Does God really exist?

Aupmanyav said:
it is surprising to me that people believe in existence of any God or in 'everlasting-life', 'life in heaven with 72 houris', when they have grown up.
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I find the opposite surprising - that we live in a universe specifically designed to not just form or develop but also sustain and progress life, but we overlook this because the extraordinary has become the ordinary to us. Don't get lost in theistic ideas of what God or the Divine or Universal Consciousness might be - the moment anyone attempts to describe It they have failed. If you want a sneak peak, though, look at any image showing the network of galaxies and streams of gas we call the Cosmic Web - it is like literally looking at the brain of the universe.
 
Aupmanyav said:
I analyze it, and find that it may be exciting to a child aged 6, but even at 82, it brings a smile to me. Leprechauns are OK for them, but it is surprising to me that people believe in existence of any God or in 'everlasting-life', 'life in heaven with 72 houris', when they have grown up.
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So, does that mean that you weren't able to engender a belief in the existence of leprechauns?
 
iBrian said:
I find the opposite surprising - that we live in a universe specifically designed to not just form or develop but also sustain and progress life, but we overlook this because the extraordinary has become the ordinary to us. Don't get lost in theistic ideas of what God or the Divine or Universal Consciousness might be - the moment anyone attempts to describe It they have failed. If you want a sneak peak, though, look at any image showing the network of galaxies and streams of gas we call the Cosmic Web - it is like literally looking at the brain of the universe.
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It does look like that. The 400 billion galaxies, trillions of stars, quadrillions of planets. It had to happen somewhere or the other.
 
TheLightWithin said:
But it would also require believing that its ideas were true, and in alignment with reality.
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Do we know what reality is? That is a big discussion - 'Maya'.

"In Hinduism, the term "Maya" refers to the concept of illusion or the deceptive nature of the material world. .. Maya is often associated with the idea that the physical world and our perceptions of it are not the ultimate reality; rather, they are transient and can mislead individuals away from the true nature of existence." - GPT-40
 
rstrats said:
So, you can't consciously choose to believe things as you seemed to be saying in your post #356.
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Why? It is a conscious choice based on what I have experienced in life. Biology does not support the existence of Leprechauns, a foot-long old man with beard and his supposed special powers. There are no leprechauns in Indian folk tales.
 
Aupmanyav said:
Why?
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Because, in order for something to be a choice, there has to be at least 2 options from which to select and each one has to be able to be selected. If only one of them can be selected, then there is no choice involved.
 
rstrats said:
Because, in order for something to be a choice, there has to be at least 2 options from which to select and each one has to be able to be selected. If only one of them can be selected, then there is no choice involved.
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There is no choice to reality, it is one, whatever it is.
 
muhammad_isa said:
the way it does for some reason.
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Aupmanyav said:
Do we know what reality is? That is a big discussion - 'Maya'.

"In Hinduism, the term "Maya" refers to the concept of illusion or the deceptive nature of the material world. .. Maya is often associated with the idea that the physical world and our perceptions of it are not the ultimate reality; rather, they are transient and can mislead individuals away from the true nature of existence." - GPT-40
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Something like that, that I learned as a teen, is pretty foundational to my understanding of other worldly matters
 
Aupmanyav said:
Yeah, but people do believe in irrational things like God and soul.
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There's nothing irrational about believing in God or a soul. It's actually not believing that is more irrational - it's a refusal to reject the truth of existence before you. :)

But, you're welcome to shut your mind to it - after all, what's more important is not what a person believes, but what they do in life. :)
 
iBrian said:
.. it's a refusal to reject the truth of existence before you. :)
..after all, what's more important is not what a person believes, but what they do in life. :)
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Well, the universe and what constitutes me are same.
Hardly, what we do in life is inconsequential in a larger sense.
 
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