5:13 brilliant thought. If people invented God, i.e. it's only an idea explaining us and our world then I don't see any problem with changing the label god into evolution because 'god' is just a word with an uncertain meaning. I mean it's all one as far as I'm concerned because people believe what they want. Likewise the judeo-christian idea of personal God even if it seems to be at odds with our senses, scientific data and rational logic it doesn't need to be dogmatically fixed once and for all
@JRHartly1984 How else do you expect we are capable of perceiving God? I don't think we can imagine anything unless through the frame of a set of anthropomorphic filters to which we can relate.
Is it when many times its said to be in "your" image? Doesn't that cause people to reflect a sort of human in their mind, with wizard like powers? The FATHER, as we know our fathers have created us.
Now I probably only speak for a short sect of god, but the few anthropomorphic views gods would probably be in the eastern religions.
@ImSchnitzer yes, this concreteness is good for us to practice love, because anyone can believe in abstract God, but in Person with concrete wishes, values is kind of hard thing. In same way the friendship with other fellow human is challenging us to defeat our ego! Something like this :-).
YOUR PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH GOD WILL DEFINE YOUR PERSONAL OPINION OF WHAT GOD IS.AND YOUR LACK THIER OF.BUT WITH HOPE YOU MAY FIND MORE THAN YOU CURRENTLY RESPECT GOD IS OR ISNT TO YOU! PEACE!
ARE YOU QUITE RIDICULES CHRIST IS A PERFECT CONSEPTION OF GOD EVEN TO THE BLIND,WHICH YOU ARE MY DEAR BROTHER. BUT I LOVE YOU
God is indefinable, god is even more powerful than anything we could imagine, even the christian god. But keep your view, the only harm it does me is in an afterlife I know I won't reach.
I always think to myself "these spacey metaphysical dudes would love evolutionary thinking if they'd give it a chance" and here we have a wonderful example of that coupling.
I have a Greek and Hebrew dictionary and there is no such word. Are you sure that's correct? I am fairly familiar with the Hebrew names for God and I can't remember any of them having that concept behind them.
He made a mistake, it should have been "ha makom", not "ha makon". There's this web page named "makomto.org", and they do explain the meaning of the word. You might want to check it out. At any rate, it's on page 693 of Hayim Baltsan's Webster's New World Hebrew dictionary (ISBN 0-671-88991-5). It can be translated either as "place" or as "space". Don't be too hard on Hector- if a person isn't Jewish (and even if he is) it's extremely difficult to have a precise knowledge of Judaism.
Actually the term is quite common in Rabbinical literature. it is explained in Gen. R. LXIII. 9, which is an early medieval commentary (6-9 Century C.E.) in which the rabbis postulated the idea that "the Holy One, blessed be He, is the place of His universe, but His universe is not His place", i.e. He encompasses space, but space doesn't encompass Him. Don't be surprised by this type of ideas, in the Jewish world, the ideas tend to be “really big”. Shalom.
Oh ok I see, sounds like a concept of God as nonphysical in nature yet omnipresent. Maybe (In every point active?) would be a clearer word for it. Thanks for the info.
That's a good interpretation. I often think of it as the "Pythagorean zero"; As a reality that includes all possibilities. That is, if you add up all numbers, positive ones, negative ones, rational, and non rational ones, complex and vectors, the net result will be "zero". But obviously, this result isn't emptiness (nothingness), as it includes all existing numbers. But, to be honest, the quantum theory of a "wave function" for the whole universe also comes very close to it. Shalom
death is what ? or is it ? very interesting, I see you let your thoughts flow...the question is, what happens at the point of " what we call death" ? To me, at this stage of my own observation's, is this....I think its a door a change of clothing...while this in it's finite view, is lacking at best, yet gives a clue to the true, a shadow of truth we can only hope to understand now, and as we go through this door into the next stage of our being... only then will we fully understand.
You've made me think more in just a few videos than school has in over 10 years...
I'm a failure at school and a faliure at socialism, a failure at commercialism and a failure at life... but I just don't see it like that. I'm a success at understanding and loving. For as long as I have the ability within me to think, I will do so.
