I believe in a Higher Power

Discussion in 'Philosophy and Religion' started by dislexic, Mar 15, 2011.

  1. dislexic

    dislexic Member

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    As of Sunday I have removed all doubt in my mind that this world is under the forces of a higher power, god if you will. What that higher power may be is still a mystery to me but I just wanted to say that i am no longer an atheist and was also wondering if there is anyone else out there who has come to this realization recently. I wonder because two of my close friends coincidentally also started to believe on the same day as i did (we did not speak prior to our enlightenment).

    Thanks all,
    Much love -Dis
     
  2. thedope

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    I don't know why you need belief. It is demonstrable that the human body anyway, is overwhelmed by larger events, not the least of which is death.

    Now the question becomes, what is your relationship to that force?
     
  3. Asmodean

    Asmodean Slo motion rider

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    Probably being a human as well.
     
  4. The Imaginary Being

    The Imaginary Being PAIN IN ASS Lifetime Supporter

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    what influenced the change? i don't believe in god, but have been spoked in relation to the afterlife.
     
  5. Oz!

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    what happened on sunday that removed all doubt?
     
  6. Dejavu

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    I don't believe in god or after-life, and death, for all its overwhelm, I refuse to acknowledge its being a larger event than the human body! (thedope I know, true friend of life, means to bring mind to mind, but I am not afraid to base it, even in words!)

    Life is all we really have!
     
  7. thedope

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    I am not alone.
     
  8. Dejavu

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    As far as I (who am not alone either) can tell, your understanding can't be faulted. But how much higher does the body have to grow though? When will our height be, for all in tensions, the highest?

    Perhaps it's not polite to ask! :)

    Why should we know after all? So that it shall be enough just to know?! To love?
     
  9. Dejavu

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    Hang on, I am alone! Luckily everyone else is here! I wish they knew though! Wishing could work! But...
     
  10. lunarverse

    lunarverse The Living End

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    It does seem strange that the knowledge of personal growth for the achievement of something higher/better has been around thousands of years, yet man is still earthly man. Nothing has been achieved despite all the religious and philosophical texts/ideas, etc.

    It's only ever talk of growth, not a lot of substance. We're all still on the same level playing field.

    One can enlighten themselves be it through knowledge or drugs, but they're still in the same place at the end of the day. The same place as everyone else. Existing.
     
  11. Dejavu

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    But not on the same level. We could grow mushrooms on it and see what happens! :)

    We don't grow to our full height unless we grow together.
     
  12. Dejavu

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    Or would we all have to be on the same level to agree to do that? :D How do we get the ball rolling? Why are we so satisfied just to know that it rolls? Existing could be a living!

    All on their own axis to know it's our own!
     
  13. thedope

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    Multiplication is quick addition. We are an agglomerate of conscious units all in collaboration. One mind, many thoughts. Body is communication device, a transducer. Human body is one of many transducers.
    Our highest bodily state then, is clear perception. If the eye be sound the whole body is full of light. Purification then, equals frequency modulation, harmonization. Solution is equal dispersal, the alignment of all those conscious units to consistent purpose. Honesty then is consistency where what is said is consistent with what is done.

    Perhaps less so to answer, yet we share our thoughts.
    What I say is not meant to be dogmatic but to make ideas accessible.
     
  14. Dejavu

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    That all makes sense to me, is accessible, brings hope...but still---why? I mean, I might as easily fail to perceive what might be meant by 'equal' dispersal, and have no solution whatsoever to aligning my consciousness in all consistency with what we each share in purpose. One might reply that it is because I am not alone. But might it not be that we really are all alone? That our knowledge that we're not was true, but we didn't know how to retain it?

    My honesty is in wanting our thoughts, I really do want us to become them! I've seen that we can, though not fully knowing the how, or rather not being able to sustain that knowledge alone, which in turn brings up a when, and then always having to question the why for the because that it implies! lol

    What are we single-minded in? Where will our will be one? Who shall roll the world?! :)
     
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    you lost me @ mushroom..
     
  16. Dejavu

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    That's mushroomS. I'd never leave you out! But I think you're leaving me out! Are we alone?! I'm sure I never lost you. And I bet you can't even lose yourself. I hesitate to say I know so, just in case you really want to, but I doubt it, so get used to it, or don't, because I've never felt I've had to explain anything to you, except for now, which is odd...Why am I always at odds? Are we all at odds? I'm sure it's a good thing! Like a mushroom! :D I am a mushroom. No-one knows that. Not even me, yet! hahahahhaha!

    (that's magical laughter, not maniacal-- poor dumb word/deed discrepancy)
     
  17. thedope

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    In answer to a complaint.




    finding our good.
     
  18. Dejavu

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    I think you're right...about the single-mindedness

    But you do me ill to lay bare my complaint! My modesty isn't false! My patience isn't perfect!

    :)
     
  19. thedope

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    You'll survive, perhaps better yet flourish. I don't mean to rob, only to answer questions.
     
  20. Dejavu

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    Flourishing is too fancy. I'm going to go with survival.

    And I was only kidding about robbing me. I've always appreciated what you give. I think we both know there's nothing to lose in the way of everything! :D
     

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