The 'no God' spirituality.

[markings]

Originally Posted by Baile

What is the point of peoples' various intellectual definitions of God? Of trying to define a thing, that may or may not exist, and that one couldn't possibly fathom even if it did exist? That to me really is the epitome of a time-wasting exercise.

Of course. Too much time is spent on it.

[markings]

Originally Posted by Miss Hepburn

I agree.
Have a direct experience for yourself or go to the back of the room
and don't raise your had again with your ''opinions''.
Waste of my time,
I mean it;
Intellectual, philosophical waste of my time.

But, I get it, it is what the mind 'does'. So, oh well.

Let's get back to the feminine, the soft and dark, where nothing is clear and precise.
Let's discard the benefits the fading patriarchal and 'male time period' has brought us, the age reason, enlightenment, science.
Let's return to the age of superstition, where everything can essentially be anything.

We can move forward without losing the good of the past.

[markings]

Originally Posted by Honza

Separating God from ego. Separating God from ego. Separating God from ego. Repeat.

But why? God is everything.

You are mixing up two incompatible mindsets. Dualism and monism.
The 3 faiths of the middle East are dualistic. God is 'wholly other' and because God is wholly other he cannot possibly be everything. Anything created can never be the same as the creator.

The faiths of the East are monistic, where something (not God) is the ultimate essence, the core of everything, and so what appears is not the ultimate true reality.

You should not switch between the 2 systems when discussing things, especially not in mid-sentence.
That is the device some people use to confuse you and to appear clever. In your case you just confuse and mystify yourself.

[jimrich]

Originally Posted by jimrich
My definition of god is: __________________________________________________ ______________________________( )

Originally Posted by markings

Which of course is a cop out, and you know that.

markings, sorry you are so DISAPPOINTED. Oh well......
Find your own definition oF god...

[Baile]

Originally Posted by markings

Which of course is a cop out, and you know that.

Why not give him a good answer, preferably one which includes his perspective? He can put out his beliefs and opinion as much as anybody else. Let us not forget that according to new age beliefs every person does his best, the best he can possibly do at any given time... if he can't make sense of it or doesn't believe in it... If you fail to make yourself understood, then that is your failure, not his. ~markings, 27-02

[Baile]

Originally Posted by markings

Of course. Too much time is spent on it.

If too much time is spent on it, which I agree with, how could an answer such as ________ be viewed as a cop out? Rather, that indicates someone who understands too much time is wasted on this question. God is (fill in the blank) whatever you intellectually conceive it to be. And now let's get on with real life questions that matter.

[peteyzen]

Definition of God,; God is conscious clear light. In its natural form Gods vibrational rate is beyond our human ability to appreciate. Having said this, from a human perspective, there is nothing that is not God. You/I are at once one with God and one with everything else. We exist `in God`. God has slowed down a small part of her whole, to create this reality along with its other 10 planes of existence for us to experience physical life, and for us to eventually find our way back to the whole.

[Baile]

Originally Posted by peteyzen

Definition of God,; God is conscious clear light.

That's an interesting description. I had an metaphysical experience one afternoon, a soul-revelation, of Spirit in the form of "conscious light." Pure love, pouring down upon the earth, with purpose and intent, in the form of sunlight.

[shoni7510]

Originally Posted by jimrich

My definition of god is: __________________________________________________ ______________________________( )

This is the best answer to be given. Everybody has a definition of god including those who do not believe in god but they are so many and varied that it is better to let everybody carry on with their own definition.

[Miss Hepburn]

Originally Posted by peteyzen

Definition of God,; God is conscious clear light. In its natural form Gods vibrational rate is beyond our human ability to appreciate. Having said this, from a human perspective, there is nothing that is not God. You/I are at once one with God and one with everything else. We exist `in God`. God has slowed down a small part of her whole, to create this reality along with its other 10 planes of existence for us to experience physical life, and for us to eventually find our way back to the whole.

Yes!
Not many know this...bolded. I was shown this inside ...
Light ...slowing Itself down to 'look like' a tree, a human...all creation...

God, the Cosmic Shapeshifter!