Originally posted by Darkman:
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It's called imagination. I've never experienced a wizard in a pointy hat shooting fireballs out of his finger tips before, but I can easily imagine that scenario. We as humans who have a definate beginning and end (we all die right?), so why shouldn't we want to believe in eternal life? That would be great. That means we no longer are meaningless specs of life doomed to some day die. We can pretend that we live forever in heaven or nirvana or whatever makes us feel good about ourselves. Anyway, your argument makes no sense. Just because we can't comprehend the infinity of time does not automatically mean that there is a god figure. We can't see into the past nor the future, so why not make believe there is a god that has existed for all time? It doesn't take a god to make one up.
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Imagination can only create out of what the human has experienced. It's a creative law. Humans cannot create from nothing.
I'm a professional creative. I've taught creative expression and composition in music colleges. It's an empowering concept. Your creations are the sum of your influences.
Want to be 'original'? Expand your influences. Widen the pallette from which you can draw from.
You mention the Wizard idea, but give me a break! Wizards exist in popular mythology. Wizards are human. You've experienced humans. You've experienced fire, you've experienced sudden motion (something 'shooting' out) It's a scenario collected from accumulated experience.
God is beyond anything a human would experience in this life without him revealing himself to us. As a Christians I cannot and do not, profess to limit, box, define or constrain the unlimitable undefinable creator of the entire universe and physical, spiritual, conceptual reality. To suggest to do so would be ludicrous. I KNOW God, but I have no idea WHAT he truly is. I perceive him/it as an awareness, as pure love, creative energy, and positivity. I relate to him as a father - as Jesus introduced. I relate to him as a companion, advisor and freind. I understand aspects of God through knowing him, but do I fully comprehend him? No. How can I comprehend that which is OUTSIDE TIME!?
To think one thought after another I must exist in time. In sequence. God does not need that. He just is. How do I understand that? It's like a painting seeking to understand how that artist can be three dimensional and move, eat, make sound and get angry. The painting doesn't even have a brain with which to attempt to perceive the artist.
We are the creation.
[ 12-05-2002, 03:26 AM: Message edited by: Yorick ]