What do You think God is?

Nah, not important here.

because…

Which is true in any discussion, especially philosophical ones.

You don’t have to accept the assumption or the premise. Who said you have to accept the assumption? The title of the thread asks a question. The OP tries to answer his or her own question. Others, including you, throw out their responses. Which is what ‘they think.’

The conclusions would obviously not be ones you would agree with, which you made clear. The discussion however could very well be a go.

No one is bound to anything. An atheist could discuss the issue working from the premise that there is a God and what that would be.

And as people here and in the other philosophy forum have pointed out, you have proven nothing. And that includes non-theists pointing out the failure of your ‘proofs’.

Some thing new occurs to me. That perhaps god is a mirror of our soul.

That is to say that lets see how to formulate it.

Given the idea of giant central galaxial black holes being as large as perhaps billions of stars put together, playing around with inconceivable amounts of energy, while able to generate the subtle est subtle est situations of the most profound suspended stillness of time, where the instant appears to defeat time and movement, is it not conceivable that a super co sciousness appears to mirror the tremendous being of time and space with a mirror of so extraordinary complexity and fidelity, as to be able to regenerate a functional derivitive of a simulated Absolute, So as to enable consciousness through the word to begin ?

Is not existence the predicate? Therefore without it, all this would be impossible, and there would not, could not be even a vision of how it could be.

Science could not ever fly forth from the existential darkness, science could not profess to possess an inkling of how the two ends may meet at the absolute union between the incalculable of the highest and the lowest, the most and the least, the possible and the certain.

God may be the absolute re-(pro)duction of conscious real elisation of anything and everything that ever was , is , and will be.

An atheist would counter with a logical circularity here, and the charge against Saint Anselm is similarly misrepresented. New modes of thought and logic do reinforce circularity as resembling all atomiatic symbolic visualisations.

God is a fork of mania and focus that drives down victory road towards the fulfillment of passion to shape shift and morph reality in accordance with imagination. If we could have a crystal ball, and extend our roots into a void of zen, then we could hijack the director’s office (where God is and operates our universe), and spin theories of the impossible. The key to being greater than God is to be FarFetched, because through radical entailments, essentially taking action, we can consume the old constraints, and ride a high rainbow to a much loftier, more lush paradise. So God is a Creator of beauty.

"Meno,

That is not something new, Meno. I have no idea of God (except perhaps for pure energy) but I would hate to consider that God is an image or a reflection of the human psyche as I sit on a park bench and reflect this ideal. That would certainly take my sense of wonderment away.

Does God also evolve ------- outside of our own minds? I may not have said that correctly.

A mind like us but supreme in knowledge and power.

Mowk, god is something even if a concept. Accepted and useful concepts are mental ‘things’ and they have developmental and structural evolution., just as physical evolution .
Between physical , inorganic to organic & and physical metaphysical, there is a continuum of development, and god belongs in that continuum as a utalitarian. tool. Of that is all what God is, it is still something.

Arc, good point, but raw nature may not be beautiful nor even admirable had not evolution produced an excellent machine, the brain, to interpret it, as such.

Beauty is in the eye of.the beholder , and in that sense , god is the object and the objective whereby nature mirrors man and god. The most outstanding example comes to mind, and that is god the father touching man’s finger .

Autrpromorphism elevates man to ideal conceptions of a goal oriented sense of evolutionary sense.

Exuberant, god can be the instrument through which imagination, reality and symbolism interact to form an objective criteria for modeling prototypes for mankind. If that can be god, then he/it is a pattern of variable structural essence. May as well go with that

I agree the OP is valid for those who are theists and thus have their own views of God.
On this issue, they can talk till the cows come home.

However you cannot deny I can present my own views to the OP which I think would be more effective.

For me, asking the question;
“What do You think God is?”
is like asking
What do You think a square-circle is?
or
What do You think a flat-Earth [theological] is?

Being aware the above are impossibilities, I propose we save time and rather raise the question, WHY do people ask such a question.
I know the ‘WHY’ is the psychological issue.
Thus we should get to the real point rather than beating around the bush.

