Saturday, August 21, 2010
God? What's That?
God.
Yep, I think you know where this blog is headed my hairy-headed friend.
I've been thinking lately about what God is. (Who, he is?) When he was, how he is.
So I asked Google and he said:
God is:
the supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in monotheistic religions
So, God is a supernatural being apparently that created us. He is a creator. Yet, are all human beings not creators as well? Take a look around you. Every item you see was created by us. The mere image took place in someone's imagination, followed by action, and was created for our use--for our betterment. Think about the taste of Spaghetti. Can't you imagine it? Sure it's not as vivid as the actual food but you can imagine it. Now, let's go a bit further.
Imagine you're in a white world of blankness. A vast world of blankness, white all around--like in the Matrix.
You're standing there, looking around. Can you see it?
Now imagine that it starts raining gum drops. Bit by bit. gradually getting heavier. You can hear the light taps of "clicks" and "clonks" of the gum drops as they bounce and plop on the floor and as they hit your head and shoulders. You can feel and hear it too, can't you?
You bust out an umbrella, a pink umbrella at that, and open it upward, shielding yourself from the army of multicolored gum drops.
Suddenly a tidal wave of gumdrops fall all at once, and you now find yourself buried under the deliciousness.
You can barely move.
You feel their dense little gelatin bodies all around you, and it's damn hard to move.
Now you're back. Sitting down in front of your computer. Feeling a little stupid at having imagined that.
But weren't you able to create something out of nothing? Weren't you able to explore a small world, stimulate senses, and experience it, all in your head despite where you are now? It is this type of phenomenon that brings me to believe that we, ourselves, are indeed walking Gods. We can create anything--just by the thought of it. Try it sometime. Imagine yourself in the blank world and create something. Anything. Experience it. Stimulate senses. It can be quite entertaining. That said, we can create entire worlds just by sitting here and playing with our imagination. We can defy physics, natural laws, virtually anything--by simply imagining it.
If God is our creator. And we can create other things. Then are we not forms of Gods?
But Will Kid, say I did believe in God, if he made human beings, does that mean we can make creatures too?
Well, my curious reader, I cannot entirely say. Sure we can reproduce and multiply our numbers, but we have yet to create creators. Perhaps that is the large differential here. God can create creators, whereas we can only create. Along such lines, I would also like to explore another theorem of mine.
If God did not create, what would he be?
Give that a long hard thought before reading on.
What the heck would God be if he didn't create anything?
I have yet to form a plausible answer--for this had just entered my mind not minutes ago. But I do believe that he created us, to create himself.
Lolwhut?!
Yes! How can a king be a king if he did not have subjects? How can a painter be a painter if he did not have his artwork? How can a mother be a mother if she bore no children? Our existence justifies God, God's existence justifies us. It's a perfect circle.
In the early weeks of this month, I felt a new emotion/sensation during a scattered few of my seconds during some days. The first instance took place where I was painting the wall in my room, paintbrush in hand, staring at the wall--watching the black paint slowly engulf the whiteness--and suddenly, I felt my heart jerk. For a few seconds I knew everything. I felt the energy in everything around me, in everything that was happening, the shifts in atoms of paint, the brushes, to the last bristle, the wall, the atmosphere, the air I breathed. Everything had energy. The only real way I can express it through my limited medium of thought--and this vocabulary--is that everything was alive. After the short few seconds, I was found myself slightly out of breath, as if I was temporarily sucked back into a world where everything was taken for granted. This sensation overwhelmed me only a few times more subsequently. At a random time at work, when I heard plastic spoons falling into the sink. The sound itself was alive. Everything fell into slo-mo, everything sped up, everything felt icy clear. Came clarity in all. The counter, the ceiling, every molecule around me just brimming with infinite joy and energy. It's such an foreign feeling altogether; my attempt to describe it fails, equal to our attempt to define love. But it was still there.
In those few seconds, I've formed yet another theorem; that God is everything. In those seconds, I felt that everything was fully connected, and everything made sense. The existence of everything necessitated the existence of everything. God is energy. God is those eyes you're using to decipher my meaning. God is the clothes you wear. God is your best friend. God is your problems. God is the afternoon sun, the pebble at the bottom of the sea, the love and fear you feel, and the air you breathe . God is limitless. God is everywhere. God is you. God is me. God is the green grass and the autumn trees.
Will Kid, you've lost it. God is a supernatural being remember? How can he be anything other than that?
Perhaps then, our term "God" should not be used to describe this theorem of mine. Perhaps, rather, I should use the word "energy." Yet, I might wonder what has instilled such "energy" in all that we have? In all that there is ever to exist. And perhaps that might align with your belief that that energy comes from God. In that case, anything that comes from God is a part of him--justifying my use that he is within all.
You have a lot of times on your hands don't you...?
Maybe. Maybe not. I think about this kind of stuff when I'm sweeping or washing dishes at my job. I'd like to think I'm getting paid to Theorize . It's a good life, after all.
What do you think?
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God is more than just a creator. God is Love.
ReplyDeleteI think your right Will. God is everything in existence and Everything is God. Matter and Energy are interchangeable.
ReplyDeleteIn the science of psychology, you are indeed correct on a few levels, Will.
ReplyDeleteThere is a section of the human mind that has evolved to worship. This makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint on a few levels:
* Humanity has always been dominated by a need to explain the unexplainable. In ancient times, this facilitated the creation of a God, who governed all of nature.
* If a group of humans all worship the same God, they are more likely to support one another and bond together. By bonding together, they were more likely to survive and reproduce, thus passing on these genes that facilitate a strong belief in a god.
This, then, brings us to the ultimate question, and what divides the pious from the secular: is God a creation of our mind, evolutionarily brought about from a necessity and kept alive from our primal roots? Or is there truly an entity, a creator, that has left a mark on our collective subconscious?