Sand Dancer
Crazy Cat Lady
To me, God is what animates us. Love, music, aesthetics, nature, etc, i.e., the things that move us. What do you think?
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What is God to you?
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God is irrelevant to my worldview.
Sand Dancer
Crazy Cat Lady
Even as a Hindu?
The Sum of Awe
Brought to you by the moment that spacetime began.
The only thing that exists
Yes. Hinduism has 3 primary yogas (paths); Bhakti (path of devotion), karma (the path of action), and jnana (the path of knowledge). There are those that walk more than one path, and there are those that walk a single path.
As a jnani, I am a transtheist. While I acknowledge the existence of gods and the need for them in pragmatic reality, they are transcended by liberation.
To me God is the Supreme Being who created and sustains existence
I don't think we humans are bright enough to ever hope to understand him
But there's no shame in that
We are only as intelligent as we need to be to survive and pass on our genes
But on the plus side, I believe he is rather benevolent, or at least not as awful as he could be....
The only gods that would be comprehensible to me are Elder Kin...the kind of folk that would welcome you in, listen to your problem and make some suggestions about what you might do, to tell a story or two to bolster you up, and that would see you were joined at table before going back on you way.
There may be larger, higher or more powerful deities, but really, what use is it giving them more than a cursory acknowledgement...they are beyond comprehension and we cannot enter into any meaningful interaction with them.
Just my view
There may be larger, higher or more powerful deities, but really, what use is it giving them more than a cursory acknowledgement...they are beyond comprehension and we cannot enter into any meaningful interaction with them.
Just my view
I don't use the word God to describe any aspect of reality or experience simply because the word carries baggage that I don't intend. Existence is mysterious. We can experience it as sacred and suspect that there is more to reality than matter in motion, but I resist going further than that, because I can't justify believing anything further, and don't need or want to guess.
Everything.
Secret Chief
nirvana is samsara
What about the other stuff?Everything.
Gods are in there, too, they're just hiding.
One way of expressing it intellectually is that God is the resolution of every paradox: in the world and not in the world. Manifest and unmanifest. Everywhere and beyond everywhere. Knowledge and ignorance.
But mostly God is my best friend and perfect playmate. The game most often is "hide and seek"!
But mostly God is my best friend and perfect playmate. The game most often is "hide and seek"!
Secret Chief
nirvana is samsara
Sneaky buggers.
Audie
Veteran Member
Fantasy
Exaltist Ethan
Bridging the Gap Between Believers and Skeptics
God is The Synverse, a point in which the creator and the creation, The Omniverse, becomes one, and the natural and the man-made come together, the best qualities of both are exemplified in each. The Synverse doesn't exist yet, however, there are many synverses (with an under-case s) with limited functionality that does. A synverse can be any point in which things change; anything that changes is a synverse. Change itself is not God (making myself different from Earthseed) but the thing that is able to change is. My definition of God is very much in line with the syntheist/pantheist view of God, and since change itself implies a being (rather than action), it could be viewed as the Earthseed definition of God too.
Joshua Pryce
Member
The problem with this is that your making God based off emotional and feeling outputs. This is a problem because the heart is deceitful above all things. It causes a person to fancy someone and then because of a little issue, to stop fancying them. It also designs the outputs of the journey of faith. True faith is based on mentality, and desire not emotions. God is everything to the mind that is willing to be humble and stay humble to promote growth.
Sand Dancer
Crazy Cat Lady
I don't see really anything to fancy. God, to me, is not a personal being, just a force. Like the Bible says, in God we live, move and have our being.
What is God to you?
Or gods...
Nothing, i see no evidence that gods exist
Or gods...
Nothing, i see no evidence that gods exist
God is all, in all … sarvaṁ khalvidaṁ brahma … “All this verily is Brahman”. Chāndogyopaniṣad 3.14.1 Meaning All this is Brahman. From It the universe comes forth, in It the universe merges, and in It the universe breathes”. Brahman is popularly thought of as God.