Who is god - to you?

I'm in the process of collecting together a survey of questions which I want to use to ask a random selection of about 100 people what they believe 'god' to be.

There will be between 5 and 10 questions. The questions themselves won't be hard (after all, there are no right or wrong answers), but I am looking for people that are good at explaining, in detail, what they mean. even if you're an atheist/agnostic, your input is just as valid as anyone else's.

All this data is going to be collated together, and from it I'm going to be writing an article about god. I don't know what I'm then going to do with the article, other than publish it on a few websites, but the main focus of me doing this exercise is for fun - something to do, and it's a subject I'm interested in.

The reason I'm posting here is to see if I can find who would be interested in taking part in such a study. The results will be anonymous, and while I may quote peoples explanations in the article, nothing directly linking who said what will disclosed.

UPDATE: If you're interested in taking part, please follow the link below...

http://theworldofdan.co.uk/god/

 

Aye. (That is, yes.)

But please allow some of the questions to have an option for open-endedness. I doubt most of the people here will want to be limited to specific items or an unspecified "other" choice. =)

 

yes, if i don't have to do multiple choice.

 

These are not multiple choice questions... These are questions that (hopefully) will make you have a long and hard think about yourself, what you believe and why you believe it.

I'm trying to understand how people think... so don't worry, this should be an interesting for you as it is for me.

 

i'm in

 

Me too!

 

I will try to help if I can.
'What else is nature except God?' Seneca

 

OK - let's see the questions - but count me in provisionally.

 

I'm going to need some time to work on my questions, but hopefully I'll be able to get them togther before next weekend.

I'm just glad that people are interested in taking part in this study - I hope I can pull it off...

 

Oh, can I write a mini-essay? Whenever I talk about the metaphysical and philosphical, I tend to write REALLY long responses. You don't mind that, do you? (lol, I'm being serious, too)

 

Sure, I'll answer.

 

It's exactly what I want.. maybe you don't need to go TOO overboard with your answers... but lots of description is more useful to me than lack of description..

 

OK guys - I'm ready for your answers... check the link below to get started:

http://theworldofdan.co.uk/god/

 

I'll reply later tonight.

 

Nostradamus is God. He predicted the end of the world in 2000 and it looks like he's really close to being right.

 

I hope you got my email, I sent it last night. So anyways, whats this survey for? School or work or just for your own entertainment/knowledge?

 

So far I've got 8 answer sheets, and let me tell you, each one is as diffrent as possable from all the others... I'm looking forward to getting lots more, i find this stuff really interesting...

(and yeah, I got yours - thank you)

 

I sent mine. =D

I hope you find it useful! When you're done, please post some results or analysis, I'd really like to see what came of the whole survey! =)

 

I'm gonna do it too, like all things like this. I agree with Hikaru, post some sort of results

 

I'd really love to do it, as I said, but don't have much time at the moment.
Untill when do you need it? Just so that I have a date I have to stick to and can't postpone it into eternity if you know what I mean...