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I still believe in the sun god…let there be light
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…very apt for the Summer Solstice, but do you worship other gods?
I think my ancestors were polytheistic, but I’ll get back to you with confirmation on that
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dear magsj-----I personally don’t need any gods…other people are not superior to me as far as gods go…i really cant explain this but you might know…you seem like a very understanding person…
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I have the very same thought on gods, which is why I’m spiritual rather than religious… after relegating myself to a non-practising Roman Catholic - I guess the facts that it is us who get ourselves through life and the undeniable imperfections of things have brought you to this conclusion?
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mags–I cant believe all the silly shit being posted including my stuff
yes mags…please dummies pay attention to my profound thoughts on GOD=NATURE and levs atheist thread…I have found a way to bridge the gap between theist and atheist…take a look and please comment
yes mags…please dummies pay attention to my profound thoughts on GOD=NATURE and levs atheist thread…I have found a way to bridge the gap between theist and atheist…take a look and please comment
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there is the person god and the nature god and they are the same but the atheist-theist debate rages on…there is a lot of ignorance…
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the person god is something that people want and need…it is only in their minds…it is a part of human nature
I find few places left to post. Atheists, who seem to rule here, are just as literal as are the fundies they attack. But they just don’t attack fundies, they attack anything seen as spiritual.
On the big qestion–How did it all begin (matter, etc.)? One can say God did it, that is was God. But that is an opinion. Atheists will counter it by assuming that what came into being has no need of a creator/sustainer.
this is beyond belief, god doesn’t exist nor does he not exist. existence is not a quality shared by god, it is only essence. this is scholastic stuff. i think the scholastics were right in the tripartite division of existence, essence, and being.
does an idea ‘exist’? of course it does, does an idea expressed as a word ‘exist’? similarly, yes.
why come up with ideas? how? what’s behind them? surely an idea is as real as the stuff behind them. god has a background. it has been generated from some thing(s), and thought itself is as a composite of those things , is like wise some thing. a thing is nothing more than the idea of that thing. and the absolute reduction of those things, or those two things, is not absurd, it has a genesis. in the beginning, was the word. before the word, nothing existed, at least nothing which could be thought about.
that absolute, is the god, the word, the idea and the love for it.
how can an absolute reduction generate love? by virtue of the reduction, where the surplus meaning is ever slowly cast out, toward those who have come to come up with the idea. love is=to compassion to those forerunners. it is a sort of repayment to those to whom the idea came, and became constructed by the passage of time.
“I can smell a rotten egg without being able to lay a fresh one.”–Walter Kaufmann. So try to avoid the rotten eggs. Nothing you can say or do will make them fresh again.
The anger here is usually, “You are not I”.