(July 18, 2019 at 12:32 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: - and when that doesn’t work, rinse and repeat. It’s not at all different from reciting Buddhist scriptures until a person gets that flash of enlightenment, or leaving offerings to an idol.
Ritual and routine.
They can be small or large, private or public. The psychological benefits of those sorts of behaviors are well researched, but...ofc, not uniformly beneficial. They can become compulsions or obsessions, or other things.
At worst, they become cudgels we use to beat ourselves and others over the head with, or the engine of our own self degradation in feeling that we’ve “done the steps”. That this is somehow some personal failure of our own when we utter the spell and the devil fails to appear.
what does asking cost you?
IE what does post questions here cost you? What major changes of your life has happened in order for you to talk to someone like me?
How much does it cost to follow and read a citation or link I provide that leads to a greater truth or understanding? have you lost you job reading bible passages I post?
How much have you paid tiberius for the ablity to come back day after day and post your doubts and questions?
Again this is all that is required till it clicks.
If and when it does you must then honor your understanding and change your questions to now feed your new understanding of God. IE don't keep bring up the old crap when you know the answers. ask question based on what you understand.
Don't look now moron but you are doing all of this anyway.
If you don't die before I do you might find your self not burning in hell just for being who you are, but honest enough to accept what you have learned.
