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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Thursday, December 3, 2009
the atheism tapes: oh my gawhhhhd(ess)
watching The Atheism Tapes is such a mental workout. It leaves me so exhausted. principally because it's so much to digest. the episode with Denys Turner, british academic in the field of philosophy and theology made be think of some stuff tho. what follows is just my ramblings on the matter.
If there is a god , he would not be made up of something (flesh, atoms, light, etc) , because he created the concept of Something and Nothing out of the Absence-of-Something at the beginning; the semantics of our language make it difficult to related the concept of the 'nothing' before creation. that aside, why then do we paint pictures of old men in the sky and jesus on a cross, as humans? when in reality if there was a god, It would be indescribable given the tools of this universe: language, sculpture, writing, painting, and all these things. if anything, there is more "God" manifested in a fresh paint splatter with its shape, color, texture, pattern, smell , taste, etc manifested from the interaction of the newtonian and even quantum forces of the universe as it leaves a brush and hits a solid surface.
His existence is outside of the known. and thereby everywhere and nowhere at the same time (think Flatland). if this is true, how then, assuming that the bible is the word of god, can you even begin to approach, even to begin to understand the nature of God? when even his 'written words' are abstractions of his true nature as seen by people who scribed them… and were later translated and retranslated, edited and reedited, with each passing revision becoming more and more of an abstraction of an already abstract concept.
when even the way one presents himself/herself to another person is an idealized abstraction ( more often than not a FAKE version ) of the real you found in your head, how can anybody even fathom they know the REAL grace of the lord or that they talk to god on a regular basis *cough* Bush *cough*? to me, if there is one, god is unimaginable. beyond the scope of me, us. There's nothing you can do to begin to approach the concept of God.
and yet, if the universe came to be through his Will , then everything he created is a part of him (Will, implying a consciousness…which is another shit storm of a rant). God is in everything and everything is a part of him. Is this not reason enough to LOVE each other? to love -every-little-thing- no matter how minuscule? to not fight? to not kill each other? to not take things for granted? to stop pointless bickering and look up (or down) and just appreciate the beauty of existing? … of having been blessed with the gift of consciousness to be aware of your existence and the existence of those around you?
in conclusion, I will part with a screen cap of google's search autocomplete for the word god:
If there is a god , he would not be made up of something (flesh, atoms, light, etc) , because he created the concept of Something and Nothing out of the Absence-of-Something at the beginning; the semantics of our language make it difficult to related the concept of the 'nothing' before creation. that aside, why then do we paint pictures of old men in the sky and jesus on a cross, as humans? when in reality if there was a god, It would be indescribable given the tools of this universe: language, sculpture, writing, painting, and all these things. if anything, there is more "God" manifested in a fresh paint splatter with its shape, color, texture, pattern, smell , taste, etc manifested from the interaction of the newtonian and even quantum forces of the universe as it leaves a brush and hits a solid surface.
His existence is outside of the known. and thereby everywhere and nowhere at the same time (think Flatland). if this is true, how then, assuming that the bible is the word of god, can you even begin to approach, even to begin to understand the nature of God? when even his 'written words' are abstractions of his true nature as seen by people who scribed them… and were later translated and retranslated, edited and reedited, with each passing revision becoming more and more of an abstraction of an already abstract concept.
when even the way one presents himself/herself to another person is an idealized abstraction ( more often than not a FAKE version ) of the real you found in your head, how can anybody even fathom they know the REAL grace of the lord or that they talk to god on a regular basis *cough* Bush *cough*? to me, if there is one, god is unimaginable. beyond the scope of me, us. There's nothing you can do to begin to approach the concept of God.
and yet, if the universe came to be through his Will , then everything he created is a part of him (Will, implying a consciousness…which is another shit storm of a rant). God is in everything and everything is a part of him. Is this not reason enough to LOVE each other? to love -every-little-thing- no matter how minuscule? to not fight? to not kill each other? to not take things for granted? to stop pointless bickering and look up (or down) and just appreciate the beauty of existing? … of having been blessed with the gift of consciousness to be aware of your existence and the existence of those around you?
in conclusion, I will part with a screen cap of google's search autocomplete for the word god:
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