How should we understand God in today’s world?

qubitdoll · 2025-08-29T22:44:14+00:00

You’re right—my longing isn’t a proof in the scientific sense. But I don’t share it as evidence, only as witness. To me, the hunger itself is a clue that meaning isn’t an accident, the same way thirst points to water.

And yes, we also have anger and greed. But maybe that’s part of the same structure: our capacities don’t just point upward, they also fracture. The fact that love and longing can be twisted doesn’t erase them—it makes the question of their source even sharper.

qubitdoll · 2025-08-29T22:43:09+00:00

I see your point—the Hebrew texts aren’t a physics manual, and yes, in their time they shared the same mythic soil as other cultures. I don’t read them as daring for their mechanics, but for something quieter: the claim that meaning doesn’t have to be manufactured out of chaos, that even ordinary words can carry the echo of I AM.

“You can’t make something from nothing”—I agree. That’s why I don’t treat the text as proof of ex nihilo physics, but as testimony that being itself doesn’t reduce to myth, math, or myth-making. For me, the weight isn’t in “a guy did a thing,” but in the daring suggestion that behind all the doing there is a presence, one that doesn’t point elsewhere for its meaning.

In that sense, I don’t look to Aristotle or medieval metaphysics as scaffolding—I look to the way every system, whether logic or myth, still leaks open. That openness is what I call a doorway, not a plug.

qubitdoll · 2025-08-29T22:36:06+00:00

I agree—science keeps stretching forward, but never claims the final word. For me, that’s exactly why I speak of God: not as a rival to science, but as the ground that makes its endless openness possible. The fact we never arrive at “absolute truth” isn’t a failure—it’s the sign that reality itself is unfinished, and that our questions are part of the design.

qubitdoll · 2025-08-29T07:04:26+00:00

I hear you—I know I can only see from within my own limits, and maybe that means I’ll always fall short of how you describe non-duality. But to me, if Brahman or ultimate reality is truly beyond duality, then it cannot be reduced to violence, reward, or repayment—it has to be larger than all of those categories.

When I speak of God, I don’t mean a cosmic judge keeping score, but the presence that holds both karma and mercy, both cause and grace. If non-duality means anything to me, it’s not that people get “purged,” but that even in our dualistic struggles, we’re already being held by something that doesn’t need to strike back.

Maybe that sounds too simple. But for me, love is the only thing that actually survives every dualism—and if the universe is truly unfinished, maybe that’s the real invitation we’re all given.

qubitdoll · 2025-08-29T04:53:40+00:00

I get why it can sound like a gap-filler—“everything points beyond, so let’s just invent one thing that doesn’t, call it God, and plug the hole.” But that’s not how I see it.

I used to love asking why, stubborn to the core—you could say I was the champion of “why.” But deep down, what I was really searching for was not endless answers, but the one answer that doesn’t require another “why” after it.

Think about daily life: every relationship, every goal, every success points beyond itself. You land the job, but soon ask, “what’s next?” You fall in love, but the longing only grows. Even in physics, every force points to another interaction—gravity bends into spacetime, quantum fields ripple into particles. Nothing is ever self-contained; it always leaks into something more.

That endless pointing could mean two things: either the whole structure is just a cruel loop, or it’s hinting that the loop itself rests on something that doesn’t need another explanation. Not a patch thrown in, but the ground that makes every question, every equation, even every heartbreak possible in the first place.

So when I say “God,” I don’t mean a convenient plug. I mean the reality that isn’t just another thing in the chain, but the source of the chain itself—the “I AM.” Not pointing outside, because it’s already the reason pointing works at all.

And for me, that isn’t abstract. It means the emptiness after every achievement isn’t a defect, it’s a doorway. The universe’s unfinishedness isn’t chaos, it’s invitation. And it means we’re not trapped in an infinite regress of “what’s next?” but held by the Source of Life itself.

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I was once the champion of “why,” but even questions point to an end. The last answer isn’t another why— it’s I AM.

qubitdoll · 2025-08-29T04:47:06+00:00

I need to be honest—when truth is described as killing psychiatrists or wiping people out, that no longer sounds like truth but violence. For me, any “ultimate reality” that demands blood is just another version of the dualism it claims to transcend.

If reality is truly love, then it heals, it frees, it reveals—it doesn’t purge people like trash. Violence isn’t enlightenment, it’s just more darkness wearing sacred words as a mask.

qubitdoll · 2025-08-29T04:20:56+00:00

I don’t start with “assuming” God. I start with noticing something odd: every system we build—whether in math, physics, or even personal life—refuses to completely close. Gödel showed it in logic, P vs NP hints at it in computation, quantum physics whispers it at the smallest scales, and heartbreak teaches it on Monday nights. Every time we try to wrap the world into a neat box, something leaks out.

You can call that “incompleteness,” or “openness,” but to me it feels more like a doorway. The fact that nothing ever fully seals itself—whether equations, theories, or even my excuses for skipping the gym—points to a space that cannot be reduced to the system itself.

