QUOTE(Enki @ Oct 06, 2007, 06:41 AM)
Does the Advanced Human World Needs God's Support Anymore or It is Powerful Enough to Master its Own Destiny Without Gods Personal Assistance?
Does the God By Now Protects Mankind From Catastrophic Phase Transitions or Not?
IMHO, anyone who can live without breathing, eating, drinking, thinking, willing, feeling, sensing, intuiting, etc., can live without GØD. Even when the body becomes a dead collection of atoms and molecules it exists within GØD.
Over the years, like the process theologians and philosophers, I have come to think of GØD as the creative/artistic power within us and that we are within. Our destiny is to become one with GØD. What we experience as the chaos we call creation; what we see and feel as suffering and pain, in world and the universe (nature), is the result our separation from GØD caused guilt and fear created by the arrogant ego.
Interesting, in a recent article in the NYTimes Magazine this is how Norman Mailer describes what he calls God. Check out:
http://nymag.com/nymag/features/38961/======================================
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THE RISE OF MAILERISM
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Norman Mailer�€™s God, not surprisingly, is a great artist, who created mankind and all the plants and other animals, and could reincarnate them according to his whim. But he was not all-powerful. Because there was the Devil�€”and the Devil had technology. And lately, the Devil seems to be winning�€�
* By Norman Mailer & Michael Lennon
In a six-decade career, Norman Mailer has written thirteen novels, nineteen works of nonfiction, two poetry collections, and one play. He�€™s directed four movies. He ran for mayor of New York, and in the living room of his Brooklyn Heights home, he built, in three weeks, with two friends, a vast Lego city, incorporating some 15,000 pieces, known as the city of the future, seeming to take as much pride in it as in any of his other creations. But even at 84, he has a vast ambition. And now he has created something like a religion. In a new book, On God, a dialogue with one of his literary executors, Michael Lennon, he lays out his highly personal vision of what the universe�€™s higher truths might look like, if we were in a position to know them. But his theology is not theoretical to him. After eight decades, it is what he believes to be true. He expects no adherents, and does not profess to be a prophet, but he has worked to forge his beliefs into a coherent catechism.
Mailer�€™s deity is much like Mailer. He or she is an artist�€”with the stipulation that God is the greatest artist�€”concerned most particularly with the human soul, but with much else besides. God takes great pleasure in his creations. God is constantly experimenting, and highly fallible. God is far from all-powerful, but is learning along with us. God is in constant struggle with his own fallibility, and also with evil�€”with the devil�€”and is not certain whether good will triumph in the end. We are God�€™s creations, but we are not at all times part of his plan�€”God may not even be cognizant of all that we do. And if God needs our love, the question Mailer insists has to be answered is, Why?...
(There are 7 pages)
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GØD IS all we, as artists, can possibly imagine-physically,mentally,spiritually,in/through&all around th'Cosmos.