Where does God live?

Magna-Carta said:
But I think you might need some negative energy to complete the circuit -- energy always flows to areas of lower potential, so you'd need both positive and negative Love Energy to charge your phone! Not unless the universal laws of physics have changed recently. Not that I can recall Love Energy ever being taught in physics class.
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I was under the perhaps misguided thought that wireless chargers work through induction. Does that require both positive and negative energy?
 
Rich said:
I was under the perhaps misguided thought that wireless chargers work through induction. Does that require both positive and negative energy?
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I suppose it’s not a circuit in the traditional sense, but more like a magnetic field that’s created by the charger. Magnetic energy then being transferred to the phone, where it’s converted into an electric current that then charges the phone. So it seems that it doesn't require 'negative' energy as such, but instead, the phone needs to be of less energy in order for the higher energy to have somewhere to flow to.

I suppose if there was no phone to charge, that magnetic energy from the charger still has to go somewhere or turn into a different form of energy, perhaps heat energy?
 

Pepper said:
If you don't care then don't read my comments. You have nothing to say that many people care tlisten to.......

Get it, Mr. Dogma? If your belief is so strong it can withstand any comment. I have the belief of a mustard seed. You have your censorship, but it won't work here, Mr. Ye of Little Faith. Maybe Jesus doesn't like your self satisfaction.
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comments are fine. I can listen to any comment. I don't agree with some comments so I reply. What is the problem?
 
As a child, I never saw God as residing in a physical place, but a place completely outside of anyone's comprehension -- a place separate of everything we know and see. These days I don't think there is such a place.

There’s talk in this thread of God being found in the brain, in the heart, or in some other place within the realm of reality -- or somewhere we can perceive yet perhaps only within the confines of our imagination. It could even be somewhere or something that has yet to be discovered or fully understood. To me, it seems that if God does exist, we may never fully understand where that presence resides while we’re here on Earth. The answer, perhaps, will only be revealed to us after we’ve passed.

I can’t help thinking back to my thoughts as a child, before becoming a teenager. Those private thoughts being: if there is a place we go to when we die – perhaps a place where God lives, where is it and what does it look like? As a child I would wonder, do we take our personality with us, or do we leave it behind? My thoughts would then go off in a tangent as I wondered where my personality came from. Did it come from God, or was it shaped as I grew up -- potentially changing or modifying based on my then experiences, and any future experiences I might come to have.

As a child, those thoughts made me wonder if my young personality was God given -- and given to me for the specific purpose of what. Or I thought, was something of my own making, partly shaped by my experiences, thoughts and interpretations of the world around me. A personality made from the connection of neurons -- some of them strengthened by repeated experiences, others fading as they were forgotten and the connections broken. Then I thought how random might my personality and the way I view things change and grow.

I used to then wonder of other people and their personalities – personalities they had evolved over a lifetime. Personalities that had significantly changed due to a stroke, dementia, or just old age. Or even brain damage due to a serious accident. I thought when they die, do they take to God the personality they had at the point of death, or a restored personality from when they were in their prime? Or, I thought, is their worldly personality completely abandoned, only to then receive a personality that is significantly altered due to enlightenment from God and from just being in heaven. A new personality that has no comprehension or knowledge of their past earthly personality. A new personality that has no use for its past personality.

I then wondered that if this is so, would I be given a unique personality that no one else in heaven has, or is it part of a collective personality that everyone in heaven, including God has.

I’m sometimes accused of overthinking things, even when I was a child. But I do think we have a choice. We either think for ourselves in the absence of any real tangible evidence, or we have our thoughts dictated to us by the overthinking of others, or by a book whose timeline starts around 6,000 years ago, ending around 2000 - 1600 years ago. Much of which might have been written by people with a controlling agenda?
 
