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My Technical Understanding
of God, the Bible, and the Universe

     The Writers were definitely hinting at something with the phrases "the beginning and the end," "I Am," and the philosophy that god is all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-present.

     The collective existence that Is the universe is the great I Am. It is all knowledge and information and data that exists, it is all energy and power and emotion that exists, and it is ... no-- IS everyWhere. 'God', in the traditional sense isn't really omnipresent in the human understanding of the word if He is separate from our existence.

“So you would consider the universe a deity? Or just a representation of a deity?”

   I think of it as neither, really. A lot of psychology and logic go into my belief system as well as feeling and interpretation.

   "Deity" still implies separation from our plane of existence, from this very reality that we're living in.

   I know, I know... "Those damned new agers spouting off their "understanding" and "logic" beliefs...” But.. *shrug* this is just what I understand to be true. It's as simple as that. It's what I believe. Child-like faith, while we're discussing implications... implies curiosity. Have a faith that is open to new understanding and ask a lot of questions. God didn't manifest itself into this amazing fuckin' universe and turn us loose with technology and science for us to simply sit back and not learn and understand all we could about it.

“So.... what exactly is your belief then?”

   oy.

   Um... I don't believe that anything can't happen. I believe anything is possible. If you can imagine it, it can somehow happen.

   I don't believe there is any certain set of moral rights or wrongs. Every human sets up for him or herself his or her own set of beliefs, and those beliefs are just as true for that individual as the next individual's set is for him or her. Does that make sense? We all have our own understanding of what is real and unreal and superreal and surreal, of what is right and what is wrong, and that reality set is just as real to that person as the next.

   So.. I don't believe in sin. Not the christian understanding of "these things are sins and these things aren't". Only, "this act doesn't agree with my reality set and therefore Your act is a sin against Me." There are acts that most recipients agree is wrong against themselves: Rape, torture, theft, and so on... most people don't believe it's right for those things to happen to them, and therefore it would be a sin against them for it to happen to them... But the reality tunnel in which the rapist/thief/CEO, whathaveyou, lives... their reality says it's completely acceptable, and both people are just as real and both people are equally as right.. though most other people would agree that the victim was a victim and the rapist was a rapist.

   I'm not saying that rape is right.

   I'm saying that in the minds of a select group of people, rape is right. For most, it's wrong. And thank god it is.

   I don't believe that things happen to us. Things happen around us and we react to them. Or we create events.
I believe that in interpreting the world around us, we create our own realities and act and react accordingly. Nothing is set in stone.

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