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Through the ages people have personified gods and goddesses with certain attributes, ie long hair, buff bodies etc.

My question to you is, what do you personally think God looks like?

My idea of God? He's a hippy. Yeah, that's right, all the millenia of having to watch humanity turned him into a peace-loving hippy. I can easily picture him up in the sky on a lawn chair, chilling out with a bottle of coke and reading a magazine. What's he wearing? A tie-dye t-shirt, sweatpants, and some badass shades. He's got a long beard and hair pulled back into a pony-tail.

I really do picture God as having a laid back personality, just because I think after years of immortality, you'd probably get kinda mellow and develop an...interesting sense of humor.

God: Hey Peter, take a load off!
Peter: Thanks Lord!
God: *giggle*
Peter: Huh?
God: Oh...nothing.

(Peter sits down)

*FART*

God: Oldest trick in the book!

Now THAT'S the kind of God I can look up to!

I picture him as having a very vacant, lifeless personality, never responding when you call his name.

Of course, that's because he doesn't exist.

God became man; ie, Jesus Christ. I tend not to force God into any situation.

As for Gods sense of humor, I often wonder how, if at all, the Apostles had fun with Christ. I mean - it had to have been possible... But... How? Hide behind the next corner and scare him? I can see how that would go...

"BOO!"

"...Knew you were there."

"..."

"Don't think that. Besides, you can do better than 'boo'..."

God spends every moment of every day blissfully casting the uncompassionate of the world into hell. He never gets tired of the looks on their faces when they find out what his opinion is on capitalism, "pro-life," american christianity, fundementalist islam, israeli policies, the pharmaceutical industry, the defense industry, the "war on terror" &c.

I think of God as a bright, white light ([i]try saying that fast ten times![i]) who it is painful to look at directly because of the brilliance.

God spends every moment of every day blissfully casting the uncompassionate of the world into hell. He never gets tired of the looks on their faces when they find out what his opinion is on capitalism, "pro-life," american christianity, fundementalist islam, israeli policies, the pharmaceutical industry, the defense industry, the "war on terror" &c.

I honestly don't think of God as spiteful. If anything I think he's also learned a sense of humility from his age, and understands that humans are imperfect, even if some are complete assholes. After all, he made us that way.

Anyway...I'm detracting us from the topic.

I honestly don't think of God as spiteful. If anything I think he's also learned a sense of humility from his age, and understands that humans are imperfect, even if some are complete assholes. After all, he made us that way.

Anyway...I'm detracting us from the topic.

Not out of spite at all, merely because of the irony.

In my fantasy land heaven-hell, people only burn in hell until they genuinely repent and see the error of their ways.

God, by very definition, cannot be fully personified into a single being. Said being would only be a small part of the whole. That being said, my personification of God is myself. As the Gnostic philosopher Monoimus said, we shouls start looking for God without ourselves.

God, by very definition, cannot be fully personified into a single being. Said being would only be a small part of the whole. That being said, my personification of God is myself. As the Gnostic philosopher Monoimus said, we shouls start looking for God without ourselves.

My God is a divine power, taht created things, in order for the Big Bang to occur. My God is a person like you and me, but controls all.

I picture him as looking and acting exactly like me. :D :p

Another way I picture him is as a giant slice of cheese.

I picture him as looking and acting exactly like me. :D :p

Another way I picture him is as a giant slice of cheese.
Ooooo

Can I worship him/her?

Ooooo

Can I worship him/her?
You mean worship me? :p

God looks like nothing because God is just a story made up for adults.

To personify god is to limit the perception thereof, thereby making the creator idolized, rather than idealized.

but I guess an invisible hermaphridite is not necessarily that flattering, yet allows the most variation; the most possible perceptions.

Or
a long haired guy in his 30's

I do not picture God as a human being. I picture him as a supreme power of intelligence and command. Something far beyond our comprehension. I believe this supreme power created everything, and that we will only fully understand when we die and move on to Heaven or Hell.

God looks like nothing because God is just a story made up for adults.


You should read Max Weber, he is in agreement with you, and hard to read, but profound.


He says: We need "God" but "God" = society. We are actually worshiping society, but it is easier to worship an individual. God, in Weber, is created by society to perpetuate itself.