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Magna-Carta said:
I suppose it’s not a circuit in the traditional sense, but more like a magnetic field that’s created by the charger. Magnetic energy then being transferred to the phone, where it’s converted into an electric current that then charges the phone. So it seems that it doesn't require 'negative' energy as such, but instead, the phone needs to be of less energy in order for the higher energy to have somewhere to flow to.

I suppose if there was no phone to charge, that magnetic energy from the charger still has to go somewhere or turn into a different form of energy, perhaps heat energy?
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It's how transformers work, induction. If I understand correctly, there needs to be a supply side and a load side. Magnetic induction will supply the current. If there's no load there won't be any heat since there's no current flow. Much the way the electrical receptacles in your home will not generate heat when there's no load on them (nothing plugged in or turned on), although in the case of the receptacles your example of a positive and neutral connection applies.
 
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Magna-Carta said:
As a child, I never saw God as residing in a physical place, but a place completely outside of anyone's comprehension -- a place separate of everything we know and see. These days I don't think there is such a place.

There’s talk in this thread of God being found in the brain, in the heart, or in some other place within the realm of reality -- or somewhere we can perceive yet perhaps only within the confines of our imagination. It could even be somewhere or something that has yet to be discovered or fully understood. To me, it seems that if God does exist, we may never fully understand where that presence resides while we’re here on Earth. The answer, perhaps, will only be revealed to us after we’ve passed.

I can’t help thinking back to my thoughts as a child, before becoming a teenager. Those private thoughts being: if there is a place we go to when we die – perhaps a place where God lives, where is it and what does it look like? As a child I would wonder, do we take our personality with us, or do we leave it behind? My thoughts would then go off in a tangent as I wondered where my personality came from. Did it come from God, or was it shaped as I grew up -- potentially changing or modifying based on my then experiences, and any future experiences I might come to have.

As a child, those thoughts made me wonder if my young personality was God given -- and given to me for the specific purpose of what. Or I thought, was something of my own making, partly shaped by my experiences, thoughts and interpretations of the world around me. A personality made from the connection of neurons -- some of them strengthened by repeated experiences, others fading as they were forgotten and the connections broken. Then I thought how random might my personality and the way I view things change and grow.

I used to then wonder of other people and their personalities – personalities they had evolved over a lifetime. Personalities that had significantly changed due to a stroke, dementia, or just old age. Or even brain damage due to a serious accident. I thought when they die, do they take to God the personality they had at the point of death, or a restored personality from when they were in their prime? Or, I thought, is their worldly personality completely abandoned, only to then receive a personality that is significantly altered due to enlightenment from God and from just being in heaven. A new personality that has no comprehension or knowledge of their past earthly personality. A new personality that has no use for its past personality.

I then wondered that if this is so, would I be given a unique personality that no one else in heaven has, or is it part of a collective personality that everyone in heaven, including God has.

I’m sometimes accused of overthinking things, even when I was a child. But I do think we have a choice. We either think for ourselves in the absence of any real tangible evidence, or we have our thoughts dictated to us by the overthinking of others, or by a book whose timeline starts around 6,000 years ago, ending around 2000 - 1600 years ago. Much of which might have been written by people with a controlling agenda?
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How would you even know if you got a whole new personality? Be thankful if you don't because that could lead to a whole lot of mental confusion.
 
Many ; many people on this planet have 'proved' to themselves that God exists and there is no convincing them otherwise? I remember watching a dvd some time back of a usa fella ; experienced mountain climber getting stuck up a mountain ; lost his companion and had given up and decided he was about to die.

At this moment a figure approached from afar and was identified as "The Christ" - a conversation ensued and the climber was told " it is not time for you to enter yet you need to go back and finish you life challenges.

He did and saved himself?? Scouts honour!! it seemed that this man was so convinced about 'his saviour' that he not only descended the mountain but had a dvd made about his experience also?? very challenging and perhaps convincing?
 
