That doesn't discount the fact that the God Experience is influenced the neurochemical reaction.
Again, it explains the what and how but does not explain the who and why.
Can I say there is no God? Far from it. At best I can say that I now know how God works. However it still does not explain who is God and why He did what He did.
I am running out of options. Now that I know all this is a chemical reaction, I am no longer inclined to explore the topic further.
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Following the argument to where it leads, I am tempted to say that the God experience is induced at the neurotransmitter level. Just like Dr Ramachandran hypothesized that the God Experience was heightened d[o] (due) to a mental illness known as temporal lobe epilepsy, my God Experience is due to the introduction and withdrawal of Nicotine.
What does that tells me about God then? It is an indicator that the God Experience is chemical in nature.
Can I conclude then that there is no God? I wish I could but today the pendulum had settled in the middle again. I am becoming impartial on the issue of God and No God. So what? I said to myself. Just like the argument that the earth is flat, that doesn't change the course of my life.
I guess the question that I should ask is whether it is useful to believe in a God.
At the chemical reaction level, there is abiogenesis. Therefore we don't need God. Then perhaps as Ar Razi was saying, God is really a chemist.
I have to make a decision here. Based on what I observed with my 5 senses, I say man is God. That makes me God of my own image. My God is who I am at the superlative level.
Hence if I want to be practical about it, then I say my God is me. In reality, I am not a God and there is no prove that there is one.
Although I am keen to say that there is no God, I don't know everything to know to say that there is no God.
So I believe there is God but this God is not the God that we currently perceived. He is the Force rather than an entity like being described by the ancient scriptures.
Why in the fuck we believe in the ancient scriptures anyway? Even the writing of the great thinkers like Socrates, Plato and Aristotle were marred with outdated observations. We should move on. Only take what is useful.
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#traxxfm I am fed up of thinking about the God Question. Maybe the reason it is such a perplexing question is because there is no God in the first place, However, I was experiencing the epiphanies as if my world is magical. Was it Patternicity or what?
#traxxfm With the closing of the decade happening today, I have to say I still cannot have a conclusive answer to my 20 years question of God and No God. Either it is both or it is inconclusive. Thus I shall remain an Agnostic Atheist.
#traxxfm I am tempted to say that the God experience is induced at the neurotransmitter level. Just like Dr Ramachandran hypothesized that the God Experience was heightened *d[o] (due) to a mental illness known as temporal lobe epilepsy. *Sarah's input
I don't know why I am bugged with this question. I might as well discard the whole question as irrelevant.
#traxxfm Here is my conclusion. If there is God, it will be towards my advantage. Otherwise I will live my life to the fullest as a Man Fully Functioning. Either way, I will not take the attitude of wait and see.
I am totally satisfied with the answer.
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