# More questions about god.

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 25, 2011, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-questions-about-god/568895 "2011-01-25T07:44:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 26, 2011, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-questions-about-god/568895/21 "2011-01-26T03:22:01Z")

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> [@Candyman74](#):
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> A concept can be alive.

This does raise an interesting philosophical question. Internet memes are often described as “spreading like wildfire” or “having a life of their own” – which begs the question: what does being “alive” really mean?

For example, does Harry Potter exist? He’s a fictional character, but millions of children and other people know about him – just like Jesus Christ, whose religious image is also essentially fictional. One could easily define a person’s imagination as being another dimension of reality, not far removed from spacetime (especially since that reality’s created by brain neurons & chemistry, and conforms to the Theory of Mind) which suggests that _any_ concept created by your mind in fact exists, is alive, and everything imaginary is equally “real” whether it’s a tortilla-shaped Virgin Mary or the voices inside David Berkowitz’s head.

> [@marshmallow](#):
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> You’re either going to need to convince people to stop believing in God thus sapping the source of her strength, form a party of plucky teenagers with the power of friendship, find an artifact to shatter her immortality (it will be somewhere in an alternate dimension at the bottom of an ocean of blood in a temple made of bones guarded by eldritch abominations or some such), or find a way to destroy and recreate the universe, becoming a god yourself.

Been there, done that…at least I’m pretty sure I did it, just before the drugs wore off.

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