• Fandangalo@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        My personal faith involves Alan Watts’ thought experiment on God.

        God made heaven, had everything, and it got boring. So God made a new adventure where god is challenged, but they always succeed. But this too became boring.

        So God, with infinite power, imagined a world where they forgot they were god. They didn’t know what would happen next.

        And that is the adventure you and I live in now. Eventually, we’ll get back to heaven / nirvana / reconciliation with God, and then go on another adventure.

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      3 months ago

      Yes, and it can be argued that God makes us live an earthly life before we go to heaven for exactly the purpose of understand strife and hardship so we can understand and appreciate heaven.

      I should say I’m not religious nor am I anything close to an expert on theology.