I don't go to church on Sunday, I make up my own sermons.
I've often posited when asked "Why would God bother creating the universe?" that one hint could lay in that the word "alone" is a contraction of "all one". So that God's motive or creative movement was prompted by a desire to create an "other", so as not to be alone. This was accomplished by God separating a piece itself and "pretending" it was not self. The effect of this was to create individual selves that do not know they are God as long as possible. The effect wears off eventually as the individual being's separateness weakens with experience that shows them everything is related and connected in the same continuum and they slowly evolve back into the God that made them separate. Humans would call this "finding God", whereas God probably calls it "a need to go back to the drawing board" and find a better way to hide itself from its creations so as to make the effect permanent and creation of an "other" absolute.
Then God, God willing, will have an "other" to relate to and be capable of finding some meaning.
Its lonely at the top.
I was randomly searching for the phrase It's lonely at the top in Google, them I stumbled upon this old entry of yours.
This entry seemed to drive the point that 'God created me and everything I see today because He was lonely; He desperately needed me and the rest of His creation. Our existence gave and continually gives meaning to God's existence.'
I was wondering, has your thought about this changed over the past year? :)
Not really. The "lonely" part is quixotic in that what people call "God" and I allow as the "Creative Impetus" is not really subject to human emotion per se. In other words I don't mean that literally what created things was some sort of emotion of loneliness...its was just a symbolic human way to express it. The rest of it is pretty much how I view the reason for anything existing at all.
Thanks for the comment. :)