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What God is to the Universe is what your mind is to your body

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What God is to the Universe is what your mind is to your body
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RE: What God is to the Universe is what your mind is to your body
August 17, 2016 at 12:25 am (This post was last modified: August 17, 2016 at 12:30 am by Arkilogue.)
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RE: What God is to the Universe is what your mind is to your body
August 17, 2016 at 12:35 am (This post was last modified: August 17, 2016 at 12:50 am by Ravenshire.)
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RE: What God is to the Universe is what your mind is to your body
August 17, 2016 at 12:43 am
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RE: What God is to the Universe is what your mind is to your body
August 17, 2016 at 12:52 am
(August 16, 2016 at 11:23 pm)Arkilogue Wrote: The topic as I understand it: If there is a God, what is it's relationship to the universe?  Op postulated God was to the universe like the mind is to the human body.

I've asserted that God is like the Father to a Mother and the universe is the womb and everything in it part of a developing life form.  I haven't gotten into why yet.

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RE: What God is to the Universe is what your mind is to your body
August 17, 2016 at 2:39 am
(August 16, 2016 at 7:34 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:
(August 16, 2016 at 7:02 pm)fdesilva Wrote: A person with their mind is able to control the hands etc. Thus from the perspective of the mind the body is in its control. So what if the Big bang and as such the universe is the creation of a Mind?  Our own existence is the best evidence that this is a possibility.

Analogy fail: My mind didn't create my body, my genetics and environment did.

Your mum created your body and at some point your mind took over its maintenance.
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RE: What God is to the Universe is what your mind is to your body
August 17, 2016 at 4:04 am
(August 17, 2016 at 2:39 am)fdesilva Wrote:
(August 16, 2016 at 7:34 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Analogy fail: My mind didn't create my body, my genetics and environment did.

Your mum created your body and at some point your mind took over its maintenance.

Yeah, you apparently don't understand the full connotation of "environment".

You apparently don't understand genetics, either. I arose as a result of the union of gametes from both a father and a mother. My mother nurtured my fetal form, but she didn't create it.

And as a matter of fact, after about nine months she got tired of this little leech and served it an eviction notice -- how's that for love?

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RE: What God is to the Universe is what your mind is to your body
August 17, 2016 at 4:09 am
Here is the downfall of religionists, they start with a conclusion, then cherry pick only the parts of the evidence that suits their conclusion. Kinda like building a house, starting by the roof.
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RE: What God is to the Universe is what your mind is to your body
August 17, 2016 at 4:20 am
That can work, if the roof is very small. And you always stay in the middle of your house. Wearing some tiles as a hat, basically.
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RE: What God is to the Universe is what your mind is to your body
August 17, 2016 at 4:43 am
I have a small roof ... it's called an umbrella. So small it's portable and even folding.

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RE: What God is to the Universe is what your mind is to your body
August 17, 2016 at 5:03 am
(August 16, 2016 at 11:33 pm)Arkilogue Wrote: Do you know the etymological roots of the words "father" and "mother"

Do you know the etymological root of the word god? Without the literary devices of metaphor, analogy, personification, and anthropomorphism where would this god be?
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