Not me, that would conflict with my arrogance.Recently I've began to consider the real possibility of a presence out there that's larger than myself. I think everyone is constantly searching for — stonedthoughtsofnature
Say it tastes like excitement.How are you supposed to describe what "sour" tastes like to somebody who hasn't ever tasted anything sour? — stonedthoughtsofnature
Then stop trying to explain irrationality in a rational way.God is an experience that you need to have to understand what it is. — stonedthoughtsofnature
Like a universal interconnectivity?but it's a collective sentience that brings everything together. — stonedthoughtsofnature
God is an experience that you need to have to understand what it is. One thing it's not is that it's not a being that you can communicate with or pray to, like the Christian concept of a God, but it's a collective sentience that brings everything together. — stonedthoughtsofnature
One thing it's not is that it's not a being that you can communicate with or pray to, like the Christian concept of a God. — stonedthoughtsofnature
One thing it's not is that it's not a being that you can communicate with or pray to — stonedthoughtsofnature
One thing it's not is that it's not a being that you can communicate with or pray to, like the Christian concept of a God — stonedthoughtsofnature
God is an experience that you need to have to understand what it is. One thing it's not is that it's not a being that you can communicate with or pray to, like the Christian concept of a God, but it's a collective sentience that brings everything together. — stonedthoughtsofnature
I think everyone is constantly searching for "it", or "God", or the "energy", or whatever you'd like to call this presence. — stonedthoughtsofnature
Hi. I believe that you've experienced something, but why assume that this experience is universally accessible and also that others' experiences labelled 'God' are the same one you had? Why not a unique experience or set of experiences for every person? — visit0r
Of course, money doesn't pop out of nowhere, what did you expect? Most people who get in touch with God, and become aware of God's presence work at it. They don't make it up, the same way you don't dream up your £100K.I really want to find £100,000 cash underneath my sofa, but wanting it won't make it so. — Sapientia
Of course, money doesn't pop out of nowhere, what did you expect? Most people who get in touch with God, and become aware of God's presence work at it. They don't make it up, the same way you don't dream up your £100K. — Agustino
In the sense you've written, how is our experience of god any different from any other experience? Just change "god" to "blue" or "pizza." Are you saying it is impossible for one person to understand another's experience of the world? — T Clark
You can't find what's not there, no matter how much you want it. I really want to find £100,000 cash underneath my sofa, but wanting it won't make it so. You're just yet another person who has had a funny feeling, read too much into it, and now wants to declare your "epiphany" to the world. Congratulations, you're one of those special people who are not blind like the rest of us - blinded by our sensible, no nonsense approach to life, rather than letting our fanciful thoughts get the better of us. — Sapientia
My point is that maybe there all kinds of peak experiences. I've had my share. They felt universal. But I'm rarely satisfied that others know what I'm talking about if I try to describe them. — visit0r
It seems like some sort of phenomenal experience that's often interpreted as religious experience is fairly common. But it also seems like something that not everyone has. Or at least not everyone has it in a manner where it's at all plausible to them that it's religious experience. The closest I come to it, for example, is maybe an ineffable resonant/ecstatic feeling in response to some artworks, romantic encounters, environmental immersion, etc. — Terrapin Station
An atheist who is "looking for God" sounds like an odd sort of atheist to me. — Terrapin Station
It seems like some sort of phenomenal experience that's often interpreted as religious experience is fairly common. But it also seems like something that not everyone has. Or at least not everyone has it in a manner where it's at all plausible to them that it's religious experience. The closest I come to it, for example, is maybe an ineffable resonant/ecstatic feeling in response to some artworks, romantic encounters, environmental immersion, etc. — Terrapin Station
There are plenty of spiritual atheists, maybe they're not seeking God in name but they are seeking higher axiological and soteriological truths so in that sense they are seeking God in spirit. — Sivad
Those experiences rarely occur spontaneously, you have enter into the mystery, you have to psychologically commit. And what's interesting about that is even if Jesus isn't real the idea of Jesus can still save your soul. If allowed to work, the mythology can lead to sublime experiences of catharsis and renewal which can effect radical change within the individual. Mythology is powerful, but in order to access that power you have to activate and engage the mythological imagination. — Sivad
that made my eyes roll completely around so many times. — Terrapin Station
Millions of Buddhists fit in that category, there are the many academics and philosophers(Sam Harris, J.L. Schellenberg, Stuart Kaffman) doing work in this area, and then there are all the liberal theolgians like Paul Tillich and John Shelby Spong who have a significant following. There are millions and millions of people who fit that description. — Sivad
So you don't believe myth and religion have any impact on the psyche? You don't believe people have transformative religious experiences? — Sivad
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