(August 18, 2014 at 8:05 pm)ShaMan Wrote: We need a new word for what we mean when we discuss "god". From now on, let's call it "imagination".You and polaris are on an old chapter. I'll catch you up. 'Hope you brought your appetite, here comes a serving of word salad.
The g-word does have a negative connotation. Like some sort of imaginary slave master that demands your soul and obedience or fucking else. So it's a bit of an offensive word for those that have been victim to it.
Personally I wouldn't call god imagination. Even though I can only prove god exists in my imagination, that doesn't mean god is imagination. I do imagine god as the infinite happenstance that made existence possible.
If I were to write genesis I'd say "In the beginning there was only nothing until nothing decided to be something. Something is everything to anything. We are just one thing that gets to participate in something until we return to nothing."
god is supposed to be imaginary
