Stuck (primarily for theists)
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I always get better. Every single day...
By now I'm waaay past awesome.
Define worship...
Not that I have any problems with it. I am in awe of nature/the universe too. I just don't see any evidence that it desires to be worshipped.
Meh, no, but I desire to do it, and it makes me feel what I believe to be a highly spiritual experience to do so.
Worship?
Observe with wonder, meditate in, work energy in, leave offerings to occasionally, work with.
I'm not asking you to believe in it, you know...it's whatever greases your personal gears...quite frankly, the atheist position is the most logical one.
But when I adopted it I felt very sad and lonely.
So if I'm deluding myself (highly possible) I'm okay with that. Life's hard.
how bout the choice of 'i still don't believe,you haven't convinced me, but i can respect your opinion of God..'
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are not mutually inclusive.
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so you are saying that if you were to believe someone when they say they speak for God,you would do as he told you? i find that very hard to believe for you Dyw..
i believe if that were the case, you would contemplate seriously what he told you to do, then do things you own way anyway..as well it should, if God wanted to tell you to do something, he will tell you himself, not through some other person.
Other ppl can only try to show you were to look, God has his own ideas for you, if he wants you to be the 'christian' he will put it into your heart to be that..till then he likes you right where you are.
hmmm..Hmm, I wonder which option I'd go for if I ever came across such a person.
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an attempt in futility..
unless the other person is there telling you what he see's,it is all supposition.
This is Reality,God?
Or she will, or they...just had to add the other pronouns, yanno...
Apropos of nothing in particular...
When I bought my first car...I sat in it with a giant grin on my face... and I heard a female voice in my mind, older, and a little sarcastic, say " You're gonna wreck it." With this I got a feeling of presence, and...blue, the color blue.
I asked "Is there any way I can stop that?"
She said "No."
"Will I be hurt?" I asked
She said "Yep," and then stopped answering my questions.
Ten months later I totalled that car in a ditch, and I still have hardware in my arm from that...
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Or she will, or they...just had to add the other pronouns, yanno...
God will be whatever it needs to be...
(i would love to have God show herself to me..
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There's a difference between having a belief in god and claiming that he talks directly to you, so much so that you feel you can make absolute declarations of what god is and is not.
Yeah? Why so? If I truly believed that this person did, in fact, speak for god then surely I'd follow them.
No, other people can claim they know where I should look, or, possibly, say where they looked and found.
I was just curious. The pantheist concept of god makes sense to me. Not that I "believe" the universe is "conscious". Although I leave room for the idea - after all, I'm conscious and I am a small part of the universe...
But I usually refer to myself as an atheist or agnostic, simply because it's easier than trying to explain to most people how my idea of god is not their idea of god.
yes i get the picture, it's the same one you present to me when i say i've interacted with god. (dumbass)
yes, and yes, and yet, no diagnosis has been made. therefore your assumptions or suppositions or assertions regarding my sanity are unfounded in science, and therefore by your own standards are invalid.
it's still extremely educational. you'll find that no one knows more about yourself than you do (until you introduce god into the picture). something signal should consider i think.
yes. you can see the lies. i know you can. the only reason they are lies is because truth exists.
So you're still missing the point... Never mind.
Um, wrong again.
I haven't made any assertions or suppositions about your sanity.
That is funny Ha Ha . You need to live with wolves for a while . You might change your mind . Maybe not . I worship all of nature on earth and Moon . I run away when I see a tornado burning down on me too . Like the animals of the forest we run away from the fire , Well smoke jumpers don't . My Navy seal buddy Tim the smoke jumper now he just dives right in from the air like fucking super man and puts the shit out .
Wow is that real . It looks like path ways . Like city lights of human development. Strange indeed
Now that you mention it, my ex wife had cats.
Squirrel's image looks distinctly like a representation of the gravitational clumping together of matter in the early universe, much like you see in this video about black holes (skip to the 9min mark if the link doesn't do it automagically).
Yes, this is a popular rendition of the Kalama Sutta, but it is not what the Buddha said.
That is interesting. But it is not my experience of people who claim to know God.