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Are we all living in God's matrix?

Asked by Pazza (3268points) December 10th, 2009

Here’s a thought…......... did you hear it?
No, maybe I should have kept this one to myself…....

I mean, this is how insane society really is, on the one hand you have funda’MENTAL’ist Christians saying things like “The world is only 10,000 years old, and God put dinosaur bones on earth to test our faith!” and people just say ” Oh, it’s just their faith. I don’t have to agree with it!” but they don’t say “lock’em up, NUTTERS!”. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not here to dis anyone else’s faith, but these same people who think God is so vain that he wants all his children to worship him and devote their lives to him, and that committing one deadly sin, just once in your life without repent, warrants going to hell and damnation for eternity would quite happily see someone like me sectioned for believing matter isn’t really solid!

Do I think I should be sectioned, probably, but until then here’s what I think….....

So far as I know, the bible says God created man in his own image “and he will have two arms…....” etc. But since it also says Jonah was swallowed by a whale and survived, I think it’s safe to say the bible wasn’t intended to be taken literally.

So what in my interpretation does ‘in his own image’ mean. To me it means spiritually, that man would be companionate, loving, patient, forgiving, tender, sympathetic, and all the other qualities that we instinctively know to be ethical, good and righteous.

But all that being said, for the most part, I don’t believe God is a person. I believe God is the creator only because he created everything in the universe, and that everything in the universe is God. To me God is a metaphor, a rolling up into one name given to the complexity of the universe as a whole. A singular category used to explain in layman’s terms how the universe came into being, if you consider that even today science, which has seemingly come so far still struggles to understand the basics of how the universe works, how could a culture 2000 years ago
possibly comprehend the enormity of how everything they could see came to exist, to them and the vast majority of mankind today believe ‘It must of had a creator’........God.

All of the above I suppose, could be forgiven by the masses, and the men in the white suits probably wouldn’t be ‘a-knock-knock knocking’ at my door just for that, at least not until I mentioned ‘The Matrix’, and yes I do mean the film. Now don’t write me off as a nutter just yet, let me tickle your synapses a little longer.

Maybe this whole universe doesn’t really exist, not as the tangible solid form as we perceive it anyway, after all, the only way we know things exist is by interpreting electrical impulses received by the brain, just the same way a computer chip interprets zeros and one’s, maybe the signals we receive and interpret are just interactions with a sort of matrix, our matrix not being a computer program, but the energy field that surrounds and envelopes all matter in the universe.

Ancient texts call this energy field the ‘Ether’, more recent enlightened and intuitive people like Wilhelm Reich called certain frequencies of this field ‘Orgone energy’, whereas mainstream science today (which as far as I know doesn’t fully acknowledge its existence other than theoretically) call it ‘Zero point’ energy and or ‘Dark matter’ depending on whether you’re an astronomer or a physicist. Maybe my fingers aren’t really pressing keys on a keyboard, but my consciousness perceives keys on a keyboard as it interacts with the universal energy field, I give a command to my finger and say press the space bar and a flurry of messages come back and are interpreted and tell me whether or not I hit the target, since even main stream science admits that most of an atom is just empty space, and even the bit in the middle, I think they’re still confused about, could just be pure energy and contain nothing ‘solid’, maybe we are all ‘Living in a matrix’ God’s Matrix!

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Only kidding…
I cheated anyway, I used Copy and paste!

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