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God and the Placebo Effect
#21
RE: God and the Placebo Effect
(October 29, 2016 at 2:41 pm)Arkilogue Wrote: My working with infinity unfolded an eternally productive, self limiting (finely tuned) metaverse.  Gives me a lot to look forwards to Wink

I appreciate the insight into your very active imagination. Thanks for the transparency.
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#22
RE: God and the Placebo Effect
(October 30, 2016 at 3:40 am)robvalue Wrote: How does it follow? I can create a VR by writing a computer program. Maybe elements of it become self aware, as we have. I'm "all powerful" with respect to this VR. I have total control over it. But I'm just some stupid twat in this reality. My powers do not translate.

what do you mean when you say "in his own reality" you mean when referring to god as something separate from our universe? 

since god is almost entirely based on assumption, might as well go big or go home.

(October 30, 2016 at 10:00 am)chimp3 Wrote:
(October 29, 2016 at 2:41 pm)Arkilogue Wrote: My working with infinity unfolded an eternally productive, self limiting (finely tuned) metaverse.  Gives me a lot to look forwards to Wink

I appreciate the insight into your very active imagination. Thanks for the transparency.

you say that with condescending language but you SHOULD appreciate it. imagination is key.
"Satan, who is the god of this world" 2 Corinthians 4:4 hath blinded the minds of them which believe not
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RE: God and the Placebo Effect
(October 30, 2016 at 10:00 am)chimp3 Wrote:
(October 29, 2016 at 2:41 pm)Arkilogue Wrote: My working with infinity unfolded an eternally productive, self limiting (finely tuned) metaverse.  Gives me a lot to look forwards to Wink

I appreciate the insight into your very active imagination. Thanks for the transparency.

Anytime!

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RE: God and the Placebo Effect
(October 30, 2016 at 3:19 pm)goombah111 Wrote:
(October 30, 2016 at 10:00 am)chimp3 Wrote: I appreciate the insight into your very active imagination. Thanks for the transparency.

you say that with condescending language but you SHOULD appreciate it. imagination is key.
God is a product of the human imagination. It is good to watch the process fresh and homemade rather than regurgitated from tales of old.
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#25
RE: God and the Placebo Effect
Goombah: I don't know. I have no idea what a "God" is even meant to be. Most theists seem to place it outside our reality, yeah. Are you placing it inside it?

The only sensible definition I have for "God" is intelligent creator. And it wouldn't make much sense that it created the reality that it itself inhabits.
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#26
RE: God and the Placebo Effect
(October 30, 2016 at 4:53 pm)robvalue Wrote: Goombah: I don't know. I have no idea what a "God" is even meant to be. Most theists seem to place it outside our reality, yeah. Are you placing it inside it?

The only sensible definition I have for "God" is intelligent creator. And it wouldn't make much sense that it created the reality that it itself inhabits.

how can an omnipresent god be anywhere except everywhere? thats where i would theoretically put him.

i would say...in my idea of god...that its like the mind.

our thoughts exist within ourselves, we are a part of them. our dreams are like realities, and we arent even that intelligent compared to a hypothetically infinite deity. 

so with that said, i assume we would be a creation within the mind of god. existing within him. id like to think that if he is real that we are all one.

it seems cliche, but as are the wisest words ever spoken.
"Satan, who is the god of this world" 2 Corinthians 4:4 hath blinded the minds of them which believe not
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