tullip wrote:Hello,
When can you be really sure of anything?
All that can be known is that I am, everything that comes after that is a fiction, namely, my own assumptions based on memory and thoughts, all fictional characters, superimposed on or over what is already here.
tullip wrote:God and believe is about believing.
God is just a Synonym for Everything & Nothing..aka Oneness. Thinking makes no thing every thing which is actually not a thing...or NO THING. Not nothingness literally, which is impossible,so lets be clear on this, if there's just EVERYTHING then there can be no other thing, it's all one...aka not a thing. Things are thoughts, which are in essence the same no thing or oneness giving birth to the illusion of apparent other things existing apart from it. Thoughts create the illusion of duality where there is none.
Even the atheist thinks of God because he believes God does not exist. There is no difference between a belief in the existence of God and a disbelief, because even disbelief is a belief, and both beliefs focus on God. God is alive in a belief and even in disbelief as well. If God were not alive in disbelief, then disbelief would not exist. Such is the power of the God concept. Concepts give birth to things where there are none, without the concept no thing would exist. Therefore knowledge is born, not the I am. Knowledge is not the I am, the I am is prior to knowledge. Knowledge could not have appeared if not for the I am. Knowledge didn't create the I am. I am is with or without knowledge, therefore all knowledge is a superimposed artificial interpreted representation of what already exists using concepts. I am became I am this or I am that. But the I am is neither this nor that, it stands alone completed naked and unborn.
Man the concept takes that concept to be something real in and of itself, it takes claim of something that's not actually there. The name stuck and the concept was ingrained into the mind, the mind was thus born. However, the mind that gets stuck in it's own groove, can just as easy get unstuck by a simple shift in perception. In that it can see that the one looking through every creatures eye is the same one eye looking at itself from a different perspective.
tullip wrote:I think God is definitely a concept. God is the concept and the solution for anything unknown. The concept of God gives people insurance and confidence, reason for unknown things.
Man in his not-knowing wanted to know, and so invented language that became knowledge - life for the human concept.. programmed it's own illusory reality show of self and other from there on in. Man worshipped the false concepts aka idols more than the gift of just being pure aliveness one without a second, and in his arrogance and ignorance he mistook the unreal for the real, favouring the unreal I over the real I of no thing...aka everything.
tullip wrote:There is no prove for seeing God as a concept, because it existed when people started existing. At first there were multiple gods, again for giving a reason for unexpected events such as a storm or a failed harvest. After that there was only one God that created earth, because how else did the world start existing?
If there's just everything and nothing then there was no beginning, and where there's no beginning there's no end. So nothing got started, nothing ever happened, nothing ever moved, reality is a synonym for dream, everything arises from nothing nowhere, is nothing nowhere, and returns to nothing nowhere. Emptiness is form, form is emptiness.
tullip wrote:It's just... people make concepts, people use words to create concepts and to communicate, and if you explain something to someone, in words, it's a concept, because it starts existing when you talk about it. And it's a whole other discussion if God exists or not, but yes, it's a concept.
For the sake of communication things are born, aka mentally constructed words. In truth no thing was ever born. You are, but you are that which is not a thing born, you are the unborn of which things are born via the mental construction aka concept, only the mind is born not you.That which is born are appearances only, they come and go from no-thing, are no thing and return to no-thing. The no-thing is the constant you. Some call it god, or awareness, or beingness, or aliveness, etc etc...Although appearances do appear as if they are some thing, as evidenced in experience and belief , the experiencer and the believer is the you that was never born, aka the I am that had to be there prior to every experience or belief. But everything that manifests is made out of the same stuff it's manifesting in which is empty space. Clarity is in being able to understand that empty principle.
, Russell Brand, John Hagelin and various 'What the Bleep Would We Know" type contributors. Were you part of a spiritualist group of some kind? What were your influences?
Life doesn't want to know anything, it's already this immediate knowing one with the knowing.