Poemranker [Replying] Thu Nov 21 20:39:52 PST 2024

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When I close my eyes I begin to have dreams. They glorify, mystify, sometimes even terrify me. But they have a deeper meaning. Coming from the depths of my soul their only goal is to make me better. Though I don't understand their ultimate plan. Each morning I arise with a great repose refreshed with each lesson learned. enoch2

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20-Mar-06/12:07 PM

"Wow, you're starting to sound like Amanda. I wonder what you think god is."

I don't see sounding like Amanda. I thought she took issue with me on the same topic last week.

God is two things, which is why your conversation on the other page goes around in circles - because you won't make any distinction between the two. The first God is whatever God out of the set of all possibilities for God actually exists. This set includes 0, infinity, and a turnip, among infinite other things. The second God is people's idea of God. People's idea of God is like hearing you got a St Crispin's Day present from an unknown admirer and spending all your time between now and St Crispin's Day trying to guess what it is. The odds that you're going to guess it correctly are virtually nil (hint: it's an infinite number of antique shoehorns arranged in a particular order, but good luck guessing anyway!), so basically whatever you guess, you're going to be in for a surprise, anyway. This even goes for people who guess that God's infinite, or who base their ideas of God on mystical faith-experiences, because the reality of infinity is naturally going to be a big surprise, too. In the meantime, all you're going to have done is annoy all your friends speculating on the 1/10000000000000000 chance that you guess the right present - when, as far as I can tell, you'd get the present anyway even if you guessed wrong.

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