feverchick

Well THAT is a whole topic unto itself, now isn't it? People's views on God and the hereafter always interest me, probably because I don't subscribe myself to any religious meaning to God. John Lennon once said that God is a concept through which we measure our pain, but I don't really buy that either. God is a concept to my way of thinking, but a concept well beyond our ability to comprehend. I'll give you an example of what I mean: I have a dog, and if I sit down with him to discuss, say George Berkeley, there is a strong likelihood that my dog will have no idea what I'm talking about (and neither, potentially, will I). However, if in my critique of the Berkeley's philosophy I say, "what individuals know about an object is their perception of it; therefore, although I sit in this chair there is no chair but for my belief in the chair's existence," my dog will hear a lot of "blah blah blah" and then the word "sit." And he will sit. That's about as much of God as we can comprehend, a lot of things we will sense but not understand. But every so often something happens (like my dog hearing "sit") that, for a moment at least, gives us a glimpse of what's behind the curtain. People may call it dj vu, or maybe they'll see it as a sign or an omen, but it's the nature of humans to worship and fear what they can't understand, so we turn those moments of fleeting clarity into religious epiphanies and bow down. Humans used to bow down to the sun and the stars; now they bow down to the Guy who's going to grant their most fervent wish, or statutes of dead people (if in fact these people ever existed in the first place). So by my way of thinking, in that respect at least, we haven't progressed all that much over the last many thousands of years. Although, in a great many ways of course, we have (like for example, you and I having this exchange of comments).

nice diolog and hi hows it going