It would explain why we feel so alone, so abandoned perhaps? — CountVictorClimacusIII
the omnipotent God annihilated himself in the Big Bang to become the Universe. Why? Because God already knew everything possible except what would be due to his own lack of existence. Therefore, He would need to end it in order to complete his knowledge. — CountVictorClimacusIII
omnipotent God annihilated himself — CountVictorClimacusIII
God would now exist as a combination of the smallest units of energy — CountVictorClimacusIII
feel alone and abandoned? — Kenosha Kid
we should act as bridges — CountVictorClimacusIII
I read the book. And I suspect that Adams wrote with tongue-in-cheek. The God's Debris hypothesis has some things in common with PanTheism and PanEnDeism. But it treats the Creator of our world as a depressed deity, who commits suicide in anticipation of reincarnation as a physical universe. Unlike Jesus, who gave his mortal life for the benefit of mankind, but rose again as the immortal Christ. Anyway, I don't take the amusing story seriously. :joke:What are your thoughts on this idea? Are we born from a negation - God's denial of Himself and his subsequent self-annihilation? — CountVictorClimacusIII
It would explain why we feel so alone, so abandoned perhaps? — CountVictorClimacusIII
I like the notion that humans left an embodied world (God) as they increasingly developed the memory mediated self. Maybe animals still live in the embodied world, where the dissection of the self and the world has not happened. The dawn of consciousness is a kind of curse but since we're already here, this is the party we have to attend. Might as well build a god (a mummy daddy) to replace the one lost. — Nils Loc
Apparently, pandeism is a belated materialist/physicalist variation on the tzimtzum theme (i.e. creation = creator/s abscondus).What are your thoughts on this idea? Are we born from a negation - God's denial of Himself and his subsequent self-annihilation? — CountVictorClimacusIII
Nothing about vicarious redemption through human sacrifice (crucifixion) I've ever found "amusing", and stopped taking that "story" seriously (literally) over forty years ago.Jesus, who gave his mortal life for the benefit of mankind,but rose again as the immortal Christ. Anyway, I don't take the amusing story seriously — Gnomon
:up: We have our mediocrity (principle) to thank for our (existential) freedom. To paraphrase the Persian poet Rumi: we are not only teardrops in an ocean but an ocean is every drop.It's the new expansive view of the cosmos that had displaced us as the center of the universe that might explain some of this anxiety. The distances against the limit of the speed of light is kind of depressing. The vastness of space, the quantity of worlds out there and being stuck by gravity to a single orb in an uncrossable ocean. Further that these distances are growing. — Nils Loc
What are your thoughts on this idea? Are we born from a negation - God's denial of Himself and his subsequent self-annihilation? — CountVictorClimacusIII
But basically he is doing it to get laid just once more again. After all, we have no evidence of sex in his life after he lost his virginity. — god must be atheist
I never let sex wander out of my head. If it goes out, I make it promise to be home by six.I was just thinking something similar to that but let it wander out of my head. — James Riley
I never let sex wander out of my head. If it goes out, I make it promise to be home by six. — god must be atheist
Also yes, it would be something more felt if raised as a deist, and then perhaps through own research and enquiry, after a change of mind / heart followed by the inevitable questions to ponder. — CountVictorClimacusIII
the omnipotent God annihilated himself in the Big Bang to become the Universe. — CountVictorClimacusIII
Why? Because God already knew everything possible except what would be due to his own lack of existence. Therefore, He would need to end it in order to complete his knowledge. — CountVictorClimacusIII
What are your thoughts on this idea? Are we born from a negation - God's denial of Himself and his subsequent self-annihilation? — CountVictorClimacusIII
Reminds me of a line of dialogue from one of Terrance Malick's more recent films (Knight of Cups): "If you are unhappy, you shouldn't take it as a sign of God's disfavor. Just the contrary. Might be the very sign He loves you. He shows His love not by helping avoid suffering, but by sending you suffering, by keeping you there. To suffer binds you to something higher than yourself, higher than your own will. Takes you from the world to find what lies beyond it." — CountVictorClimacusIII
perhaps the suffering we experience, or this life in general is some sort of test. — CountVictorClimacusIII
Perhaps God is asking us what makes us worthy of his love? Like a parent pushing his child to be all they can be, to strive towards the apex of their own innate human potential to be all they can be. — CountVictorClimacusIII
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