Just_me_Mike
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Indirectly God did create this forum. Even if it was just the idea of God. Amazing how powerful just the idea of God can be.:jester5:
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Just_me_Mike
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thank you moderator!
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CarlinKnew
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I'm sure we could find similar forums discussing the existence of leprechauns, fairies, ghosts, and anything that the superstitious human mind is capable of dreaming up.
Just_me_Mike
Well-Known Member
But you my friend are drawn to this one. So you can see the opposite end of the spectrum and assure yourself, that you are right!
I don't blame you...
Side note, I hope the creators of this forum don't get offended by you comparing their handiwork to a discussion of leprechauns.
Gentoo
The Feisty Penguin
Moderator god can you fix my title to say created instead of ceated
Fixed
CarlinKnew
Well-Known Member
But you my friend are drawn to this one. So you can see the opposite end of the spectrum and assure yourself, that you are right!
I don't blame you...
Side note, I hope the creators of this forum don't get offended by you comparing their handiwork to a discussion of leprechauns.
I'm drawn to this forum because the discussion is interesting. Perhaps I'm also a member of forums discussing the existence of unicorns, which I also find interesting. I also find it interesting that people are capable of believing in ghosts. This gives no credibility to their actual existence.
CarlinKnew
Well-Known Member
I could also say that peanut butter and jelly sandwiches created forums discussing them.
McBell
mantra-chanting henotheistic snake handler
Green Gaia
Veteran Member
No. Rex, an atheist, btw, created this forum. I know because I helped him.
Guitar's Cry
Disciple of Pan
Of course. But that doesn't deny the power that the concept "God" has for humanity.
It apparently speaks to something important about our experience as humans.
Bedlam
Improperly Undefined
Which god? Zeus? Yaweh? Jehovah? Apollo? Od? Set? Anubis? Bastet? The Flying Spaghetti Monster? One of the Titans? The Mother Earth Goddess?
More than the concept of god(s), I think human nature created the forums. It's us trying to understand our surroundings, which is the exact reason why god(s) were created in the first place.
More than the concept of god(s), I think human nature created the forums. It's us trying to understand our surroundings, which is the exact reason why god(s) were created in the first place.
Guitar's Cry
Disciple of Pan
I think the concept of "the conscious designer" speaks directly to our experience of reality. God is most certainly a part of human nature, even if just understood as an abstract concept.
Trey of Diamonds
Well-Known Member
Ah, you are finally getting the point, God is an idea.
Kilgore Trout
Misanthropic Humanist
Side note, I hope the creators of this forum don't get offended by you comparing their handiwork to a discussion of leprechauns.
I'm more worried about leprechauns being offended by being compared to god.
CarlinKnew
Well-Known Member
Nor does it deny the power of the concepts of ghosts, unicorns, and fairies.
Yes, it speaks to our pattern-seeking, superstitious minds.
Wandered Off
Sporadic Driveby Member
I always thought it was the *other* guy trying to lead us all astray.
Bedlam
Improperly Undefined
Yes, in exactly the same way that the concept of giving (Santa Claus), the concept of irrational fear (The monster hiding under your bed), or the concept of mixed fortune (Leprechauns). We personify them to make our fears (and joys) easier to accept, and to make it possible to explain these strange, powerful emotions to young children.
We personified the idea of a creator to accept and explain the concept of our own origins and justify things we couldn't yet explain with our five senses. I'm more than willing to admit that the concept of a god is individually a very simple and elegant solution to an otherwise nearly unsolvable problem, but these gods aren't responsible for our creation. We're responsible for theirs.
It's in exactly in the same way that we're responsible for the creation of Santa Claus, the monster hiding under the bed, Leprechauns, and REF. You can say an almighty concept brought the forums about, but I think it's just the result of curious humans wanting to talk to other curious humans about a topic that's considered taboo in friendly social circles.
Guitar's Cry
Disciple of Pan
I certainly agree.
Or perhaps our experience of a patterned existence that's always on the edge of the unknown and unknowable.
Guitar's Cry
Disciple of Pan
Yes, but I think they have a function beyond childhood mythology. It's why we still have superheroes and stories into adulthood.
I think God goes beyond a simple creation mythology. The Gods are very much like the superheroes I previously mentioned; they represent pieces of ourselves that feel larger than life.
The loving benevolent God seems to represent the attainability of self-love, for example. From William Blatty's The Exorcist:
They also speak to our wonder of simply being alive; an experience that nothing can ever explain except in abstract, metaphorical, poetic terms.