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Question: Could 'God' be the cultural byproduct of early society's understanding of the self-conscious!?
It's my perspective that!.!.!.if you respect your self-concious sooo much to a point where you refer it to the third person as a way to distinguish yourself from the macro-perspective of the reality, I could see how one would refer God as something beyond understanding!. Personally, even though I've come up with this conclusion, I find it impossible for me to refer myself in the first person as God (culturally Catholic); I allow my concious to fulfill that role (in the third person)!.!.!.when people talk about God judging their actions, it's hard not to put yourself in 'God's' shoes in order to judge your own actions!.!.!."shoot a man and you know you've done wrong in God's eyes;" but in that case, if God were truly mystical, you couldn't possibly know the integrity of your action but by assuming God's role for retropsective purposes it's easier to understand the value of one's own actions!.
NOTE: I've gone to multiple mass religious events and it's kinda enlightening with the God-as-concious perspective!.!.!.I mean, if Jesus did do and think those things written about him, I've got a mutual respect for the beauty of his being (along with other great prophets/saviors/people)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
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Yes it could be!. It could also be a cultural by product of early society's understanding of a different ordering of the mind!. The suggestion of the book I list below is humanity wasn't self-conscious at all!. That self-conscious arises after language!. That the voices of the gods were the different halves of the mind talking to its self!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
that's a very very good question!. If by 'early society', you mean the agricultural solution after about 10000 years ago, I would agree that the source of faith was indeed founded on a self-conscious, self-defining reorganized social atmosphere of 'what's yours is ours and what's mine is God's', and, not to take the next meal for granted!.
In the case of primitive society, this is not at all the case!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
God and God consciousness gained by a love born of an understanding of God is manifest in becoming as the one whom you laud and adore!. Until the blessed gain such insight God is a supernal Entity within whom we place faith, as we have belief in our parents until we gain maturity to enable understanding of why our parents laid down such doctrines that may have seemed oppressive and stifling at the time of our youth and innocence !.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
GOD is nothing but a shortened form of GOOD !. If we are not good to others then there is no meaning in GOD !. Ancient people creates GOD to make the human race as a good one !. Www@QuestionHome@Com
YES!. WELL SAID!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
lol!.
So God's a form of schizophrenia!.
The psychobabble crown is gonna love you!.
Human logic evolves in response to Natural Logic/Law (aka the Logos)
We know Nature judges us for bad decisions; it's just not that hard to personify Natural Law into God!.
In the beginning was the Logos!. (John 1:1)
Now whether or not the Logos has a personality, we know damn well it judges us!. So 'God' strikes me as little more than a fairly functional, if slightly presumptive, anthropomorphism of the Logos!.
More of a perspective than a Freudian construct!.
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