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darrke -
I can tell you how I know he exists. In simple terms, I believe that "God" is pure love, the highest vibrational energy in existence. And I believe that if one has loved unconditionally (and it must be unconditional love) then one has touched the divine - one has made union with "God".
posted by
sannhet
on April 8, 2005 at 3:27 PM
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How do you know God really exists? I asked our minister once and he told me never to say such a thing again, that I'd go to Hell for even asking! I wasn't trying to be beligerent - I just wanted to know how he knew.
posted by
DarrkeThoughts
on April 8, 2005 at 3:08 PM
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The utter failure of one's personal melodrama.
posted by
donaldoji
on April 7, 2005 at 6:55 PM
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Avant -
Boy, does that ever ring true. Alien definitely describes it well. And how great is the feeling when you meet someone with similar ideas and feelings that validate what you have felt and believed! Thanks.
posted by
sannhet
on April 7, 2005 at 3:30 PM
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Metta -
Must be! Because here I am!
posted by
sannhet
on April 7, 2005 at 3:29 PM
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Painter -
I think I've read some of your story before. But I do know the feeling of "revelation" as well. Things just coming to me. Thanks.
posted by
sannhet
on April 7, 2005 at 3:28 PM
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Roof -
I've heard similar stories from Catholic friends. And many of them end with the same statement - "I'll never go back!" I feel the same way on the Protestant side of things. I'm pretty comfortable where I am at now. Thanks for telling us.
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sannhet
on April 7, 2005 at 3:27 PM
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sannhet
another thing that stuck out for me is that i have always felt 'alien'. there's something about my makeup that just doesn't jibe with traditional ways of thinking and doing things. not until i was much older did i see it as a gift.
posted by
avant-garde
on April 7, 2005 at 3:26 PM
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Sufis say that there are as many paths to God as there are people... Wiseass Disease could certainly be one of them (wink).
Metta
posted by
Metta
on April 7, 2005 at 2:57 PM
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me?
didn't have any definite religion as a youth
got into fundamentalist group sort of related to Ariala's @ 16.
left there @ 29.
maybe it was just plain revelation -- seeing and learning.
it seems right now i've reached some sort of goal and am just sort of lying back and enjoying having reached this particular mountaintop -- you know how it is having reached the top of a moutain. You pause and take it all in.
That's what I'm doing right now.
waiting for what comes next.
posted by
Xeno-x
on April 7, 2005 at 2:11 PM
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I grew up going to Catholic school, but never really got much out of it. I starting attending my church's youth group in high school and that really did a lot for me spiritually. It wasn't the same old song and dance I had been hearing; my youth minister was very receptive to questions and discussions, which was great because I wanted to learn and debate. Then, as time went on, I started realizing things about the Catholic church that I could no longer respect, and I abandoned Catholicism. Since then I've been floating about, learning on my own, discovering things I wouldn't otherwise discover in an organized religion.
And I'll never go back.
posted by
roofpig
on April 7, 2005 at 2:05 PM
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