God is the mode of being you value the most as demonstrated or manifested in your presumption, perception and action.
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Replying to @jordanbpeterson
God is a condition you may discover your mind to be in. A transcendental focal point you project to bring all of your purposes into alignment.
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Replying to @Plinz @jordanbpeterson
Sounds good but shouldn't we give this concept another name since "God" is already used as the name for the super powerful and confused character from the Bible?
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Replying to @AuralLoom @jordanbpeterson
No, Genesis is not the story of the creation of a physical universe by a supernatural being, but the earliest childhood memories of an egregore. The myths are artifacts of missionaries installing shared purposes in the minds of the heathens.
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Replying to @Plinz @jordanbpeterson
The Bible is much more than Genesis. I agree that the book of Genesis works better as a metaphor, but I am certain that most believers don't share this view, & for that I don't think it's effective to use the word "God" to name anything other than what it has been used to name.
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Replying to @AuralLoom @jordanbpeterson
Yes, most people do not try to look at the world through an epistemological lens, in which there can be no confidence without evidence. But this is a puzzle that is not especially hard to figure out, is it?
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Replying to @AuralLoom @jordanbpeterson
Homo Sapiens is a programmable species. That means that “the masses” have been selected against and incentivized against thinking independently from their authorities. Beliefs that people do not have agency over do not carry epistemological weight.
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Replying to @Plinz @jordanbpeterson
Again, I don't necessarily disagree. But this overlooks my original question. The God that most believers think of is a being with human-like qualities. He judges, gets angry, etc. Your "God," I presume, is nothing like this, yet you want to use the same name. It's unproductive.
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God is the identification of the superorganism by the individual serving within it. That is why it makes sense to project God as intentional, beholden to goals and values, having opinions about how well the individuals serve it, and authoring their reality.
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Functionally, God is a set of extrapersonal regulation principles that are implemented by the minds of the individuals subscribing to them.
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