RE: What Is The Point Of Prayer?
August 22, 2013 at 6:50 am
(This post was last modified: August 22, 2013 at 7:16 am by discipulus.)
(August 21, 2013 at 3:01 pm)whateverist Wrote: Lets just say it is my hunch that none of those alternative explanations for my experience is true.
Ok.....
(August 21, 2013 at 3:01 pm)whateverist Wrote: So let me ask you, do you have any experiences which you attribute to your unconscious mind - dreams, daydreams, bouts of inspiration, etc? If so then at least you comprehend the category in which I am suggesting we place your communing with God experience.
And I could place your "hunch" that your experiences regarding a world of physical objects that you perceive with your five senses in the same category.
Where does that leave us?
(August 21, 2013 at 9:06 pm)Faith No More Wrote:(August 21, 2013 at 12:11 pm)discipulus Wrote: You assume that when i use the word communicate I mean talk, but there are ways to communicate with God without talking. When I pray, sometimes I talk, but most of the times I use another form of communication.
Like how? I have to ask, because we had one guy here that said god communicated to him through digital clocks, and another who said god communicated to him through his opening the bible to a random page.
More importantly, how do you know you are communicating with god and it isn't an illusion or a construct of your unconscious mind?
How do you know that when you are communicating with a loved one that it is not an illusion or a construct of your unconscious mind?
(August 21, 2013 at 9:35 pm)Ivy Wrote: This is great. Today at lunch my friend told me that she opened the Bible at a random page to allow God to talk to her and that through the verse God slapped her and told her to forgive. After a while I told her about my experience doing that when I was a Pentecostal. I would open the Bible and I would get something to the effect of, "... and washushu gave birth to luki and luki gave birth to tutifruti. Tutifruti gave birth to fafi and fafi gave birth to tatertot." I would close it up and go again. After a while I would find one that made sense to what I was going through and get excited. lmfao
Means of communication with God that I can think of (in a Christian's point of view):
God speaks through a sermon
God speaks through rocks (people who are not Christian, a newspaper, a book, a commercial, anything really)
God speaks through a feeling
Christian speaks to God through thoughts and meditation
Christian talks to God through good deeds
Meh. Few examples. Of course, all of these have logical explanations. I'm just thinking like I would have responded back in my churchy days.
In order for communication to be effective between two people, what are some of the requirements that must be met?
