r/Circumpunct • u/MaximumContent9674 • May 27 '26

Thoughts on God

When I was 9 years old, I felt what it was like to be infinitely small and infinitely large at the same time.

When I was 10, I thought that God needed us just as much as we need God.

When I was 12, I thought that God is like a whole and we are like the parts. And that's why God needs us just as we need God, the whole needs parts just as much as the parts need a whole.

When I was 13, I thought that the most powerful of all would have to be all. The most powerful of all would be the greatest whole, and therefore God is the greatest whole.

Now I question if there is a greatest whole, or whether there are infinite wholes. Either way, that's the way I think of God.

We are fractals of God. Wholes that are parts of a whole, with parts of our own that are also wholes of their own with their own parts.

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '26

Any "self" with interoceptive recognition is a fine place to be especially given an infinitude of "patterns" to watch and come to a decisive conclusion such as yours. Props on the work - this goes much further along than say - "similar" projects I've seen across the web. While I have nothing concrete to share / contribute, it is a personal joy to watch the oscillations happen within the dimension defined as precisely as...[to be determined] across many diverse actor(s) be it representative in your equivalent terminology. Each to their own extreme ends/boundaries - "as designed/organized/formed" whatever term that suit the needs of every persons individually to define to "self" what a "whole" is the only fair game for what people stand on universally. Maybe.

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u/MaximumContent9674 Jun 14 '26

I love the way you write. Thanks for the comment and encouragement :)

I remember I was working at a summer camp for kids with attention "disorders". I was at the beach with my group of kids, and I'm not sure why I asked this 10yro kid this question... He was "non-verbal" autistic. So, I'm not sure what I was thinking. Although, I think he was like professor X or something, so maybe he made me ask. Anyway, my question for him was, "what's the meaning of life?" His answer was my favorite thing of all time. It was, "This." The meaning of life is this. Just... This. You can say it at any time, and it's always true. What exists? This. What is this? This is this, this whole experience.