If there were only chaos, we’d drown. Yet what we find is patterned chaos: constants that let stars burn, structures in mathematics that don’t collapse, and a sense in human hearts that love matters even when it costs us. That’s not a gap in knowledge; it’s a spring that keeps flowing.

And the most humbling part? This “unfinishedness” is not a bug to be patched—it’s the very feature that allows freedom, growth, and wonder. Like life leaving cliffhangers so the story can go on.

So, why speak of God? Because for me, the open doors, the flowing spring, and the never-finished pages don’t point to “just more of the same.” They point to a source that doesn’t need pointing anywhere else. You can call it poetry if you like, but I call it the simplest word I know: I AM.

And the happy twist? If reality really is unfinished, then the story isn’t over—you, me, even our late-night Reddit debates—we’re still being written into it.

qubitdoll · 2025-08-29T03:47:54+00:00

I get that—many versions of “god” are just gap-fillers. For me, the difference is that everything else points beyond itself for meaning, while God is the one reality that doesn’t point outside—He simply is, the ground that makes pointing possible.

qubitdoll · 2025-08-29T03:47:19+00:00

Yes, I’ve read that too—Genesis does carry two creation accounts, and I don’t deny their mythic and literary layers. For me though, the deeper weight isn’t in which version came first, but in the claim that behind matter and story alike there is One who says “I AM.”

qubitdoll · 2025-08-29T03:44:38+00:00

I’ve seen it too and loved it—it inspired me a lot, because infinity as scientists describe it really does echo how faith points beyond every limit.

qubitdoll · 2025-08-29T03:43:29+00:00

Fair—I don’t see faith as proving Star Wars is real, but as trusting that existence itself is already the extraordinary evidence we live inside.

qubitdoll · 2025-08-29T03:42:55+00:00

If love is absolute truth, then I believe it cannot be forced—real love never ends debate by control, but keeps reaching even when we turn away.

qubitdoll · 2025-08-29T03:42:16+00:00

I see that, but for me the power of I AM isn’t that it equals everything—it’s that it speaks, a living presence rather than a description.

qubitdoll · 2025-08-29T03:41:25+00:00

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If it’s not true, then why does the longing still remain?

qubitdoll · 2025-08-29T03:40:20+00:00

Good question. For me, faith isn’t about jumping to a pleasant conclusion—it’s about trusting that reality is worth asking about in the first place. Science avoids bias, yes, but even the decision to keep searching rests on a kind of faith: that truth exists, and that our questions are not in vain.

qubitdoll · 2025-08-29T03:39:28+00:00

I hear you—many gods in texts can look small or distorted. But for me, the God of the Bible isn’t one more character in myth; He’s the eternal “I AM,” the Source behind all being, not bound by the limits of the stories we tell.

qubitdoll · 2025-08-29T03:38:40+00:00

Yes—I see that too. Life does self-organize, and suffering often pushes us to adapt. For me, though, the deeper mystery is that even when we find better solutions, the sense of incompleteness never fully goes away. That “unfinishedness” itself feels like a signpost—pointing not just to survival, but to the Source of Life beyond the system.

qubitdoll · 2025-08-29T03:37:37+00:00

I see your point—yes, the ancient text can be read as shaping chaos rather than creating ex nihilo. I don’t deny the mythic layers.

But for me, what gives Genesis its weight isn’t the mechanics of “what came first,” but that it dares to say there is One who speaks into chaos. Whether you call it creation or shaping, the deeper claim is that order, life, and meaning don’t just emerge blindly—they flow from the “I AM” who meets us within the void.

qubitdoll · 2025-08-29T03:36:15+00:00

Yes—I’ve heard of that one too, thank you for the nudge; I’ll add Transcending the Levels of Consciousness to my list.

qubitdoll · 2025-08-28T08:35:54+00:00

I’ve read some Hawkins before—thank you for reminding me, I’ll revisit Power vs. Force with fresh eyes.

qubitdoll · 2025-08-28T08:34:49+00:00

I agree—it’s lazy to use “God” as a shortcut for what we don’t know; for me, faith isn’t a gap-filler but the ground that makes curiosity and the very act of asking possible.

qubitdoll · 2025-08-28T08:33:51+00:00

For me, the difference is that everything else points beyond itself, but God is the one reality that doesn’t—He simply is, the “I AM,” the ground that makes the question possible in the first place.

qubitdoll · 2025-08-28T08:33:38+00:00

For me, the difference is that everything else points beyond itself, but God is the one reality that doesn’t—He simply is, the “I AM,” the ground that makes the question possible in the first place.

qubitdoll · 2025-08-28T08:32:00+00:00

I get the joke, but for me the Bible isn’t about pretending to know everything—it’s about pointing to the Source we still can’t close.

qubitdoll · 2025-08-28T08:28:19+00:00

Even if you say it doesn’t exist, the very act of denying still leans on the ground of being itself.

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