[Opinion] How you think about "god"?

[Anasa]

I'd thought 'god' is something who let people believe,pray and give oblation,every thing can be god.

But my dad was dead in 2025,a weird dream told my mom will close eyes in 2,16,2037 by natural end.
maybe this just a dream, a sorrow can't be say is more sorrow.

now i think human have soul and semsena,magic and angel is real.the only god is world's willing.no one leave to death
, complex society create the fate,everything have own "Tao". I think god is that truth we can be escape.

things can't be nice release always。

 

[Ohana]

A source from which most of existence or life hails from. There might be multiple of them or a bunch of smaller sources all stemming from a big source. Or multiple big sources.

I think of it like that concept like a cacoon. It's just a source to me. I don't think of a that source having personality nor personal characteristics. It just. And you have to crawl to get somewhere else. Where? What come of it? Who knows.

It's just a starting point for which you must crawl forwards. Crawl and crawl and crawl and maybe one day you reach somewhere you like or become the person you want to be. But its active and it take effort to crawl. Like a sea turtle getting born then making a mad dash to the ocean of existence.

Maybe some will reach the ocean maybe some will not. Thats really it.

 

[Robert Ramsay]

I personally believe that god is like money. Money is real, but doesn't actually exist - it only exists because everyone gets together and agrees that it does. As the Thomas Theorem says: "If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences".

The twist comes because magic allows the world to be malleable through the power of human thought, and thus 'defining a situation as real' can have very real magical consequences.

It is further possible that a critical mass of belief allows god to be treated like an egregore. Not actually an existant being, but something that behaves just like one.

 

[queenofswords]

My personal understanding is very close to the Neoplatonic idea of "The One" which is beyond all. It's not a being - it's the source that being pours out of. I like to think of it like the sun: light and heat radiate from it constantly, the sun doesn't try, it just is. That's emanation. We're downstream, but we're still made of that original signal. So when people argue whether god is a person or an energy or an archetype, from a Neoplatonic view, what they're describing are the downstream reflections. The headwaters are beyond the map entirely.

 

[SolomonHargrove]

I feel God is the only thing that really exists tbh. Everything is made of it, and all consciousness is just expressions of it.