Hi, I'm the Godhead

[Paul the Human]

In terms of intelligent design, I don't believe that god ever decided to create anything at all. I believe that everything in existence is already god, was never created, but a manifestation of god. You could say that god is the "untouchable, undefinable, ungraspable (therefore "unprovable") centre of ourselves and everything, and the "us" that we are aware of and interact with / amongst ourselves, is the subjective side of god. A good way of putting it is in the words of, or to paraphrase Bill Hicks (I hate quoting other people but this is a good illustration of what I mean) that we are god subjectively experiencing itself (end paraphrase as this next bit is my own-->) No wonder we can't prove that god exists. We're too occupied being god. That's why I find the idea of proving god so funny. It can't be done because it's right under our noses to such an extent that to "prove" it simply involves knowing it.

I think I get what you're saying. It makes me think of a 'Hive Mind' situation, in a way. Sounds very sci-fi to me (as opposed to mythological fantasy, like most religions). In fact, I'm reading a book right now that presents the universe as an infinitely huge being in which we are less than electrons.

I don't reject science, and it doesn't and never has conflicted with my beliefs. I've never come across anything scientific which is in conflict (and therefore challenges, within myself) my views.

That's nice to hear from a theist. Maybe you're not the same old brand of crazy afterall. Heheh.

Here's a question for you. Pantheism has been called 'sexed-up atheism'. Would you call your beliefs (Panentheism) 'sexed-up deism'?