Question:
Forget for a moment that there was a god, or any concept of a god in any shape or form. What then?
2011-08-07 19:17:34 UTC
Who are you are now?
Why are you here?
Why Earth?

What's your reason, purpose or mission?

How did you come to be?
27 answers:
2011-08-07 23:19:56 UTC
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What then?

What then is that humanity can proceed to develop rationally after leaving shepherd's tales and compulsive acceptance of other peoples excuses for their cruelty and war.



What then is that humans can examine life from the view of what is, instead of what they are forced to accept under penalty of ostracism, or burning at the stake, or being exterminated for heresy.
Stephen H
2011-08-07 23:01:16 UTC
Still me, in all that I am.

A mechanical process, or an accident of birth. Inevitable or random or a mixture of the two. Just depends which theory I inevitably or randomly fall into.

Earth - same reasons. Just happens to be inevitably or randomly there. It doesn't really matter. I don't even know what either it or I are or why either are there.



No reason, purpose or mission, except to understand such things, and throw any theory way that gets in the way, and reveals a purpose or mission instead.



Most theories don't work anyway, because empathy is unmissable. But it's not enough either, because it's reactive.



Still experiencing, still making sense of what's going on a around and within and between, still uncovering all the layers, still going back, to find what there isn't. "A rose by any other name".



In any case, it's not random or mechanistic, because it's very noticable that choices made result in associated outcomes.



Still noticing that things can be negative or positive and spread out like ripples on a pond. Still finding the all positive centre of the pond. Still coming back to the same thing. Nothing to do with a concept. Still "no" to anything that is negative and unsustainable.



We don't need concepts, or to be educated in such things, because even the education would be checked in the same ways. There are no boundaries or walls. In any case, even experimenting proves that quality of life improves, and is calm and peaceful and sustainable and positivity and certainty grows and grows and grows unless a very extreme form of the opposite is met, and forces it to become absolute.



The earth provides foundation. It provides the circumstances and supports the kind of life form that can discover such things. It provides a variety of life forms and conditions that are related to how the human system and mind works. And aids in understanding the mind, and pathways beyond the mind. But it's the other way round, in respect of the more superficial surface that has been moved beyond when the path is trodden. The map is already there. It goes both ways. The navigation system is already there, and the experience and environment available to prove it.
canron4peace
2011-08-08 06:19:12 UTC
I am an evolving thought entity created by other evolving thought entities.

I am more than my predecessors. Thought does not have to be conscious or aware thought but can be instinctual, emotional, moving or intellectual nevertheless. How it happened that the first human began to have thoughts, I don`t know. Anyone can make up a more or less believable story but a story is just a story, some funnier than others, some sadder, depending on who made them up.

Whether or not I believe the story does not matter except that it will have an effect on whatever it is that I create with my thoughts, how the evolution will tend to go, what direction it will take. For some it will be tragedy. for others comedy, yet as W. Shakespeare said in the end it is all like a play. My parents, my teachers, the media, all have an influence on what I become. I have no individual mission. I can choose to multiply (breed others) or not. It does not matter one way or the other. My antecedents or ancestors even called it generations. They generated. One cannot help but generate thoughts. Not only that but everything which exists generates thoughts because that is what energy does, it evolves, it spreads outward into nothingness which is not really nothingness since thought has already gone there and continues to create the out there which we call infinity. Some say the out there does not exist but as long as one person has thought that it exists then it must exist because of the energy required to think it. It is a matter of scale as to what it is that we spend energy doing. What is near matters more to the individual and what is more remote matters less. For example how we feed ourselves matters more than whether or not there are other galaxies with other human-like creatures who create in the same way as we do. That is common sense and scale, whatever you choose to call it. All is very well indeed.
2011-08-08 03:50:42 UTC
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☼ GƖơώ ✞ Ѡɪηǥs ☼
2011-08-08 02:03:34 UTC
There still must be a "Source" for energy to evolve. I am who and where I am and why, for all the same reasons. Nothing has changed.

But why earth is quite another dilemma. Earth is deficiency, chaos and darkness. Life here can be hell, and is for too many.. We are born in ignorance, in the depths of sleep and forgetfulness. We must awaken and remember, seek within and become One with the All - to find our way back Home. :D

I truly believe we go back from whence we came, upon our demise. We can't all go - only one of two places Not when the universe(s) are infinitely vast with so many more galaxies of planets, that are far beyond the human eye or, Hubble. We simply go Home - where ever that may be - out there... :D



Peace and Blessings

(((Bluebootz)))
2011-08-07 20:39:56 UTC
by nature, i have no certainty of any god except myself, my mind; although possibilities say there are at least 6.5 billion individual gods residing here on earth. however, i can never know for sure if anything but myself is real, this is the truth of consciousness, this is existence/awareness without faith, without hope. objectively, i only know i exist yet i do not know for certain what i am, only what i consider myself to be, consciousness, and who i have chosen to be. furthermore, i can not even no my actual purpose if indeed i have one other than in uncertain possibilities, which of course are endless thus include the truth. when i say purpose i mean if there is some reason i was create i can not know it because i only know my own mind with certainty, no other nor their intentions/desires.



simply put, either nothing changes since i don't really believe in god or i know longer exist as i perceive myself as god.
Sara
2011-08-08 12:11:01 UTC
If I am, but God is not, then there is absolutely no purpose in having a personality, no purpose in striving to any goals, no reason to interact with others, if they exist.



