I don't know. The existence of right answer doesn't require someone knowing it. It is a concept in this case, not something that you can cheat from the back of the book.

... A big green lawn full of lost novelty flying disks, balls, missing socks from the dryer and sand that you could never get out of your shoes. Nothing else. Just that.

Oh, I thought you were already buying some from Natalie/Gary, whoever it is. :upsidedow

I don't think your creator would ever hurt you or me (without good reason), or anyone else. Nothing but love for us.

Heaven is not a separate thing but a special section of the "Universe".

For me, it's Amsterdam. LOL

Those are for AaronM.

Have you ever taken a picture that wasn't the best and you decided to delete it and take another one? I hope our creator isn't as indecisive. Maybe this creator killed off the dinosaurs because it was bored. That would mean we're next. I'm scared.

Why would you be scared?

Imagine you love your children a million times more than you do, would you get bored and just get rid of them all? Does that make sense to you?

My personal heaven is a place inside my mind. Prior to christianity; heavens was the popular word for our universe.

It does make sense. I'm generally only half serious at best. I'm saying if the creator made dinosaurs but wasn't responsible for killing them off; does he not have as much control over the universe as we'd like to think?

And if he did kill the dinosaurs off we could be next; hide!

Maybe we are the dinosaurs.

Maybe we asked the creator to take us back so we can come back as people.

But what is "inanimate" really?

We as humans barely understand all potential aspects and applications of complex "circuits" in nature and in technology. We base our tech and human biological mechanisms on electricity and what we can "measure", when with up to 11 different dimensions may exist. One could theorize other forms of complex circuits/life could exist.

Factor in gravity affecting all these dimensions and that space folds into itself along one of any of those dimensions, its not hard to believe that we have ZERO understanding of it all. Some even theorize that the entire of the universe is a mere spec of dust affected by gravity to appear large, expansive and infinite in this "dimension" that we can only just measure and see.

There could very well be an all-knowing, all-encompassing greater being that the "book" indicates "I am", when asked of who he is. There since the dawn of everything.

Like mankind can affect and create virtual civilizations, a more powerful being along any dimensional perspective could easily have created this complex circuit in what we perceive as a physical and "only" possible form of existence.

The truth is, we will NEVER understand anything. We are limited with knowledge, ability to mentally visualize the universe and ability to interact along different dimensions, let alone forms of energy around us in the physical world.

So yeah - it would be ignorant to believe an object that appears inanimate should not be worshipped :D

This always interested me

What if it's true?

But what if its along a different plane, along a complex circuit of energy, light and warmth within different parts of the universe? The book does say that once we die, we become separate from our memories and essence to be reassembled after a great travel across the heavens and dimensional planes as a form of energy free of any physical world(s).

we just barely understand how dna and genes work, and how they integrate with different forms of energy we are just learning to measure from organism to atomic levels. All we understand is that environment, factors of habits and upbringing can alter which genes get activated/deactivated in procreation yet there is SO much more going on in our cells and atoms that we are made of that we just do not understand yet.

As a child your comprehension has the potential to grow beyond your wildest dreams. As adults our comprehension continues to grow.

The comprehension and knowledge of cavemen has evolved to where we are today, and will continue to grow beyond our wildest dreams.

This is a great thread, I had no idea so many people here thought similarly to me about this kind of 'god' stuff :thumbsup

There are days when the daughter's room is such an apocalyptic mess...this option seems almost do-able. :1orglaugh

Silent, I feel your pain myself having 3 daughters!!!!

It has been an uphill battle for life.

But on the bright side, I don't have to collect a horny teen boy's dirty towels and sheets which he has probably splooged all over god knows how many times.