I think what people confuse a lot between "God" and Religion, is that they always, intertwine God WITH religion. Sure religion HAS a god, but this GOD does not have to be a worldwide view for all the God's out there. It's just that particular God for that particular religion. So when I hear atheists comment on how there is no God, they are only taking ONE particular, Or TWO particular ideas of a god, of this GOD of Religion, and basing their ideas only on these two aspects of this God.
@frichikendz I personally had no opinions towards religion or god. I don't mind either extremes. But I find it a flaw of some sort when people take the God of religion and confuse it with a general idea that there could be a God. Meaning, this existent God did not command us laws or ANYTHING. He just exists. So this is no God of Religion. It's just a God that exists and has nothing to do with religion.
Surely if all that people have thought about God were in fact wrong then that *would* mean that something like God didn't exist? What could the word 'God' mean if not what people mean by it?
So why some cannot say "God is... non-existant"? This how that person thinks that God is: an entity that lacks existance?
Just a personal curiosity: who is putting a gun to your head to have an opinion about the properties of a concept invented by people that had NO EXPLANATION of what is happening around them?
We are even less qualified to say ANYTHING about what God is or has. I would care less if people would say "God is" if they would have the decency to stop right there. "God is Love", "God is the author of a book", "God is talking through that person" require a level of self-absorbtion that is far beyond that required to say "God is not".
@Soulfree2008 You basicaly said in less then 500 words what Anton couldn't say in a 10 minute vid. You ARE very correct and what a great observation of everything in the radiation spectrum and we are only capable of observing just a tiny amount of it.
I like your notion of life eternal. life is anything anyone ever experienced. I go a step further and say that experience is the ground of every reality. you cannot experience non-existence. you can reverse that statement. X cannot exist in non-experience. because to exist means to be experienced. materialists will say that things exist even if they are not experienced, but I want you to think about that . what would "to exist" even mean, if there was no experience of it at all?
The way I see it, the beings in this universe that have the most power are not big but in fact almost non-detectable except through math and high power lenses. They truly have a free will that is godlike in a sense...if you're into the god thing;)
Just a note or two The DNA does NOT survive Its STRUCTURE survives Humans do NOT survive Humanity survives DNA has no WISDOM It merely has FORM Matter is EMERGENT energy Life is EMERGENT matter Consciousness is EMERGENT life So what is EMERGENT consciousness?
I really like everything you've said here. I would just point out though, that this isn't what most people mean when they speak of God, and if you broaden the definition of God to mean anything you want it to mean, then the term becomes meaningless.
If you are describing the intuition that most people have that there is something more to the story of our existence, then I completely agree, except that I wouldn't bother slapping a "God" label on it.
I'm not sure I am fully convinced of this life-death mutual exclusiveness you've been touching on lately. It seems to me that the phenomenon of being 'dead' has no clear cut boundaries; that there are various intermittent stages where consciousness might still be present, but for all extensive purposes, the person is in fact dead.
There is a wonderfully graphic novel called 'Being Dead' by a bio-scientist named Jim Crace, where he depicts a 24 hour period following a brutal murder scene.
@thesunshon HI! What I have learned over the years is that the only definition of god that bears any truth is the one each of defines through our own personal thoughts, perceptions, emotions, reasoning and experiences therefore, there are as many definitions as there are people. Maybe we're all right. Maybe we're all wrong.
Humans seem to have a capacity for historicity which makes us go beyond our immediate mundane day to day activities. Mind and language get at the heart of things which enable us to start thinking about the cosmos and it's meaning, which keeps us in constant awe. This awe and fear of the "other" has driven scientist, philosophers, and mathematicians to reduce everything to a single theory or systemic way of thinking. When the real issue boils down to how we should live with chaos and order.
DNA isn't a single molecule, it's a construct, or better yet a blueprint for a construct. The 'information' that continues to pass on doesn't exist in material form, rather one just happens to recreate itself, following the natural laws of physics. The materials break down to molecules and atomic/subatomic particles which happen to unite with and separate from other particles over time. We as individuals and our consciousness are just side effects and perceived only by ourselves as 'special'.
