Thank you for large and small
Thanks for all taken for granted
including any board thats slanted
Sorry for any fault that I’ve done
But with your aid I become one
help me come closer to you
and love for my neighbor to brew
Guide our souls, just in case
We haven't realized your grace
and thank you for today
ask to forgive for my faults
and aid those to become halts
ask to guide me in all
before I stumble and fall
Help my family and friends
in every way that life bends
How can we ever be enough grateful
and avoid our nature of hateful
Help disregard some strife
and be thankful for life
Does someone's will for another to live and be happy make it more likely God will help them?
I considered how God normally allows free will, but if an individual is willing for God’s will, it allows God to influence their thoughts and decisions, in a post from a few yrs ago; Willing Gods Will. But if the proposed function of this method is that God influences only the thoughts and actions of the person praying, then how can God help others as a result of an individual praying for those others?
It seems likely there are 2 potential aspects to this; God using the individual praying to help the other, or God being more likely to help the other based on desire of more people (who follow and request to God).
The 1st aspect would require the individual that is praying, to have some capable affect on the other whom they are praying for. This would include a lot of scenarios where someone is praying for family, a friend, a loved one, or anybody within their life that they can at least communicate or interact with. A simple example could be Bob prays for God to help his friend Jane, then later God influences Bob to mention to Jane a youtube video he watched about mental health, so Jane watches the video, and gains insight on how to improve her mental health. Or if Bob prayed for a random homeless person on the street he saw, 3 months later, he might be influenced by God to donate $50 to a charity helping homeless people, and that $50 might save that person's life by providing just enough warmth from a donated sleeping bag from the charity, that the same homeless person survives through a few nights of -20C. Bob wouldn't even know that he saved that person's life, but if it wasn't for that donation, the homeless person would have died of hypothermia. God can influence someone to save others that they pray for, even if the 1 that prayed doesn't even realize God used them to save that person.
The 2nd aspect would be, perhaps God makes changes in this world and causes influences, based on how much collective will there is from people that ask God to help another. This would require zero interaction from the individual praying, with the person that God is helping. It seems likely God would not interfere with the free will of the person being helped, unless that person also asks God for help, based on my theory from about 6 yrs ago; Control to Free, Allowance Degree.
God could also help someone that doesnt ask for Gods influence on their free will (such as an atheist), if it is making a change in their life not for the purpose of altering their will, but for another purpose, such as helping them have less struggles in life. The purpose of Gods alteration in this world is what's relevant in order to not alter free will, by disregarding his all knowing awareness that anything will influence someone, but still alter circumstances which simply has a side effect of influencing someone's perspective.
Now comes the question; why would God only help someone based on more quantity of collective will, rather than less? This may come down to Gods all knowing perspective, that even though we desire many things, it may not be that relevant. This may sound cold, but God may know that if someone dies, it may not be that significant. That person will either go to Heaven (whatever that may be), or cease to exist (which is what I believe Hell is in a simplified explanation). We may think that continuing to exist as long as possible for the most people possible is best, but we may very well be wrong. For a simple example, someone might live a decent life then become ill and pray to survive, but if their continuing to live is not relevant to others, God could still let them die and go to heaven or cease to exist. On the other hand, if many people will have negative mental health as a result of someone dying that they care about, that could be more significant. Perhaps God is more likely to help someone, if it will improve life for more people already existing.
So it seems, a simpler way for God to help another that an individual is praying for, is to influence the will of the one praying, to help the other. Whereas another method, could be for God to help that person being prayed for using other methods (without altering free will of that person), and could depend on the quantity of peoples Will for Prayer to Work.
How can someone distinguish whether an influence or the cause of something is from evil or from God?
Its commonly considered that the devil can be very deceiving and manipulative, so it seems likely he would often attempt to pretend to be a positive influence, or perhaps even pretend to be a Godly influence. This seems like it could make it difficult to tell whether an influence is from the devil or from God.
It could be hypothesized that a way to determine God’s influence is to consider what seems good and helpful in general, or what seems to follow the Bible. But if the devil is as deceitful and manipulative as could be, then he would likely create an illusion of good as a method of deceit for someone that wants to do good. He could do the same with the Bible by manipulating someone into thinking something is implied by the Bible. This might explain many bad deeds in history which people have done, claiming it is in the name of Christianity.
