Finally! a 'definition' of god that I understand.

I am, therefore I feel.

I am, therefore I think!

We all are!
Otherwise there would be no problem!
Cogito, ergo sum.

Elegran Then we shall know, even as we are known.

Should have previewed first.Very senior moment.

"I think therefore I am." ? Maybe?

Is anyone else totally adrift in this intellectual wilderness?






















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I disagree.
Energy is not just capacity for work.
Energy can exist on its own
Thought is energy
Heat is energy
Electrons spinning round nuclei are energy
We are mainly empty space
So do we really exist?

Galen - Is energy spiritual? Energy is the capacity to do work - so no, it isn't spiritual...

Elegran - that energy is electro-chemical, and when the bodily processes stop, and the brain decomposes (which it does rather quickly) it's like A battery dying - it just stops. Our perception of ourselves is resident in our brains - and when they are gone -- nowhere.

"That unknown country from whose bourne no traveller returns". One day we will know, but we can't pass back the information to those who have not left.

Who knows.

Who wants to know? #justyet

It is not an interpretation of the original writer, Jings. It is thoughts triggered by what the original writer said. Thoughts on an iconoclastic and ingenious definition of God.

Or, our little lives are simply "rounded with a sleep".

I think it's possible that our spirits rejoin God from whence, perhaps, we came. There would be no protons and neutrons involved.

My idea of God has nothing to do with protons and neutrons.

What happens to the energy in our brains and cells when we die? Does it discharge to join the vast reservoir of power in the rest of the universe? Is that how our "souls" become one with the mysterious entity called God?

These are questions, not statements. I have no idea of the answers.

I think you are putting an interpretation on this that was never meant by the original writer.

the Tweet and the replies

But, is energy spiritual?
Is it interested in mankind?
Is evolution externally moderated?
In the end? What happens at the end of the universe?
Is it infinite?
What happened before the 'BIG BANG'?

YES! THAT IS THE POINT

Bags I for for one like the pun. "He" = helium doing all the things in that poem.

I have had a profound probably non-original thought that Energy is everywhere, is invisible, has immense power but can also be effective in very small, focussed ways.

Within the smallest atom are protons and electrons with positive or negative energy charges, and neutrons with none (trinity?).

Each of the elements that form the Periodic table is furnished with a different number of these subatomic particles with their energy charges. The known universe is made up of combinations of permutations and combinations of elements, all held together by the glue of energy. The big bang that started it all was pure energy.

If energy had never existed, the universe could not have come into being or coagulated into matter. Our cells function thanks to minute power stations and when the electrical charges in our brains cease, we are no longer alive.

Could the concepts of God and the soul be interpreted as pure energy - and vice versa?

PakistaniAtheistists Wasn't saying that God is like helium. It was a pun. The piece of writing refers to helium. The replies to the tweet were just laughing at the pun. It was 't really anything to do with God. Just a joke.

'Rose' - penny dropped!!

I see, thanks absent

baubles That's Galen's affectionate name for jingle.