(August 7, 2015 at 8:37 am)pool Wrote: What exactly is God?
What are its exclusive attributes?
I'm genuinely curious
A non-existent figment of human imagination.
It's non-existence.
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
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What is God?
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 A non-existent figment of human imagination. It's non-existence.
What ever you want it to be. Just don't expect/demand that others accept it.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
?: What is God?
A: An exclamation of exasperation. Can also stand in as an exclamation of sexual climax, though "Jesus" would be more correct. 
If by God you mean the Judeo-Christian God, then it's a poorly-defined, barely-explained all-powerful being who created and now governs the entire cosmos, down to every individual star, planet and atom, and still finds the time to be worringly obsessed about where you stick it.
![[Image: rySLj1k.png]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i.imgur.com%2FrySLj1k.png) If you have any serious concerns, are being harassed, or just need someone to talk to, feel free to contact me via PM  (August 7, 2015 at 6:24 pm)pool Wrote:(August 7, 2015 at 6:06 pm)Chad32 Wrote: You can believe in a god, and not be a theist. If you believe in the abrahamic god, you're a theist. If you believe in a deistic god, you aren't. They're called deists. The difference between saying "I don't know", and "Because god", is that usually the ones who say "because god" expect you to respond by worshiping that god. And might threaten to harm you if you don't, or if you try to use science to find the real reason. The islamic god is a theistic god, so you would still be a theist.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason... http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/ Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50 A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh. http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html  (August 7, 2015 at 6:06 pm)Chad32 Wrote: You can believe in a god, and not be a theist. If you believe in the abrahamic god, you're a theist. If you believe in a deistic god, you aren't. "Theism" is sometimes used in a restrictive sense which fits with your ideas, but it also is used to just mean the belief in a god. In that sense, a deist is a theist. See: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/theism?s=t See also: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/defini...ish/theism Note that "especially" does not mean "exclusively." "A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence." — David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
It seems odd to lump an impersonal creator being with a god that has a name and wants to have a relationship with you, but whatever.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason... http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/ Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50 A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh. http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html  RE: What is God?
August 7, 2015 at 11:18 pm
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God is a machine, a mechanism;
An emergent pattern of matter and information resulting from human social interaction. Useful in cementing groups of persons into a unity with more effective power than any of its individual adherents. Once united, said groups engage in activities, often violent, designed to suppress other, similarly constructed entities. Successful gods reproduce and propagate into the mind-space of surrounding communities covering more and more territory. Like slime mold. A near universal characteristic of a god is that it is nominally supernatural. This protects the god from falsifiability and guards against the observation that the god is never observed. Only moderate pig-headedness is required to ignore the point that supernatural, imaginary and non-existent are objectively indistinguishable. Gods and humans co-evolve. More gullible and malleable humans make more fertile ground for gods to populate. The larger societies formed by these persons are better able to kill their neighbors and prosper themselves by expanding into the real estate left open. Less rapacious, often more effective gods leave their victims alive but colonize minds and similarly expand their areas of influence. This is called evangelism.
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat?
  (August 8, 2015 at 1:22 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:(August 7, 2015 at 7:13 pm)Whateverist the White Wrote: ?: What is God?Moses was God. Jesus was God. Anyone can be God. It's like being called "Mister". I am God? |
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