RE: A former agnostic, with doubts?
September 7, 2014 at 12:11 pm
(This post was last modified: September 7, 2014 at 1:54 pm by Whateverist.)
In all seriousness, from what I've seen of it, there is nothing wrong with your thinking. If you find you need god in the world to make sense of it, or even if you just like the world better with god in it, then go for it.
From my own observations, the structure of our consciousness and the way it functions does indeed make god a good fit. Of course god is first and foremost poorly defined so I'd begin there. What is god for you?
For me, what may be interpreted as god in our subjective experience, lives there and there only. I posit a great deal of significance to it. I don't however find any reason to think it has any existence apart from me. Let me be clear though. It isn't that god depends on me, it is entirely the other way around. My conscious mind is the child of my greater consciousness. It is I (talking to you now) who am dependent and incomplete. 'God' is greater.
But omni-anything? That's just hyperbole. I don't find any reason to think that the 'god' of consciousness had any creative role in the cosmos. The on-board 'god' of consciousness has created the subjective world and our sense of identity within it.
Hear me oh 'god' of consciousness. Kudos to you on-board god, wouldn't be here without you. Always appreciate your greater insight when you make it available. But of course You have made me because I have something to offer which You need too. You depend on me to intuit the intentions of others and to understand the cultural norms within which we must live. From time to time we need to get together just to remember who we are and what really matters. But for the most part we each do our part in our own way. And that is how we live. Mutual respect and appreciation goes a long way.
From my own observations, the structure of our consciousness and the way it functions does indeed make god a good fit. Of course god is first and foremost poorly defined so I'd begin there. What is god for you?
For me, what may be interpreted as god in our subjective experience, lives there and there only. I posit a great deal of significance to it. I don't however find any reason to think it has any existence apart from me. Let me be clear though. It isn't that god depends on me, it is entirely the other way around. My conscious mind is the child of my greater consciousness. It is I (talking to you now) who am dependent and incomplete. 'God' is greater.
But omni-anything? That's just hyperbole. I don't find any reason to think that the 'god' of consciousness had any creative role in the cosmos. The on-board 'god' of consciousness has created the subjective world and our sense of identity within it.
Hear me oh 'god' of consciousness. Kudos to you on-board god, wouldn't be here without you. Always appreciate your greater insight when you make it available. But of course You have made me because I have something to offer which You need too. You depend on me to intuit the intentions of others and to understand the cultural norms within which we must live. From time to time we need to get together just to remember who we are and what really matters. But for the most part we each do our part in our own way. And that is how we live. Mutual respect and appreciation goes a long way.
