Is God a Reflection of your Taste

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How much are the books you read, the records you listen to and your belief (or disbelief) in God a reflection of your life. Is it a way to rebel, a way to expand your mind or merely escapism?

― God is Just Around the Corner, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If you took away the knowledge I've learnt from books and the emotion I've found through music there wouldn't be much of a 'me' left.

― Will McKenzie, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't understand the question. In what way could belief (or disbelief) in God be a 'reflection of your life'? What does 'it' refer to in the second sentence? 'Your taste?'

― Nick, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes the question makes me feel sick

― Ronan, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mind expansion definitely. Once I've absorbed all of God's true nature I won't need Him anymore. That probably takes a lifetime though, which I guess is the point of all religions.

― dave q, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't see God as a seperate entity from anything or in a way that is acceptable to most God-fearing people.

― Nude Spock, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the idea of religion as the ultimate arbiter of tastes and way of life is one that i find suffocating and quite sad to be honest. to me it seems both irrelevant and nonsensical to equate religious belief and taste in reading/listening matter, unless of course you're trying to imply that books and music are my gods. which is categorically not true. i have no gods (or goddesses), which is not to say that i have no moral sense as i think i have an extremely strong one. however, it does not dictate my taste in either books or music as i think that art based entirely on moral principles is usually extremely tiresome.

it might help if the question was rephrased as it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

― katie, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How does religion relate to blackheads.....................you heartless bitch

― Ronan, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Daddy, where does god come from?

― Nude Spock, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

awwwww ronan... i'm not really that heartless. i'm sure you'll come back with some rapier sharp riposte about haggard old me being jealous of your shiny, sparkly youth. i'm giving it... 5 minutes?

― katie, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

*sulky teen voice* I'm not doing it now, you're all watching

― Ronan, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hey, Will, first poster to respond, I just realized what you said. It's very cool, since pleasing the self is the immediate way to go about life. You want this and you don't want that, you read this and decide to believe that... and all of this is only temporarily satisfying and leads only to wanting more and needing more books, movies, whatever, until you break free from desire. Some music is great at first, eventually you get tired of it and get filled with nostalgia and longing for music that seemed fresh... and, eventually this newness will come back-- maybe even the same album that you've gotten tired of will suddenly strike you a new way. The books you read may resonate deeply within you, but one day you find these answers are obviously not enough to satisfy you and you read and read more books and more digests, finding new things that interest you and moments of exasperation where nothing is interesting.

All these beliefs about who you are are just beliefs. They're not real. For instance, at one point you believed to see that old drawing of the young lady wearing a hat until one day someone turned it upside down for you and you realized it was also an old lady with a bandana tied around her head. Beliefs change and adopting the beliefs of others is no escape. God is all beliefs and all things, if god is anything at all. The self is just a temporary state of selfish being. You are never the same from one moment to the next, although you do accumulate a vast amount of knowledge and experience that you call "you". But with each new experience, old ones are forgotten and old beliefs replaced with new ones.

And you put it so much simpler... and I didn't even really get it the first time I read it.

― Nude Spock, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oh my goodness) - Will is now a philosophical genius. lord have mercy :):):)

― katie, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What is this thread about?

― Nick, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This thread is about whatever you want it to be. But of course Nude Spock and Will are right (or wrong). Like I said: whatever you want it to be.

― God, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If God is a reflection of my taste and I taste like strawberries, does that make God a backwards strawberry? Or am I being stupid again?

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No Dan, I think you raise a salient point.

― Nick, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ah, but a strawberry backward tastes the same as it does forward! Unless we are talking about vomit, of course...

― Nude Yoda, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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