The Three Gods of an Atheist
Dec 7, 2017 5:52:30 GMT -5 by Auburn
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Post by Auburn on Dec 7, 2017 5:52:30 GMT -5
..as a spiritual atheist, I've thought plenty about God and in what sense it may exist - if it could be said to exist at all; whether via metaphor or metaphysics. Spinoza's God, Einstein's God, are examples of this attempt which I admire.
There are some senses in which I do think it valid to consider God to exist - and without any need for supernatural beliefs. The following is my attempt at the same question.
It is a blog post I made months back. It is not truth; only a whisper. any replies welcome {pro/con}
I know no truth.
^ Such is the order of the universe, from the phenomenological perspective of a human. There are three Gods. The highest God is the Cosmos; the eternal dispassionate Stillness. There is no fault with anything under her gaze. Everything is her clockwork. All emerges from her pregnant hollowness and all exists as it should. She is the Pleroma from which everything fragmented into greater and greater differentiation. But all is part of the same. All antagonism is part of her greater unity. The form of this God is an evolving fractal, changing with scale and time.
The second God is an emergent phenomenon from this planet's net living collaboration; a super-organism containing all others. This God is a self-structuring agent that has evolved over billions of years and is a collective feedback-loop between all organisms on the planet. Any singular organism within the planet is subject to this God; for any singular organism emerges from this God as one interdependent part of the equation.
A human being is born into the nature of God, and is an image of God. The more a human being comes to understand this entity, the greater wisdom they will have to navigate the woes of living -- as God has been learning how best to live for millennia. This God is not dispassionate, not indifferent like the Cosmos, but has always in mind the perpetuation of Life on earth and the evolution of consciousness at the collective level.
It uses itself, by fragmenting into dualities, to build an arm's race with itself. Predator/Prey. Male/Female. Light/Dark. The nature of this God is oscillatory and through these oscillations it rises higher and higher into Order. God is the principle of Transformation through the clash/death/bloodshed of polarities. He is cruel. He invented cruelty and pain to motivate himself to ascend and fight the entropy of the Universe.
Any human being or singular organism born is automatically subject to this reality. Born into an antagonistic story/narrative 4 billion years in the making. He is the reason all life is struggle. All life is evolution. He is the Ouroboros. He will continue to evolve through bloodshed with himself; through war and death, until he ascends beyond this world and into the Cosmos.
The third God is the Self; the soul/spirit of the individual. A human being is not even ruler of himself, much less the Collective. A human being is subject to his own Causality; which is but a copy -- albeit a uniquely tailored copy -- of the second God. The nature of my God is Alemin. I cannot destroy this God any more than I can destroy myself. It is my fundamental nature and supersedes any momentary opinions or thoughts that I may have about myself. And just as the second God is dual, so is the self. Insofar as we do not know this Self, we are subject to its automatic actions. It holds ancient drives which activate without one's permission or consideration. But we have the capacity to approach this Godhood, to the degree that we align our consciousness to it and operate from its precepts; this is Actualization.
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Such is the condition of reality for Man.
He has no choice but to be a part of It; for choice was created by God himself as man's tool to navigate this game more quickly. God's greatest creation is Man; Man is the capacity to emulate the struggle God has been orchestrating on a planetary scale -- at a collective and conscious human level. Man is the self-similarity of God; a microcosm.
There are some senses in which I do think it valid to consider God to exist - and without any need for supernatural beliefs. The following is my attempt at the same question.
It is a blog post I made months back. It is not truth; only a whisper. any replies welcome {pro/con}
I know no truth.
^ Such is the order of the universe, from the phenomenological perspective of a human. There are three Gods. The highest God is the Cosmos; the eternal dispassionate Stillness. There is no fault with anything under her gaze. Everything is her clockwork. All emerges from her pregnant hollowness and all exists as it should. She is the Pleroma from which everything fragmented into greater and greater differentiation. But all is part of the same. All antagonism is part of her greater unity. The form of this God is an evolving fractal, changing with scale and time.
The second God is an emergent phenomenon from this planet's net living collaboration; a super-organism containing all others. This God is a self-structuring agent that has evolved over billions of years and is a collective feedback-loop between all organisms on the planet. Any singular organism within the planet is subject to this God; for any singular organism emerges from this God as one interdependent part of the equation.
A human being is born into the nature of God, and is an image of God. The more a human being comes to understand this entity, the greater wisdom they will have to navigate the woes of living -- as God has been learning how best to live for millennia. This God is not dispassionate, not indifferent like the Cosmos, but has always in mind the perpetuation of Life on earth and the evolution of consciousness at the collective level.
It uses itself, by fragmenting into dualities, to build an arm's race with itself. Predator/Prey. Male/Female. Light/Dark. The nature of this God is oscillatory and through these oscillations it rises higher and higher into Order. God is the principle of Transformation through the clash/death/bloodshed of polarities. He is cruel. He invented cruelty and pain to motivate himself to ascend and fight the entropy of the Universe.
Any human being or singular organism born is automatically subject to this reality. Born into an antagonistic story/narrative 4 billion years in the making. He is the reason all life is struggle. All life is evolution. He is the Ouroboros. He will continue to evolve through bloodshed with himself; through war and death, until he ascends beyond this world and into the Cosmos.
The third God is the Self; the soul/spirit of the individual. A human being is not even ruler of himself, much less the Collective. A human being is subject to his own Causality; which is but a copy -- albeit a uniquely tailored copy -- of the second God. The nature of my God is Alemin. I cannot destroy this God any more than I can destroy myself. It is my fundamental nature and supersedes any momentary opinions or thoughts that I may have about myself. And just as the second God is dual, so is the self. Insofar as we do not know this Self, we are subject to its automatic actions. It holds ancient drives which activate without one's permission or consideration. But we have the capacity to approach this Godhood, to the degree that we align our consciousness to it and operate from its precepts; this is Actualization.
______________
Such is the condition of reality for Man.
He has no choice but to be a part of It; for choice was created by God himself as man's tool to navigate this game more quickly. God's greatest creation is Man; Man is the capacity to emulate the struggle God has been orchestrating on a planetary scale -- at a collective and conscious human level. Man is the self-similarity of God; a microcosm.