Good speculations, prof! I enjoyed those thoughts. Thx.
When we start talking DNA, molecules, carbon, chemistry, biology we are being so much more useful and precise in our understanding than when we start speculating from an immediate philosophical "unknowable" perspective.
As you said: "Use whats INSIDE our experience..(to help understand the world)" and THEN carry that to speculation of the philosophically unknown.
Speculating in the wrong order produces "god delusions" & confusion.
I would have to think that anything you would call God would have to have an independent conciousness, trying to define anything other than that would be fruitless.
Oh yeah, good observation maybe a "Butterfly has memories of being a caterpiller". An insect with a brain the size of a booger can wax poeticaly about Metamorphis.
Man where do you come up with this kinda of wackiness?
Why would you be lead to think that there is something "larger" than the human? If reduction of the cosmos to its minute detail reveals grandeur beyond anything that has ever been revealed before, why should we be looking for anything bigger?
Daoism has a saying "神神道道" (shen shen dao dao), literally meaning "god god way way". Dao can be considered divine, God, yet it's not a being, not "Creator" as traditionally conceived by Westerners, but "the Way". The same character (道) is used in Japanese: e.g. judo (柔道, "soft-way"), kendo (剣道, "sword-way"), sado (茶道, "tea-way"). Dao, without a modifier, means the path of the entire Cosmos itself. Dao represents all smaller dao's, any that which occurs, and these are collectively divine.
@mirandansa I like that you posted this, it kind of goes with what he was saying about the molecules existing in an undetermined consciousness. or "the way" as you discribed, nice, !!
I like your video, I'd nod my head in agreement while saying:
From a non religious stand point, it would be interesting if there were forces beyond our understanding regarding consciousness, awareness.
It would be great to discover these things to move forward as a species, to unite and build bridges even if its discovered we are stuck with the dimensions and reality that is proven to science currently.
Very interesting. I'm picturing "God" as imagined potential. As a sort of abstract essence of all possibility. Most religion depict God as the smartest, strongest, all-present being. But, what if God is also the inherent potential for the Universe to even exist? I'm not even saying that God is a being at all. Like I said, God is merely the potential for everything.
About God... I'm an Atheist and my mother is a theist. Her god is the god of Sipnosa and Einstein plus love and some other magical thinking. I have no problem with that and I don't care about that god. I do however have a huge problem with Kent Hovinds god and Osama bin ladens god. The God who cares about if your gay or not, the god who wants you to fight for him. The god who wants western civilization to turn the clock back 500 years, banning condoms and burning witches.
Can we stop using the term god? It doesn't help the dialog it only gives way to ignorance. I like your videos as they seems to be the only videos on youtube currently that get me thinking on something other than world events, politics, or economics. You older videos taught me a lot more than these videos on god have. I'm not saying get off of the topic about the human condition as the bible may have tried to explain just get off the god thing. We all get that it is there to be the authority.
GREAT considerations, I almost regret my earlier flippancy.
Thanks
babylonIZfallin 6 months ago
@Professoranton The earth peoples, people worlds, world gods, god cosmos's, cosmos earths?
anujdasgupta 10 months ago
@anujdasgupta not so much a cycle but a spiral maybe?
anujdasgupta 10 months ago
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anujdasgupta 10 months ago
5:13 brilliant thought. If people invented God, i.e. it's only an idea explaining us and our world then I don't see any problem with changing the label god into evolution because 'god' is just a word with an uncertain meaning. I mean it's all one as far as I'm concerned because people believe what they want. Likewise the judeo-christian idea of personal God even if it seems to be at odds with our senses, scientific data and rational logic it doesn't need to be dogmatically fixed once and for all
pawsoned 10 months ago
There's no need for God to be an anthropomorphic personification!
JRHartly1984 10 months ago
@JRHartly1984 How else do you expect we are capable of perceiving God? I don't think we can imagine anything unless through the frame of a set of anthropomorphic filters to which we can relate.
