(November 20, 2014 at 10:52 pm)bennyboy Wrote: That's why I'm agnostic-- I believe that whatever underlies reality could be CALLED God if you chose to, but I know that when most people ask the question, they're not talking about that-- they're talking about an obvious fiction. So I'm not willing to take a position, other than "I don't know what you're asking about, and neither do you." And if the question is not found to be defined, then how is one to take a position on it, one way or the other?
I also can allow for some meaning for the idea of a god .. but I don't think it has anything to do with reality as in the cosmos. I have to scale god way down to the personal level to work it in. I think within each person there is a greater consciousness of which we, consciously, are only a part. The whole is always greater than the part, right?
It is the way that our organisms assemble themselves which is amazing. It happens on the physical level and something like that happens mentally/psychically as well. Whatever it is that assembles us can be god. Why not, our creator right? But it isn't some older entity that exists in another dimension. It, this 'god', comes into being right along side of us, again and again. If god is 'everywhere' it is only in the sense that we are so ubiquitous, at least on this planet.
