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  1. #1 Where is God? 
    Two little boys, ages 8 and 10, are excessively mischievous. They are always getting into trouble and their parents know all about it. If any mischief occurs in their town, the two boys are probably involved.


    The boys' mother heard that a preacher in town had been successful in disciplining children, so she asked if he would speak with her boys. The preacher agreed, but he asked to see them individually. So the mother sent the 8-year-old first thing in the morning, and the older boy to see the preacher in the afternoon.


    The preacher, a huge man with a booming voice, sat the younger boy down and asked him sternly, "Do you know where God is, son?"


    The boy's mouth dropped open, but he made no response, sitting there wide-eyed with his mouth hanging open. So the preacher repeated the question in an even sterner tone, "Where is God?!"


    Again, the boy made no attempt to answer. The preacher raised his voice even more and shook his finger in the boy's face and bellowed, "Where is God?!"


    The boy screamed and bolted from the room, ran directly home and dove into his closet, slamming the door behind him.


    When his older brother found him in the closet, he asked, "What happened?"


    The younger brother, gasping for breath, replied, "We are in BIG trouble this time. God is missing, and they think we did it!”
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  2. #2 Re: Where is God? 
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    This strongly reminds me on a parable from Friedrich Nietzsche. Quite powerful and full of content to contemplate.

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    Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning
    hours,
    ran to the market place, and cried incessantly:
    "I seek God! I seek God!"
    As many of those who did not believe in God
    were standing around just then,
    he provoked much laughter.
    Has he got lost? asked one.
    Did he lose his way like a child? asked another.
    Or is he hiding?
    Is he afraid of us? Has he gone on a voyage? emigrated?
    Thus they yelled and laughed.

    The madman jumped into their midst and pierced them with his eyes.
    "Whither is God?" he cried; "I will tell you.
    We have killed him—-you and I.
    All of us are his murderers.
    But how did we do this?
    How could we drink up the sea?
    Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the entire horizon?
    What were we doing when we unchained this earth from its sun?
    Whither is it moving now? Whither are we moving?
    Away from all suns?
    Are we not plunging continually?
    Backward, sideward, forward, in all directions?
    Is there still any up or down?
    Are we not straying, as through an infinite nothing?
    Do we not feel the breath of empty space?
    Has it not become colder? Is not night continually closing in on us?
    Do we not need to light lanterns in the morning?
    Do we hear nothing as yet of the noise of the gravediggers
    who are burying God?
    Do we smell nothing as yet of the divine decomposition?
    Gods, too, decompose.
    God is dead.
    God remains dead.
    And we have killed him.

    "How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?
    What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled
    to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us?
    What water is there for us to clean ourselves?
    What festivals of atonement, what sacred gamesshall we have to invent?
    Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us?
    Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?
    There has never been a greater deed; and whoever is born after us -
    For the sake of this deed he will belong to a higher history than all
    history hitherto."

    Here the madman fell silent and looked again at his listeners;
    and they, too, were silent and stared at him in astonishment.
    At last he threw his lantern on the ground,
    and it broke into pieces and went out.
    "I have come too early," he said then; "my time is not yet.
    This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering;
    it has not yet reached the ears of men.
    Lightning and thunder require time;
    the light of the stars requires time;
    deeds, though done, still require time to be seen and heard.
    This deed is still more distant from them than most distant stars -
    and yet they have done it themselves.

    It has been related further that on the same day
    the madman forced his way into several churches
    and there struck up his requiem aeternam deo.
    Led out and called to account, he is said always to have replied nothing
    but:
    "What after all are these churches now
    if they are not the tombs and sepulchers of God?"
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    Why, surely everyone knows, God or whatever it is called is part of the self. Perhaps those that created the god were thinking about that thing we all have but fail to recognise or let out, the higher self. So that being in my mind, heaven and hell also reside in the self, we are more than capable of residing where we wish to be or not, as the illness commands.
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  5. #5 Re: Where is God? 
    God is one part of our life and we are son of our god, Without her permission we can not to do any think. I would say god is in our heart and every living animals as well as organism. Also god is in our parents.
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