[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.

 

[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.

Even though I don't think the concept of g-d has a personality since I'm a person I think a lot of it comes down is people giving human qualities to non-human things. Maybe?

But the personality I attribute to this maybe or maybe not existing source/entity/whatever it is is kind of like the wizard from The Wizard of Oz. A figure built up even from the title but turns out to be just someone literally projecting themselves everywhere. Yet the wizard isn't in the movie long. The movie is called The Wizard of Oz yet not much is shown of what is supposed to be a title characters. The wizard is kind of just implied to exist more of role than a person. Their has to be a wizard of Oz because Oz and wizards go together I suppose. So much is built up about the wizard but in the end its just someone behind a curtain doing something in Oz.

Most belief systems I think are expecting this grand reveal some great universal truth but what if all thats really there is something some source behind a curtain projecting grandiosity when really its just another thing. Just another role just another cog in the machine of reality. Maybe its an important cog but still just another facet of the machine. The machine of reality itself just being there and thats it.

Thars how I view that concept. If it exists it just is and its just reality going through the motions. Maybe people want it to be big or something amazing but its like the The Wizard in Oz. The movie named itself that. The movie knows the wizard will never live up to that image. Thats the point. I don't think if this concept does exist that it can ever live up to the image its built over time. It just kind of is if it exists I think. I don't know how to feel about my thoughts on this. It grounding but makes me a little melancholic.