A letter to god

[existence]

@Indrid-Cold I understand your feelings of resentment toward your “God.” I would like to say that, I’m sorry. As far as people go, they’ve been evolving the wrong way. The world will end when it’s so bad that there’s no coming back from it, or it will end when we can find peace and unity and the natural urge to love and do good is engrained in our blood. I have this theory that if we ever turn the tides and achieve world peace, that we will all just drift away in our sleep and thus, the new world will begin as we reach our evolved form. Almost as if we “Pass the test” that we were out here to practice for. People haven’t learned yet. I wish I could explain it all to you but I’ve already spilled half of the secrets. You’ve been praying to a god, while not believing in yourself. Placing the blame of all the good and bad always on someone else. Just do what good you cann, and try not to crush others beliefs. Don’t devote too much time to negative thoughts and worry, the universe is listening and wishes to make your thoughts a reality. Relish in the moments of peace beauty and happiness, for they won’t last forever. THIS isn’t a threat, it’s simply the way things are. We are living through various cycles. Cycles as grand as the occasional ice age, or cycles as fast as night and day. Tune into your inner spirituality and take care of yourself. I love you and please allow yourself to embrace the entire human experience.

[Vanessa Snow]

@reviewer_1 Such a sweet letter.
You are ready.
(S)He is listening. ;)

A child would know their mother in the dark, because they trust the presence more than the visual aspect, which is how most people measure God.
Do you need to see the wind to know its there?
You feel God.
You dont see God. You dont ask for permission to get in, you are entitled to this love.

Exactly what do you feel you need?
A visual proof that God exists?
<3

[Vanessa Snow]

@Indrid-Cold I dont think its crazy, or jealousy to be honest.
Isnt it like a sort of craving?
Like theyre eating amazing food and you just wanna have a bite?
You know, just to see what it tastes like.

We could swap "war" stories, im sure you be surprised by the notion that i do believe in God.
My brother used to ask me a similar question "How can you believe in a God that allowed so many bad things to happen to you?!"

God didnt do those things.
People did.
However, i was always picked up.

It was easier to explain when he had a son.
"Say you're at the park with G (his kid), and he's jumping like crazy and youre next to him, hes having fun and in a second, he bumps into another kid, trips and hurts his knee. Now, you were RIGHT THERE. How could you NOT protect him?
Or was it just a chain of events?
What would you do after he tripped and hurt himself?

'I would pick him up.'

There's your answer.
God picked me up."

The things that went wrong were necessary, in a weird way, i know, to put you where you are now. And to burst your bubble, its probably NOT about you anyway, but the people you will/can impact in your life.
Theres a funny bit about how Jesus understands suffering because he suffered the same pain himself.

... Would that somehow change a certain part of your story?
If you met someone, and for the insane fact that you had gone through the same pain, you were able to help this person? :smirk:

[Indrid Cold]

@Vanessa-Snow @existence I appreciate the replies to my downer post, but, but, but
...the idea that the human race could undergo some mass apotheosis when world peace is achieved, and also the idea that no matter how intellectual we think we are, we're all just kids to be organised by God ...these are very, very cool, important ideas. But at the same time, they're simple concepts. @existence in particular, you seem to be fascinated by Eastern-style stuff, the illusory nature of reality versus intellectual reconciliation. Michael Talbot, Dean Radin, Fritjof Capra, Niels Bohr. I dote on that stuff, too.

The problem I've got with it all, it downplays the dynamism of consciousness. It devalues it on a cosmic scale. All the metaphors about humans being like children, and stories of karma ...all good, but, for example, a sufficiently skilled novelist could write a story about someone hearing these ideas, and being awed, and making a bond with God ...but in that situation where is the actual connection between consciousness and the phenomenon of God?

@Vanessa-Snow @existence I'm not denying that there's a lot of truth in your respective essays. But these ideas aren't going to work for everyone, are they? It isn't a question of coverage, either: some people will have heard and processed them, but their lives still get bitter and broken, with the implication that God is running a VERY unsympathetic suicide cult.

Here's what needs to happen: let's say someone suffers Life-altering Sorrow Part One. His inclinations tell him to commit suicide, but he holds out. And then Life-altering Sorrow Parts Two, Three, Four, Five happen. I'm not denying that these events aren't spiritually significant, I'm saying that it's a matter of utilitarian logic, of the path-of-least-resistance, of economy-of-effort: you don't carry on teaching this guy through metaphors, or overarching spiritual distinctions, you manifest in front of him, sit him down and explain to him what's going on, the scientific reasons behind why horror is prioritised. You expand his intelligence if necessary, you explain why he can't tell anyone else what's going on, but you must do this so that he doesn't end up as a gibbering wreck in a mental home. Of course, this is discounting the idea that God isn't just some very non-enigmatic suicide cult leader (which is my own current, working theory ...genuinely sorry if that offends).

Look at it this way: if scientific laymen like Bernardo Kastrup and Lynne McTaggart can write books about testable, scientifically-verified quantum physics that come close to presenting a Unified Theory of Everything, I'm pretty sure God Himself could explain things to someone with minimal effort.

Anyway. (gets on child's BMX, does wheelie, rides away into distance)

[A Former User]

@Indrid-Cold
Be careful with those stunts! I have seen many YouTube videos to know how they can end.
. . .
Now... @everyone here.
The most simple and best answer i can offer in my state is the following:
YOU are GOD.
GOD is YOU!
Believe in yourself and therefore believe in god and vice versa.
Everyone is a part of G'd. Part of the whole hive mind phenomenon.
True, free will is a myth. Your life was always pre-planned. Even your doubts and disbelief you might have now, yada, yada.
All according to their plan. To your fate. To your destiny and such. Reflect on this idea for a moment.
. . .
My situation is different:
I was always alone. I came up to these conclusion all by myself. By evaluating all theories, facts, proofs and so on.
No one told me "the ultimate truth".
I had no mentor. No master. No guru. No teacher. I wish i had one back then.
But looking at how far i came here makes me realize that i never needed them in the first place.
I was better, smarter then that.
I looked through the veil multiple times at very different angles.
And guess what? Guess who helped me along the way?
It was all me. "Kara."
And i don't need anyone else or a "god".
I believe in myself.

[Indrid Cold]

@Karina-Kara There's something about the matter of 'free will'. I don't know if it's a myth or not. There's deffo a funny kind of vibe about it. Making plans, playing scenarios in my mind, I do get a funny sense of 'friction'. I've often wondered if consciousness comes from the future, from some kind of collective, ultra-cool afterparty run by punk nihilists, and in the meantime, we're all just actors. Moreover, does even 'Free Willy' exist? A film about a boy making friends with a whale? I've never seen it. It seems far-fetched.

[A Former User]

@Indrid-Cold You get the idea.
There was almost always something off with it.

[Vanessa Snow]

@Indrid-Cold @Karina-Kara my favorite thing about this post is how we all have different views and still managed to talk between us, without imposing and/or offending. <3 <3

[miralove]

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[existence]

@Indrid-Cold consciousness is the soul. So it is essentially a collective consciousness. We share the same consciousness, we just aren’t tuned into it. Whether it be the eastern theories or the Christians view on it or the Buddhist, they all try explaining things in different ways. Everyone just wants to know where we can from and why we’re here, where we’re going. Love and unity. Everyone is so selfish, the only way to get them to care for another is for them to realize they are connected to everything. And everything is them.

It’s all a matter of perspective from the explorer/believer