Being God, and Life as a Paradox

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Is it possible that supposing that everyone is God, solves all philosophical questions, when coupled with the paradox? I think the paradox can easily explain most any aspect of life. The only problem with people believing it is the paradox contradicts itself, but that is essential to it’s nature, and essential to all nature. How do you know black without white? How do you know Hot without Cold? Black and White are explicitly different, but implicitly, they imply each other, so you can’t have one without the other. They are two, yet they are one, life relies on differentiation, and comparison, but the comparison itself does and doesn’t exist, explicitly and implicitly. This contradicts itself, yet seems like the only thing that makes sense (and yes, inherently, it doesn’t make sense). But it seems too contradictory to our common sense to come to terms with this. Does that make any sense to any of you?

By supposing all of us are God, everything is interconnected, there is only one energy, that creates the two, but the two creates the one (see the paradox again?), this could solve all philosophical problems. Life creates death, death creates life. Out of no-thing comes something, and out of something comes no-thing. It’s impossible to know what’s odd except against the background of something that’s even. This could go on and on forever. But saying this is true, and you are God, that would mean that you undergo a process of involution, self forgetting, and then a process of evolution, self remembering. This would explain evolution, evolving toward higher cognitive faculties, to re-realize your true nature. But somehow the evolution and involution happens at the same time I think, but I haven’t quite worked that one out yet. This process of self-forgetting and self-remembering keeps repeating itself, that way the universe never gets bored.

I could elaborate a little more… but you get the idea. Anyway, what I really want to know, is does this make sense to anyone?

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Choosing time is in the middle. Black or white, hot or cold, you know the difference. It’s the The Tree Of the Knowledge Of Good Or Evil. Will you take the fruit? We are all right? What is right? What did Satan say? Be as gods…

We are all wrong, he is right. The only God, a zealous God.

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I think the mind gives rise to the paradox through referencing ‘mental impressions’ in the memory. I don’t think real ‘opposites’ exist because that would, as you point out, produce a paradox. Rather, opposites must be designated in language, which obviously cannot truely ‘represent’ the world. Just as “1” is equal to “2” halves, so is a word equal to two or more particular parts, so that a thing such as ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ could inevitably be described as the same thing- or- there is more than one way to describe something. For example, ‘hot’ could mean ‘fast moving atoms,’ and cold the opposite of that. But then I should define ‘atoms,’ ‘moving,’ and ‘fast.’ Finally I would find that ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ are in fact not opposites but instead are variations of one thing- ‘temperature’ created from ‘movement’ of the ‘atom.’

Other reputed opposites such as ‘right’ and ‘left,’ ‘up’ and ‘down’, 'darkness and ‘light’, etc., etc., are not in reality two different things, but are points of description within one immanent process. For there cannot be a true other ‘being’ in existence- all things existing are gradations of change in perspective while remaining of the same form and substance. No thing cannot be neither a cause or effect, and these are the smallest common denominators for an ‘existing’ thing, therefore they are the only a priori forms of being. Thesis and antithesis are analytical concepts applied to being by the mind and they do not exist without perspective. ‘Opposites’ are temporal ideas I think.

SS, having such an enthusiasm for theology you should check out Spinoza’s ideas regarding the nature of God and existence. I think you would find it interesting.

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Thanks for the reference :slight_smile:
On terms of Theology, cause and effect are one, yes. They construct a whole. God created man and man is the body of Christ who is of the trinity that is God.
Like the glass being half-full and half-empty but still being a glass.

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The remembrance is not a memory. It is a state of being. It is a knowing. Therefore, as you engage the remembrance, you are engaging a manner of being, a perception, a knowing, not a memory of an event.

You are creating a perception which is not necessarily translated into thoughts, but is merely enacted in being, and there is held a knowing within you, regardless that you may not identify in actual words or language, for you have created your own language to yourself, which is the bridge, so to speak, from the oubliette into the actualization in objective awareness of remembrance.

And this is the point – not to be creating a philosophy, not to be drawing comparisons, but to be creating your individual language that is creating the translation into objective awareness. This is your movement from the oubliette into the remembrance.

All that you present to yourself is filtered through what is known in objective terms in this physical reality, and this physical reality incorporates separation purposefully, and therefore you automatically associate in that known familiarity. Therefore, the concept of the lack of separation is unfamiliar to you, and presents to you in objective terms quite a challenge in your ability to be assimilating an understanding of that type of reality, or the concept of reality in those terms.

