One God, Many Paths

[Aupmanyav]

Twin-world theory: One composed of matter, the other composed of anti-matter. If they come together, they explode, leaving 'nothing' behind.

 

[Alif Balaam Yashin]

Ah, I have done that many times in the forum.
Atheist because I believe in non-duality - Advaita (a-not, dvaita-duality, of any kind whatsoever).
There is this substrate of the universe (we term it as Brahman) and that constitutes all things in the universe, living or non-living.
Therefore, according to 'Advaita', I am Brahman and so are you or even a stone is.

Atheism is the absence of belief in the existence of deities. Atheism and non-dualism can sometimes intersect in a person’s worldview, but they are not inherently connected. Brahman, as you define it and how I understand it from your explanation, is the Objective Universe, which is an external, impersonal reality that exists independently of individual perception or belief. It is governed by physical laws, causality, time, negentropy and entropy. This is the world of matter, energy, space, and deterministic systems. Therefore Brahman is a non-conscious, unaware, unintelligent, mechanism.

I am not a "non-conscious, unaware, unintelligent, mechanism" . . .

 

[Thomas]

Ehen I

... the Objective Universe, which is an external, impersonal reality that exists independently of individual perception or belief. It is governed by physical laws, causality, time, negentropy and entropy. This is the world of matter, energy, space, and deterministic systems.

A theist would point out that the Divine transcends the objective Universe as described here – the physical cosmos.

I would also add there's more to the objective universe than mere matter, as science is now beginning to look at the idea of 'consciousness' as something there from the get-go.

I am not a "non-conscious, unaware, unintelligent, mechanism" . . .

Nor, am I ...

The Divine is essentially personal and relational, immanently present in and to the cosmos.

 

[Aupmanyav]

Brahman, as you define it and how I understand it from your explanation, is the Objective Universe, which is an external, impersonal reality that exists independently of individual perception or belief. It is governed by physical laws, causality, time, negentropy and entropy. This is the world of matter, energy, space, and deterministic systems. Therefore Brahman is a non-conscious, unaware, unintelligent, mechanism.

I am not a "non-conscious, unaware, unintelligent, mechanism" . .

On the contrary, I am just a 'mirage' (Maya) according to Advaita. I am not what I am perceived as. Being Aupmanyav is a temporary phenomena. It will change soon, probably within the next five years (I am 82+ at the moment. I have already lived longer than my father or grandpa). Same with the universe. People will perceive it as I perceive it today, even after I am no more. But that will not change the fact that reality is not the perceived universe.

'What exists' (Brahman) is extremely conscious in its own way. Switch on a light-bulb and the news spreads throughout the universe. Wave your hand and the reverberations, however small, will go to the farthest part of the universe (if there is any). So, in that way Brahman is aware of all that happens anywhere in the universe (Spooky action at a distance, quantum entanglement). Brahman goes by its own rules all the time (mind you, change of form, relativity and uncertainty are effects of Brahman's rules). In that way, it is intelligent.

The last sentence is human ego.