Same for me too,I feel the presence of god in beauty as well as ugly,scary things too.Living & non living things too.

I don't like to relate god with religion.

religions are made by human for their selfishness & protection.

God can't be bound by religion.

Is god a concept?

I kind of disagree about religion. I do think that people have used religion for selfish reasons. It has been terribly misused. But, I do relate God to religion because I view religion as the means we use to connect to the Divine. To God. All religions use a set of rituals to make that connection. I don't believe it matters which set you use as long as they work for you.

Many people believing / not believing can't be a proof & I never said so.

I said,many human societies ( even those who were not communicating with each other)believed in god since ancient times,so it can't be a fluke.

Yeah,almost everyone who believes in god relates god to religion, they call themself religious too,

Even people who makes fun of symbolism also relates god with religion.(in fact those who relates god with religion only makes fun of symbolism)

In my opinion it is also one kind of symbolism only.

Historical evidences tells,many people have taken undue advantage of people's belief in religion as a path to connect with god.

I don't see any difference in rituals & superstitions.

Nice flowers,Can I hv one pl?



Though you are starting & answering negatively (& much aggressively too) ,I don't see that explanation capable enough to deny existence of god.

Still there are few societies who are not related by any means with other word but still they have their own god.There isn't any chance of propagation of any idea into these societies from other world,still they worship their god.

It is strange as well as satisfactory & happily believable evidence for me that soles at different part of the world too are feeling god as my sole did.

Our beliefs are limited by our thoughts.

I have no choice but to believe in god because I exist

My own existence is proof that consciousness exists.

That is a freaking miracle.

Yup..It shall be referred as a blind faith only if it is limited by some religious books.

I don't see god bounded by religions;its an insult of that supreme soul if my soul does so.

You have at least one concept of god.

Slowhand has a particular concept of god, which he explained, while recognizing that other concepts of god exist.




Wrt animism, the answer may not be simple. Wrt monotheism - the vast majority learned it from someone else. Its no mystery.



It doesn't need to. It just add emphasis to the fact that it would be really stupid to take the popularity of the notion of god as evidence for the existence of god.





So we've gone from 'how strange it is that all human societies...' to 'still there are a few societies...'

Over the last century, we've come to learn that early humans were more successful travelers and explorers than we'd previous allowed for. Primitive peoples have built boats and sailed much farther than we had believed.

I wouldn't be surprised if monotheism were re-invented a handful of times. So what? When you already have animism or polytheism, and when you already have tribes that have leaders, families that have mothers and fathers, its not a huge stretch of the imagination to invent a supernatural tribal leader, or a supernatural father.




Of course. You are satisfied with the belief, you enjoy that line of thought, seeing this as evidence makes you happy. Good luck with that.

JB also has a concept of god, which I'd wager has some aspects in common with Slowhands, and some aspects that are different:

How simple & selfless philosophy it is!!

Very few divine soul achieve this level of selflessness,indeed.

Yeah, I am not all that familiar with the bible either. Again, I find it interesting that you interperted it that way. I honestly had wondered how we can believe in something that someone wrote as they will write what they interpet; so their interpetation could indeed be wrong. JMO

Exactly.

No I don't have any concept about god.
I'm not wise enough to build any concept about god,I haven't seen god,but I always feel that super power around me.

And right there is one of the concepts you have of god.

You 'feel a super power around you', and you connect this experience to 'god'. There you go.

A concept doesn't have to be sophisticated, or detailed, or involved, or specific.

Yeah,really...I've great relief that I've a strong belief in god.
It's a great satisfaction indeed!!

That super soul always provides me a divine happinessas I never looked for any evidence of his existence & just had an unconditional belief in him.That happiness & satisfaction is obvious as I never considered my self superior than the supreme.
I know all the intellects (whatever I got) can never be sufficient enough to challenge or have doubts about the existence (as few ediotsdo) of those who gifted that to me.

I always thank that oversoul for not making me a stupidsoul to lose peace of mind by foolishlyignoring his existence.

Thanks for good luck,but it's not really needed.I'm blessed.

No,I'm not foolish to consider it as a concept.

Either you are completely changing your topic, making statements completely unrelated to my words (which you quote), or you have confused 'your belief in god' with the notion that 'the beliefs of others provides evidence'.

Look at what you actually said:




I think this statement is very telling about what you actually believe:



(And thats the version you left after editing your words.)