Does God Really Exist?

[JamesPPB]

Has anyone here, had the pleasure or luxury to have seen god?

No! And I've never seen the wind either but I know it exists everytime I feel it.

 

[AnnaG]

And this is why I consider myself an agnostic on those days I care to think about the subject: I don't see enough evidence to support either camp of the debate.

But on to something else SJP said, if belief is what it takes to create a god, could I create one by choosing to believe and worship said deity? If so I think I'd try to resurrect someone like Bast, the Egyptian cat goddess... except I'd name her Pixie in honour of my current furball, who incidentally DOES think she's a Goddess or at the very least, royalty...

IMO, belief doesn't make it so.I could believe in Charlie Brown's Great Pumpkin, too, but that doesn't make the Great Pumpkin so (at least not in a tangible, corporeal, de facto, intrinsic, or substantive way).

 

[JamesPPB]

Belief in God exists, therefore God exists.
Non-belief in God exists, therefore God exists.
What is it people are trying to prove exists, when they ask questions like, does God exist?
Are they expecting a serious discusison about whether or not a spiritual being exists or not?
Do they seriously think there is any way of proving or disproving that which exists in the minds and soul of men?
The question is flawed even before it's asked.

 

[Johnnny]

K im going to clear a few things

He lives in ontario that is for sure

carry on

 

[AnnaG]

No! And I've never seen the wind either but I know it exists everytime I feel it.

Same with air. But it still is tangible. In the dark, I can't see a table but I can touch it, so it is tangible. Perhaps gods are "felt", but what are they felt with; imaginations, emotions? Those traits are not senses. They are simply products of brain function whereas the recognition of tangible things are the products of sensory as well as brain function.

 

[Spade]

No! And I've never seen the wind either but I know it exists everytime I feel it.

Who has seen a god?
Neither You nor Claude
But when the trees are bending,
It's either Thor or Maude!
--- Christina Rossetti

 

[AnnaG]

K im going to clear a few things

He lives in ontario that is for sure

carry on

Toronto to be precise, and its initials are SJP, too. lmao

 

[Johnnny]

Toronto to be precise, and its initials are SJP, too. lmao

lol thats too funny

 

[petros]

Has anyone here, had the pleasure or luxury to have seen god?

I married a goddess.

 

[petros]

No! And I've never seen the wind either but I know it exists everytime I feel it.

And if one sniff of that wind made your drop dead would it be because the wind was noxious or because it was evil?

 

[AnnaG]

I married a goddess.

My alter ego is a goddess.

 

[dumpthemonarchy]

Plenty of skepticism here. Good. Scram superstition.

 

[SirJosephPorter]

Or they backstab each other.

Quite so. Have you read Greek Mythology? Gods and Goddesses are always at each other's throats.

 

[SirJosephPorter]

Hey- no problem - two hundred years ago there were thousands just like you who ddn't believe you could light up a room by flicking a switch. Some of us have learned from that scenario and some haven't.

That was science, this is religion. Don't confuse the two. In science, postulates can be proved right or wrong. There is no right or wrong in religion. Everybody is right in his own eyes, everybody is wrong in somebody else's eyes.

 

[SirJosephPorter]

Ooooooooooh oooooooooh, Anna - Now you've done it. We are now in for that scenario about the existance of Swiss cheese on the dark side of the moon for the 17th time. :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

An why not? It wears well even for the 17th time (or 18, 19, 20th time).

 

[lone wolf]

That was science, this is religion. Don't confuse the two. In science, postulates can be proved right or wrong. There is no right or wrong in religion. Everybody is right in his own eyes, everybody is wrong in somebody else's eyes.

Religion my arse. That's just human nature. Perhaps you should study on it.

 

[AnnaG]

Quite so. Have you read Greek Mythology? Gods and Goddesses are always at each other's throats.

Only if you believe the stories.

 

[SirJosephPorter]

Because he/she would have the right university degree?

Right university degree in religion? You must be joking. What is the right university degree when it comes to religion? It is all superstition anyway.

 

[AnnaG]

In science, postulates can be proved right or wrong.

Awesome! Prove or disprove the existences of gods then.

 

[dumpthemonarchy]

I married a goddess.

That's a goddess.