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Exactly! And no less or more convincing than ANYONE claiming to know the realities behind these things without ponying up actual worthwhile evidence. So, I'm in the same, exact ballpark as any Christian I have ever talked to, for instance, who claims that they "know" what God is or is about.
Are you people seriously not getting that my entire post was facetious? Basically a satire to point out the absolute foolishness of ANYONE pretending to have "the answers" to what God is or isn't. This is precisely why, in the end, I offered up the "bridge for sale." I don't have a bridge! NOR DO ANY OF YOU. So that makes me lying about the bridge... just as ANY of you are LYING about your knowledge of any supposed God. Any and all of you... LYING.
. my bridge is the right one. 
And this is where we will always be at odds. You do, honestly believe that your bridge is "the right one." I don't know that... I don't have such confidence in any position I positively hold. All I have is what appears to be in comport with the reality I continually experience and what does not appear to be... so that is what I am going with. If someone produces actual, verifiable evidence for God, or can get something related to God to produce results on a consistent basis that indicates that there is a fundamental reality to said thing that cannot be rationally denied, then I will hop on board, but still be only as sure about it as the evidence continues to provide... as soon as someone else has a better or more compelling explanation/demonstration/etc. and their efforts produce even more consistent results, well then I will wave goodbye to you and your less compelling, less realistic position.my bridge is the right one.
According to your reply... no you didn't.
I'll let your fellow Christians debate you on this point. I don't believe in the Trinity or "God the Son," etc. So I don't have a dog in the race.
No one knows. It is also usually claimed that we have no way of understanding it as it exceeds our brain abilities.
It is not a he.
It governs the way things work in our existence.
How does vacuum look like?
This is a hard question. I would argue its the number one question humans try to answer.
The same as life cares about surviving.
Depends on what you mean "mind", but I would argue it does.
Not really.
Everything.
A small fraction on a whole.
The same answer.
It what drives everything in motion and keeps it all as it should.
succeed as an individual, community, specie, life, existence.
So it seems
Not really relevant.
Not really
Only god know
I think you are in a relationship with it whether you want it or not.
Of course God cannot be classified as anything corporeal, but considering that that was how the Patriarchs referred to Him, then it's the only reverent manner in which to do so.
No, you went off on some convoluted tangent that was barely possible to even follow. You weren't able to be more precise and assertive, but were vague and indecisive appearing more flaky rather than astute.
Sure sure... keep telling yourself that.
Agreed... but when it is pointed out that you have no true-to-life backing for your words, except what you have been told by others, or read in a book somewhere, and you can't reproduce any part or parcel of any extraordinary bit of explanation that appears in those stories/books (like praying for a thing and actually achieving results) then you can't expect others to climb on board your soap box with you. Not like those who DO have such backing for their statements - or at least closer to it.
And I posit that it SHOULD be that easy. if you don't have the goods, then people should stop listening to you when they realize that your words are not in comport with reality, and that you don't have the backing to even demonstrate how they really are (even if it may not be apparent). The guy(s) who first put forth that disease was caused by super tiny organisms probably got some pushback... but then they had skeptics look into a microscope, or purposefully infected an organism with what they knew to be a virus and had them witness the results themselves... and then it was a done deal for anyone with half a teaspoon of rationality.
I suppose I am missing some context - but I am trying to figure this one out. So... what you're getting at here is that Jesus invited these men to come hear him speak and "give the answers", but they each had an excuse to bow out? So... here's the real problem I have with this: I was in a sermon once where a man stood up during a particularly high "in the spirit moment" where there were people laying their hands and foreheads on the ground, moaning, casting about, or speaking in tongues - the man who stood up began saying things like "I am the way and I have been with you since the beginning..." - pretty obviously speaking as if he were some form of "Second coming" in the first person - at least this is what I interpreted and was the vibe I got off of him. However - no sooner had he started into it with those words than at least 5 other church members grabbed his arms and dragged him out of the church despite his verbal protests. Now... here is my problem... what if those other church members - or indeed ALL of those church members were, in this instance "not really going to try", or were "not going to seek answers" or were "not going to knock on the doors of opportunities"? What if this man's apparent epiphany was actually God speaking through him, or some other divine intervention that was an opportunity for them all? How could they SO EASILY seem to know that it wasn't and just dismiss him. I think we both know the answer... and that is precisely how quickly and easily I can dismiss that anything you have to offer from your religion as being not worth the effort. I have oodles of experience with it, and as soon as I hear you talking, and can catch wind of where the conversation is going, then it is decided. Unless you miraculously pull off a grand slam of evidence and cogent demonstration, I will shut you down. Any time I have listened, can you guess how many times a religious person has actually had something novel and worthwhile to say that convinced me of something? Zero. Zero times. You would say that this is because I have closed my mind to the possibilities... but this simply isn't true. I let them say their piece - I always do. But in the end, it is never anything compelling in the slightest. Never. No one should be swayed by the types of things that are said by these people. Not one. The fact that anyone is is a mark of shame on humanity in my opinion.
I have listened, and I have read, and I have contemplated more times than you would probably like to admit could be true. In the end, none of it is worth very much at all. A few worthwhile lessons built into some interesting prose... but not much more than that.
...you couldn't find a forum for comedians?
No, certainly not combative... but certainly not addressing the problem I raised earlier either (the problem of the man's speech getting him immediately dragged out of church) - and I understand why... I just hope that you understand why also.