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Jorge Luis Borges on mysticism(chapter: do you believe in god? Interview with Borges):
Do you believe in God?
If by God we imply a single personality or a trinity, some sort of supernatural man, a judge of our actions and thoughts, I don't believe in that being. On the other hand, if by God we mean a moral or mental purpose in the universe, I certainly believe in Him. Regarding the problem of personal immortal-ity, which Unamuno and other writers have connected to the notion of God, I don't believe in it, nor do I desire to be personally immortal.
That there is an order in the universe, a system of periodic recurrences and a general evolution, seems to me obvious. No less undeniable to me is the existence of a moral law, of an intimate feeling of having acted well or badly in each occasion.
Do you mean, essentially, that all this would prove the existence of God, or that he has been the creator, the beginning and end of everything?
I don't know if God is in the beginning of the cosmic process, but possibly he's at the end. God is perhaps an aspiration toward which the universe is predisposed.
And why do you believe in God in this way?
I believe intuitively and, besides, it would be despairing not to believe. If we presume there is a perfect and omnipotent being at the beginning of universal history, and we presume also that he created the world, then we cannot understand why pain and evil exist. If we assume, on the other hand, a God who is in the process of creation as the cosmos or our individual destiny evolves, in that particular form we can believe in Him, that is, as an evolving passage toward perfectibility.
And how do you apply your belief to the practices of everyday life?
I try to apply it. Within the constraints of the life to which I am conditioned, I do the best I can. Besides, I do not demand of my ambition's limits more than what the natural process of my own evolution can give me. I try to be a good man, but I don't always succeed.
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What are y’alls thoughts?
Do you believe in God?
If by God we imply a single personality or a trinity, some sort of supernatural man, a judge of our actions and thoughts, I don't believe in that being. On the other hand, if by God we mean a moral or mental purpose in the universe, I certainly believe in Him. Regarding the problem of personal immortal-ity, which Unamuno and other writers have connected to the notion of God, I don't believe in it, nor do I desire to be personally immortal.
That there is an order in the universe, a system of periodic recurrences and a general evolution, seems to me obvious. No less undeniable to me is the existence of a moral law, of an intimate feeling of having acted well or badly in each occasion.
Do you mean, essentially, that all this would prove the existence of God, or that he has been the creator, the beginning and end of everything?
I don't know if God is in the beginning of the cosmic process, but possibly he's at the end. God is perhaps an aspiration toward which the universe is predisposed.
And why do you believe in God in this way?
I believe intuitively and, besides, it would be despairing not to believe. If we presume there is a perfect and omnipotent being at the beginning of universal history, and we presume also that he created the world, then we cannot understand why pain and evil exist. If we assume, on the other hand, a God who is in the process of creation as the cosmos or our individual destiny evolves, in that particular form we can believe in Him, that is, as an evolving passage toward perfectibility.
And how do you apply your belief to the practices of everyday life?
I try to apply it. Within the constraints of the life to which I am conditioned, I do the best I can. Besides, I do not demand of my ambition's limits more than what the natural process of my own evolution can give me. I try to be a good man, but I don't always succeed.
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What are y’alls thoughts?