It seems that if you can reach a certain level of understanding you get given all your memories back from all past lifetimes.

James Gilliland has said this but so have a few others I've read about over the last few years.

If the word god simply came from the word good then yes god is real if you believe in good.

I do. Without feeling good at least sometimes life would not be any fun at all. having fun is good.

Eg...it is good to be back after another 2 week instaban, this time for not even trying to do anything wrong apart from not wanting to pay $600NZ per year just to post on this forum.

That sounds rather like a church demanding tithes. If you don't want to pay god won't save you and we won't talk to you either!