God is the great spirit friend

[jstrodel]

I wonder if, given that jstrodel has found his god, what motivation does he have to post such a drivel. You can type and sing all about your 'spirit friend', it will still be far removed from reality.

This guy really is an exercise in poe's law. I truly wished that people couldn't be this deluded, but then, there are those with much worse beliefs, so I don't know, I truly don't.

To be a spirit friend is to cease to concern yourself with what you can control to be real and empty yourself of all your pride (not just feeling haughty, it is complicated concept, it is like death to self) remove yourself from the cultural prejudices and ways of thinking that define a certain period of human history, other periods believed differently, and just try and live without feeling the need to create or dominate or control anything just emptying the self of all its preoccupations and desires and everything that drives it and hungering for truth, not a cultural abstraction of truth.

It works. Either I am lying or I'm not.

You can be carnal or be spiritual. If you are spiritual, you will see God and know God is real. If you are carnal, you will never find God, you will spend your days trying to prove you are smarter than others. It is up to you.

I am not advocating fideism and I am not advocating irrationalism, I am advocating a purging of the self of all of its cultural preoccupations and standards and measures and politics and deciding that you want to know for sure whether God exists.

If you care enough, it is there for you. I promise you that. If you would prefer to "refute" Christianity based on your 21st century pride, you can have that, but I wouldn't trade what I have for it in a minute.


Jesus emptied himself. That is the way to know God. You empty yourself and you see everything through God's eyes. You stop esteeming your own beliefs and opinions so highly and thinking you know better than God. You see your culture as what it is. And you listen.

Or you can debate and "refute" Christianity using English language concepts and values that are foreign to it, that fail to even appreciate its real meaning.