acapnotic пишет: ↑18 янв 2020, 09:56
he could have created himself.
I know about some ideas from some sci-fi books or movies, where a person was his own father or mother or grandfather. According to the plots of such movies in times of time travelling it seems logical, however, unbelievable. Recently I watched Terminator Salvation when a man is sent in the past and becomes a father of another man, who is older than his “father” in the ongoing future. Therefore, your idea that God created himself seems rather reasonable, though, it is difficult to comprehend such a situation.
What if this word was just a fluctuation of nothingness?
Let’s give a definition to what “word” is in the Bible? Do you think it was a written character in a book? Or was it a sound in the air? If it was a word, it must contain a thought, right. Whose thought was it if there was nothingness and nothing more? I think, the Bible means that the word was before universe, meaning that it was before the Big Bang. Can you imagine something which didn’t exist, but the “word” had already existed? I cannot. I cannot imagine even nothingness. Even when you are in the open space, there could be some radiation coming from stars. Just imagine that there are no stars, no radiation, no space, and you are still there to utter that “word”. In which language you would be utter that if there was no language? In which sound it would be heard if there was no space, no air, no material? It is just unimaginable. God is easier to imagine than the nothingness, don’t you think so?
There is a novel called His Dark Material, and it is arriving at the about same conclusion – that Dark Material created somebody who appeared first in the universe and called himself God, and subdued all the people to his will. The author of the novel, however, tries to convince the readers that his was not God at all but an impostor, who had some powers which is a little bit superior of those of people’s. I don’t know, maybe you and that author are right. Maybe not. We won’t be informed about that in case it is true that God is just usurper. He won’t willingly reveal that fact had it taken place back then after creation of the universe.
Sometimes he goes where the horse carries him, but he thinks that it's his conscious will and that there's some rational reason for going there.
In that case it may be perfectly OK. I do exactly that here and there, and I even flood somebody’s threads with irrelevant ideas and posts. However, some people’s posts consist of one sentence of couple of words whose objectives are just to create a meaningless message to make a mark on the forum, just to represent his/her existence. People often do that in parks by curving their names in tree barks. When they post a train of thoughts which are consistent even if they are irrelevant to the topic, it is pretty good, particularly if they write in English, but just to announce themselves without any proper reason – do you think they cannot control their movements at all? Did they lost control over their hands which typed those meaningless messages? Maybe. Then we have to discuss whether other participants and particularly topic starters must tolerate such uncontrolled behaviour. Such post could make threads difficult to read and disinteresting.
acapnotic пишет: ↑18 янв 2020, 09:56
It's hard to learn something you have an aversion for. Maybe you have tried and failed, and you don't want that humiliation again.
You are completely right. There are a lot of things which we cannot do for fun, for example, studying grammar or reading books, particularly those scientific books with difficult terminology. In that case maybe it would be reasonable not to participate in sub-scientific topics but write in the topics belonging to floodilka? It would make no harm if you post your idea in your own topic where you can write whatever you wish to write and if your messages are interesting even if they are irrelevant, you will find supporters and make a good discussion in your threads. Why not?
I believe that I do sometimes, or even too often the same things. When something is difficult to comprehend from the first reading, and I don’t know whether I would ever benefit from knowing that thing, I may not read it again and just have my own fabrication in relation to the topic. Or I could just try to write something about my experience which again could be irrelevant. I understand that it is just a longing for writing and expressing yourself, however, sometimes it could be annoying. I could be annoyed with myself and then I would delete my messages or change them. You are write. In that relation, it is obvious that people who don’t have proper knowledge and do not want to study properly, have to write in English in the Subforum “Practise your English” – that would be much more beneficial for them and for their readers.
Sometimes it is a good thing to transfer and translate some topics into English like I did with that translation-nontralsation topic. However, you will never know whether your idea is going to be supported or not :)