Can we please stop using the word 'god' as if we know what it means?

[Arzack]

discuss

[justfortoday]

God is the only word that comes close to describing what you really are, which is infinity itself. 

[Leo Gura]

By that logic the word "I" should be retired as well

And many, many other words.

[Preety_India]

Use the word consciousness. Much better. 

 

[Forestluv]

Retirement Party 2020 Invitation List:

God, I, Self, Consciousness, Nothing, Everything, Emptiness. . . 

[Byun Sean]

@Arzack

consider the possibility that maybe you can discover What God is. (Not as a religious belief).

[Arzack]

Just now, Forestluv said:

Retirement Party 2020 Invitation List:

God, I, Self, Consciousness, Nothing, Everything, Emptiness. . . 

God is way higher than the others in that list though

Edited October 16, 2020 by Arzack

[Jonty]

8 hours ago, Arzack said:

God is way higher than the others in that list though

Only if you imagine it is ?

You could replace every word in that list with the names of vegetables, so rather than God, I, self, consciousness, Nothing, everything you might have cabbage, radish, lettuce, squash, potato and pumpkin. 

They're only words that you have ascribed a meaning to. In the second list, a cabbage is no more important than a pumpkin because you recognise them as just labels of vegetables. There's no heiracrchy. Same difference. 

If you want to make the word God more important than the word Awareness you can, but its still just words. Words are only as important or arbitrary as you imagine them to be. All meaning is illusory in the absolute sense. 

(Although having said that, I do like savoy cabbage so it might feature higher on my list ??) 

Edited October 16, 2020 by Jonty

[hyruga]

On 10/16/2020 at 9:23 AM, Forestluv said:

Retirement Party 2020 Invitation List:

God, I, Self, Consciousness, Nothing, Everything, Emptiness. . . 

Can we add Covid-19 to the list too since God is everything.

Edited October 17, 2020 by hyruga

[Someone here]

"Consider the possibility that many of the things you hear and say are utter nonsense and meaningless repetitions of noise." 

-Bryant McGill
 

[Nahm]

@Arzack

You created it.  

[Rilles]

low quality impulsive thread, not thought through... try harder

[Javfly33]

Because God is known as the being who created Reality/Life

[No Self]

13 hours ago, Arzack said:

God is way higher than the others in that list though

The problem with this statement is the usage of the word God as if we know what it means.

[Javfly33]

57 minutes ago, No Self said:

The problem with this statement is the usage of the word God as if we know what it means.

What God means ? That being which created everything out of nothing.. ultimately God didn't create anything because everything is nothing.

So God basically did the only thing it had to do. Be Itself. Infinity. Inevitable.

[kai0]

the problem is that any usage of the word god is correct because the part is the whole so theres really no problem 

[SoonHei]

god = existence 

[Mafortu]

Whenever you see the word god in this forum, just imagine they are actually saying "truth", "reality" or "consciousness", that way your preconceptions wont get in the way of what people are actually meaning here.

[Natasha]

@Arzack I prefer 'what is ' over all other labels

[Member]

Know thyself.