Perhaps the main difference for capability of influence between the 2, would be that God is superior and capable of overpowering. This in itself doesn't make the source of an influence distinguishable for a person, but combined with a genuine request from God, it could. In a post from a few yrs ago; Willing Gods Will, I considered how and why God would influence our thoughts and decisions if it is our will for him to do so. So if someone requests God’s will, God would have the superior power to influence that person. The way God would then influence that person would differ depending on the person and perhaps their typical way of thinking, as further considered in a post from a few yrs ago; Method of Guidance.
So since humans are flawed and their perception and interpretations are included in that flawness, assessing by themselves, whether something is good and from God could be taken advantage of by the devil. But if someone is able to interpret an influence after asking for God’s guidance, this seems like an effective way to distinguish any influence of being from the Devil or Divine.
Why is it such a challenge to be grateful to God?
Personally, I find it puzzling why I myself find it so difficult to be grateful enough for all the freedoms and opportunities life offers. In a post from about 1.5 yrs ago; Grate I questioned whether or not we should be grateful, and the reasons why. Considering basic existence as an option to experience positives throughout life is virtually incalculably better than complete lack of existence and chance, it seems pretty reasonable to be grateful. A lot of what we perceive as negative, is in reality only a lack of positive, as I mentioned in a post from before that 1; Positive Reinforcement Perception Relativity. Yet why does keeping these perspectives in mind seem so challenging?
I considered similar concepts in a post from 2.5 yrs ago; Contendment for Contentment, that being content is difficult because our ability to consciously comprehend prospects of alternate positives often leaves us over-focused on the past, future, or what others have.
Differently than being content, the term “gratefulness” usually insinuates comprehending the cause of something. Regarding the aspect of God for this topic, perhaps the difficulty of being grateful is also extenuated from a lack of comprehension of what God causes, as well as comprehension of the benefits of our existence relative to the potential contrary. A misunderstanding of God and these concepts of the benefits of existence could lead to a negative perspective of blame towards God. In my last post; Author of Authority, I considered the immense complexity of circumstances and effects which are often far beyond our awareness. To be more grateful to God, it might help to include in our comprehension of God, our acknowledgement of our own lack of awareness of circumstances. With acknowledgement of this can be included God’s authority to cause or allow various circumstances, including all potential positives of life.
Adding to the difficulty of keeping the perspective of gratitude, it seems to be natural and common to feel entitled. As I covered in a post from almost 2.5 yrs ago; Titled, but not Entitled, we may often assume we deserve more positives in life. This could be because of various status’ someone might have, or regarding God, feeling entitled could be yet again from a misunderstanding of Gods function. Bringing back the concept of over focusing on other positives, if we assume others have more positives from God or we should have more from God, this sense of entitlement can potentially result even in resentment. To avoid this, it should help keeping in mind the counter to this, that our existence or even accomplishments do not mean we deserve anything, since credit for existence, or anything we have the opportunity to accomplish thereafter, goes to God.
It seems to be our instinct and subconscious steering perceptions of entitlement and ungratefulness. I hypothesized more detail of how instinct and subconscious can steer the mind, in another post from about 1.5 yrs ago; Mind Driver. As it may be with a lot of problems, if the subconscious is steering thoughts in a dispreferable direction, the best option is likely to consciously condition your subconscious in a more preferable direction, as I covered in a post from about 4 yrs ago; Conscious Conditioning.
For application of this, to being grateful, conscious comprehension has to be aware of this overall concept (perhaps through writing or reading this), then consciously consider it significant enough to be triggered in memory in the future. If it’s triggered, then consciously choose to analyze and be aware of various aspects of positives of which to be grateful for. If this is effective at causing positive reinforcement, the subconscious will be more inclined to take this direction in the future. Through conscious repetition, can result habituation, and preferable alteration of the subconscious to be more Grateful.
Hopefully the understanding that any positives we do have in life are a huge blessing (compared to lack thereof), and that focus is better directed on those positives, than potentials, can be a potential solution to; The Grate Challenge.
If God is the author of reality, how much authority should God have?
In my last post called; Authority of Freedom I considered the basics of the interplay of freedom and authority to restrict it within society. Typically it seems agreeable that someone has authority in decision making and potentially reducing freedom over an individual if they are not capable of making effective enough choices for themselves. Examples would be parents authority over their kids, or owners authority over pets.
Even in cases involving coherent adults, we often give authority to a 3rd party who has more expertise and or less bias, when there are disagreements between people, or a lack of knowledge, in the many circumstances that arise where it is difficult to distinguish what action is best overall. For example; Judges, and law enforcement often have authority for settling disagreements, while doctors, scientists, and researchers can be given authority for expertise. How do these concepts of authority apply to God?
