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Author Topic:   Will The Real God Please Stand Up?
Michael
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Message 140 of 364 (380460)
01-27-2007 12:13 PM
Reply to: Message 135 by Phat
01-27-2007 11:57 AM


Re: What are the duties of a God?
Or at the other end of the extreme, are we crafting a God of our own imagination that could be our own collective Ego?
Yep. Nothing but a mirror behind Jar's curtain. Nothing extreme, and it should not be a surprise.

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Michael
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Message 142 of 364 (380466)
01-27-2007 12:35 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Phat
01-22-2007 10:06 AM


The Fifth Candidate
... has just entered the courtroom:
5) The Imagination of Humans

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Michael
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Message 145 of 364 (380476)
01-27-2007 12:56 PM
Reply to: Message 143 by Phat
01-27-2007 12:39 PM


Re: The Fifth Candidate
Is this candidate qualified to be God?
Absolutely. Candidate 5 is the only likely candidate.
As for a "global committee," I'm sure you realize that the collective imagination of humans with regard to its ability to create mythologies is much more complex than a committee. Do you really want to argue that point?
Edited by Michael, : No reason given.

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Michael
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Message 148 of 364 (380497)
01-27-2007 2:26 PM
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01-27-2007 12:39 PM


Re: The Fifth Candidate
As court continues, Candidate 5 (human imagination) takes its seat next to Candidate 4. The other candidates at the table seem a little less substantial in the presence of 5.
Candidate 5 briefly considers creating a new candidate (as it has created the other four sitting at the table). Maybe later.

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Michael
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Message 198 of 364 (381591)
01-31-2007 6:52 PM
Reply to: Message 190 by Phat
01-31-2007 7:53 AM


A Matter of Human Imagination
On a semi serious note, however, I now call upon our various Deity candidates to one at a time attempt to best express themselves and touch us...proving to our own internal beliefs at least that they deserve to be loved, worshiped, and trusted.
Well, I guess Candidate 5 (Human Imagination) will bow out of this particular competition. I don't think, strictly speaking, that Imagination deserves any of the above (love, worship, trust).
However, if you decide to return to the OP:
I want to start a semi humorous, semi serious discussion about the nature of God.
then I will make 5's case.
I suppose that 5, as the meta-god, should not really be on the panel. But, if you want to know the true nature of any god, 5 should not be ignored. Gods do not exist except in the presence of Candidate 5.
Cheerio.

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