Sagittacian
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Humans and spiritual beginnings
2007/02/26 12:48
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Good Morning, Good Evening, and Good Afternoon to all, depending on which time of day you personally get around to reading my humble Idea.
My personal history is irrelevant to you, but my idea may open your mind to a new percerption, or it may confuse you. Depends upon the type of person you are.
Here goes.
Notably, every religion has its origins, its creation story, its virtues, and its relevations. If one were to look at the Christian and early Hebrew creation story; in the beginning God created the Heavens and the earth. He created the land and sea. He created light and dark and so on and so forth until he created men. Historically all men were, and are created in His divine image, correct? Yet physically there aren't too many of us who look and act the same.
So what does His statement, "Then God said, Let us make man[4] in our image ... [I]n the image of God he created him; male and female he created them." Genesis 1:5, truly mean?
What if I was to go into left field for a moment and say, hypothetically of course, Man is the direct physcally manifestation of the Divine Being, who is God. Meaning that Adam and Eve were simply a reflection of God on Earth, and God would be the reflection of Man in the spiritual realm.
Think about it. Man (us) was indowed with the ability to created, to learn, to develop, to build, to do anything he put his mind to. Sure it's taken thousands of years to get to where we are now, but who in the time before Christ would have fathomed the technological marvels we have now? The freedoms we experience day to day. Or even the simple thoughts that run through our heads? That has to count for something.
So what if by creating humanity, God recreated himself, making each and everyone of us an aspect of him, and as every generation passes Humanity, not individuals, but Humanity comes closer and closer to understanding the Divine Will. And will one day be one with him.
Define God without describing him with bigger words.
God is the biggest word in the history of language, simply because there are so many different perceptions on Him.
Food for thought.
digest and discuss.
"One your eyes to the full spectrum, the seen and the unseen worlds.
Live in wisdom. Knowledge is the key to unlocking potential"
- Jazz Blaque "Open your eyes to the full spectrum, the seen and the unseen worlds.
Live in wisdom. Knowledge is the key to unlocking potential"
- Jazz Blaque
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Kesteven
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Re:Humans and spiritual beginnings
2007/10/23 18:28
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If I was god, I think I'd have some serious reservations about trying to make crappier versions of myself. Then again, that IS what humans seem to spend most of their time doing.
I can see the attraction in a wonderful future where everything is great, but it's a flimsy fantasy. At best, we reach technological singularity, and humanity as we know it disappears, or at least diminishes. Whatever remains will probably find our conceptions of perfection, progress and spirituality archaic. Alternatively or perhaps additionally, something causes us all to die, given the length of time a fairly inevitable conclusion. |
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Peachy
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Re:Humans and spiritual beginnings
2008/08/21 10:11
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Singularity, unity with God or high tech. seems about the same. Each of us would be too different from how we are presently so say that anything of us survives the transition. This is a major attraction of religion- one acheives a sense of one-ness without complete, permanent identity dissolution. |
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Kesteven
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Re:Humans and spiritual beginnings
2008/10/17 08:32
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Doesn't that only work by altering our identity conditions, though? We can do that without religion. |
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Peachy
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Re:Humans and spiritual beginnings
2008/11/06 09:43
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I'm not sure. I think it matters that there is some kind of gradual-ish change. The devotee enters the temple or machine, and doesn't come out. |
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