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Thread #100330   Message #2011431
Posted By: Little Hawk
30-Mar-07 - 01:31 AM
Thread Name: BS: New things about atheism
Subject: RE: BS: New things about atheism
You're welcome, Peace. ;-)

I think it's like this, Mrzzy: Compare a human being to a radio-controlled airplane. The human body is the physical airplane. The human brain is the radio transmitter. The thoughts that emanate from the brain and cause the human body to act are like the radio signals that go to the radio receiver in the plane and activate the servos and controls in the plane. The higher mind that operates through the mechanism of the brain to the mechanism of the body is like the person who controls the radio, works it, and flies the plane. The even higher mind which came up with the whole idea of creating radios and airplanes and radio-controlled planes in the first place is like the collective oversoul mind of the whole human race. Some people term that collective oversoul as "God". In this way they personalize the collective higher intelligence potential that is in all of us. Some don't personalize it that way. Buddists don't, for example. They don't see the need for a personalized God, but they are spiritual. Taoist are also spiritual, but without creating personalized deities. Hindus appear to worship deities, but if you go deeper into Hinduism, you find out that those deities are meant as symbols of various archetypes, not as literal beings. God, in the Hindu system of beliefs, is ultimately inexpressible, and cannot be reduced to an identifiable or definable super-entity of some kind. Everything that exists is seen to be simply an aspect of the limitless Divine...like a wave that ripples briefly on a limitless ocean.