JoshJ: I don't think that you understand the purpose of these tautologies. They are not meant to point of any non-obvious facts, merely illustrate why calling the universe God is not a mislabel, since it possesses all the attributes required to be called God. I can't come up with a better definition of God than this set of attributes. What these statements essentially prove is that the universe
is God according to the definition of God, and that there cannot be a God other than the universe by that same definition (uniqueness).
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Now, you say you've had prophetic dreams and those "prove" to you that there is a conscious god and you're part of it. I shall point you at Star Wars for your mystical all-powerful being connecting all living things (or for something a little more modern, U-DO in Xenosaga, though you likely wouldn't care for the Nietzschean flavor of that series) and a psychology textbooks so you can learn that dreams officially mean squat.
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First of all, I have explicitly stated that this particular aspect of my belief is a belief alone. I make no attempts at proving it to anyone, because I have no empirical evidence for it. Believe me, I've read plenty of psychology and neuroscience textbooks (I prefer to get my information from there rather than Xenosaga) and I am very familiar with the current psychological understanding of dreams, both Freudian and Jungian. The dreams that I am talking about have made specific predictions about strange events that happened in my life shortly following them.