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How do I get over that "feeling" that god exists?
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RE: How do I get over that "feeling" that god exists?
(April 20, 2015 at 1:00 pm)Drew_2013 Wrote: Belief in God (theism) isn't a religion. Its an opinion we owe our existence to a personal agent who purposely created the universe and caused humans to exist. There is no religious connotation but it does have philosophical ramifications. For instance it gives reason to believe humans are special and created equal as opposed to the idea humans are the untended by product of the laws of physics and thus our existence is an accident.

There is actually a 'feeling' that an agent personal specifically to you created everything, humans included? Really?

Break that down for me. I can understand if you say you feel gratitude to something for bringing you and this world together. After all, something did put you together. There was an inborn wisdom in the proto-organism which became you which read the DNA and assembled you accordingly in the womb. In so doing, it created the link to experiencing the world around you which continued to come into focus as you matured after birth. Something there is which brings you and the world together in your experience which functioned before you were you. So be thankful, sure. Wouldn't be here otherwise, right?

But aren't you piling a lot onto that feeling if you say 'this personal agent' actually brought everything into being? What sort of feeling could possibly include all that? If it is really 'personal' why not limit your inference to just you? This personal agent which created the ground of your being may be common to the 'personal agents' which create the ground of being for every creature that experiences anything at all, but it doesn't have to be one centralized personal agent which connects to each creature. There may just be a process we don't completely understand by which some agency forms and then transforms until we are as we find ourselves. Just as in the study of embryology, we see our physical form undergo recognizable forms on the way to what we finally become, so our consciousness too may morph as we mature. Perhaps 'god' is just an early stage of our consciousness which is transitional to the selves we become. God doesn't need to be a centralized, top down operation.
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RE: How do I get over that "feeling" that god exists? - by Whateverist - April 24, 2015 at 7:38 pm

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