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If I hadn't admitted it was very far-fetched a long time ago, I'd certainly be writing in the wrong area, wouldn't I? <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I've given some similar thought to the topic of 'what is a god?' I think you allowed some assumptions overtake your independent mind. Nowhere in the job description of God does it say 'creator'. It does say omnipotent - all powerful, omniscient - all knowing, and omni-present - being everywhere at once. So this God would live in more dimensions than we do, unless it WAS everything, then it could be everywhere all at once, it would float through time like we do, but it is the future and the past and the present of all creation.

So either it IS everything, or it is outside of time. (Sorry about my pickiness, I'm a physicist) If it was everything, then it would know itself perfectly, and know how everything is going to unfold in the future, down to the last photon. Or outside of time it sees/knows everything, down to the last photon.

Ok, so what can it do? It is infallable. Always right in everything, or else it wouldn't be a God, would it? It can't screw up!! If it 'thinks' people are purple, then they are, and always have been and always will be. So every decision was made somewhere in time, and that decision collapsed forward and backward through time to be true at all instances. I wouldn't say it ever 'changes its mind' about anything, it just wouldn't make sense.

I think that's all I remember about my postulation.

Have a good day!

Oh yeah, and it is very probable that all decisions were made at once, at the birth of this God. But it's kind of impossible to figure out when and where it was born.

Interesting intellectual meanderings, but I believe that's looking for zebras upon the sound of hooves. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I'd say it's more like saying: Since I hear hooves it must be a mammal.

This leads me to ask myself the looming question:

"What is the sound of one hoof beating?"

And can said hoof beating be heard if it chooses to beat in a forrest with nothing to hear it?

I am reading this thread to a weirdo-religious conspiracy type person. They have commented that in the original Hebrew the Old Testament's mentions of god were made by various names (interpretation of data notwithstanding) and not expressing gender at all.

I'm not good at Hebrew names, but if you want to put a gender on YHWH, then go for it. <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

"The crucial feature of quantum theory is that the observer is not only necessary to observe the properties of an atomic phenomenon, but it is necessary even to bring about these properties"
-Fritjof Capra

In other words, if nothing observes it, it can't have happened. Do trees count as observers? Does the hoof observe itself? The way you worded it, the hoof chose to beat, so it automatically happened, and was observed.