Olivia said:
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How would you even know if you got a whole new personality? Be thankful if you don't because that could lead to a whole lot of mental confusion.
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I think you might have completely missed the nuance of my original reflection
 
Rich said:
It's how transformers work, induction. If I understand correctly, there needs to be a supply side and a load side. Magnetic induction will supply the current. If there's no load there won't be any heat since there's no current flow. Much the way the electrical receptacles in your home will not generate heat when there's no load on them (nothing plugged in or turned on), although in the case of the receptacles your example of a positive and neutral connection applies.
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Would it be better for me to say that a magnetic field, if not being utalised by something else, will just hang there until the electrical source energy is turned off. That magnetic field not turning into another form of energy whilst its still in existence and not being drawn by another device.
 
Olivia said:
l must have. l'll look for it
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It was more of a philosophical and theological thought on my part, about the nature of the soul and identity, based on my childhood reflections. I was wondering whether personality persists after death, or if it's transformed, restored, or even has a place to go to.

If a person became a completely new personality with no recollection of the past one, there would be no comparison to cause 'mental confusion.' There would simply be nothing to be confused about. As a child, I thought that potentially not only would the personality be different in heaven, but the memory of this life on earth would also be erased.

As a child, I also wondered if I had come from somewhere, which might have been linked to some vague recollections of dreams I had. In those dreams, there was a place -- a place that felt fuzzy with little structure, but somehow real nonetheless -- where I felt as though I had been prepared for my time on Earth. It was something I thought about a lot as a child, and felt the need to hold onto, in case I forgot as I got older.

I've mentioned this kind of thing in other threads. I don't know if they have any basis in reality, but I felt at the time that my thoughts as a child were important to remember.
 
Olivia said:
l must have. l'll look for it.
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You did write several ideas about how and where personalities come from - some coming directly from God or from changes in a person's life whatever they may be and does it stay the same as originally created or that which was modified from living when it goes back to God. l also wonder if you think the soul has its own personality as well does spirit?
 
Olivia said:
You did write several ideas about how and where personalities come from - some coming directly from God or from changes in a person's life whatever they may be and does it stay the same as originally created or that which was modified from living when it goes back to God. l also wonder if you think the soul has its own personality as well does spirit?
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Yes... :) now you have got it. And I didn't even say that, yet. :)
 
"Where does God live" would be diagramed thusly: GOD DOES LIVE WHERE - GOD IS THE SUBJECT O F THE SENTENCE AND JS A NOUN. THEREFORE THE PRONOUN WOULD BE "HE". "WHERE" IS AN ADVERB INDICATING THE LOCATION OF WHERE GOD LIVES. SO, THE PRONO6N YOU'RE LOOKING FOR IS "HE". IT'S IN THE NOMNITIVE CASE. SO: IT WOULD BE EITHER "WHERE DOES GOD LIVE,OR WHERE DOES HE LIVE. I KNOW YOU LOOKING FOR GOD'S GENDER BUT THIS IS ALL YOU'RE GETTING.
 
Magna-Carta said:
Would it be better for me to say that a magnetic field, if not being utalised by something else, will just hang there until the electrical source energy is turned off. That magnetic field not turning into another form of energy whilst its still in existence and not being drawn by another device.
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Keep in mind that I'm not an electrical engineer. But yes, for induction to work the source and the load have to be in proximity. Think of the field as a sort of an aura around an energized wire, it won't actually do anything if it has nothing to act upon. In cases like residential wiring the hot and neutral wires are close together and the magnetic fields cancel each other out.
 
In actual fact we are all invited to his 'feast table' weeky wot do they call it the eucharist? - I have officiated a few believe me
 
bobcat said:
There are many passages that say that's where he lives, such as at the Tower of Babel where he comes down from heaven, and even the Lord's prayer: "Our father, who art in heaven .......", however, if God is omnipresent, then why indicate he lives in a specific place?
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Anyplace where humans are not must be heaven, then? So every other place is where god lives? Everyplace but here. Oh wait, there's that living in our hearts stuff, symbolic, perhaps?