BoStevoD 10 months ago
@JRHartly1984 the only way we can experience and understand God is through the anthropomorphic personification.
sergiomarchelli 10 months ago
@sergiomarchelli
Is it when many times its said to be in "your" image? Doesn't that cause people to reflect a sort of human in their mind, with wizard like powers? The FATHER, as we know our fathers have created us.
Now I probably only speak for a short sect of god, but the few anthropomorphic views gods would probably be in the eastern religions.
saguarodundee 10 months ago
@sergiomarchelli
I agree, but I think that anthropomorphic personification is our fellow human beings. i.e., I love God, when I love my fellow human being. Shalom
ImSchnitzer 10 months ago
@ImSchnitzer yes, this concreteness is good for us to practice love, because anyone can believe in abstract God, but in Person with concrete wishes, values is kind of hard thing. In same way the friendship with other fellow human is challenging us to defeat our ego! Something like this :-).
sergiomarchelli 10 months ago
YOUR PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH GOD WILL DEFINE YOUR PERSONAL OPINION OF WHAT GOD IS.AND YOUR LACK THIER OF.BUT WITH HOPE YOU MAY FIND MORE THAN YOU CURRENTLY RESPECT GOD IS OR ISNT TO YOU! PEACE!
ARE YOU QUITE RIDICULES CHRIST IS A PERFECT CONSEPTION OF GOD EVEN TO THE BLIND,WHICH YOU ARE MY DEAR BROTHER. BUT I LOVE YOU
SMILES FROM THE SUN!
thesunshon 10 months ago 2
@thesunshon
God is indefinable, god is even more powerful than anything we could imagine, even the christian god. But keep your view, the only harm it does me is in an afterlife I know I won't reach.
saguarodundee 10 months ago
@saguarodundee i love you to,and so does god!
smiles from the sun!
thesunshon 10 months ago
God is just a title ( e.g ) like a President and the power of the position that there hold !!!
parsonman05 10 months ago
I always think to myself "these spacey metaphysical dudes would love evolutionary thinking if they'd give it a chance" and here we have a wonderful example of that coupling.
StabbyRaccoon 10 months ago
@HectorYLaComay
I have a Greek and Hebrew dictionary and there is no such word. Are you sure that's correct? I am fairly familiar with the Hebrew names for God and I can't remember any of them having that concept behind them.
-Matt
95TurboSol 10 months ago
@95TurboSol
He made a mistake, it should have been "ha makom", not "ha makon". There's this web page named "makomto.org", and they do explain the meaning of the word. You might want to check it out. At any rate, it's on page 693 of Hayim Baltsan's Webster's New World Hebrew dictionary (ISBN 0-671-88991-5). It can be translated either as "place" or as "space". Don't be too hard on Hector- if a person isn't Jewish (and even if he is) it's extremely difficult to have a precise knowledge of Judaism.
ImSchnitzer 10 months ago
@ImSchnitzer
Thanks for helping out. I found it. What is it's origin? I cannot find it in the Torah, is it a concept that came from the Talmud later on?
-Matt
95TurboSol 10 months ago
@95TurboSol
Actually the term is quite common in Rabbinical literature. it is explained in Gen. R. LXIII. 9, which is an early medieval commentary (6-9 Century C.E.) in which the rabbis postulated the idea that "the Holy One, blessed be He, is the place of His universe, but His universe is not His place", i.e. He encompasses space, but space doesn't encompass Him. Don't be surprised by this type of ideas, in the Jewish world, the ideas tend to be “really big”. Shalom.
ImSchnitzer 10 months ago
@ImSchnitzer
Oh ok I see, sounds like a concept of God as nonphysical in nature yet omnipresent. Maybe (In every point active?) would be a clearer word for it. Thanks for the info.
