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Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 7:47 am
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Has anyone noticed that all the people who ask these questions do so in absurdly general ways that cannot be answered in focus to produce any real answer or clarity?
When you ask "Is there a God" it is essential that you provide SPECIFICALLY how you define god, ok? What your definition of god is/what you think god is.
Because God, like many words given to things which dont exist in the Physical realm, is a concept/mental construct, created to define that which has not been and can not be concretely defined, because the subject matter of the word is not examinable, and is not man made with a specific definition like the word 'Tragedy" for example, but a word which represents something we speculate about but do not know in an empirical sense.
To further clarify, another word which represents a concept is "happiness" there is no concrete universal definition of what constitutes the feeling of happiness, people will refer to happiness as pleasure, or contentment, or the absence of suffering or fear, but there is no way to purely and absolutely define that which is the feeling of being happy. The amount of words that exist which mean roughly the same thing are enough alone to evidence this "joy" for example.
When you ask a question like "is there a god" you cant hide behind the ambiguity of the concept of God. If you state specifically what you think it is it can perhaps be falsifiable or at least more specifically analyzed.
Maybe you should sit down and think about "What is God?" instead.
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Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 8:32 am
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Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 10:51 pm
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Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:14 pm
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Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 8:24 pm
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God is only a manifestation of our need to have meaning. We hold on to the thought that god might be out there, only to have that warmth of knowing there is a reason to live. A reason to carryout our lives with good meaning. Let me explain... a after life is like a reward for living a virtues life based on the codes of your religion. So without religion what do we live for? There is no warmth. A life without religion is freeing yourself from a illusion. Religion also keeps people together, something that many people share in common. Religion brings us together in to a unified circle. All within this religion abide to it's rule, promoting good behavior. Not a state of nature. When i comes down to reality, we are only composed of cells, tissue, elements, molecules, atoms, subatomic particles, there is no soul particle, just the blueprints of life. There is a god... God is the people who believe in him/her.
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Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 4:25 am
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