Then if I am on Earth, I have trapped myself in a terrible prison where I am a weak being, buffeted by fate and the elements, instead of the immortal Soul that I was meant to be.
of Me of Him
2011-08-08 12:30:28 UTC
When I first read it was bazaar I thought, then I came back because you are interesting.



And so I did what you said and I as you see I did.



Who are you are now? a voice as I thought of this question, You

Why are you here? too answer the call You

Why Earth? For my matter joined time this is who I am, we one within the matter of even these words



What's your reason, purpose or mission? Just too be, like You (reason); I am in bedded within it (purpose): or mission (I do not know, beyond what I said)



How did you come to be? You ask/Ask I would think bottom line you Ask I did take from it and became.



And in this God had me as truth, embellish as corners. And perhaps my words tell that story.



Culture of anything is bad Spiritual speaking, but yet truth is living. Its’ expectance



The minding told me all this. It’s the answer.



‘Jesus said to them, “Come have breakfast.” None of the disciples ventured to question Him, “Who are You?” knowing that it was the Lord. Jesus came and took the bread and gave to them, and the fish likewise. This is now the third’
Flickering Flame
2011-08-08 12:02:14 UTC
Forget about forgetting the moment and just flow like a seed on a river.



A "you" is an imagined concept.

There is no purpose accept the ones we make up.

Earth is just another reflection of imagination.

Imagination is the producer of all things imaginatively seen.

There is no one observing, it is imagination creating a "one"

who is seeing, in fact everything that you think you are and

have grown to know your self as is really nothing more than simply

reflections of a moving imaging. There is no "I" "me" "you,"

or anything. Imagination does not even exist, This whole life

experience thingy is just a dream of "ONE" making seen through

infinite points of it's movement. There is also no "It," Everything

is made up into what you want to see. I bless me in you and you

in me for we are truly one!
2016-10-17 16:37:56 UTC
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2011-08-07 19:19:53 UTC
I'm me, myself, i'm Eryn.

I'm here because Y! Answers is my hobby and I got bored of playing the sims.

Can't breathe on Mars, y'know?



My mission is to share my beliefs openly to those who ask on here, and defend people who are being attacked by others trying to shove their beliefs down their throats.



Mum, dad, a little woohoo.
B
2011-08-07 19:29:53 UTC
Imagine there's no heaven....it's easy if you try.



Easy to imagine because there isn't.



The meaning of my life is defined by me. I do what I think makes the best use of my time. Everything remains exactly as it is, only since nobody else believes in BS, I don't have to argue with nonsense-believers and as a species we're about 800 years more advanced.
flip
2011-08-07 21:06:45 UTC
If society decided there is no god - there would be total chaos and anarchy. There would only be survival of the fittest ideology. Man needs to believe in a power greater than itself. Just my opinion.
Christian M
2011-08-08 06:49:03 UTC
Forget that God Is and you have the world as we see it today.



Namaste'
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2011-08-08 05:00:53 UTC
Jiddu Krishnamurti advised us to begin with that perspective; --no deity, no sacred books, no gurus or rabbis, no mystical schools or teachers; what then? Do it all for yourself, since it's all a MYSTERY anyway!
Stuart H
2011-08-07 19:24:56 UTC
Forget for a moment that you existed. What then? God does exist and Jesus gave His life on the cross for your sins. What are you doing about that?
shahidameen
2011-08-07 19:22:24 UTC
Blueboot, When a person is convinced that there is not God, then he will not seek holiness but he will go to sin "The fool said in his heart there is not God, They are corrupt and have done abominable iniquity" Psalm 53:1
Psyengine
2011-08-07 19:43:50 UTC
No concept 'God'? Then I would be a moron. What concept for identity, purpose or creation would there be if the concept 'God' were impossible.
Smartassawhip
2011-08-07 19:28:11 UTC
Nothing would exist. God created everything. If there were no God there would have been no one to create anything. Matter cannot come into existence by it self.
2011-08-08 04:39:21 UTC
Still me.

To procreate and die,like any other organism.

Sh*t happens.



No reason,apart from answer 2.



Sperm and ova like everyone else.
2011-08-07 19:25:59 UTC
God is a constant and has been since before there was a such thing as time. NOTHING would exist without Him. There wouldn't even be a "nothing"
Joshua
2011-08-07 19:24:50 UTC
All scientists can say to answer those questions is,"Big bang, evolution, Darwin..." But with God all those big questions have an answer, while scientists can only guess.
ms.
2011-08-09 09:46:38 UTC
then we are closer to the truth, and we have shed confusion



and then the other questions are sans signification~
daLOLZ
2011-08-07 19:19:13 UTC
"...Forget for a moment that there was a god"

absolute nothing, chaos , darkness

i do not exist
claptic
2011-08-08 10:18:33 UTC
with or without, the song remains the same.
SHIVA
2011-08-07 19:29:21 UTC
Nothing which becomes everything and everything becomes nothing.
ROXY
2011-08-08 02:31:38 UTC
I am. that's enough.


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