Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!unc!mcnc!decvax!tektronix!hplabs!sytek!syteka!jtm From: jtm@syteka.UUCP (Jim McCrae) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Believing In God Message-ID: <508@syteka.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Mar-85 19:05:37 EST Article-I.D.: syteka.508 Posted: Mon Mar 4 19:05:37 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Mar-85 07:06:42 EST References: decwrl.642 Lines: 20 I believe in God. I don't go to any church or adhere to any religion, and I don't believe I'm meat with software in it, either. I'm happy with an old line of logic that has yet to be improved upon, in my humble, somewhat educated opinion. What part of me is consciousness with no object before it? When I think or am at all aware of myself, I am myself as an object of some consciousness. If I move one step "deeper" into my "self", I am aware of my being conscious. "I" must always be aware of something; that is the nature of being one of us separated-out things, we who see a whole world distinct from ourselves. At some level in the mechanics of the process of awareness, there is the "stuff" of consciousness, the raw being of consciousness. God is right there. And I'll probably never find out any more about it until I die. Probably. I frequently think Buddhism explains things in a way I can agree with, but then they get into the pain and denial and pointlessness of it all and I get skeptical. Begins to sound like a few Botthisattvas had a grudge against an old girlfriend. Humbly submitted by: Jim McCrae - {decvax,hplabs}!sytek!jtm