-Matt
95TurboSol 10 months ago
@95TurboSol
That's a good interpretation. I often think of it as the "Pythagorean zero"; As a reality that includes all possibilities. That is, if you add up all numbers, positive ones, negative ones, rational, and non rational ones, complex and vectors, the net result will be "zero". But obviously, this result isn't emptiness (nothingness), as it includes all existing numbers. But, to be honest, the quantum theory of a "wave function" for the whole universe also comes very close to it. Shalom
ImSchnitzer 10 months ago
death is what ? or is it ? very interesting, I see you let your thoughts flow...the question is, what happens at the point of " what we call death" ? To me, at this stage of my own observation's, is this....I think its a door a change of clothing...while this in it's finite view, is lacking at best, yet gives a clue to the true, a shadow of truth we can only hope to understand now, and as we go through this door into the next stage of our being... only then will we fully understand.
raw5069 1 year ago
Pretty much perfect; truly awesome vid.
PawnBACM 1 year ago
awesome stuff you go there, mate
SShinX2off 1 year ago
LSD?
clifton062 1 year ago
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clifton062 1 year ago
Probably one of the best videos you have ever done imo.
allanps1979 1 year ago
I recommend JLA Heaven's Ladder.
These super advanced god-like beings are on the verge of death, and need planets to power their machines to construct an afterlife for themselves.
Very thought provoking.
DannyPhantomBeast 1 year ago
It's like humanity is the DNA strand of the universe.
DannyPhantomBeast 1 year ago
You've made me think more in just a few videos than school has in over 10 years...
I'm a failure at school and a faliure at socialism, a failure at commercialism and a failure at life... but I just don't see it like that. I'm a success at understanding and loving. For as long as I have the ability within me to think, I will do so.
Mattt8D 1 year ago
I think what people confuse a lot between "God" and Religion, is that they always, intertwine God WITH religion. Sure religion HAS a god, but this GOD does not have to be a worldwide view for all the God's out there. It's just that particular God for that particular religion. So when I hear atheists comment on how there is no God, they are only taking ONE particular, Or TWO particular ideas of a god, of this GOD of Religion, and basing their ideas only on these two aspects of this God.
frichikendz 1 year ago
@frichikendz I personally had no opinions towards religion or god. I don't mind either extremes. But I find it a flaw of some sort when people take the God of religion and confuse it with a general idea that there could be a God. Meaning, this existent God did not command us laws or ANYTHING. He just exists. So this is no God of Religion. It's just a God that exists and has nothing to do with religion.
frichikendz 1 year ago
great to see you're still going strong Prof, have been out of the loop for a while.
Ps I'm enjoing your new book.
amabodie 1 year ago
again! fucking epic shit!
piloot 1 year ago
Surely if all that people have thought about God were in fact wrong then that *would* mean that something like God didn't exist? What could the word 'God' mean if not what people mean by it?
gerontodon 1 year ago
@Soulfree2008
So why some cannot say "God is... non-existant"? This how that person thinks that God is: an entity that lacks existance?
Just a personal curiosity: who is putting a gun to your head to have an opinion about the properties of a concept invented by people that had NO EXPLANATION of what is happening around them?
logossfera 1 year ago
@Soulfree2008 By the same token, we are so unqualified to say God does exist. Doing so makes an equally errant inference.
FlexibleElf 1 year ago
this is a really good, thought provoking, video.
Cristofer7 1 year ago
@Soulfree2008
We are even less qualified to say ANYTHING about what God is or has. I would care less if people would say "God is" if they would have the decency to stop right there. "God is Love", "God is the author of a book", "God is talking through that person" require a level of self-absorbtion that is far beyond that required to say "God is not".
logossfera 1 year ago
@Soulfree2008 You basicaly said in less then 500 words what Anton couldn't say in a 10 minute vid. You ARE very correct and what a great observation of everything in the radiation spectrum and we are only capable of observing just a tiny amount of it.
valhala56 1 year ago
I like your notion of life eternal. life is anything anyone ever experienced. I go a step further and say that experience is the ground of every reality. you cannot experience non-existence. you can reverse that statement. X cannot exist in non-experience. because to exist means to be experienced. materialists will say that things exist even if they are not experienced, but I want you to think about that . what would "to exist" even mean, if there was no experience of it at all?
GeistWerk 1 year ago
The way I see it, the beings in this universe that have the most power are not big but in fact almost non-detectable except through math and high power lenses. They truly have a free will that is godlike in a sense...if you're into the god thing;)
deathbytech 1 year ago
8:18 '... such that I was able to wake to a body that has a wisdom millions and millions of years old...'
Brilliantly put.
slotstik 1 year ago
God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that. -- Joseph Campbell.
slotstik 1 year ago
beachcomber2008 1 year ago
I really like everything you've said here. I would just point out though, that this isn't what most people mean when they speak of God, and if you broaden the definition of God to mean anything you want it to mean, then the term becomes meaningless.
If you are describing the intuition that most people have that there is something more to the story of our existence, then I completely agree, except that I wouldn't bother slapping a "God" label on it.
Cheers
rhyfelur 1 year ago
Here we have four people who have LITERALLY sold their souls to the devil, and yet - they pretend as if they don't know God.
Please, child - spare us yer bullshit.
theDracoIX 1 year ago
A prenatural creative agent of the Universe. I don't take it any further than that.
Yesman812 1 year ago
God is narsisiom.
A hopeless need to believe that there are things that need to be believed in.
Life is. Deal with it.
Andrewcranky 1 year ago
I'm not sure I am fully convinced of this life-death mutual exclusiveness you've been touching on lately. It seems to me that the phenomenon of being 'dead' has no clear cut boundaries; that there are various intermittent stages where consciousness might still be present, but for all extensive purposes, the person is in fact dead.
There is a wonderfully graphic novel called 'Being Dead' by a bio-scientist named Jim Crace, where he depicts a 24 hour period following a brutal murder scene.
AproposOfWetSnow 1 year ago
! I THINK IT TAKES SOME BIG BALLS TO HAVE THE NERVE TO EXPLAIN WHAT GOD IS!
ESPESIALLY FROM THOSE WHOM DONT BELIEVE IN THE TRUE GOD!
THE PIED PIPER OF PIPE DREAMS!
LOVE LIGHT AND PEACE!
THESUNSHON!
thesunshon 1 year ago
@thesunshon HI! What I have learned over the years is that the only definition of god that bears any truth is the one each of defines through our own personal thoughts, perceptions, emotions, reasoning and experiences therefore, there are as many definitions as there are people. Maybe we're all right. Maybe we're all wrong.
rhocando 1 year ago
Humans seem to have a capacity for historicity which makes us go beyond our immediate mundane day to day activities. Mind and language get at the heart of things which enable us to start thinking about the cosmos and it's meaning, which keeps us in constant awe. This awe and fear of the "other" has driven scientist, philosophers, and mathematicians to reduce everything to a single theory or systemic way of thinking. When the real issue boils down to how we should live with chaos and order.
Alberto2382 1 year ago
We've been born into a great mistery.
im10pplok 1 year ago
@im10pplok the only mystery I've been dealing with is why you mispelled mystery.
MrMrrRNELLi 1 year ago
I am god. You are god. Everything that is, is god.
Think about it. Everything that is came from one instance. Therefore, we are all that instance.
rhocando 1 year ago
@rhocando Indeed... relevant: see youtube vid /watch?v=RuXCAtWMFCA
slotstik 1 year ago
@slotstik I enjoyed the video. Thx for suggesting it :)
rhocando 1 year ago
DNA isn't a single molecule, it's a construct, or better yet a blueprint for a construct. The 'information' that continues to pass on doesn't exist in material form, rather one just happens to recreate itself, following the natural laws of physics. The materials break down to molecules and atomic/subatomic particles which happen to unite with and separate from other particles over time. We as individuals and our consciousness are just side effects and perceived only by ourselves as 'special'.
feedtherich 1 year ago
@Soulfree2008
God and spirituality has nothing to do with each other.
And what 'is' is defined by my sight, my skin, my taste, my smell and my brain.
What might be aka. fantasies, dreams, fiction, religion and spirituallity is only in my brain as well.
Ilamarea 1 year ago
Good speculations, prof! I enjoyed those thoughts. Thx.
When we start talking DNA, molecules, carbon, chemistry, biology we are being so much more useful and precise in our understanding than when we start speculating from an immediate philosophical "unknowable" perspective.
As you said: "Use whats INSIDE our experience..(to help understand the world)" and THEN carry that to speculation of the philosophically unknown.
Speculating in the wrong order produces "god delusions" & confusion.
drgoldteef 1 year ago
I would have to think that anything you would call God would have to have an independent conciousness, trying to define anything other than that would be fruitless.
adrenacrumb 1 year ago
Man invests too much of it's existence into the psyche. Perhaps U.G. Krishnamurti had it right with his book "The Mind is a Myth".
jaymurtii 1 year ago
Oh yeah, good observation maybe a "Butterfly has memories of being a caterpiller". An insect with a brain the size of a booger can wax poeticaly about Metamorphis.
Man where do you come up with this kinda of wackiness?
valhala56 1 year ago
God is a unicorn, without hoves and a horn, but just as pink and made-up.
That does not mean of course, that there is something god-like-ish out there, somewhere. But it is still unknown=religion is bullshit.
Ilamarea 1 year ago
Why would you be lead to think that there is something "larger" than the human? If reduction of the cosmos to its minute detail reveals grandeur beyond anything that has ever been revealed before, why should we be looking for anything bigger?
DntWorryImALimoDrivA 1 year ago
described* , sorry spelling error.
Mrtitmice 1 year ago
Daoism has a saying "神神道道" (shen shen dao dao), literally meaning "god god way way". Dao can be considered divine, God, yet it's not a being, not "Creator" as traditionally conceived by Westerners, but "the Way". The same character (道) is used in Japanese: e.g. judo (柔道, "soft-way"), kendo (剣道, "sword-way"), sado (茶道, "tea-way"). Dao, without a modifier, means the path of the entire Cosmos itself. Dao represents all smaller dao's, any that which occurs, and these are collectively divine.
mirandansa 1 year ago
@mirandansa I like that you posted this, it kind of goes with what he was saying about the molecules existing in an undetermined consciousness. or "the way" as you discribed, nice, !!
Mrtitmice 1 year ago
I like your video, I'd nod my head in agreement while saying:
From a non religious stand point, it would be interesting if there were forces beyond our understanding regarding consciousness, awareness.
It would be great to discover these things to move forward as a species, to unite and build bridges even if its discovered we are stuck with the dimensions and reality that is proven to science currently.
Mrtitmice 1 year ago
Very interesting. I'm picturing "God" as imagined potential. As a sort of abstract essence of all possibility. Most religion depict God as the smartest, strongest, all-present being. But, what if God is also the inherent potential for the Universe to even exist? I'm not even saying that God is a being at all. Like I said, God is merely the potential for everything.
TheSkepticalAtheist 1 year ago
About God... I'm an Atheist and my mother is a theist. Her god is the god of Sipnosa and Einstein plus love and some other magical thinking. I have no problem with that and I don't care about that god. I do however have a huge problem with Kent Hovinds god and Osama bin ladens god. The God who cares about if your gay or not, the god who wants you to fight for him. The god who wants western civilization to turn the clock back 500 years, banning condoms and burning witches.
FrozenPetrolPie 1 year ago
@FrozenPetrolPie
I like your attitude.
(& your mother's ¦:¬)
TWITfromURANUS 1 year ago
@FrozenPetrolPie : /watch?v=MyE5wjc4XOw Jerry Falwell's God
pyrrho314 1 year ago
@pyrrho314 Thanks for the laugh
FrozenPetrolPie 1 year ago
@FrozenPetrolPie : "I wanted to invite my god, but he was at the beach" roflmao... my "religion" in a nutshell. I love that guy.
pyrrho314 1 year ago
I don't want to go read some book either, your videos make much more sense.
MirageScience 1 year ago
Can we stop using the term god? It doesn't help the dialog it only gives way to ignorance. I like your videos as they seems to be the only videos on youtube currently that get me thinking on something other than world events, politics, or economics. You older videos taught me a lot more than these videos on god have. I'm not saying get off of the topic about the human condition as the bible may have tried to explain just get off the god thing. We all get that it is there to be the authority.
MirageScience 1 year ago
I was hoping you would do a vid on this... thank you! shared and liked, and added to my facebook page =D
JessecaFlores1979 1 year ago