To: K-list
Recieved: 2001/06/19 18:35
Subject: [K-list] Re: CANNIBALS
From: Godchild 777
On 2001/06/19 18:35, Godchild 777 posted thus to the K-list:
Continuing a thread from about 10 years ago... ;-)
I wrote:
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> ==I am personally not satisfied with a "God concept"; I prefer
God--the One who preceded the universe, who preceded all of us and
all
our concepts and -isms--the One who would still be here if all of us
ceased to exist.
To me, anything less is a creation--a small-g god, not the genuine
article. If God is not bigger than His own creation (including the
sensation of "energies" such as kundalini), He's not big enough to
be God in my book.
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And
Nick replied:
>
> To me, a god concept period does not work for me. I find too much
that people must personify god
> in order to have any concept or it.
Or it could be the opposite: that people de-personify God in order to
neutralize or "tame" Him and make Him more malleable and
controllable. according to human whims. A God who has no personality
and volition of His own can't speak to us, can't tell us what to do,
can't object to what we do. How conveeeenient!
A few questions for ya:
* Do you mean to say that the idea of a personal God is only a
"God-concept," but the idea of an impersonal God is not a
"God-concept"? If so, why?
* If both are concepts, what would make the latter concept inherently
superior to the former?
* How would you (or for that matter, anyone on this forum) know that
God is *not* personal?
So often, people think they have risen above concepts and dogmas,
when
in reality they have only discarded the ones they don't like in favor
of new ones. Only *other* people have God-concepts ... but I have the
*TRUTH*, dammit, because I've got the "new and improved" God-concept!
Reguardless, a
concept of an all knowing BEING
> that pre dates creation and the such is somewhat lacking in
satisfaction.
Why? I'm curious. With me it's just the opposite: I find the concept
of an amorphous, impersonal blob of energy creating a
universe(s) full of intelligent personalities, to be completely
unsatisfying and inconceivable.
> My god may well be within myself ...
But what if THE God is not? :)
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