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God... God.

In my opinion, "God," if anything, would mean us. All of us, all energy, the life force. It couldn't be separate from us, and it wouldn't care if we loved it or not. It would be above that. Because energy is never created or destroyed, only changed in form. When you die, all your cells are still present, they just cease to exists as a separate entity.

God is of course a very loaded term. In my opinion the monotheistic, separatist, Christian connotation of God is grossly illogical, and incorrect. How could God be a separate entity from us, a conscious being that thinks and judges and has opinions? Something better than us? If so, that wouldn't answer ANYTHING. Who created God then? If man is in God's image, God could not be eternal. So then God was just hanging out alone in the universe for all eternity, created by no one, but with no hobbies or previous creations, just existing, alone and uncreated. With no parents. And he creates stuff that's separate from him, demands that they worship him, and threatens hell if they don't?

I think the Hindus are pretty right on. They say that the whole universe is God, which is called Brahma. So God is a big, unconscious mind. And it dreams. We're all little pieces of it, with the illusion of being separate. And the dream, the illusion of order and separateness, is called Maya, or Samsara.