RE: Theists, please describe how you experience your god
June 7, 2018 at 12:33 pm
(This post was last modified: June 7, 2018 at 12:42 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The majority of people talking about hearing or seeing the divine aren;t hallucinating in any sense. It;s just churchspeak.
Their "relationship" with god....how god "speaks" to them...how they "see" the lord in this or that...even they know that the words don;t mean what they would mean in any sensible context. It;s just an opportunity for pious theater.
Take GC;s comments in this thread as an example. He's never seen god "in the physical sense"...and who;se willing to place a bet that his "one-ness with god" has little to do with "one-ness" or "god"...if pressed about it? Does he drawn down the godhead like some sort of latter day archon? Is he transported across time and space to reside in the bosom of the divine? is it even a "spiritual" thing in any sensible conbtext. No..no...and no. A thousand times no.
He gets a feels in his meatsack. That;s the total sum of his seeing, hearing, or having a relationship of one-ness with god. Even deeply religious people recognize that anyone actually experiencing the things they take poetic license with are broken and need help....and no matter how often they say those things or hear them from others, they don;t actually take themselves or those others to be making literal statements regarding their experience.
Their "relationship" with god....how god "speaks" to them...how they "see" the lord in this or that...even they know that the words don;t mean what they would mean in any sensible context. It;s just an opportunity for pious theater.
Take GC;s comments in this thread as an example. He's never seen god "in the physical sense"...and who;se willing to place a bet that his "one-ness with god" has little to do with "one-ness" or "god"...if pressed about it? Does he drawn down the godhead like some sort of latter day archon? Is he transported across time and space to reside in the bosom of the divine? is it even a "spiritual" thing in any sensible conbtext. No..no...and no. A thousand times no.
He gets a feels in his meatsack. That;s the total sum of his seeing, hearing, or having a relationship of one-ness with god. Even deeply religious people recognize that anyone actually experiencing the things they take poetic license with are broken and need help....and no matter how often they say those things or hear them from others, they don;t actually take themselves or those others to be making literal statements regarding their experience.
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