It's just a thought. So, let's say for a moment we did, hypothetically.
... what's so wrong with that?
Is there something wrong with creating air? Plants? Machines? Or anything else, for that matter?
I know people will say you can't create Gods from nothing, too, so, what of thoughts and ideas? Those are both nouns, both are THINGS, both exist, though not physically. And Gods do not exist physically.
... it's just a brainteaser. Take a whack at it.
2006-10-18 12:10:07 · 10 answers · asked by Lady Myrkr 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The thought of a noncorporeal god isn't the same as willing said noncorporeal god into existence. Thoughts produce a chemical reaction in our brains, a measurable, observable change in physical reality. If this "god" thing has natural occurances attributed to it without any sort of proof beyond "well it must've been a god" then we don't KNOW what this god does, not really. There is no definitive way to prove any deity has any effect on anything other than by assumption and superstition.
There's nothing wrong with creating air, plants and machines. Air, plants and animals are not sentient, they cannot think or feel or want. They exist and require. They are only as dangerous as the people who create them / tend to them. Religion is based on adherence and faith and thought. That requires sentience. That requires a thinking mind. That's why religion can be dangerous in and of itself. It needs humanity to survive, human minds in which to survive, and humanity is easily swayed to corruption and violence by the concept of religion.
2006-10-18 12:21:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Whats wrong with it, it would be a lie, your life would be a lie, people like to build on promise, because it has meaning, but take a new born it knows nothing about our world so we Teach it our way (not literally our way but society's way) now we created a lie for it to live, be it good or bad but truly we made the choice for it. This child grows & is trowen into the slave camp (Work) for the promise in the holy book. So desired resultes were achived by influnce, carot & Stick style while the child had no choices or knowlage of what was being done to it. So takeing a new born & giving it a segret mother like an ape, the child will be an ape. Humans must be taught how to live like all the other animals,
2006-10-18 19:26:25 · answer #2 · answered by man of ape 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, here's my take on it, and this is as close to a permanent belief as I actually have (Please excuse the inherent insanity--it works out logically, at least in my mind):
We did indeed create gods. I think this is a pretty basic "truth". However. I also think we have given them power enough to become autonomous beings, through belief, prayer, worship, offerings, etc. They are *not* created from nothing; according to the Law of Conservation of Energy, all the power spent in said worship and offering must go somewhere, and when directed by the belief of masses, they become the thoughtform (egregore) created by those masses as a god, and are shaped in that image.
The following links may be of some help in my theory; the third is a paper I wrote last year on the possible sentience of the Internet in a cyberpunk perspective, and goes a bit more into my personal definition of an egregore.
2006-10-19 13:11:37 · answer #3 · answered by angk 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Your question is thought provoking I will give you credit for that, and to add a little something to this little brainteaser of your I will throw this little piece of info. We cannot even prove our own existence scientifically, so how come so many people try to prove their God is scientifically provable? We are aware of our existence and the space in which we live, but science cannot say that we are not all dreaming or something like that; we are consciously aware of who we are and what we are doing and that's about it. Consciousness goes somewhere, but where it goes no one can say for certain.
Peace Out and Blessed be to all
)O(
Pagan College Student
2006-10-20 18:31:13 · answer #4 · answered by Phoenix Summersun 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How do you know that God does not exist physically?
Moreover, i don't know if it is in human nature to make up god's that are soooo much better than themselves. If you look at the pagan gods there are all doing the stupidest things and none of them really claim to be perfect like the Christian God. Moreover if there is a God that people used to know I'm sure that it is entirely possible for people to forget and make their own inferior stories to the truth....
there's my "whack at it" anyway.
2006-10-18 19:17:50 · answer #5 · answered by JumpingJoy 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
We did create our gods. From Apollo to Yaweh to Zeus. They are ideas in peoples' heads...nothing more. None of them exist physically, and none of them have any real effect on our lives beyond what we credit to them.
2006-10-20 13:48:22 · answer #6 · answered by Scott M 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Man created an abstract idea called God. Not a true being.
Tammi Dee
2006-10-18 19:14:31 · answer #7 · answered by tammidee10 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You can create whatever you want inside your own head, or worship the green spaghetti monster as many do on Yahoo Answers.
But can your goddesses rise from a real tomb?
And would you die saying that your imaginary goddesses did, even though you knew it never happened, as the first believers did in Roman hands for their witness of Jesus?
2006-10-18 19:15:49 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
People create gods all the time, the Bible calls this idolatry. You create a god any time you put something else ahead of the one, true God.
2006-10-20 13:43:55 · answer #9 · answered by Gray 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
we didn't though - God's real
2006-10-18 19:14:46 · answer #10 · answered by chaz w 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