Anonymous 03/20/15 (Fri) 22:15:19 f869ac No. 4885
What is your definition of God?
Anonymous 03/20/15 (Fri) 23:25:24 a86320 No. 4890
"A fucking myth."
Anonymous 03/20/15 (Fri) 23:30:52 34cac0 No. 4892
A conscious entity that structures reality through top-down actions and (from what I can gather out of religious texts) through commands to people he handpicks for various reasons
Anonymous 03/21/15 (Sat) 00:30:37 b7aa23 No. 4894
Anonymous 03/25/15 (Wed) 01:04:37 61d517 No. 5351
An all powerful, all knowing, all seeing, immortal being that never does anything.
Anonymous 03/25/15 (Wed) 01:22:13 f71c6b No. 5353
An excuse, the filling of a gap, a fairy tale, a sky daddy
Anonymous 03/25/15 (Wed) 01:48:30 5172f6 No. 5356
Those little power ups you collect in video games like Mario Kart that enable you to do things you couldn't otherwise. Like money. It's like in that childrens' Christian book where a guy is saved deus ex machina in a video game by the chance appearance of a dragon, and everyone in the real world said it was proof God is in video games too. God is the concept of cause and effect and nothing more.
Anonymous 03/25/15 (Wed) 13:37:32 9b20ea No. 5402
I wouldn't care to define god. Like any mythological creature, it changes depending on the story.
Anonymous 03/27/15 (Fri) 00:06:45 b7aa23 No. 5572
>>5402 Also this. Fantasy got really shitty when it became well-defined, i.e. a ripoff of Tolkien's work.
Anonymous 03/31/15 (Tue) 00:52:03 741727 No. 5887
This is something that bugs me a lot. Give the basic attributes of God. Omnipotence, Omniscience,Omnipresence(witch is a redundant ),Omnibenevolent, immaterial, space less, and timeless.
Anonymous 04/02/15 (Thu) 20:48:04 bf16c2 No. 6044
Something that can't be seen but has a lot of power but the power he/she/it uses does not effect the world after it turns out that thing was done by science.
Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 16:51:01 dfe493 No. 6064
>>5356 Source on that qt, bro?
Anonymous 05/24/15 (Sun) 00:41:22 2acc33 No. 7984
If there is a god it's the universe itself, as it contains all knowledge, all power, and all things are made from it. To a degree it is self aware as we are self aware. However none of this really matters, but at least I'm a happy nihilist.
Anonymous 05/24/15 (Sun) 01:57:37 dfe493 No. 7987
>>7984
Thanks for the laugh, faggot.
Anonymous 05/26/15 (Tue) 19:15:20 61d517 No. 8093
Epicurus provides us with an interesting concept of a god.
blessed and indestructible being has no trouble himself and brings no trouble upon any other being; so he is free from anger and partiality, for all such things imply weakness.
Anonymous 05/26/15 (Tue) 19:31:34 dfe493 No. 8094
>>8093
No he's not, because there is no such thing as god
Anonymous 05/26/15 (Tue) 21:08:30 071ffb No. 8096
I don't have one. I leave that to people who believe in such things.
Anonymous 05/26/15 (Tue) 21:18:32 c66267 No. 8097
>>4885
Ask a religious person.
If the question is about meaning : related to everything and everybody. Has very specific traits. Gave us holy books, laws and morals. Wants our worship.
If the question is about scientific proof: some vague thing before the big bang, stays hidden for unknown reasons, acts in mysterious ways, can't be understand or proven by humans.
OoLF !!EmXaPcEUcU 07/27/15 (Mon) 13:07:08 db4196 No. 10046
>creator of our universe
>source of goodness
>our origin
>our Parent
>love
Anonymous 07/27/15 (Mon) 13:45:29 071ffb No. 10047
>>8093
And this has any bearing on reality how?
>>10040
I always hated these. First of all, there's the assumption that you somehow know what the lever does and that nobody noticed the motherfuckers tied to the tracks. But then you say "I flip it twice, timing it so I derail the train" and they say I can't do that. Or the version where you're on a bridge and the dilemma is whether you push a fat guy off the bridge to stop the train. I mean how do you know the fat guy would stop it? Those things usually have a lot of momentum. And if the fat guy is big enough, am I big enough? Could I choose to sacrifice myself to save those people? Could I up the odds by diving off the bridge with the fat guy? How do I know I could even get the fat guy off the bridge in time? He's fat, right? And what if I were obese? This is why psychology is laughed at by real science.
OoLF !!EmXaPcEUcU 07/27/15 (Mon) 14:08:24 db4196 No. 10049
>>10047
You gotta be kidding me if you literally don't understand the concept of a thought experiment… And no, "real science" doesn't laugh at psychology at all. To do so, you'd have to have an understanding of it and having studied physics will not give you any insight into psychology. Apples and oranges.
The whole point of thought experiments is precisely to evacuate certain parameters to focus on others specifically.
I hope you're trolling.
Anonymous 07/27/15 (Mon) 14:14:15 acd26d No. 10051
>>10049
I think what he's trying to say is that these thought experiments often fail to grasp the complexity of actual real life moral choices.
OoLF !!EmXaPcEUcU 07/27/15 (Mon) 14:23:10 db4196 No. 10053
>>10051
>>10051
>I think what he's trying to say is that these thought experiments often fail to grasp the complexity of actual real life moral choices.
I got that, but that's not the point of these experiments. That's like talking about real cats when dealing with Schrodinger's cat. That's like someone saying "He fights like a lion" and someone else says, "Yeah but he doesn't have a mane or claws."
The whole point of thought experiments is to reduce all parameters to a few controlled ones and see what happens. It's the whole point, it's not a flaw.
Anonymous 07/27/15 (Mon) 15:44:20 b7a2d5 No. 10056
>>6064
pic is from Bahumut's version of Cerebus the three headed dog from greek mythology that guards Hades. A huge improvement in the reinterpretation of that religion, from ugly to moe.
Anonymous 07/27/15 (Mon) 15:46:54 f869ac No. 10057
>>10056
>replying to a 4 month old post