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Are We God??

Someone once said that a grain of "faith" can move a mountain. Jesus said he could walk on water because of his "faith". Are we missing the message here? Are we failing to use our minds to their fullest advantage? Maybe it's not God that makes things happen. Maybe it's merely a belief in a god that does the trick.

It has been shown that when someone under hypnosis believes they have been burned, they sometimes show physical reactions like someone who has actually been burned.
That tells me that there is a direct link between what is imagined in the mind, and the physical world. Perhaps a belief in an external God or gods is our link to the inner mind. If the mind can burn you, why couldn't it heal you? Levitate you? Are what we call "Miracles", "Prophecies", "Visions" actually products of the 80-some percent of the mind we don't understand? What are the possibilities??
Baxtor's profile
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How are you defining the "mind?"

The same as the brain or some special entity?

No doubt belief is a powerful force and can make people do great things
and terriable things.

Beliefs don't require an external reality.
wot53's profile

over 2 years ago
An awful lot of miracles, prophecies, and visions have also proved to be a chemical imbalance.
LifeLoveLaughter's profile

over 2 years ago
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wot53's profile

over 2 years ago
Not only are we not God, I doubt if we qualify as "advanced" compared to the civilizations around us. Remember, the first civilizations we detect will possess interstellar infrastructures which puts them way ahead of us without knowing anything else about them. It's entirely possible that we will discover a civilization so far ahead of us that we barely understand them. Does that make each and every one of them a god? Hmm. It could make a book, but I think Star Trek did such a civilization in their second season of their first incarnation.
LenRobertson's profile

over 2 years ago
In nearly every case, a culture's god(s) is the mental/spiritual resting place for the answers to that culture's unknowns. As answers are revealed through human 'discovery' the inventory of that god's is reduced and the humans inventory increases and they become more god-like. The actual inventory merely changes hands!

Ergo... human is god is human is god... etc. Yes?
PrinevilleBob's profile

over 2 years ago
And another voice of reason rises up out of the depths!

Well put Bob...
wot53's profile

over 2 years ago
Man has created God in his own image .

over 2 years ago
This was the basic message of the Enlightenment...after they rediscovered the ancient Greeks. Let there be light!
wot53's profile

over 2 years ago
We are co-creators
BarbInBend's profile

over 2 years ago
Is that really possible?
Guess its how you define creators...I think the gods would be offended
if they exis....ZAPP!
wot53's profile

over 2 years ago
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