(December 30, 2015 at 4:14 pm)Deidre32 Wrote: My own faith journey was an experience that happened, a few months ago...and it changed everything. It wasn't that I was longing for church, or prayer, or Jesus or any of that. It was truly a happening, if you will. I know I must sound like one of those people who come back from being in the woods, proclaiming to have seen Big Foot. lol
It requires faith perhaps to believe that it was something not to be explained as a natural occurrence. But, would it fail Occam's Razor, I don't know. lol
Faith and the belief in something 'supernatural' ...it defies logic, doesn't necessarily mean that the believer is illogical.
I've read through all of your stories, and will come back to them when I can today. I appreciate them very much, it helps me see where you once were, and how you arrived to where you are.
If you ever feel like sharing any particulars of that journey (either here or by PM) I would be interested to hear them. Not to try to change you of course but rather just to better understand the whole faith/god belief phenomenon.
It is only when one shoe horns the particular dogma of a tradition into such transformative experiences that faith gives way to belief and falls off the radar of my interest. I prefer the noumenal raw and messy. Once it's been dissected, tidied up and edited it .. meh.
