Well, Prana, God is a pretty big subject. I remain happy saying I am agnostic and just don't know for sure.
When I think of God, however, my mind does contain shadows of notions and stories from my religous upbringing. But I am struck by the wonderful complexity of insects, the strangely horrible things that can and do happen to people, the things we do to ourselves, impersonal forces of nature that both nurture and destroy....
I then think of the sheer size of the universe and our tiny little place in it. I think of how limited our minds are, that we are thinking with pieces of meat that somehow have consciousness. I think of the biological limitations inherent upon the forms of thought we can think, the way we relate to the world around us, the way we describe it, and how often we mistake our relation with what is out there to absolute truth.
And now I am reading a book about the 4th spatial dimension and realize it is all a hell of a lot weirder, stranger, and more wonderful than I ever realized.
What sort of God exists there, if any? If God exists, it is hardly likely that he is in our image as we like to make him. He does not exist or operate by any of our standards, most likely. This being would be so foreign, so alien, so impossibly huge and complex as to be unknowable.
I think we have silly notions about God, because if we were really to conceive of what God is when we think about God.... well, there'd be a lot of exploding heads.
But, that's just my guess. How the heck should I know what God is or isn't?
[This message has been edited by babayada (edited October 31, 2004).]
