In a message dated 9/22/2000 6:16:37 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
zero_powers@hotmail.com writes:
>
> God, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Since it doesn't
> objectively exist, it is anything you say it is (and nothing at all at the
> same time).
>
Yes, god is a thought: as with all thoughts, the state of being/not being is
inherent.
God isn't just anything you say. That would be any day dream. Any sort of
imagination. It is not a good definition: a *book* is also anything you say
it is.
As vague and dissembling as it is, the word "god" has more of a form than
that.
The god idea specifically refers to a certain *kind* of thought, one which
attempts to deal with transcendence, a totality of being and the larger
picture that we are a part of (the form it takes relies on your culture and
amount of self awareness and rationality one possesses).
I believe it is hard wired into (some of) us and serves a concrete
evolutionary purpose. I suspect it was developmentally necessary at one time
to our species.
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