Is "God" simply a 'moniker'???

[_Roger Morrison]

Hi TD, All ya gotta do is look around... The wonders of the Universe are popping up like mushroms after a warm shower--where truth is respected and applied... At the same time, people perish in want of physical and psyche needs cuz we're still evolving as stewards. Seeming slower in the area of social humanities than in impersonal technics...

Neither of these boom/bust phenomema are in any hands but human hands. Where "God" has placed it in every era of existance. BUT humanity IS becoming more responsive and responible as it slooooooowly emerges from ignorance and narcissism... "Praise GOD!!" :-0)) Warm regards, Roger

[_Dr. Shades]

Hi TD, All ya gotta do is look around... The wonders of the Universe are popping up like mushroms after a warm shower--

You need to scrub your shower more often. Preferably with Ajax or some other cleanser.

[_truth dancer]

Hey Roger...

I agree that slowly (I mean REALLY slowly) humankind is moving toward deeper awareness, kindness, compassion, etc. etc...

Along the way, we have outgrown the myths that worked for past cultures and peoples which is why I think so many people feel lost... resulting in depression, suicide, addictions, abuse, etc. etc.

I get the sense that there is, emerging in the human deeper unity and care, at the same time we are experiencing a need to move beyond the past.

I wonder if, (or as) we let go of the past we will bring forth a new light? A new way of experiencing the world?

:-)

~dancer~

[_Roger Morrison]

Hi TD, All ya gotta do is look around... The wonders of the Universe are popping up like mushroms after a warm shower--

You need to scrub your shower more often. Preferably with Ajax or some other cleanser.

Gottcha Doc, serious--and slow--guy that i am, it took a little time... But a good 'n... Warm regards, Roger

[_ozemc]

Very interesting topic, Roger.

I have often thought about the idea that "God" is just our way of describing the natural world around us.

I have become, in the last few years or so, greatly interested in astronomy. I look at the majesty of the stars, and galaxies, and nebulas, etc. and just am awed at it all. I do believe that there is "something" behind it all, maybe an entity called "God", but whatever this entity is, I can't picture an old man with a long white beard, sitting on a throne.

Of course, maybe the universe is the way it is because that's the way it's supposed to be. Who knows. But, I do try to place my own spirituality into that framework.

Thanks.

[_Roger Morrison]

Hi TD, BOO HOO... :-( i lost the post i had ready to send... Guess the Universe interferred--to everyone's advantage...LOL! You wrote:

Along the way, we have outgrown the myths that worked for past cultures and peoples which is why I think so many people feel lost... resulting in depression, suicide, addictions, abuse, etc. etc.

RM: A valid observation. I wonder though IF it might have been worse before? IF so, then our things in that personal regard are improvements over the sufferings of the human mass of serfs and peasants who endured conditions--physical and emotional--famines, plagues, filth, ignorance, and abuses that we can only imagine. So, with obvious human needs begging us we do have ways and means of remedy here-to-fore unknown...

I get the sense that there is, emerging in the human deeper unity and care, at the same time we are experiencing a need to move beyond the past.

RM: As i see things, yes, on most sides. Unfortunately, not without resistance by those who remain pleged to the "...traditions and sins of their fathers..."

I wonder if, (or as) we let go of the past we will bring forth a new light? A new way of experiencing the world?

RM: Fortunately, "one funeral at a time"* brings us into that "new light." Just the way it is...

* I sure wish i had coined that one! Totally profound!!! Warm regards, Roger

[_Sam Harris]

A "Nick-name" laid on the the creation process of the Universe by primatives, albeit sophisticated (some of them) relative to their time & intelligence, in answer to the big "how-come-question"... It was "God"!!! Who else, what else, could it have been? That might have satisfied peoples conditioned to believe in mysteries, magic and miracles.

Today, might "God" be better understood as 'Universal truth'; 'Applied Science'; 'Expanding Understanding'? This idea has been discussed recently on another thread. However, on a longish trip yesterday--Sunday--I listened to several religious speakers who used the "God" term frequently.

I began to substitute other words for "God" and was surprised how more meaningful, and practial, their sentences became by using differing terminology. That in fact lent more credibility to many of the statements. Try it, and see...

Thoughts, comments, explainations??? Must there be a personal, prejudiced "God" of magic & mystery to control &/or over-see the tides, orbiting planets, and 'special-children' of 'favoured-folks'? OR, are we secure in the ways and means of nature? Gaining more security as we draw closer to Universal Truth? Wondering??? Warm regards, Roger

Roger!!! Once again you bring forth the deep questions...

I think that "God" is a moniker. In a blog of mine, I called God a mannequin. God is the result of a cultural conditioning human society has been going through for millenia. We want to make the divine in our image...so usually gods have at least outwardly, human characteristics.

I think that "God" can dwell within, but I also think that when you go to start describing the Divine (my fav word), you diminish it. Why can't "God" be all, instead of one gender, one personage (or three), one way, one path, etc?

I think folks are too scared to think on that...