Doesn't the universe seem a little too mechanical to be all spiritual and magical?
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Yup.  Heck, there's nothing in it that would even support free will, and if there's no free will, I really see no reason to believe in magick or spirit at all.
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Not necessarily.\n\nFrom a purely philisophical point of view, we need to consider the transcendance of time that omnipotence necessarily includes. Therefore our base conceptions of how a constant state is defined are obviated. Very little headway can be made by hypothesizing what the hyperdimensional state of perfection would embody.\n\nAddressing your second question, it is also not reasonable to assume a seperation of entities amoung such a hypothetical divine family. From a mathematical (in particular set theory) point of view, all divine incarnations could conceivably be contained in the 'God' set which could deride any paradox there.\n_________________________________________\n\nTrivially, we could just define God as the union of all godsets. (okay, so this language is getting pretty weird) Perhaps the act of slaying 'bad brother godset' for "raping" the 'sister godset' is what allowed 'good brother godset' to combine like Voltron to form the 'unified godset' or whatever. The point is that when you are hypothesizing about the divine state you can't rule out the superconnectedness of all divinity, let alone the many other possible paradigms including the time-honored favorite God/Devil duality.\n\nAlso, I don't think it is just me making up the idea that an omnipotent being might transcend our concepts of time. Certianly it is common to imagine God knowing all that is, was, and ever will be. I don't know about you, but I know that if I were omnipotent I sure wouldn't operate on 'human time'.
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There is no "spiritual world". It's nothing more than a figment of mans imagination.
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In my opinion, it makes absolutely no sense that there is a physical, sentient god who looks down upon the universe and causes (or doesn't cause) things to happen. I mean, come on...how silly.\n\nGod is like gravity. It is a force, a physical law, something that can be explained by mathematics, geometry and physics. \n\nGod is the yet undiscovered Grand Unifying Theory of the Universe.\n\nThink about it: Centuries ago we had a god for why the sun shined, a god for why the corn grew and a god for why rain fell. Well...now we know why the sun shines, why the corn grows and why it rains, and we think of the people who had all the silly-little gods for all these silly-little things as ignorant ancients.\n\nSo why do we still have god? Because we don't know why and how we (we meaning the universe) got here. Soon enough, science will figure that out too, and we can do away with god altogether.\n\nYou have to agree...how can you not? Nothing else makes sense!
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not changing urself toward divine
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I am pretty sure it is not a religion in it's own right. I understand mysticism as a religious method or approach that could be one aspect of just about any religion.
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I hate to smash peoples faith, but the definition of perfect doesn't fit their god. I don't believe that any entity can create such a universe, so diverse and large. While only inputting one form of intelligent life. Besides, haven't we already deduced (using scientific data) the creation of the solar system is due to something else entirely? Truth is, we have no way to completely explain anyone's faith. That's why you simply have to accept everything based on faith. I however, would place my faith in the repeatable, and accurate, scientific method.
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I agree that the Universe was created by a higher being. I don't agree that said being created man at all. However, I do think that by becoming aware of ourselves and simply believing in said being's existence that said being is now aware of us. I don't believe that God/Diety/whatever you want to call it really gives a damn what we do. Anyway...I think that all beings, sentient or otherwise, that exist in the Universe are a result of the divine and since the divine makes no mistakes we are as we were meant to be. Flawed but still here. Still trying to find the meaning of it all.
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Your additional detail is interesting, and if I read that right, it poses the question that can our own spirit can control the force of nature?  I've heard about this phenomenon being an eastern philosophy, but is lost on the western world.  To furthur explain this, there is an idea floating around that western society has lost a certain mode of prayer, a prayer in which we pray of events of circumstances in a state of mind suggesting they have already occurred.  In other words, instead of praying for rain, pray in a way that you visualize that rain has already happened, and it will happen.  \n  That might of been way off topic as your original question dealt with wiccan religion, as I do not know if anything I have said previously can tie into that.  If you'd like to learn more about how this lost mode of prayer, and how it also physically affects even the tiniest particles around us, check out this link:  http://www.greggbraden.com/lost_mode.php3
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We live in a physical and spiritual world so under some situations something may happen.  Playing with the spirit world is not a game though.
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Is it logical to say that life is to "too complex" to form by itself and then you explain the complexity of life through an even more complex living being that you call god?\n\nYou can't manage our complexity and yet want us to accept than an even more complex being came from nowhere and that he knows everything and has no begining and end? And you call that "logic"? The chances of such being existing, like the christian god, is like putting springs and gears of a watch in a bag, shook it for a couple of seconds and get a perfectly assembled time machine, with more pieces than what you originally put in the bag.\n\nYou have a problem with our universe's limited complexity and you think it's logical to explain such limited complexity with unlimited complexity that (apparently) needs no explanations. That's called "faith", not logic.
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Our understanding of the afterlife is so very limited.  I think the common threads throughout many of the religions points to a similar outcome that is probably independant of spiritual flavour.  Our personal spiritual tradition gives us a way of comprehending an incomprehensible concept.
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I suppose there are number of reasons...  I suppose (being the key word) that we are all spiritual beings living physical lives.  I think it is too easy to live the physical life and forget our source.  (remember, it's my first time around.  I'm just telling you how I feel.)  Remember the presence of the powers that be (whatever they are) and it'll all work out, I think...
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They believe that God was once like you or I and became "enlightned" or glorified. They also believe that every person here on earth has the potential to also become like God. I dont think it takes away from his awesomeness, but rather gives us a great goal to strive for. Dont you think it would be cool to make your own universes if you had the proper knowledge to do so?
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It depends on your point of view.\nSometimes, some people feel that "God" is merely a device to keep us humanity in check, something that we have concocted to explain all the mysteries and unexplainable (in our current era. There might be an explanation much later.) stuff which happens in our lifetime.\nIt is plausible. People used to think flying was impossible, forget the flying machines. Air conditioning? How about all the laws of Physics that led to so many wonderful creations? They used to think that such things were unthinkable, magic, strange, impossible.\nBut never say IMPOSSIBLE, because we don't know what is and what isn't possible. \nJust a few centuries ago we all thought the Earth was flat.\n\nSome people, think and feel God is the God in our Scriptures. After all, they feel, the people of the past were much purer than the people today.\n\nSome people think that God is merely a presence in the world, an omni-present entity with powers of the unknown, and no apparent good or evil intentions, just there.\n\nIt's all up to what your heart tells you, and what you feel you can believe truthfully without deceiving yourself. Just be honest to yourself, that's all - you don't need people to justify, give a reason or judge you for what you believe in.\n\nJenova\n(d.yuffie@gmail.com)
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I think that we could effectively be multidimensional beings simultaneously living on many planes of reality, but actually stuck in a very limited dimensional spot (for divine choice or cosmic accident). Our actual science knows only a very little part of our life code**, and the reactivation of some dull parts of what many see as a 12-strand code could enlarge our consciousness to other aspects of reality.\n\n*P.S. Principally scientists doesn't yet understand the meaning of the so called "Junk DNA" which could have magnetical and interdimensional attributes.
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even if we agree to the idea that there is a god who created us, which i do, in a way, i don`t think that he would have created an entire universe and only us as his servants.. and scientifically speaking the universe is so big that the possibility of us being alone is almost zero.