God Creation
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2022 5:39 am
I've been thinking a lot about how people make up their own gods and referring to their creation as "god", a.k.a. the one everyone is talking about when they refer to "god." (Side note: isn't it interesting people will say "god" like it's an external entity everyone one is familiar with? It's like me making up a word like "smarkoff" and saying it as though everyone knows exactly what I'm talking about when in reality, they have no idea).
What's important here is the the fact that everyone makes up their own god. I know this because I remember doing it. At the time, I didn't realize I was making it up because I was doing it in response to other people telling me this entity existed, so I had to make it up in order to have something to refer to mentally whenever someone invoked the word "god."
But still, I kind of remember the process (it happened a long time ago when I was young, but I still have a sense of what happened). Someone mentioned this god thing, and I'm pretty sure that the mental image I had of a god was based on that famous Jesus painting:
So I've got an image to start with, and now it's just a matter of assigning him attributes. I have to, because I've never met or seen him, so everything I think about him is based on what I think a proper god should be. Somebody would make some comment (read: assertion) about their god, and one of two things would happen: I would either think, "That sounds right" and incorporate it into my picture of god, or "That doesn't sound like something an all powerful being would do" so I discarded it. That idea didn't make my god-cut.
It was when I started analyzing my picture of god that I realized he was exactly everything I needed him to be to fit a reasonable definition of a god for me. When I realized that simple truth, I started hearing everyone else's definition of god as a simple screed of their own personal values and desires. Everybody does the exact same thing I used to do: they would either accept a proposition about god because they were ok with it, or discard it because they weren't. This tells me that the definition of anyone's god is completely malleable. It's entirely up to each individual considering the question. Why? Because nobody's actually seen a god, there's nothing we can say about a god definitively, so we can say whatever the “F” we want. To me, this is by far the best evidence that man created their own god, not the other way around.
Bottom line is, because it's so obvious to me that everyone has created their own personal god, I am entirely unimpressed with comments about what you think your god wants, or pronouncements about the morality of things based on your limited, retarded (slowed, impeded) perception of reality due to a reliance on pure fantasy and fiction.
Every single god anyone has ever heard about is a fabrication. That is a fact. It has to be, because nobody has ever credibly seen a god. So it should be vitally important to keep your damned god concept to yourself. Talking about it publicly exposes you as a damned fool.
What's important here is the the fact that everyone makes up their own god. I know this because I remember doing it. At the time, I didn't realize I was making it up because I was doing it in response to other people telling me this entity existed, so I had to make it up in order to have something to refer to mentally whenever someone invoked the word "god."
But still, I kind of remember the process (it happened a long time ago when I was young, but I still have a sense of what happened). Someone mentioned this god thing, and I'm pretty sure that the mental image I had of a god was based on that famous Jesus painting:
So I've got an image to start with, and now it's just a matter of assigning him attributes. I have to, because I've never met or seen him, so everything I think about him is based on what I think a proper god should be. Somebody would make some comment (read: assertion) about their god, and one of two things would happen: I would either think, "That sounds right" and incorporate it into my picture of god, or "That doesn't sound like something an all powerful being would do" so I discarded it. That idea didn't make my god-cut.
It was when I started analyzing my picture of god that I realized he was exactly everything I needed him to be to fit a reasonable definition of a god for me. When I realized that simple truth, I started hearing everyone else's definition of god as a simple screed of their own personal values and desires. Everybody does the exact same thing I used to do: they would either accept a proposition about god because they were ok with it, or discard it because they weren't. This tells me that the definition of anyone's god is completely malleable. It's entirely up to each individual considering the question. Why? Because nobody's actually seen a god, there's nothing we can say about a god definitively, so we can say whatever the “F” we want. To me, this is by far the best evidence that man created their own god, not the other way around.
Bottom line is, because it's so obvious to me that everyone has created their own personal god, I am entirely unimpressed with comments about what you think your god wants, or pronouncements about the morality of things based on your limited, retarded (slowed, impeded) perception of reality due to a reliance on pure fantasy and fiction.
Every single god anyone has ever heard about is a fabrication. That is a fact. It has to be, because nobody has ever credibly seen a god. So it should be vitally important to keep your damned god concept to yourself. Talking about it publicly exposes you as a damned fool.