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Does a God of ANY KIND exist?

Yay. Now this is getting interesting.

Propose them then. If you're right and you discover something huge you'll probably become one of the most famous scientists of all time, if not then oh well.
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Aha. If you enjoy reading about these mysteries instead of examining the surface and go "Oh bullshit! They're all because of the brain/flash of light/ect." You should know what they are. Like one example, ghosts and orbs.
Science is not set in stone, but the method will definitely need proof in order that to be considered as truth. (Or you could correct me on that, I'm not so certain about that sentence) And that's the problem...

I want to stay on topic though, so here are more of my contributions that relates more to the topic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuition_(Bergson)

That intuition page I linked is something I recommend reading upon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysics

Metaphysics is awesome, I recommend reading that too.

I also recommend looking over religious materials and various spiritual sources from New Age. If you can handle that stuff. I'm not saying to believe in them and accept it as an idea to defend so much, but to look at information like this and see if you have anything to say. I don't think they have been mentioned in this topic either.

Well yeah that fits the definition of subjective perfectly actually opal's opinion on dictionary definitions be damned.
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Now the problem I was addressing above in this post -

Most of the anomalous mysteries that happen in the world are not experienced by one person but by many other people. And when these experiences happen and they connect, you might reconsider what 'reality' really is.


The bare basics of a deity is that it consciously created the universe, as far as I know.

Feel free to correct me on that though.
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This is where I draw the line for you, Zero. The concept can be thought on and expanded on so much greater lengths, but it is against my philosophy to present most of my deeper ideas.

Why not come up with my own? I don't feel the need for any creator other than my own parents.
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Then don't do it. If you don't feel like it, then don't.

That reminds me.


Here's a little philosophical snip of mine to share:
There others who feel the need, and believing in their own ideas have made them walk their own path. They come up with their own ideas to believe and search to find out knowledge by themselves. That's using the heart (instead of following the crowd).
 
Your concept of a deity is lacking if it is "constructed the universe". There are many gods that have been envisioned that didn't have a single thing to do with the creation of the universe. @_@
 
I've seen that stupid banana thing before. D: It makes me wonder how hopelessly gullible some people are if they think that's proof that God exists. (tbh I think that God could have done better than the present design of the banana if he were really trying)
 
Bananas? Is that the best you can do for an argument? Seriously...

Anyways, I do believe in a God of some sort, but not the kind that apparently likes the pain and torture of people in hell, and the one that is fully all-doing. I can take all-knowing. Not all-doing.

Ugh... I hate religious arguments. There's no way to really give a proper point - someone will always meddle with your words. But yeah. It makes some sort of sense.
 
Ah, the banana thing is a joke video? XD I'd seen it before it was posted here and I thought those guys were in earnest. Well now I feel stupid...

Also, to Celestial Blade, how does being a Communist back your doubt in the existence of a god? I may just be uninformed here but I didn't realize that communism in essence had anything to do with atheism (I am not counting famous Communists who were also atheists, e.g. Karl Marx).
 
I was pretty sure the first time I saw it that the banana video itself was a joke, but I've seen people use its arguments seriously. :(
 
Communism doesn't (as far as I am aware) have any specific beef with religion in general, especially regarding spirituality, but it doesn't work well with hierarchical structures like that in the Roman Catholic Church, with power being held by some and not by others.

Marx, possibly most famous for saying "religion is the opium of the masses" disliked religion for both its structure and the fact that it "numbed" people and made them accept their position in life more readily, instead of fighting against the bourgeoisie for the abolition of classes.

But like Mirry said, that’s just specific to one man (albeit a pretty influential one), and not representative of all communistic views.
 
Celestial Blade said:
I now highly doubt that any kind of God exists. I am also Communist, which partly backs my reasons, most of which are science based, though.
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I want you to name one aspect of capitalism that you dislike. A valid reason.

And communism pretty much has nothing to do with spirituality.
 
I dislike that capitalism is self-regulating enough that it blows itself apart on a regular basis if no one gets involved.
 
To me, I would think that gods existed. I've believed in gods and mythical creatures for like, my whole life. I think they exist in like, a totally different dimension and there's no way for humans to get to that dimension.
 
The problem with pure capitalism is that it's dog-eat-dog. With communism, you have no freedom to make your own decisions. So personally, I think we should all be socialists (which is DIFFERENT from communists, BTW; Ugh, I hate it when people use them interchangably).

In communism, you live for communism, not God. That's why it's generally considered atheist.

But wasn't this topic about God?
 
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