Visualization Help And Christians

[knux3k]

I'm a Christian and I've pondered this hypothesis myself. Currently I have no stance, as I believe that this may be true, but it doesn't disprove God-in fact, it may be what God intended, seeing as you would get to know him more through the Bible and whatnot.

I'm still pretty neutral.

 

Before the atheists attack, this is >implying he exists, and according to my current beliefs.

[glitchthe3rd]

My personal opinion on the matter is that the existence of tulpae does not disprove gods, but instead provides a more concrete explanation of them. A tulpa is sustained by the will of a single person, and a god is sustained by the will of many. When people stop worshiping a god, it starves from lack of energy or "faith" and dies. Which helps explain why nobody worships the old Greco-Roman pantheon anymore, or any of the other religions used by our distant ancestors.

[Guest]

My personal opinion on the matter is that the existence of tulpae does not disprove gods, but instead provides a more concrete explanation of them. A tulpa is sustained by the will of a single person, and a god is sustained by the will of many. When people stop worshiping a god, it starves from lack of energy or "faith" and dies. Which helps explain why nobody worships the old Greco-Roman pantheon anymore, or any of the other religions used by our distant ancestors.

 

God tulpae are a fine explanation for various elements of certain religions or even their origin, but that doesn't mean entities with the properties people tend to ascribe to "gods" can actually exist. Omnipotence, omniscience and omnibenevolence are all provably impossible/inconsistent, thus no such being with those properties can exist. Limited versions of them are conceivable, but one can also show that we're already at those limits, if we work hard enough to actually reach them (in the line of "Sufficiently Advanced technology is indistinguishable from Magic", but a bit more philosophical)...

[FigN01]

I heard about a group of psychics who have a church in my city. Mother was telling me recently that when she had gone there for the funz of it some time ago, one of the upper heads of the organization channeled 2 of her three spirit guides, which are apparently different ancestral spirits with different personalities and voices. From her description, it sounded an awful lot like tulpa possession as described around here, whether they know anything about tulpas or not. I aim to go there some time when mine is more imposed and try to gauge if any of them may be able to pick up on him without my suggestion.

 

Anywho, I personally don't like the notion that my tulpa is a divine guiding spirit. I consider him my equal who happens to trampse around in my brain. He can still offer me a bunch of guidance, and often does, but seeing him as fallible with his own desires apart from mine makes him more familiar to me as a person.