Why do you need a god(s), God?

Nowhere Man said:

You're actually right.

For all practical intents and purposes I do consider the universe as my 'God' with the word universe being just a placeholder for something that cannot be described or directly pointed to in a specific way. It's a bit like the Hindu concept of Brahman, but not quite since I regard 'God' as a continuum where form and identity changes continually and indeterminately to the point where the source is no longer applicable and cannot be traced back past a certain threshold because the source itself just isn't there anymore.

I just don't see the sum of all parts as being the responsibility of a centralized divine being, or force, or energy, or whatever it is that comes across one's imagination that would create the ultimate Avatar that brings about form and existence that is permanent and unchangeable.

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Yeah, I've asked a lot of people, and people usually have something at the top or at the back of their personal cosmology, or what they use as a word for whatever caused this ultimately or the domino effect or however they think so. I don't believe anything or anyone is anything but an impression created by a combination of factors present in a moment generated and eliminated by whatever generates or produces every absurdity we currently discuss frankly like the absurdity of "things called noses on things called faces breathing stuff called air in order to live, while looking at things called butterflies performing a thing called sucking on some substance different from the substance called air from out of things called flowers which grow out of a thing called Earth and do a thing called opening up things called petals to receive a thing called light" and all that is clearly total rubbish from nowhere, and whatever produced all this trash, that is what I restrict my use of the word God for, as there wasn't any way for "Nothing" to ever logically DO anything. My God is "Like Nothing" except that it has the power to generate absurdities from nowhere or itself which is like nothing and nowhere, and so sustains and encompasses this whole mad and senseless dream.

wandering peacefully said:

This is not a debate nor a fight about whose God(s), beliefs are the correct ones or The Truths or if any beliefs ar the truer than any other. This is a simple question and a chance for you to share your reason(s) for needing or not, a higher power in your life in order to survive or live a fruitful, productive, and/or meaningful life. Or a journey in between or a journey with no gods if you like.

Please do not argue with those who feel/believe/think differently than yourself. I will not be responding unless I have a real question to ask of a responder. Please explain your thoughts if you choose.

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It is about information acquiring.

If you want info of past events, go to the historians.
If you want info of current events, go to the reporters.
if you want info of science, go to the scientists.
If you want info of a future, go to a God (because it is out of human capability to reach a future).

We need God to believe who we are has an objective exact value. And if doesn't have an objective value then it's an illusion, and if it's an illusion, then valuing (love) is meaningless and based on falsehood.

What do you mean by "need"? I just believe they exist due to experiences and reason.

danieldemol said:

The specifics of my belief are most probably inherited cultural stories, however the God gene is a thing.

God gene - Wikipedia

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No, the God gene is not a thing, it is a hypothesis. It says so right there at the beginning of the article you linked. Did you read it?

Hellbound Serpiente said:

... I personally feel like there is a higher power. I have experienced and witnessed supernatural intervention in my own very life where impossible became possible. As someone who grew up in extremely dangerous environment and survived wars, I believe there was someone watching over me. Someone saved me from inescapable situations, and saved my life in ways nigh-impossible naturally.

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I'll assume that in that extremely dangerous environment you write about, many people died. I guess that means that your god cared more for you than he cared for them. I guess that means that he cared less about them than he cared about you. Were there children among those who died? Why do you suppose he cared more for you than for them?


Alternatively, you could just take a rational view of things. Life isn't a bed of roses. Some people are born into more dangerous situations than others. Among these, some will live and some will die. Some survivors accept this. Some survivors feel guilty about it. Some thank their lucky rabbit's foot. Some thank a god.

Mock Turtle said:

Well they imagined them. I was thinking more about any reality.

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Warring Gods - Real Warring Gods! How would we know about them? Are they hurling galaxies at each other? Do they pop into black holes only to instantly reappear behind the other in order to bash him with a cosmic frying pan...


Could They be talked into having live coverage on Pay-Per-View on the History Channel or Disney?

I'd sure pay to see it.

ecco said:

Warring Gods - Real Warring Gods! How would we know about them? Are they hurling galaxies at each other? Do they pop into black holes only to instantly reappear behind the other in order to bash him with a cosmic frying pan...

Could They be talked into having live coverage on Pay-Per-View on the History Channel or Disney?

I'd sure pay to see it.

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Yes, I think we have the evidence then.

wandering peacefully said:

This is not a debate nor a fight about whose God(s), beliefs are the correct ones or The Truths or if any beliefs ar the truer than any other. This is a simple question and a chance for you to share your reason(s) for needing or not, a higher power in your life in order to survive or live a fruitful, productive, and/or meaningful life. Or a journey in between or a journey with no gods if you like.

Please do not argue with those who feel/believe/think differently than yourself. I will not be responding unless I have a real question to ask of a responder. Please explain your thoughts if you choose.

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I have a strong religiosity that I find brings me a great sense of wellbeing when I express it through creativity and building my own theological concepts and rituals. I find that God(s) provide a useful focal point for that urgency to create and to live meaningfully.

Why do art? Why create? These would be the same question for me.