I’ve been posting lots of videos to avoid writing.   Now that I’m writing more, I’ll be posting some of it here.

God is a funny word, and it means something different for all of us.  For me, god is infinity.  A concept that people pretend to grasp, but really describing something unknowable, and unnameable.  People seek to define god, and to put into a box, or a face, or a concept, and those limits on the scope of a higher power cause some people to resent the word, and the doctrines associated with it.  God is simply a word, a word that only has the value we place upon it.  And when we limit the scope of the concept, we cut ourselves off from anything greater than ourselves.  God only exists in the moment we speak the word.  I must first declare that created everything before god can create anything.  The infinite exists whether I say it does or not, but in the moment i speak it, it becomes real for me.

To me, a higher power is just that, a sum total of energy greater than my body.  The flip side of my corporeal limitation is the limitlessness of the universe.  Both the yang of my essence and the yin of the infinite make up the essence of the higher power.  I am god, and god is everything beyond me.  Without me, there can be no god, and without god, there can be no me.

God is Everything and Nothing.
God’s body is all matter, pulse is time, and soul is all energy.

There is no separation between myself and god, for to separate myself from the infinite is to deny myself my power, and to limit the scope of the higher power.  The universe would not be complete.  That is not to say I am significant.  I am a grain of dust, a spark, a small piece of the everything/nothing.  But without every spark and mote, there is no higher power, for the higher power is the sum total of everything, and I am part of everything.

I do not think got is sentient – not in the way we define it.  God is not a person, or some being.  God is something that can be understood by us in the same way that we understand infinity, a concept we desperately seek to grasp, but do not fully comprehend.  To fully grasp limitlessness is beyond the scope of human imagination, for the moment we seek to limit the infinite in a word, we have lost the infinite.  The moment we label nothing, we have made it into a thing, and thus we have lost nothing.  To consider the scope of everything, we reduce the scope of all things to a thing, an every thing, and thus we have lost the scope of everything.

There are too many strange things that happen in life for me to consider that I am disconnected from anything else.  I believe that people reduce the scope of God to manageable idea to protect their identity, to reassure themselves that they are a separate and unique being form all other.  To ease the pain of feeling alone and insignificant.  It doesn’t have to hurt to know what a small part of the infinite we are.  There is great freedom in knowing that this is the time we have, and we can make it whatever we want.  The infinite provides us with everything we need, and we got to choose what we take.

I think that the doctrine associated with God, the “words of God”, are simply designed to bring order to the chaos of humanity.  An attempt to have people be civilized.  In Judeo-Christian doctrine, there’s a “commandment” that one should not covet thy neighbor’s wife.
It’s healthy for people to honor their commitment to other people, and to honor other people’s commitments, too.  The idea isn’t that God told us not to do it, it’s a matter of respecting other people’s commitment, as we would others to honor our own.  Most stories and parables in religion are designed to teach a lesson on a honest way to live our lives, and nothing more.

Consider that as much as people bring love into the world for their definition of God, they also do horrible things in the name of their God – the violence between the three major western religions is catastrophic.  When people limit the scope of their definition of God, we argue and fight over who is right about the definition of God, and we lose the idea behind it, that we all respect and honor each other, the world we live in, and ourselves.

I don;t think most atheists believe in nothing, I believe they merely have tired of the limitations, rules, and doctrine of religion.  Human society has advanced far from even a hundred years ago, and our brains are capable of functioning on a high enough level that there is no need to provide stringent moral and ethical values on people.  People are capable of distinguishing effective ways to live their lives, and the yoke of religion doesn’t change the inherent nature of a person.

God is a word, a concept.  A simplifying of the majesty of all things, and interrelatedness between us and everything else.  God is not separate from anything.  We are all God, and God is everything.  And nothing.