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Torn between Buddhism and Hinduism.
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B.) I'm glad you don't need religion, but please don't think that religious people are only religious because they need "security" or that it is all "nonsense". Granted, there are many like that, but I'd bet there are just as many who aren't. Also, please don't equate those who do follow a religion as not being "strong enough" or being "prisoners in a set system" or in a "mind control system". I personally believe in God (in a Pan(en)theistic sense), and there may be a religion which reflects what I already believe. Then again, there also may not be. That's the purpose of being a seeker.
C.) Thanks for the suggestion, but I will stop my spiritual journey once it actually does "hurt" me. Until then, I will continue to seek for personal truth; what ever that may be.
A little paradox might be welcome . . .
Can you 'believe' or better still know a god that is 0% unreal?
A god that transcends existence and non existence?
If not you will never understand 100%.
Trust me, I am unbelievable . . .
Touché
Still, I am a theist, but maybe "100%" was a bit of a hyperbole.
I don't get involved in the discussion of whether there is a God or not, why don't you read it again. Your copy and pasting completely butchers what I actually said.
Taking issue with something he actually posted, isn't putting words in his mouth.
And besides, Vin, people do that all the time on forums like this one. If you're hide's not thick enough to handle that, maybe start a blog and turn off the comments. That way you can say whatever you like and not have to worry about people using it as a forum to put words in your mouth.
Just sayin .....
You did however say it about religious people. What difference if it is about religious people or God? It's still basically calling out a whole group of people with a broad brushstroke and calling them fearful beings who can't think for themselves.
Regards,
Jeff
I know it may not have been your intention, but when you make comments like that, it comes across as Neo-atheist dreck.
Jeffrey, those two things are on a completely different scale, one is governing your life for the rest of your life, the other is practically asking for directions....
She is my spiritual friend and not my boss.
I have been close (and currently am) to people who's faith in the Christian God is as factual to them as is the nonsense of it is to me. For the longest time I felt a bit superior, you know. But that was my delusion, that I knew more than they did what they REALLY experienced.
You gotta admit, it's a bit grandiose of us to assume. On the other hand, I do perceive many instances where dramatic and contentious expressions of religiosity are reactions to a person's DEEP lack of faith in what they protest for. But that's about the only time I give myself permission to be 'sure' and then only 'mostly sure'.
Even worse, I myself DO have a persistent, factually existent relationship with a power much greater than myself or any of the rest of y'all out there, including rocks and pulsars . I have this eerie suspicion a photon-width stream of it is peering out through my optical cortex watching me type right now. Eeek, seriously.
Gassho