I really do think that the problem of defining god is the same thing as the color problem…you know…how none of us know if what we see as red is what others see as red?
This inability to define it or to accept or understand what anyone else means when they say ‘god’ is a main reason for why I just started calling everything god. I honestly felt the universe, the science, the beauty, the pain…all of it is amazing to me beyond description, and lacking any way to define a god that I feel I can explain to others, I will go all out and define it all as god.
I will say though, if a being popped up and started breaking the laws of physic and shit, I would vote some kind of alien. I wouldn’t assume it was the god of the universe or anything, because I don’t even think I would assume the thing wasn’t just one of many that will materialize.
Ah, well. Perhaps ‘death’ is a grey word, perhaps it’s less black and white than people think, and there can be such a thing as being thoroughly incapacitated, but not quite fully gone, but this is still more likely than that there’s an afterlife, or that there are spirits or souls or the like.
What exactly did you see? (And btw speaking of truth which is not dependent strictly on opinion, the above is basically true, and no it doesn’t mean you didn’t see what you saw. The interpretation would seem to be the issue here)
Every possible explanation you could come up with has been considered. I can’t tell you about the experience in a simple post. Good idea if you read about them from the ones who actually experienced them. It is enlightening.
On a seperate note, it is not likely in any of the relevant contexts, that there is a deity, as it’s commonly defined, and nor is there any proof of such a being.
If you just mean that you define God as “everything” (as in, pantheism), well, certainly the universe exists, and therefore your ‘God’ exists, but if you were to try and personify it, it would no longer be definite. Or even likely.
Every possible explanation has been considered by who?
Look, it’s just more likely that, if you’re talking about some kind of near-death experience, that ‘death’ is simply not an on-off switch; That it’s possible to be thoroughly incapacitated but not quite fully gone. The implication being that your experience is simply caused, in whole or in part, and directly or indirectly, by that state, and it’s effect on the brain.
In any case, you haven’t said what it is you ‘saw,’ and there are more than enough concepts and definitions in the philosophical and other traditions of the world to be able to describe your experience.
Since you are quite sure my experience will fit in with your knowledge it shows you are all knowing and as I said God. No need to explain anything at all.
If you are curious you can read books about them. There are hundreds of them in print including mine. My pen name is Ken Katin. There are also a ton of them on UTube and the Internet.
When it comes to gods being all powerful/omnipotent/omniscient/eternal etc., was the Judeo-Christian god the first? Is he the only one with these attributes assigned to him?
The question wasn’t addressed to just you, so if you don’t know, just say so. This thread isn’t about your religion-it is a thread about the gods of different religions and the minimum requirements people have before considering an entity a “god”.