If you believe in the Christian God that is omniscient and the cause of allowance of life, this seems it would be basically the same concept of a parent of a child. Just as a human parent has much more (usually) knowledge, awareness, and decision making capability than their child, the same does God (if not to a much more severe degree) have much more knowledge, awareness, and decision making capability than any human.
When it comes to disagreements and involving an authority of power (such as law enforcement) which is supposed to be unbiased, if you believe God is good and loving, then God would likely be the ultimate unbiased 3rd party. With knowledge of every last detail of resulting scientific physiological effects, as well as mental effects of anyone influenced, even through every chain of reaction, God has a perfect understanding of outcome, and what is potentially the best for all.
This is also the reason God would be the ultimate expert authority to go to for difficult or complex decisions and circumstances. As experts are fairly knowledgeable in one category of study and experience, assuming God is omniscient, God would be an absolute expert of all information in all categories of any circumstances. Distinguishing God’s direction may be a whole other complexity to grasp, but for the sake of this topic, the extent of authority seems quite reasonable.
The complexity of effects from any action or decision any person makes, is barely graspable as a concept, let alone calculable down to the last detail, for a human. Regarding the grand scheme of things, the concept of “the butterfly effect” is but a minor component of the total causal effects of actions we take. For eg, hypothetically, someone could take a step 10 cm further to the side on a trail and cause a butterfly to flap its wings. This change of air current, growing through temperature and distance, eventually causes a hurricane on the other side of the planet. But this is only a portion of the effects of that 1 step. If that hurricane killed someone who would have otherwise had a child 10 years later, and that child would have had a grandchild 50 yrs after that, who would have 25 yrs later saved the life of an inventor who would have invented a water treatment device to save millions of people from dying of thirst in the future world-wide lack of fresh water.,, that 1 literal step could have caused millions to be saved, or otherwise die.
Throughout life, how many steps do we take without having the slightest idea of the total resulting effects? In all, if situations don’t occur the way we prefer, and if it can be difficult to understand why God might allow or cause certain things, perhaps the extreme complexity of interactions of effects, which are so beyond our knowledge that we can’t even perceive our own lack of knowledge, could be a reminder of the reason for; God’s Authority.
To keep things a bit more organized and centrally accessible, I've created some read-lists of categories which are more specific than the "labels" categories. I'll try to update this with new lists as I eventually sort.
The following read-list categories include; Intelligence, Mental mechanics, Neuronics, Positive Perception, Ethics in Society, Faulty Humanity, Emotion Neurochemicals, Language, AI, Free-Will, Science of God, The Concept of a Concept
Intelligence (16)
Intellectual Intel (What is intellect?) 12 2016
IQ: Intelligence Questionability (Which function of intelligence is more effective?) 02 2017
Intellect Incorporated (What aspects have been incorporated from animals to humans?) 09 2017
Intelligence Inversion (What causes intelligence?) 02 2018
Generalised Intelligence (What allows intelligence of general circumstances?) 03 2018
General AI (How can general intelligence be programmed?) 03 2018
Learning Learning (What are the components involved in learning?) 01 2019
Maximum Intellect (What is a theoretical maximum for intellect?) 03 2019
Intelligence Evolution by Language (How has language influenced intelligence?) 04 2019
Intelligence; Inherent or Integrated (Is intelligence inherent or integrated?) 01 2020
General vs Memory Intelligence (differences general vs memory intelligence?) 01 2020
Intelligence Development (How has intelligence developed up to this point?) 01 2020
Intelligence Advancement (What are potentials for intelligence to advance?) 01 2020
Adaptive Intelligence (What function of intelligence is involved in being adaptable?) 04 2020
