Atheists & Agnostics

cleanhippie

(19,705 posts) Sun Mar 4, 2012, 01:31 PM Mar 2012

If I had to define "god", this would be it...

The Awesomeness of the universe we live in. THAT is god.

How wonderful would the world be if everyone used the same definition?

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If I had to define "god", this would be it... (Original Post) cleanhippie Mar 2012 OP

A good start Angry Dragon Mar 2012 #1

Smacks of chauvinism... immoderate Mar 2012 #2

Yeah, but then you'd get fried by stellar radiation or a quasar Taverner Mar 2012 #13

Have you never heard of "appropriate precautions?" immoderate Mar 2012 #14

Always check for the goatee Taverner Mar 2012 #15

Those are definitely the darkest timelines. Rob H. Mar 2012 #17

The Awesomeness of the universe we live in. THAT is god. AlbertCat Mar 2012 #3

Sorry, I was not trying to redefine anything. cleanhippie Mar 2012 #4

That's why I said in my OP that if I had to define god, that is what it is. AlbertCat Mar 2012 #9

Well, that is what I define most other peoples' verson as... cleanhippie Mar 2012 #10

The universe is not awesome. Your reaction to the universe is "awesome." ZombieHorde Mar 2012 #5

Good point. cleanhippie Mar 2012 #6

A false-color astroimage with tons of diffraction spikes? laconicsax Mar 2012 #7

Oh now, come on. cleanhippie Mar 2012 #11

I'm sorry, it's just that anything I'd define as "God" won't have diffraction spikes. laconicsax Mar 2012 #12

Defination of GOD Mumble Mar 2012 #8

This is why I love this forum! deucemagnet Mar 2012 #16

Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)

1. A good start

Reply to cleanhippie (Original post)

Sun Mar 4, 2012, 01:44 PM

Mar 2012

immoderate

(20,885 posts)

2. Smacks of chauvinism...

Reply to cleanhippie (Original post)

Sun Mar 4, 2012, 03:15 PM

Mar 2012

Any number of universes might be much more awesome.

Their gods might be laughing at our god's fuck-ups. It could happen.

--imm

Taverner

(55,476 posts)

13. Yeah, but then you'd get fried by stellar radiation or a quasar

Reply to immoderate (Reply #2)

Tue Mar 27, 2012, 04:29 PM

Mar 2012

immoderate

(20,885 posts)

14. Have you never heard of "appropriate precautions?"

Reply to Taverner (Reply #13)

Tue Mar 27, 2012, 04:51 PM

Mar 2012

Always when visiting alternate universes!

If not just remotely, through protective filters, of course.

--imm

Taverner

(55,476 posts)

15. Always check for the goatee

Reply to immoderate (Reply #14)

Tue Mar 27, 2012, 04:58 PM

Mar 2012

If they have goatees, avoid at all costs!

Rob H.

(5,352 posts)

17. Those are definitely the darkest timelines.

Reply to Taverner (Reply #15)

Tue Mar 27, 2012, 09:22 PM

Mar 2012

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)

3. The Awesomeness of the universe we live in. THAT is god.

Reply to cleanhippie (Original post)

Mon Mar 5, 2012, 12:45 PM

Mar 2012

Then why not just call it "the awesomeness of the universe we live in?" Why call it god?

Like the "god of the gaps". God is all the things we don't know.... the unknowable. Well, why not just call that "all the things we don't know"?

Besides, that's not what a god is, and you know it. A god is usually some entity that is basically a human with superpowers. A god does human things, like talk to people, make desicions, judges people and things... things the universe does not do.

It's like trying to make an obsolete concept relevant, all this redefining.

cleanhippie

(19,705 posts)

4. Sorry, I was not trying to redefine anything.

Reply to AlbertCat (Reply #3)

Mon Mar 5, 2012, 03:59 PM

Mar 2012

I agree with every point you make. You are spot on. That's why I said in my OP that if I had to define god, that is what it is.

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)

9. That's why I said in my OP that if I had to define god, that is what it is.

Reply to cleanhippie (Reply #4)

Mon Mar 5, 2012, 09:27 PM

Mar 2012

Hmmmmm.... a subtle point.... but I get it.

If I had to define god, I'd say it was a delusion perpetrated by our propensity to anthropomorphize everything.... especially nature.

cleanhippie

(19,705 posts)

10. Well, that is what I define most other peoples' verson as...

Reply to AlbertCat (Reply #9)

Mon Mar 5, 2012, 09:41 PM

Mar 2012

I think we are on the same page here, AC.

ZombieHorde

(29,047 posts)

5. The universe is not awesome. Your reaction to the universe is "awesome."

Reply to cleanhippie (Original post)

Mon Mar 5, 2012, 05:54 PM

Mar 2012

So your definition of god would be one's reaction to the universe we live in.

cleanhippie

(19,705 posts)

6. Good point.

Reply to ZombieHorde (Reply #5)

Mon Mar 5, 2012, 07:16 PM

Mar 2012

laconicsax

(14,860 posts)

7. A false-color astroimage with tons of diffraction spikes?

Reply to cleanhippie (Original post)

Mon Mar 5, 2012, 07:59 PM

Mar 2012

Whatever floats your boat, I guess.

cleanhippie

(19,705 posts)

11. Oh now, come on.

Reply to laconicsax (Reply #7)

Mon Mar 5, 2012, 09:42 PM

Mar 2012

laconicsax

(14,860 posts)

12. I'm sorry, it's just that anything I'd define as "God" won't have diffraction spikes.

Reply to cleanhippie (Reply #11)

Mon Mar 5, 2012, 10:10 PM

Mar 2012

They're easy enough to eliminate and I'd like to think that a true god would at least try.

I dont have a problem with false color itself, just the way it looks in that image.

Mumble

(201 posts)

8. Defination of GOD

Reply to cleanhippie (Original post)

Mon Mar 5, 2012, 08:49 PM

Mar 2012

Just use your imagination like any religious person would.

deucemagnet

(4,549 posts)

16. This is why I love this forum!

Reply to cleanhippie (Original post)

Tue Mar 27, 2012, 07:48 PM

Mar 2012

OP posts a generalized description of what his notion of god would be if he had to describe it.

Posters who reply with counter-arguments and/or snark: 6

Posters who reply, "Amen, brother!": 0

Ya gotta love A&A!

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