Thread 24865462

>god exists because we have a word for that phenomenom
>god is a worldwide phenomenom, due to being a product of the collective unconsiousness. Same mechanics apply as with the explained spread of agriculture followed by the adoption of writing and many such things around the beginning of civilisation.
>god is a natural phenomenom. The human mind has the ability to create images of other beings or even abstractions. Nothing bars the imagination from thinking of a being greater than them, but with similar traits. It's a game of rules and anyone can play.
>I win


Who wrote about this first?

>So God created mankind in his own image in the image of God he created them

Works both ways. Man created god in his image. The fucking book was written by man.

I don’t think “God” in the Judeo-Christian sense ever existed in the collective unconscious. Do you mean the concept of deities and spirits? This belief is widespread because theory of mind in humans is extremely advanced and so agency is instinctually ascribed to mysteries.

>>24865462 (OP)
>reality is material and dead and unconscious because I have subconsciously defined it as such and lack self awareness of this fact meaning I rationalize everything to fit into this frame no matter how ridiculous.

>>24865477
Yes

>>24865462 (OP)
Wasn't that Parmenides thing?

God is an angry retard who will smite you for questioning him, pal. Better get in line.

>>24865869
What if Marcion was right, and this is just the evil demiurge Yahweh instead of the True God?

>>24865869
I'll take him down with me

>>24865477
>I don’t think “God” in the Judeo-Christian sense ever existed in the collective unconscious
He's simply the Heavenly Father archetype. That is, the sky-god who rules the world, and is highly prone to impregnating mortal women.
He's been given many names, including Zeus, Jupiter, Odin etc.

>>24865891
Those are all the Indo-European sky god Dyus, not Afro-Asiatic

>>24865462 (OP)
The actual truth of the one God (Allah) is found in the Qu'ran. Pretty easy to understand too.

>>24865462 (OP)
Sounds like Jung

>>24866000
Or Durkheim

Why is there something rather than nothing?

>>24865462 (OP)
God exists. I know that to be true. And I will never forgive him for what he has done.

>>24865954
The examples are there to be Googled.
>Ṣàngó is viewed as the most powerful of the orisha pantheon and is often described in two differing narratives. In the first narrative, Ṣàngó casts a "thunderstone" to earth, which creates thunder and lightning, to anyone who offends him. Worshippers in Yorubaland in Nigeria do not eat cowpea because they believe that the wrath of the god of thunder and lightning would descend on them. In the second narrative, Ṣàngó is gifted with the ability to breathe fire and smoke through his nostrils and is known for being angered by his quarrelsome wives. These narratives also encapsulate the virility, bravery, and governance of Ṣàngó.

>>24866004
Ill join you against it

I'm just gonna go ahead and keep believing in God without questioning it instead of whatever you guys are talking about.

>>24867134
I'm not saying god doesn't exist. I think it's a undoubtable fact that it exists. Atheist can fuck right off and die, but so can god

God ecists because the bible told us so.
The bible is true because it is the word of god.
The word of god exists because god exists.
God exists because the word of god exists.

That's what we call circular reasoning, or a causal loop.

People have an unfortunate tendency of confusing the definition of God for proof of the existence of God.

>>24867267
The whole of christianity is just some smug mf'er writing things which sound cool and mysterious, but does not really have any logical ground to stand on.

>le God works in mysterious ways.
>hah but God is not who you think he his
>suffering is a trial created by the angels
>the temptation of the apple is a metaphor for being into femboys

>god exists because we have a word for that phenomenom
God does not exist because we have a word for that phenomenon. Checkmate.

Yeah but is the idea of god conditioned as necessary by the transcendental constitution of objectivity or are you merely projecting necessity onto your own methodological values of wholeness, completeness, universality, &c.?

>>24865462 (OP)
If you are a fish in the ocean, then there are fish always smaller than you, and there are fish always bigger than you.
It's probably the same with the deities, in case of big fish. The deities are like landmarks on the horizon. You want to get closer to the horizon, but the closer you get, the further they moves away.
The deities are alive, the deities are ideals. It's good to have ideals.

>>24866062
This doesn’t sound even vaguely like the Judeo-Christian god

>>24867356
Whoaaaa maN. WHOAAAA

>>24867398
>judgmental and virile sky-god who rules all other beings
Are you sure?

>>24865462 (OP)
>unicorns exist because we imagine them.

>>24865462 (OP)
Fantastical human-animal hybrids are also a cross-cultural world-wide phenomenon. Does this also mean they have to be describing something real?

>>24865470
No he didn't

>>24865462 (OP)
this almost sounds like something Wittgenstein would say, except he'd phrase it in a way only a German autist would and he'd ditch the junk about collective unconsciousness.