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Originally Posted by Rosie  Everybody seems so caught up in understanding how God created the world, and life. The world is just physical. It's just matter, and atoms, and all that scientific stuff. What we should really be asking is who or what created consciousness. God couldn't have created consciousness since he is already conscious himself. How did anything come in to existence at all?
Who created God? Lets say we were created by God, and some even superior God created him. Now lets call the first God - God 1, and the second God, God 2. Now wouldn't it make sense that an even more superior God would have to create God 2? We'll call this God, God 3. So God 3 created God 2, and God 2 created God 1, and God 1 created us. And then, as you probably guessed, we would need another superior God to account for the creation of the third one. So, in a sense, we would require an endless amount of infinitely superior Gods to account for each of their creation, and ultimately our creation. IF we rejected that idea, we could come to the conclusion that some where along the line, a primitive consciousness arose from nothing. Perhaps we are that primitive consciousness?
Anyways, that was just a collection of some random rambelings. I'd love to hear your thoughts. |
If you believe that the world is physical, you will get into all sorts of questions that Science can't answer - like who or what is doing the perceiving, thinking, acting? Scientists are very good at giving the impression they are on the verge of solving everything, just give them a bit more time and money. But scientists can only study the objective. Every time you see, hear, smell, touch or taste, you create an object and objects can be studied, analysed and done all sorts of things with. But
you are not an object. You are SUBJECT, i.e. what is doing the perceiving. And because you are Subject and not Object, the real you can't be seen (or even thought about) without turning it into an object. So what we
really are, as opposed to what we
appear to be (i.e. phenomena) can never be accessed. This can be called God but the trouble with that is that God becomes an object which is not what we are. Religions had to pretend God is an object to distance "Him' from us and so create a hierarchy that had exclusive access to 'Him'. The separated 'me' could then be exploited which is what the Churches have done for centuries (and made a lot of money in the process!) This is what the Buddha referred to as Ignorance.
I could go on but have a look at my web site:
Home which is an attempt to summarise what Eastern Philosophy has known for millenia but we have somehow missed in the West. It goes by the name of Non-duality, was called The Perennial Philosophy by Huxley and encapsulates the 'truths' that Science and Religion have been groping for for centuries.
Good luck.