Now; this is also what I express to you as the widening of your awareness and the incorporation of the remembrance.

The remembrance, as I have stated previously, is not memory. It is not the expression of recall or remembering previous experience, so to speak, or previous state of being, in a manner of speaking. The remembrance that I am expressing to you is the widening of your awareness objectively to the point that you incorporate a state of being which KNOWS the lack of separation.

This be the point of this shift (or ‘evolution’) currently… that you liberate yourselves from the confines and limitations of your physical belief systems and move into the wider awareness of essence and consciousness, which shall allow you a more expansive expression of your creativity which is a more expansive expression of your thought processes and of your knowing, and also frees you from this hamster wheel :slight_smile: that you continuously run upon in a circle, asking your same questions and receiving non-answers.

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I’m not so sure that God ‘created’ man, as that would make him external to existence. This kind of transcendentalism is troublesome in philosophy and I prefer to view the universe as an infinitely expanding organizational process composed of energy, inertia and movement. It is eternal and is always happening.

Your views of God seem to be fairly Christian in influence, a religion, I might add, that is one of the most recent. It would be clumsy to assume that only in the last four-thousand years has God decided to reveal the truth to the human species through the Bible.

This isn’t to say that God can’t exist, but only that ‘Christianity’ is hardly a religion worth any serious thought. It doesn’t stand up to the slightest scrutiny and if it did it would be because the points and propositions in the Bible are obscure in the first place. It is a collection of metaphors and allegories at best.

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No, no, no, you’ve misunderstood. He is eternal, he had to come into this time frame in order to reveal the spiritual as physical.

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I thought you said he created this existence. Now you are saying he has ‘come into’ it?

Alright, so you’re saying that God has always existed and that on occassion he sometimes creates universes where he can ‘put’ the spiritual into the physical stuff he created?

Where does he keep the spiritual stuff before he creates everything?

I smell Cartesian dualism. Have you been reading Descartes, young lady?

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"on occassion he sometimes creates universes"Lol!!!

Nah, I’m not familiar with these writer people and their so called books.
God and the Bible, on the other hand, are my best friends.
He is eternal. There is one existance and in this existance there is time. Outside of this existance there is no time, so no, he doesn’t create on a time line, he creates one. He is this spiritual “stuff” that is eternal.

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You kno if we were to follow ur opinion… god creates the dudes who wrote the books so its actually his work poke poke… READ THE BOOKS!!!

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Hehehe. Yes, but there’s nothing like the Bible. So preeetty, -pats it-

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why do you refuse to read anything else?
cause then you truly aren’t doing god justice by reading all of his work…

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Kewl.

[ wipes sweat from forehead ]

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I never said I refused, Jesus Christ! I said I’m not familiar, lol.

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well then get on it! when you say “so called books” in that big scary profound way it sounds like u think books are retarted lol

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Coming from such a believer in the Bible, it’s not very nice to use Christ’s name in vein. lol

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Right you are. Mwuahahaha. :evilfun:

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All religions point to the way, no matter how contradictory one might seem. Ha, does this relate to the paradox, of course it does. It’s definetely an example of the paradox in work. Take Christianity, and see how it more so as De’Trop said speaks in metaphors and allegories. These stories more so relate to the physical, and when comparing to the spiritual, it cant help but make for a contradictory Bible. Everyone is at their own level of evolution, and Christianity in my opinion speaks to those who are more so on the lower end. But I dont want to downplay it, as it is important for those individuals to reach their heights also. I personally just dont like the idea of Christianity more so trying to control, rather than enlighten. I think all this does is confuse people, and in a sense though it is a way to God, I personally think it’s the slowest in terms of organized religion. But back to paradox, isnt it beautiful? Its the problem of analyzing only whats in front of us, but when compared with whats beyond that at the other end, its the opposite. Beautiful paradox indeed. You gotta love that.

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I’m not convinced of your credentials, but I’ll let that slide for the time being. As one of the senior posters here I’ll be watching your antics…

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Thank you. Now we see that evolution depends on the dominate of humanity.

When humanity is but of an ever evolving nature, what is it? Who is it?
It has no identity but unto that which does not change. He is, forever was, forever has, forever will be.
Only Christianity declares such a concise depiction of our being to a solidity as the great Alpha and Omega, he who reveals himself in all things, in very direction, in every being that collaborates as one.
He who came from heaven to earth to show the way, from the earth to the cross, our debt to pay, from the cross to the grave, from the grave to the sky, the Lord, I lift his name on high.