture also reveals that we are intuitively turning the planet into a cyborg at a rapid pace. And the galaxy is next. The only question is sustainability. That's where morality comes in.
god is supposed to be imaginary
