tolu619 said:
Armads said:
tolu619 said:
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I wan't the one who said he saw the 9/11 thing beforehand. It was someone else on this thread. All of mine have to do with my personal life, nothing worldwide.
My mistake, well explaining simple voices is much easier in fact. I've even heard a voice before. You'll find that the human brain is prone to hallucination. It hallucinates when entering or exiting a dream state, upon recieving trauma, if malnourished or deprived of rest, even if simply overstresseed. In my youth I often experienced hypnogogic hallucinations when I woke (and sleep paralysis.)
Man is a spirit that has a soul and lives in a body. God is a spirit, so are we.Your spirit is the real you. I'll admit I don't have a good way to explain it, but maybe that's because I can't explain a spiritual thing using natural descriptions.
To me that definition of spirit doesn't describe anything beyond simply your consciousness. If you are equating god with human consciousness then I have nothing to argue. You can believe in an eternal consciousness, I find no reason not to (I'm undecided on the issue of whether or not there is an afterlife, but I lean heavily towards believing there isn't.)
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Honestly, I wasn't trying to be condescending. OK, so God didn't convinve you that he existed. But where your studies aimed at finding him, or disproving his existence, or just unenthusiastic?
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As an person who believes in the scientific method I do not approach the subject with a predispostion so strong that it effects the end result. Form a hypothesis, experiment, analyze, and conclude. I believed in god when I was a small child, but then I moved on when I found solutions to the equation of life that answer the question better. I hardly think you could call me unenthusiastic when I fasted, spent days in meditation (still meditate today, just don't do marathon sessions) went on a diet shamans do before a spiritual journey (nothing but steamed white rice and unsalted fish for a month with water to drink.)
To be honest I think that most atheists have done more spiritual searching then believers of any faith (who tend to stay in the same faith more or less for their whole lives). You only get to see the 13 year olds who are just discovering a new way of thought if you only interact with atheists on the internet. When you meet the real atheist community of the world you see they tend to be very knowledgable on the subject of world religions, haven't met one in real life who wasn't.
Thread derailed btw D:
