How many Gods are there??

[Angry Dragon]

[maxsolomon]

1. Corporeal or metaphorical?

answer is none, one, and infinity.

[patrice]

11. I LIKE this! + the Oxford English Dictionary on the Greek prefix "meta-" . . .

sorry I don't have access to the OED, but meta- has to do (unlike a simile, a similarity, as in things that are like one another, though different in essential ways) with a more essential relationship, more of a fundamental kinship. I think of the perceptual ground out of which things manifest, like a bas relief, that which stands behind an identifiable class of phenomenology.

Greek would be a very interesting language to understand, although it is broadly accepted amongst linguists that there is an older "Mother Tongue" that would have been more similar to what we know as Hindu.

[tama]

34. It's Greek to me

One basic meaning of 'meta-' is the next outer layer of a Russian doll of self-reflective relation, like 'metalanguage" and 'metameta(...)language.

[Phillip McCleod]

70. i would say less fundamental. indirect even.

the onion ends, but the 'meta' layers of the onion continue as long as we can think of onion-somethingelse relationships.

[TDale313]

78. Great answer.

And pretty much how I see it.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. As many or as few as you want to think there are.

[greyl]

3. First things first: What do you mean by "God"? nt

[Angry Dragon]

8. I believe it would take millions of books to give you that answer

[greyl]

17. I believe further conversation with you on this would waste time. nt

[Angry Dragon]

21. I believe all the books written about gods backs up my answer

[greyl]

64. ...showing the unreliability of belief. ;)

Your original question remains too vague.

[Angry Dragon]

66. I am sorry about that

Everyone has a different view of what a god is or what god will do.
I just wanted to get a feel of what the group thought.
Some believe in no gods.
Some believe there is only one.
Some believe if there is a god then there are many gods.
The ones that believe in only one god do not see that god the same way.
How can I define what a god is under these circumstances??

Each one of us has to come to our own definition

[cleanhippie]

29. How do YOU define "god"?

For me, I define it as the idea that an entity exists outside of the natural world and reality that we inhabit, yet has the ability to interact with this reality/world.

How about you?

[greyl]

65. How does that help answer the original question?

To answer your question(to a degree), I'm currently ignostic.

[cleanhippie]

67. I answered your original question of "what do you mean by god?"

And I would like to know how YOU define "god". Until we are working from the same definition, or at least understand what one means when they use that word, how can there BE any conversation?

[greyl]

68. But I didn't ask you.

Until we are working from the same definition, or at least understand what one means when they use that word, how can there BE any conversation?

Hey, that's my point, buster!

[cleanhippie]

71. But I'm asking you!

The other poster seemed to make the same point as well.

Are you looking for discussion or not?

[greyl]

83. lol

Here's an easier to see version of the link in post #65:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignosticism

[cleanhippie]

84. lol

I guess not.

[cbayer]

4. What do you think?

[Angry Dragon]

5. I am surprised you care what I think

[cbayer]

10. Why is that?

[Angry Dragon]

13. I believe you feel that I am against all religion

[cbayer]

14. Even if I did, why wouldn't I be interested in your answer to this question?

So how many do you think there are?

[Angry Dragon]

18. There are many gods, perhaps too many to count

[cbayer]

23. Reasonable perspective. As for me, I have no idea.

[Leontius]

6. Many gods, only one God.

[Angry Dragon]

9. What would be the difference??

[cleanhippie]

30. His God is a pro-life/anti-choice fanatic.

He has said exactly that, and had the posts hidden by a jury.

Surprised?

[cleanhippie]

63. Making Jesus proud, leontius, one post at a time.

Last edited Tue Jan 15, 2013, 12:32 PM - Edit history (1)

Your post got hidden because you posted a right-wing, anti-choice screed. Now this.

You stay classy, leontius, your making jesus smile.


Have a nice day.

[rrneck]

7. This many...

6,973,738,433

And counting...

[cleanhippie]

31. I see what you did there!

I wonder if anyone else gets it?

[Angry Dragon]

38. People in the world

would you not have to count all the people that have lived??

[cleanhippie]

41. No, those gods are dead.

[Angry Dragon]

43. okay ........ makes sense

[Warren Stupidity]

12. As nobody here can explain how any assertion about the qualities

Of deities can be rationally evaluated, your question is pointless. Pick any number.

Answer: 42.

[cleanhippie]

32. I'll go with 46 and two.

[EvilAL]

44. 15 for 2 and a pair is 4.

[cleanhippie]

45. No, it's Tool!

It's from the Tool song 46&2. Has to do with our 46 chromosomes and the evolutionary addition of an additional 2 to bring us to the next level of consciousness (becoming god).

Many Tool songs deal with (and very nicely too) spiritual, consciousness, religion, etc...

Have a listen.

Lateralus is also a really cool song. Entirely based on the Fibonacci sequence and spiral (count the syllables in the opening lyrics. 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 5, 3) and being one with the now through transcendence.

