[BikerNYC]

I think that some people believe they have solved the mystery of existence, but what they have really done is pull the sheet up over their heads. Under the covers is a safe, still place, and the mysteries out there are shielded from uninterested eyes.

I do think that there will always be some things that we never come to understand or at least agree upon, and I think that's good. Different interpretations of existence's mystery is one of the things that makes life interesting. It would be an awfully boring place if we all believed exactly the same thing.

I don't know what causes me to find these questions interesting, just as I don't know what causes others to think that these questions are the most tedious and unproductive questions around.

What is God? When I talk about God, I typically think of that being as an entity that would have an individual consciousness, capable of thinking, emoting, judging, creating, and destroying. It would have a power to create universes, define laws of physics for any thing or beings living in those universes, and mandating to consciousnesses living in those universes rules of conduct the violation of which can lead to punishment. As I am human, a God I think of tends to share traits of humanity, including patterns of thinking that make sense to us (or me). I am confident that if I were a conscious ant, the God I would think of would tend to share patterns of thinking common to ants. The bottom line, I suppose, is that I think of God as a human mind, writ large and powerful.

[D-fendr]

When I talk about God, I typically think of that being…

I don't believe God as you speak of it, exists. I don't know of any major religion's theologians that would either.

If this is an example of "God does not exist" for you. Then we are in agreement.

May I ask how you arrived at this view of what God is?