That is your perception.
As far as I have been arguing [obviously I would be more focused on it since it is my OP] no one has presented any convincing counter arguments to weaken my proof.
I will concede [based on intellectual integrity] if any one can produce a convincing counter and I am still waiting.

With God comes all of the timeless qualities of a zen pool we extract terminals to ground into the physical aether from. He commands the foundation of pieces, icons, fragments, and items of our own conjuring. This means that we’re all important, part of God’s symphony, and the various tunes we play in the circus show of life grab various positions and forefronts in furthering the light.

Can you please describe God’s mind which is like ours.

To me, the god or architect is:

It is both the unconscious/subconscious interface that communicates and also of which drives reality and human psyche of which consciousness evolved out of in steps, unconscious > subconscious > conscious.

It is knowledge which one is subconscious in knowing or unconscious in experiencing, consciousness is understanding of that knowing/experiencing. It is the pursuit in this understanding of which one bows to and works for ‘god’ as defined above. Proof that one works for and bows to god?

One has to be humble to accept or use knowledge, to apply it, requires understanding and humility. An understanding also creates an obligation, to use such knowledge or spread it to others through just cause. So let’s boil it down.

One is required to be humble(bow) to understand knowledge, of which this understanding creates responsibility. Wisdom/understanding is power and power requires just responsibility.

“One must serve before one may be served”

It may also communicate via imagery through the subconscious mind, since we are a collection of a past and future instinctive reactions that evolve itself to present moments/points of continuity.

Some examples of its methods of communication (guilt, intuition, dreams, psychedelics, ideas, etc)

Imagery/experience is needed in order to understand, aka, “describe blue to me without an image” it’s impossible to do such.

I defined god and some of the terminology in my thread “defining god, god is a possibility” as well, if you would like to come help me reveal more of the religious terminology with linking or correlating language of then to language now via logic/reason.

God may the the all consuming, embracing, energetic, bubbly field of spectra animating and permeating all of thought and feeling. Ti tap into such a power, harness it, direct it, we could blaze a torpedo into the laser studio of God’s masquerading and expressions, shocking people with his revelatory might, and the alphabetical ruins of his mysteries.

I think that God may or may not exist. If it does, I think that such a being would be difficult for us to comprehend and thus define. For example, if we are to reason in terms of Christian theology, can we fathom in a substantive way how a singular male God, can have a son? Defining God is an abstraction.

How the “idea” [not a concept] of God emerged onto human consciousness is due to an inevitable unavoidable existential crisis of inevitable mortality so terribly painful [subliminally] and cannot be resolved by a human at all.

Thus it is very natural, the mind conjured up an idea of an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent and omni-whatever, a Being [God] than which no greater can be idealized to resolve the inevitable unavoidable existential crisis.

Beliefs in something as real [even in fact false] do work [note placebos] and the belief in an illusory idea of God does work to resolve the unavoidable existential crisis inherently within ALL humans.

Because, the above belief of a God [even in fact false] works to relieve the terrible existential crisis, pains and Angst, theists will cling to it like there is no tomorrow, as to give it up would bring back terrible sufferings and Angst. This is why so many theists [this is glaringly evident] will not hesitate to kill whoever threatened their belief in a God.

Thus whenever the question of God is raised, one has to take note of the reality of psychology within the minds of theists as explained above.

The reality to me is very simple: We are interacting minds through the material/mere illusion. Mind to me is the essence of any being with the abilities to experience, decide and cause. The difference between minds is only knowledge they have.

I wish that the reality was as simple to me. Can we even speak in terms such as “mind” when speaking of God?
You and I are interacting minds at this moment but when it comes to the mind of God - are we really connected to Mind?

God is Big Brother.

In premodernity, Big Brother was just a myth, used to scare people into submission, but increasingly it’s becoming a postmodern reality.

God is active in the DNA construction of life forms. This we experience as our own DNA constructs organ and organism, mind and body. God’s creativity evolved. Mind is awareness of one’s existence,the highest yet possible DNA extension.

The reality is simple and yes god is similar to us, a mind. God simply experiences and causes things as we do.

Yes, we are connected to Mind. Knowing this is, however, a matter of experience.