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Amkoullel: Tierno, I would like you – speaking from your own personal experience - to answer my question: “what is God?” Tierno Bokar: ...God! ...God! ...God is the embarrassment of the human mind. Amkoullel: Excuse me, but I’m not any farther. I asked you for a precise answer and you tell me God is the embarrassment of the human mind! This doesn’t help me out of my own embarrassment. Why is God the embarrassment of the human mind? Tierno Bokar: Your question was too vague. I’m glad you’ve now made it precise – it’s only a good question that can get a clear answer. God is the embarrassment of the human mind because, on the one hand if you affirm his existence this does not help you to prove it, neither materially or scientifically, on the other hand, if you deny his existence, then you deny your own existence, which is merely an emanation of his Being. But you exist. And if you can’t prove God materially, you must remember that the non-visibility, the non-palpability and the non-sensibility of a thing, aren’t proof that it doesn’t exist. God is the embarrassment of the human mind because all that you conceive in your thought and materialise in your words as God cease for this very reason to be God and are no more than your own way of conceiving Him. He is beyond definition. |