RE: Explaining the fact that we exist
November 5, 2016 at 3:13 pm
(This post was last modified: November 5, 2016 at 3:20 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
You might think that, but obviously not everyone thinks that, and I'm not sure how you could have arrived -at- that as some sort of truth. The "religions with a stick" are babies, newcomers, short lived cults, and even -withn- that single, abrahamic tradiion..there's less and less stick with very passing generation. Hell, catholics are flirting with the notion that even -heretics- get to go to heaven. Purgatory went poof...and soon, too, imo, hell will follow.
You have to step back and assess the broader picture if you want to entertain the notion that maybe, just maybe, you can experience divinity in the absence of pain. If you're not willing to do that, or even entertain the notion..then it's not actually an issue of you "not being able to handle it" - you want it to be painful, it's not worth it without the pain...and this is little more than a self inflicted wound, though what it might have to do with a god is completely out of left field...to me.
Do you know how wiccans call down the godhead? They get dressed up and have a party. Do you know how they attempt to use the power of divinity in their lives? By thinking happy thoughts.
You have to step back and assess the broader picture if you want to entertain the notion that maybe, just maybe, you can experience divinity in the absence of pain. If you're not willing to do that, or even entertain the notion..then it's not actually an issue of you "not being able to handle it" - you want it to be painful, it's not worth it without the pain...and this is little more than a self inflicted wound, though what it might have to do with a god is completely out of left field...to me.
Do you know how wiccans call down the godhead? They get dressed up and have a party. Do you know how they attempt to use the power of divinity in their lives? By thinking happy thoughts.
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