There is probably some kind of God, but more like an extreme mathematical/physics/metaphysics savant and not much else. People should abandon forever the notion that God "cares" about their little world or gives a flying kfuc what happens to anybody. It's more like the God imagined in Bergman's "Through a Glass Darkly" -- exactly like that in the final scene. Mike A
On 12/27/14, Piaget Modeler via AGI <[email protected]> wrote: > The Urantia book is an attempt to reconcile Christianity and Eugenics with > the multiverse. It's good reading and could replace the Bible for some who > havea more intergalactic, less earthly bent. Very, very interesting > reading. > Because of AI research, my views these days are evolving towards > materialism. Don't know where it'll finally end up. > ~PM > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [agi] God > Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 17:56:14 -0500 > > I wouldn’t say that is God, perhaps in the past it might have been. We can > now imagine every organism over billions of years on earth, all the DNA, the > computation, the memory, etc.. God would be that thing that is always beyond > our grasp contemporarily. We figure something out new then more stuff gets > rendered to keep us out of the know. Things get rendered or “simulated”. We > figure out how to wormhole to the edge of the universe well then there gets > more stuff put up for us to decipher. What does that say what God is > psychologically? Not existing is existing. BTW the Urantia book looks > interesting. There was a book I purchased that was advertised in Omni > Magazine early ‘80s that I cannot remember but might be similar, I cannot > remember name or author… L John From: Piaget Modeler via AGI > [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2014 4:22 PM > To: AGI > Subject: [agi] God This sounds like the notion of God in the Urantia Book. > In that book the author(s) say that one of the manifestations of God is > (mentially or spiritually) connected to every living creature so that it can > experience every sensation of every creature. Omoshiroi ne? ~PM > From: > [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: RE: [agi] [offtopic] The GOERTZEL's latest publication. >> Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 15:25:42 -0500 >> >> Well, you could look at all humans as one creature of information that has >> tentacles within this physical reality. Each tentacle is an individual >> person and this creature is transitioning from one substrate to another, >> the next one would be the upload realm where the creature reconstitutes >> itself then goes on to the next physical reality substrate afterwards. So >> when we upload (or die) we are actually rejoining the mother ship :) >> >> John >> AGI | Archives | Modify Your Subscription > > > > > > AGI | Archives > > | Modify > Your Subscription > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/11943661-d9279dae > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
