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Originally Posted by WinterWolf
So basically you
are saying you were a rudderless ship that was meandering, possibly floundering inside this "black hole" or religion.
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No, I was a world travelled highly educated tri-lingual atheletic good guy, three kids, family, house, etc. But not enlightened, and not able to accomplish my highest ideals...
So I declared a mission to go into the depths to find something new.
I threw my soul at the world, sacrificed myself...
"Reality is God, when you pretend or lie, you cease to exist you die," was my motto.
http://www.lookyourheartinthemirror....hronicity.html
The story is there, it's a Reader's Digest abbreviated version; there are stories within the story, and I haven't updated it for almost a year, so it's not a finished product, but it's unbelievably miraculous in an undeniably mega spiritual way...
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Originally Posted by WinterWolf
Personally I sort of thnk religion was created by man to help them through the dark times where living seemed hopeless. This concept of worshipping whatever a person happens to believe in allows the gathering of souls together to form a union that would make them stronger together than alone.
This union of people then allowed them to continue their struggle to face another day knowing their fellow is also struggling.
Did humanity's need for something more create the super consciousness or did the super consciousness create us? I liken this question to the chicken or the egg question.
Questions, questions, questions. Endless questions and each fascinating and provoking in some manner.
Yes I digress... 
Winter Wolf |
Yeah, I think the main thing that I want to emphasize, for now, is that our behavior is innate, it's not learned, and we try to teach people how to behave, and it ends up repressing them.
That's oversimplified, but animals know spiritual truth and so do small children. It can't be contained inside concepts, and religion always tries to contain Reality inside concepts, God as well...
Commands and stuff are stupid.