Spiral out...Keep going...

ENJOY!!!!


10,000 days is about religion, belief, suffering...

My favorite part is at 3:30...

You're the only one who can hold their head up high
Shake your fist at the gates saying
I've come home now!
Fetch me the Spirit, the Son, and the Father
Tell them their pillar of Faith has ascended
It's time now
My time now
Give me my
Give me my wings...

[EvilAL]

73. Yeah, I've listened to Tool,

got some good shit, more of a Slayer nut myself. I just like to throw a crib reference in once in a while, thought I was replying to the one before you or something.. demon alcohol..

[TrogL]

15. One. El.

[Lint Head]

16. The Bible says that we should have no other God before him which seems to imply that there are many.

[Angry Dragon]

20. perhaps a winner

[customerserviceguy]

82. You've given me a whole new insight

Thanks!

[Silent3]

19. The Oneness that is All Numbers

I just made that up, but it sounds like a good mysto-babble answer to me.

If anyone challenges me on that answer, I think I can easily enough generate the appropriate word salad needed to repel all attacks.

[trotsky]

25. And then be sure to accuse them of being too unenlightened to understand your wisdom. n/t

[Silent3]

48. No, not a flat-out accusation of anyone being unenlightened...

...just a strong but indirect implication of their lack of enlightenment, phrased like I'm being humble and merely saddened by their lack of my kind of spiritual openness.

[rug]

22. How many gods are not there?

[mr blur]

24. All of them.

[Angry Dragon]

27. Zero or all ..........

[cleanhippie]

33. Just the one.

[Warren Stupidity]

49. Only the one you foolishly pledged to.

[rug]

50. Which one is that?

[Warren Stupidity]

52. Wel heck if you can't even remember ....

[rug]

54. And which pledge was that?

Or are you just blathering?

[cbayer]

60. You know! The Pledge.

Shhhhh.........

[Tikki]

26. O

Tikki

[mn9driver]

28. However many you want. God isn't limited in that particular way. nt.

[tama]

35. Omnipotent philosopher's God

would include all of number theory, or all number theories, but not be limited to those.

And as for "One" and "Nothing", all layers of set theory can be derived from the concept of empty set.

[rexcat]

36. There are so many gods noted in literature...

and by so many people over the ages that the answer must be zero (0). They have all said their's is the one true god or multiple gods in the instance of polytheism and all others are not worthy of consideration. This is a rather absurd argument therefore my conclusion to all of this is there are zero (0) gods.

[patriots]

37. Only one

There is only one god

[Angry Dragon]

39. Post #16 quotes the Bible .......... What did the god of the Bible mean by this??

[patriots]

40. One god

No other gods before him simply means Idols anything that you idolize from a statue to a car to a sport to whatever you spend your money on becomes an idol and seperates you from him

[Angry Dragon]

42. thanks ....... Welcome to Du

[Marrah_G]

74. As commited as you are about your god,

so were the followers of the gods that came before your god.

Those gods have become the gods of myths and legends and history dictates that the same will eventually happen to the one you worship.

[trotsky]

47. Which one? n/t

[geckosfeet]

51. How many people are there?

[Buzz Clik]

53. Just the right amount.

[hrmjustin]

55. I believe there is one.

One God in three divine persons called the Holy Trinity.

[Skittles]

56. zero

[Kalidurga]

57. Probably none...

perhaps an infinite amount. Or what ever the current human population of the earth is.

[cbayer]

61. Somewhere between those two is probably right.

But what do I know?

[leftyohiolib]

58. one god many names

[Speck Tater]

59. Schrödinger's God - He both exists and doesn't exist.

He is a quantum superposition of states who only exists when you look at Him.

[dimbear]

62. The first answer we have (from Ugarit) is usually reported as 72. However, as Yahweh

came into his own there were some demotions. Hard to say just now.

[MineralMan]

69. None, by my count. nt

[Iggo]

72. Zero.

[Marrah_G]

75. According to Wiki- over 3700 since 4000bc

"Since the beginning of recorded history, which is defined by the invention of writing by the Sumerians around 6000 years ago, historians have cataloged over 3700 supernatural beings, of which 2870 can be considered deities. Those numbers are probably a very conservative estimate because we have no accurate information before 4000 B.C. This means any dieties worshipped by man before this period are unaccounted for. "

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_gods_and_goddesses_are_there

[aristocles]

76. The Holy Trinity: ZERO, ZILCH, and NADA n/t

[idwiyo]

79. GMTA :)

[wandy]

77. As many as you need in what ever form you are comfortable with.

[burnsei sensei]

80. +1 nt

[NorthCarolina]

81. Good question. In shopping around though

this God caught my attention.


Priapus: fertility god, protector of livestock, fruit plants, gardens and male genitalia.

You can worship at home, and your Sundays are always free.