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Dec 10, 2010 10:18:24 AM
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I can’t get into this too deeply just now but there is the case of the ever expanding form in Hinduism. The Gods were all sitting around congratulating themselves when they saw this power greater than their own and it was ever expansive, without end. To make this story short it was representative of a greater power, even greater than that of Vishnu who put forth the universe. Vishnu is the male power and it is within his power to initiate the universe but it is the power of the Goddess that is ever omnipotent, she brings forth the universe from the seed of Vishnu. The universe is made by her and Vishnu is but a sire. Many forget the significance of a female God but not me. In their view the universe was born from the cosmic vagina of a Goddess. One does not have to believe in an actual God or Goddess mating and giving birth to the universe, this is symbolism and myth. If one could fly up into space at the time of the conception of the universe they would not see a God and a Goddess copulating. They would see that what is symbolic from the perspective of human experience of male and female reproduction. The birth of the universe is not produced by genital intercourse it is something beyond the human experience, so we need to use the metaphor of human birth, but I digress I just wanted to show respect for the God called woman. Anyhow my point is God is a symbol for something beyond human experience, something he doesn’t and can’t understand. So to place blame on a concept of god and having no knowledge of his or her function doesn’t fly. God is not a he or a she and is certainly not a grey haired man in the clouds looking down and helping us out or condemning us to an everlasting eternity of fire and brimstone. That is a religious concept of God that is from man, it is theology, ethics and so forth. I would say the above post is right and I would carry it further and say that God is everything, animal, vegetable, mineral, microbial and elemental.
by Thai sean
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