Everywhere we are not he is?
 
God, satan is all BS unfortunately these types of beliefs are based on feelings not tangible truths. No one except yourself can convince you otherwise.

So what is the purpose of this discussion other than presenting a variety of views that no one can prove or care about other than their own agenda?

If you want to know about god, forgive yourself for all your wrongdoings, make amends to everyone you have cheated or done wrong to. Your past has no hold on you, live each moment forward without hesitation or fear. Love yourself first and foremost so you may love everything as life happens before you.
 
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Magna-Carta said:
As a child, I never saw God as residing in a physical place, but a place completely outside of anyone's comprehension -- a place separate of everything we know and see. These days I don't think there is such a place.

There’s talk in this thread of God being found in the brain, in the heart, or in some other place within the realm of reality -- or somewhere we can perceive yet perhaps only within the confines of our imagination. It could even be somewhere or something that has yet to be discovered or fully understood. To me, it seems that if God does exist, we may never fully understand where that presence resides while we’re here on Earth. The answer, perhaps, will only be revealed to us after we’ve passed.

I can’t help thinking back to my thoughts as a child, before becoming a teenager. Those private thoughts being: if there is a place we go to when we die – perhaps a place where God lives, where is it and what does it look like? As a child I would wonder, do we take our personality with us, or do we leave it behind? My thoughts would then go off in a tangent as I wondered where my personality came from. Did it come from God, or was it shaped as I grew up -- potentially changing or modifying based on my then experiences, and any future experiences I might come to have.

As a child, those thoughts made me wonder if my young personality was God given -- and given to me for the specific purpose of what. Or I thought, was something of my own making, partly shaped by my experiences, thoughts and interpretations of the world around me. A personality made from the connection of neurons -- some of them strengthened by repeated experiences, others fading as they were forgotten and the connections broken. Then I thought how random might my personality and the way I view things change and grow.

I used to then wonder of other people and their personalities – personalities they had evolved over a lifetime. Personalities that had significantly changed due to a stroke, dementia, or just old age. Or even brain damage due to a serious accident. I thought when they die, do they take to God the personality they had at the point of death, or a restored personality from when they were in their prime? Or, I thought, is their worldly personality completely abandoned, only to then receive a personality that is significantly altered due to enlightenment from God and from just being in heaven. A new personality that has no comprehension or knowledge of their past earthly personality. A new personality that has no use for its past personality.

I then wondered that if this is so, would I be given a unique personality that no one else in heaven has, or is it part of a collective personality that everyone in heaven, including God has.

I’m sometimes accused of overthinking things, even when I was a child. But I do think we have a choice. We either think for ourselves in the absence of any real tangible evidence, or we have our thoughts dictated to us by the overthinking of others, or by a book whose timeline starts around 6,000 years ago, ending around 2000 - 1600 years ago. Much of which might have been written by people with a controlling agenda?
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You bring up a lot of interesting points to ponder. If one were to accept the stories in the Bible, then the angels had free will. Otherwise, there couldn't have been rebellion in heaven. Now, if humans are to go to heaven and have free will, then you know for certain it's bound to happen again. Just look at how many times the Bible says humans have disobeyed and rebelled against God.

The only way for it to work would be for humans to have free will taken away, which would mean they are slaves or prisoners. However, if you are going to have humans without free will, then why not create that in the first place, and save all the drama with the angels and humans. Just create creatures who have no choice.

To your point, if you had your own personality, then you would be able to make choices wherever you are. I don't see how that could work in any concept of heaven described in the Bible.

At this point in time, I believe, if God exists, it is some form of creative energy without any plan or perhaps even consciousness (In the way we think of it). When we die, our energy continues because that's precisely how nature works. We just become other living organisms who get consumed by other animals, and we become part of them. If God is that energy, then we are always one with God (If you want to give that energy a name). It's the same energy that gave birth to the universe and existed prior to it.
 

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