What is God?

What is God?

I used to think about this quite often. Although I am now a more spiritual man than I once was, the concept of God as a creator in the form of modern Judeo-Christian thought is one I disagree with.

God is a construct of the human mind formed to shield itself form discovering its own inherent limitations. What does that mean? God, as an idea, is the product of limited comprehension. No, I do not mean an idea borne of stupid people just that the human psyche has limits and finite boundaries to its comprehension and interpretation. If you wonder what I mean, or doubt how this sounds, there is an easy test. Think about nothing.

Congratulations, you failed. Some image formed in your mind, didnt it? Blackness? Darkness? Emptiness? Face it, these are all tangible concepts. Blackness is merely the absence of light, not the presence of nothingness. Blackness and darkness are, in themselves, states of being. In their absence, there is still presence. Frustrating, isnt it? Even emptiness as a concept shows the inherent limitation of mans cognitive abilities. Emptiness requires an outermost boundary, for as a concept, emptiness is contained within existence. It is defined in relative terms to what that contains that emptiness kind of like how a hollow Easter bunny is hollow only because that empty space is constrained by a milk chocolate caricature.

Now youre getting pissed at me. Indignantly, you protest, I can think of nothingness. I can perceive infinity! Okay then, answer me this: what happens when you die?

Got your attention now, dont I? If you answered, I dont know, then you have proved my point beyond a question of a doubt. You have demonstrated another inherent limitation in cognition the failure of acceptance of an end to perception. I believe you are no longer sentient, and thats it. No afterlife. No reincarnation. No nothing. Clap on, clap off, you are out like a cheap lamp.

So what does this have to do with God?

Well, our limited minds have attempted to cope with this question of infinitum and emptiness by creating a linear approach to temporal existence. Yep, thats right time. This concept allows one to perceive existence as extending eternally in one direction. Okay, you say, but what about our inability to grasp such a concept? Aha! Well, ever wonder why all the interest exists in the Big Bang? Why do we expend so much energy on such a complex theory on how it all began? We do it precisely because it is a definitive, finite, tangible, conceptually feasible explanation of the universe. You can point to it. You can say, well, it began here It helps us avoid having to tackle a bigger question, one which our limited minds could never grasp one that would drive us fucking batshit trying to answer. What if there was no beginning? What if there just was?

Ouch. Hurts your head, right? Kind of makes you wonder if there really is a purpose to anything, right? If we just are in a universe that is beyond our comprehension, we would likely crack. Our minds would lose perspective on the now, the future, the past. We have to create a linear progression because its the only measuring stick we have to monitor our growth, our only reference to what is and what was or will be.

But how is that possible? Even if we simply were, the concept of simple existence defies comprehension. How did we get here? How did the are come to be?

As you scratch you head on that one, ponder this could we stay sane if we didnt create God as an answer to these questions?


I wrote that about 7 years ago. As I think about God now, I see the idea of a higher power as a construct of my own mind... my own opinions of God have manifested them self in my own personal deity. Hehe... my own Personal Jesus. And I have come to the conclusion that sometimes it is more important that you have faith in something than whatever it is you may have faith in.