Drich, I'm sorry, but I've had enough. The process doesn't work, or is so badly formed that it has a very low success rate. I tried it as you put it down (since you put it down), and every problem faced is answered with "You simply didn't do it right" or "You must be ignoring god's answer". You can't tell me that's what's happening when you're not here, seeing and experiencing what I'm seeing and experiencing, which is nothing.
I don't know how it worked for you, if it worked for you, and if it did, why it worked for you, but at the end of this and every previous attempt to somehow connect with whatever god is out there, nothing has happened. I would have thought that given that god is all powerful/knowing/present, it'd be remarkably easy to connect to it, but every time I fail, it's just dancing around and telling me that I must have done it wrong.
Well put it this way: Until god can come up with an actually reasonable means of discerning himself to me, I'm not going to keep looking only to find nothing, or to find a sign so inscrutable from the background of reality, that god must simply be taking the piss. I'm just not. Especially when there's about 50 other faiths all saying the exact same thing about their own individual gods as distinct from yours.
No offense meant by this, really, but I'm just tired of people pushing back the goalposts every time I try to get to their level.
I don't know how it worked for you, if it worked for you, and if it did, why it worked for you, but at the end of this and every previous attempt to somehow connect with whatever god is out there, nothing has happened. I would have thought that given that god is all powerful/knowing/present, it'd be remarkably easy to connect to it, but every time I fail, it's just dancing around and telling me that I must have done it wrong.
Well put it this way: Until god can come up with an actually reasonable means of discerning himself to me, I'm not going to keep looking only to find nothing, or to find a sign so inscrutable from the background of reality, that god must simply be taking the piss. I'm just not. Especially when there's about 50 other faiths all saying the exact same thing about their own individual gods as distinct from yours.
No offense meant by this, really, but I'm just tired of people pushing back the goalposts every time I try to get to their level.
If you believe it, question it. If you question it, get an answer. If you have an answer, does that answer satisfy reality? Does it satisfy you? Probably not. For no one else will agree with you, not really.
