There is reality or existence or the universe or multiverse. We are here wherever and whatever we are we exist. The truth about our existence does not depend on what we believe. The truth as to what caused us to be here is absolute and not dependent on our opinions of it. We can call the creator or cause of reality God. What God is is not our business so to speak. We do not get to create God. God gets to create us. We would not be if something did not cause us to be. What if there are many other planets with life on them. Some may be highly advanced beyond our imagination. They may have mastered space and time. God would have created them too. They do not get to create what God is either. The truth is the truth is the truth. We don’t get to make up what truth is. Truth is absolute and is not subject to our opinions. Truth is objective not subjective. God and truth can be thought of as the same thing. So what is God? What is truth? Einstein did not think God to be a person. He believed in an impersonal God. I also believe God to be non personal. In order to match science and myth of creation from religion and such my conclusion is that God is Zero. There is no reason that nothing cannot be the creator. Does God have intelligence? I say yes cause we are here. Hahaha this is mind boggling. It makes me laugh. It is a sacred Endeavour to me to understand what God is. Nothing is sacred, more sacred than I can say. There is love cause we are here. I hope you can experience this awareness. Is there evil? Yes cause we are here. google “God is Zero” check my blog awakenedawareness.net
You seem to be equating God with existence or being itself. That I get. “God is zero” I don’t. I guess it is a metaphor for the question of why there is something and not nothing.
While being here is definitely true, the why behind it is not. I don’t think that there are a lot of people who would debate our being here, especially in the way that you describe. Being aware is undeniable, even if our reality is all imagined. It’s real to us, it’s all we’ll know.
I think the tragedy is that knowing we are here is no where near enough. I personally am atheist. Not because I hate god or I hate religion or structure or my parents or republicans or babies or anything of the like. If God popped up in a profound and definitive way tomorrow and announced openly and obviously that the Mormon way is the one true way, I would convert on Sunday… well monday, I am working sunday. The truth of situation would become known and I would not hold a grudge against it in anyway. My search for the truth is what lead me away from my christian beliefs and my search for truth will eventually lead me… who knows where. But being is not being whole. If there is no purpose then there essentially no purpose for being. The quest to find that ultimate purpose is what has created, in my mind, all of the untruths in the world. God is not an absolute because god cannot be adsolutely identified.
So while our existence simply is, our reason for existence is anything but. We don’t have the bigger picture and I don’t think that we ever will. A sound wave will never know why it exists because it will never know that I enjoy listening to music.
I believe the constant search for the reason why we exist and our intrinsic curiosity about nature and our role in it is what makes the human race to evolve.
I believe that, at the end of the day, all we search for is piece of mind. The reason for suffering probably comes from the fact we might look at the wrong places for it. If we look for the exterior of ourselves, this piece of mind can’t be found as we don’t have control over the way others act towards each other and ourselves. All we have control over is our perception and how we see things. If you ask me if there is evil, my answer is No; there is only ignorance from the part of the ones who still didn’t realize they are a small fraction of All There Is, or God, and that we are all connected on a much deeper level than our worldly communities. That is why I believe in the concept of a immortal spirit that survives death. Not in the fashion the catholic religion preaches, i.e. heaven, purgatory and hell, but a less structured one whereby we live multiple consecutive lives, and we keep learning by each one of them. Evolution comes as we go through our multiple lives and start realizing we are all God.
Back in the cave days, the observation of the environment was the main focus as man needed to master the roughness of his surroundings in order to achieve a higher level of piece of mind. As the lives evolved, man started to instrospect more, to look inward in order to better understand the self, as he had somewhat mastered the environment around him. As we go deeper in our trip inward, we will eventually understand our role as co-creators of all there is and piece of mind will be finally achieved.
Purpose is embedded in human existence. We are free to make autonomous choices about what our meaning or purpose is. But if our choices don’t make use of our human potential fully, a sense of existential guilt results–i.e. we feel as though we have wasted our life. So, ultimate purpose is determined by and limited to what we are as free yet finite human beings.
True, but this doesn’t really account for ‘true’ purpose. We decide what our lives are worth, what defines us, what leaves us with a feeling of accomplishment of fulfillment. But our reason for life may be the complete opposite of what our ‘absolute’ intention was. If you go off of my example of a sound wave, the wave itself may define a successful life by traveling a great distance, while it’s ‘true’ purpose for existence was to only travel a few feet from my car speaker to my ear. Traveling a great distance would be an unwanted mistake since I don’t like blaring my music for everyone else to hear.
For all we know our existence is a complete fluke never even intended by whoever/whatever created us all. There is something that is ultimately true about our existence, but that ultimate truth, in my mind, will never be known by us.
Alright.
You just negated yourself unfortunately; by strict logic at least.
Reason being is because you would have to believe the universe started from “nothing” because no one can prove an instance of “nothing”.
Science only holds that a large and sudden release of energy from an incredibly small volume started our universal existence; it is not able to determine anything prior to this point.
There could have been much else before this moment; we have no idea at this point.
This doesn’t make your idea faulty, mind you; just that this is something worth considering in my opinion for your perspective.
We are very close in our philosophies. I’ve been preaching that God=Truth for many years. But there’s two things.
We don’t know whether a sentient God created the universe or not, therefore we don’t know that a sentient God exists or if the universe came into being spontaneously (as likely an occurrence as God being). In either case, however, Truth=God.
Second, there is subjective Truth as well as objective truth. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and, as Keats said, is Truth and beauty, Truth. Truth (God) spans the spectrum from knowledge, through justice and love to beauty–pure objective through blends to pure subjective, yen & yang, all embodied by the one unity, God.