Intelligence Inference (How can a degree of intelligence be inferred?) 05 2020
Human Advantage (what advantage do humans have over other animals?) 05 2020
Mental mechanics (13)
Calculative Decisions (How does the brain make decisions?) 07 2017
Decision Drive (How predictable could human decisions be?) 09 2017
Memory Mechanics of the Mind (How does the mind function?) 01 2018
Plane’s of Brains (what categories are there for function of the brain?) 04 2018
Plane Priority (how do the categories of function interact?) 04 2018
Determinisation of Consciousness (Could someone’s decisions be calculated?) 04 2018
Equation of Action (What causes someone to take action?) 08 2018
Motivation Direction (What causes motivation?) 06 2019
Preprogrammed Adaptability (What preprogramming allows adaptability?) 09 2019
Fundamental Focus (Why do our senses, and memory access, focus on specifics?) 11 2019
Mind Driver (Which process drives the mind?) 11 2019
Reinforcement Mechanisms (How does the mind utilize reinforcement mechanisms?) 01 2020
Interpretation of Interpretation (How does interpretation function?) 03 2020
Neuronics (13) (updated Sept 20 2020)
Efficient Ease of Numerous Neurons (efficient use of neurons for consciousness?) 01 2018
Memory Combination Creations (How memories saved without new sensory data?) 04 2018
Neuronic Information (how is info divided between neurons to allow combinations?) 02 2018
Memory Information (How are memories saved and accessed as information?) 10 2019
Conscious Neural Combo (neural combinations involved in cause and effect?) 10 2019
Concept Neural Combo (combination of neurons required for a concept?) 10 2019
Brain Bytes (How does our brains’ memory compare to computers’?) 11 2019
Electric Brain (How does electricity flow to neurons to create memories?) 11 2019
Instruction Interpretation Code (How does the brain use coding for neurons?) 11 2019
Subconscious Conscious-Memory Access (subc. access of conscious data?) 11 2019
Sub -Conscious Shift (How memories shift from conscious to subconscious?) 11 2019
Neuronic Territory (Do subconscious and conscious use different neurons?) 12 2019
Processing Proportions (proportions of subconscious and conscious used?) 05 2020
Positive Perception (15) (updated Sept 21 2020)
Negatron Negative, Positive, what’s the ultimate outcome of this world? rep (reposted) 01 2017
Alive with Drive What gives the drive to feel alive? (rep) 04 2017
Live in Fear, Live in Mere How does fear affect everyday life? (rep) 05 2017
Formula For Feedback formula for positive and negative feedback triggers? 01 2018
Confidence Key of Experimental Evidence How does experience cause confidence? 03 2018
Positive Perception What causes a perception of positivity? 11 2018
Contendment for Contentment What causes Contentment, and how is it achieved? 11 2018
Emotional Perception Can reinforcement triggers be manually driven? 06 2019
Motivation Direction What constructs of the mental feedback system cause motivation? 06 2019
Positron Are there negatives in this world, or only a lack of positives? 09 2019
*Positive Reinforcement Perception Relativity perception of negativity manipulated? 09 2019
*Scope of Hope Is hope a help or hinder? 09 2019
Past Positive How can someone perceive positives from the past as positive? 09 2019
Pass the Positive How can an indirect positive be passed, to add to perception? 09 2019
Grate Should we be grateful to God during times of difficulty? 11 2019
Ethics in Society (13) (updated Oct 1 2020)
Components of Contribution Is making a contribution pointless, or praising? (reposted) 01 2017
Prequel Chance, Equal Enhance to what extent should all be considered equal? (rep) 08 2017
Distribution Devisal What's the most effective method of distribution for a group? 09 2017
Concept of Contribution How should contribution be considered and calculated? 08 2018
Disproportionate Society Causes and effects of a disproportionate society? 08 2018
Greater Good How is the Greater Good determined? 11 2018
Titled, but not Entitled Is anyone legitimately entitled to anything? 12 2018
Reduction by Regulation What's an effective limit for regulations? 12 2018
Free- Be. advantages of freedom? How much liberty is effective? 12 2018
Material Motivation What causes and effects are there for materialism? 05 2019
Mutual Morality What morals should be followed? 06 2019
The con, in Conform pro’s and con’s of conformity?
