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Arthanari Chandrasekaran

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Strange questions that humans have not yet found an answer for!

We all have a unique course of action through out our day. Many of the conversation along with our friends or some that we hear from others talking at times surprise us and gets our brain thinking, but only to later ignore saying this might be beyond human reach. Have you come across any such question through your brain or from others which you think humans have not yet explored or researched or any unanswerable question?

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    Jul 20 2012: What is God!

    It is a term that has intrigued people for thousands of years. Less than 100 people wrote the bible. Out of how many that lived in their time? Only a handful of people had any understanding of what drives creation. Millions of people have tried to understand what they were trying to say. And very few people have understood it. Today, there are more misconceptions of what the word means than there are truths.

    I had an experience when I was nine years old that would refute the accepted definition. Recently I have found that many definitions have changed in the last 100 years to coincide with what people have come to accept as truth. But that truth is based more on what people of importance have claimed to be true and not what can be verified. So as I see it, some people try to create the truth rather than try to determine what truth really is.
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      Jul 21 2012: Truth always is relative. Out of any context or framework truth has no meaning.

      Truth is what is and your truth is what you can see.


      God is what you make of it or what fits your understanding for the moment.
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        Jul 21 2012: Frans,
        Interesting analogy. I had a revelation on how the universe was ordered as a boy, and that became God for me. It is what made sense at the time and throughout all that I have learned, it still makes sense. I feel that I have seen something that few have seen. I have my own definition for God and it doesn't coincide with the modern dictionary. But it does coincide with nature.
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          Jul 22 2012: Thanks for your reply Roy.

          The kind of experience you talk about I had on the age around twentyfive. Maybe it is more common than we know of. It helps to reconnect or in a way to stay connected with that what you experienced. For me it works that way.

          Maybe there's no reason to define god or do you think there is?
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        Jul 22 2012: Frans,
        For those who understand what drives creation, there may be no need to define God. But for those who hold misconceptions about what God is, a false definition may lead to disturbing behavior. I see many people who do strange things because their minds are out of synch with nature.

        Our religious institutions divorced themselves with science and defend their claims based on how they define things. Many words in the dictionary were redefined in the last century to reflect what scholars teach. The word theology, for instance, used to contain a reference to "that which is revealed by nature". The modern definition contains no such reference.

        Since the word "God" is considered as the highest authority, I think false definitions can be highly misleading. Richard Dawkins says that believing in God is not only wrong, but dangerous. I believe the current definition, and the kinds of behavior that it induces, is the basis of his conviction.
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      Jul 22 2012: are there gods or goddesses?
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        Jul 22 2012: In myth and artistic expression, there are both. In scientific logic, there are neither. These are mere representations of the forces that drive creation from a right-brain perspective.
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        Jul 23 2012: sure thing, I've met a few!
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      Jul 26 2012: God does not fall within the boundries of our man made logic. But don't ask me...ask God

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