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A different kind of god

"To let the cat out of the bag right at the beginning: The basic assumption underlying Far Eastern and East Indian cultures is that the whole cosmos, the whole universe, is one being. It is not a collection of many things that ?oated together like a lot of ?otsam and jetsam from the ends of space and just happened to end up forming this thing we call the universe. Easterners look at the world as one eternal activity, and that’s the only real self you have. You are the works, and that thing we call you, the so-called “separate organism,” is simply a manifestation of the whole thing. And this is not just a theory, it is a feeling that they have."

Alan Watts

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sean_renaud said 3 months ago ...

So the short version is that this is the religion you'd expect a red blood cell to come up with, metaphorically at any rate?

reckoner said 3 months ago ...

How are you different from a red blood cell in this context ;)

sean_renaud said 3 months ago ...

I'm not. But that is my point that I would be a planet with other planets, earth would be the sun so on and so forth but it's all part of a single being. Its interesting in it own way but with what you described it doesn't really conflict with anything else. At least not any more than Luke Skywalker having a vague belief in something larger than the Force. A Lucas perhaps. But it doesn't challenge any of the mechanics of anything else. There could still very well be a God that did all the stuff on this planet and perhaps every planet has a god and the other ones in this solar system are simply lazy or didn't have the necessary tools for whatever reason.

ignatz said 3 months ago ...

Social insects are sometimes viewed as being essentially one large organism. So you have the macro organism (the colony) and the micro organism (the ant). It seems like the ant colony is itself part of a larger organism (the local eco system) which is itself part of a larger organism (the planet). Its kind of like Mandelbrot's idea of measuring coastlines - the final measurement depends on the size of the yardstick.

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