You don't have to believe in something in order to use or be used by it. Frankly, if he existed, I don't think he would give a damn whether or not we do believe in him. The ants don't believe in us, the superior, intelligent, smart-ass, self-awareness endowed humans, and they can't possibly comprehend anything beyond their area of expertise aka. day to day struggle for survival. So. Do ants believe in our existence? No... But they can see our actions... Now, they don't make a fuss out of it, they just handle it the way they handle anything, and that is the ant way. Now us humans complain we can't believe there is a God, because of our expectations on how a God would act if IT would exist. Can we possibly imagine how a superior being would act? Can we even infer such a thing? No. As Wittgenstein would put it: "If a lion could speak, we couldn't understand him". The same goes for upper ladder intelligence too. The lion does not understand us EVEN IF WE ROAR back at him... Now, can God understand our prayers? Debatable... Could he sense our struggle and turmoil and feel pity and love towards us? The answer is: WHY? Well, for some, it's just a hobby to tend for pets and care for animals down the food chain, and they revel in the fact that they can seemingly UNDERSTAND the feelings, needs and musings of a dog or a cat... Everything we do, we do BY HUMAN STANDARDS. Including the invention of a CREATOR who made us, go figure, in HIS shape, and not the other way round. We are the CREATORS of our own environment, which includes philosophical illusions. Can we ever prove God exists? Unlikely. Can we ever prove he doesn't? Well, that depends on what we mean by him existing at all. Is he a bearded old man, like Santa, or, is he young and beautiful like Jesus or vengeful, or ethereal. Is he an alien that genetically engineered us all, is he a quantum computer software, cold and precise like the laws of physics, or is he, or IT, just an inanimate super-intelligence, who doesn't give a squat about anything, more so, about tiny puny humans on a blue planet from a galaxy among thousand of thousands of trillion others. We can see a pattern. But we will always see and interpret a pattern by integrating FAMILIAR patterns, and NEVER could we ever be able to understand a thing that's entirely NOVEL in its most infinitesimal parts. We are born human, with the capabilities and hardware of a HUMAN. We are limited by the way the connections in our brain CAN be made. You can't bypass that. And neither can a computer program, because it was made by us humans using the algorithms and patterns we can come up with, being conditioned by our own "hardware". So does God exist? The answer to that, the ultimate answer is: "Yes and no, at the same time. Just like everything else." There is a mathematical proof for that. And although we can't put our finger on it, and touch it, it is the truth. We can only directly interact with the layer of reality on which we operate, both physically and mentally. Now us humans are so smart, that we have built extensions to our senses, and explored the limits of reality, both big and small. But when we get too close to either too big or too small, our familiar concepts no longer seem to work. But how come the whole thing doesn't collapse or crumble and just stay that way? The inner nature of everything eternal lies in the ability to be and not be at the same time. Everything was, and everything will be. Forever. And with sufficient time and space, things that were, will be again EXACTLY the same... Now, if you are dead, you are dead. Time does not exist when you are not there to experience it. What does that give? The answer is nothing short of an epiphany.
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