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Theists: what does your god want for you?
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RE: Theists: what does your god want for you?
March 17, 2013 at 10:37 pm
(March 17, 2013 at 10:21 pm)jstrodel Wrote: You will be intellectually frustrated your whole life and never experience the unity and beauty of realizing the nature of God until you see that the world is greater than what you think in your mind.

I have heard this stated before, in so many different ways. Basically, what it all boils down to is stating that one can experience the supernatural so long as one releases his hold on reason and logic.
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RE: Theists: what does your god want for you?
March 17, 2013 at 10:46 pm
(March 17, 2013 at 10:21 pm)jstrodel Wrote: You will be intellectually frustrated your whole life and never experience the unity and beauty of realizing the nature of God until you see that the world is greater than what you think in your mind.

Not everyone finds life frustrating, intellectually or otherwise. One of the distortions of mania is the strength with which you feel everyone's experience is just like your own. But it isn't. You really do not know anything about how things are for me or anyone else.
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RE: Theists: what does your god want for you?
March 17, 2013 at 10:51 pm
(March 17, 2013 at 10:46 pm)whateverist Wrote:
(March 17, 2013 at 10:21 pm)jstrodel Wrote: You will be intellectually frustrated your whole life and never experience the unity and beauty of realizing the nature of God until you see that the world is greater than what you think in your mind.

Not everyone finds life frustrating, intellectually or otherwise. One of the distortions of mania is the strength with which you feel everyone's experience is just like your own. But it isn't. You really do not know anything about how things are for me or anyone else.

You know there's another characteristic of people experiencing mania: they often cannot be reasoned with.
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RE: Theists: what does your god want for you?
March 17, 2013 at 10:58 pm
Psychologzing is cheap
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RE: Theists: what does your god want for you?
March 17, 2013 at 11:02 pm
(March 17, 2013 at 10:58 pm)jstrodel Wrote: Psychologzing is cheap

I dunno, a little couch time might do you some good.
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RE: Theists: what does your god want for you?
March 17, 2013 at 11:07 pm
The last step when people cannot defend their beliefs any other way is to simply accuse the person making claims that are difficult to deal with crazy that they don't want to subject to logic or serious critical investigation.
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RE: Theists: what does your god want for you?
March 17, 2013 at 11:09 pm
Whatever gets you through the day.

P.S. If you knew anything about my personal background, you might realize how fucking stupid that accusation is.
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RE: Theists: what does your god want for you?
March 17, 2013 at 11:25 pm
(March 17, 2013 at 12:07 am)jstrodel Wrote: I apologize if I offended you. I am from a religious tradition that takes seriously mysticism/the spiritual union of the church with God. Not sexual... like a thirsty soul that longs to be reunited with the one who gave it life. When they are reunited the one stops existing as one and becomes united with the other.

1 As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? Ps 42



I am much closer to God than any person that I have ever met. God is my best friend. Sometimes I talk to him for hours and hours and hours and God talks back to me. I call him my spirit friend. You wouldn't believe how much God means to me. I feel like a little baby whenever I am with God and He is my spirit friend.

Is blood sacrifice a righteous thing? The Bible says God never commanded them and many time it says they make Him sick.
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RE: Theists: what does your god want for you?
March 18, 2013 at 12:44 am
(March 17, 2013 at 10:58 pm)jstrodel Wrote: Psychologzing is cheap

You haven't gotten my bill yet.

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RE: Theists: what does your god want for you?
March 19, 2013 at 4:06 pm
(March 17, 2013 at 10:21 pm)jstrodel Wrote: You will be intellectually frustrated your whole life and never experience the unity and beauty of realizing the nature of God until you see that the world is greater than what you think in your mind.

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