2007-11-12 05:46:11 · 22 answers · asked by GEISHA 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
They generally are.
2007-11-12 05:49:17 · answer #1 · answered by plastik punk -Bottom Contributor 6 · 0⤊ 8⤋
I am responsible for my actions. I take deep reflections on how my actions, largely associated with my respect and implementation of Buddhist concepts into my life, affect every person both positively and negatively. This is a very difficult thing to do that often causes me a great deal of emotional pain, and as can be seen by our culture something few do, empathy is lost.
In this way I can be considered my own God. I guess you either have a God, or you are God, and you don't want the job.
2007-11-12 13:52:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
By definition, a God is something larger than yourself. So being your own God is a contradiction in terms.
Being a humanist flavor of athiest means you elevate the status of human beings to something very high in the universe. Perhaps the highest, since God does not exist. But we are self-contained and autonomous, not our own Gods.
2007-11-12 13:58:33 · answer #3 · answered by Andy K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When it comes right down to it, anyone worshipping a god IS worshipping themselves... Atheists are just up front about being their own masters.
"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." - Susan B Anthony
2007-11-12 13:56:58 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you stretch and distort the definition of a word I can be my own anything... I can be my own mother if the right person defines it.
Let's just stick to the traditional version of the word, please...
We don't believe in gods.
2007-11-12 13:50:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, that wouldn't make any sense. God is an invented concept, no one really needs any god unless the emotional need for it was conjured up in their mind during childhood.
A good analogy would be my need for cigarettes -- there isn't any. That's cause the need was never fostered in childhood, and so it didn't take hold in my mind.
2007-11-12 13:50:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Exactly. Many see themselves (not their Selves, but themselves as bags of meat, water, waste and powder) as the beginning and the end of all of creation. As such, even though you'll never get them to admit it, they by default consider themselves to be God. Take a look at the scathing answers here and you'll be able to tell who's who.
2007-11-12 14:03:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It really wasn't on the cards.
I was working on omnipresence, but my doctor says that is a poor excuse for avoiding a diet.
Omniscience was a non-starter.
I don't even know all the things I don't know: I still keep discovering them.
(Rumsfeld was right about "unknown unknowns", it was just the way he phrased it.)
2007-11-12 14:21:19 · answer #8 · answered by Pedestal 42 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A god, I am not. I'm just a human being, doing the best he can.
2007-11-12 13:49:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
As a man i have the ability to give life inside 1,000's woman.... (if not more)
hummmm... sounds like a god to me.
2007-11-12 13:57:13 · answer #10 · answered by Latin G 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess it depends on your definition of what a god is, but it sounds like a contradiction doesn't it?
2007-11-12 13:50:15 · answer #11 · answered by Samurai Jack 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