Fairly Fair what is the most fair perspective for valuing all units included? 08 2019
Faulty Humanity (12) (updated Oct 1)
Mind Bind Causes and effects of blindly following in a mind bind? (rep) 07 2017
Power of Purchase How significant is the effect of purchases in this world? (rep) 08 2017
Colossal Collateral What collateral damage are humans causing? 09 2017
Intellect Incorporated How much does intellect need to catch up to society? 09 2017
Cynical Cinematic Sample of Society What are some examples of stupid society? 09 2017
Humanities Murder-Suicide factors of our murder of Earth/ suicide of humanity? 10 2018
Emotion in Motion How does emotion suit the motion of modern society? 04 2019
Update Pending: Subconsciousness Is subconscious outdated for society? 04 2019
The Fault of Default Hardware effects of defaulting to the subconscious in society? 04 2019
Intelligence Development How has intelligence developed throughout humanity? 01 2020
Intelligence Advancement How might intelligence advance in the future? 01 2020
Tree of Knowledge Effects from humans eating from the tree of knowledge? 02 2020
Emotion Neurochemicals (11) (updated Spet 23)
Formula For Feedback What is the formula for feedback triggers? 01 2018
Instinctivity What is instinct, and what effect does it have on the mind? 11 2018
The Notion of Emotion How does emotion function? 03 2019
Emotion in Motion How does emotion suit the motion of modern day life? 04 2019
(AI)motion How would “emotions” be programmed in an AI? 04 2019
Emotional Perception difference between emotion and reinforcement triggers? 06 2019
Motivation Direction Are feedback triggers the cause of all motivations? 06 2019
Reinforcement Mechanisms How the mind uses reinforcement mechanisms? 01 2020
Emotion Reinforcement How do Re-triggers affect as emotion? 01 2020
Emotional Effect What effects do emotions cause? 02 2020
Conscious Emotion How do emotions affect conscious thought? 02 2020
Language (11) (updated Sept 26)
Vocabularisation How distinct is vocabulary? 04 2017
Theory of Thought Can all conscious thought be viable using memory of words? 01 2018
Indistinctivity How distinct is interpretation of terminology? 09 2018
Labelling Language How significant language, for intelligence? 04 2019
Intelligence Evolution by Language Language influences on evolution? 04 2019
Artificially Intelligent Language How can a labeling system be applied for AI? 04 2019
Processes for Thought How does the mind construct sentences? 09 2019
Labelling Memory Information How are labels saved as info in memory? 10 2019
Categorically How are various categories saved in memory? 10 2019
Define Define What are the parameters of any given definition? 04 2020
Generalized Subconscious Communication Use of generalized communication? 08 2020
AI (6) (updated Sept 28 2020)
AC (Artificial Consciousness) Could consciousness be replicated artificially? 01 2018
General AI Aspects of instinct and subconscious to program general AI? 03 2018
Key Concept to Create General AI How are Concepts relevant for GAI? 03 2018
(AI)motion How would “emotions” be programmed in AGI? 04 2019
Conscious Artificial Intelligence Programming of consciousness? 04 2019
Artificially Intelligent Language labeling system applied for AGI? 04 2019
Free Will (14) (updated Sept 28 2020)
Intercedal implementation what extents does God intercede? 02 2017
Control to Free, Allowance Degree God knows future, we have free will? 02 2017
Inverted Inevitability Is everything inevitable? Was it always? 10 2017
Indeterminisation If purpose, then why probability in the universe? 10 2017
Conditional Coercion can conditions for free-will be guaranteed? 10 2017
Intrication How would God continue his will without altering free will? 10 2017
Relevant Route of Decision Direction how can God change our decisions? 11 2017
Influence Implementation How can God use our will? 11 2017
*Evolution of Free Will How evolution allows free will, and how it evolves? 11 2017
Free Will, Alter & Falter Why does free will cause harm in this world? 08 2018
Relevance of Will Is anyone’s will relevant, relative to God’s will? 02 2020
Willing Gods Will How much free will can be given up willingly? 02 2020
Free Will Requirements What basic building blocks required for free will? 02 2020
Unknown Freedom How does knowledge affect free will? 02 2020
Science of God (9) (updated Sept 30)
Deity Deduced Universal deductions 01 2017
Methods of Miraculous Manipulation Does God use science? 01 2017
Law of Physics or God Compiler of laws of physics 01 2017
Evolution of Free Will How can evolution of humans cause free will? 11 2017
Potential Functional Consciousness of God Function of God’s consciousness? 11 2018
Method of Guidance How could God guide someone scientifically? 02 2020
Adam and Eve Adamant Evolution Could Adam and Eve be in evolution? 02 2020
Distinguishment of Divinity What attributes distinguish God? 02 2020
Evidence of Alteration Is there, or could there be, evidence of God? 02 2020The Concept of a Concept (9) (updated Oct 1)
General Generalization How is a concept generalized? 04 2018
Carry the Concept How can a concept be carried to new variables? 09 2018
Philosophication What is Philosophy? 05 2019
Learning Memory Mechanisms How are concepts involved in learning? 09 2019
Complete the Concept How is a concept complete? 10 2019
Questioning Questioning What is the process of questioning? 10 2019
Concept Neural Combo Neurons’ function in comprehension of a concept 10 2019
Context of Context What are the parameters of context? 03 2020
Hypothetically Hypothetical What does hypothetical mean? 03 2020