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Quote from: jeffreyH on 09/12/2018 00:07:52
Can god get out of a black hole?
Why not ? It's only physics .
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The religion contains political and social power itself. It's hardly said as spiritual development.
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This is an amusing OP...
Makes for a good read..
Thanks to all participants involved.
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There are studies that show people with faith are less stressed.
One cannot prove that their faith is wrong because atheists cannot show what the Prime Cause of existence is. There is a possibility that God and the Spirit World exists.
I used to be a hard atheist as a teenager. Then an agnostic. And finally I have made a choice (not faith) that there is a high probability that God exists and as such will conduct my life as if he does.
In the past few years while coming to this point, I felt that one should direct any prayers and conversation directly to God. It is my opinion that Jesus existed and that he was an enormous force for good. But I could never understand the need to say he was God until I read about the Council of the Bishops as Nicea where it was needed to declare him a God in order to get the Roman emperor on board.
This too changed two months ago when I was very stressed about the injustice my wife and I were suffering - being forced from our home by unscrupulous corporates who had the backing of the courts and the politicians. I could not fight back (I wanted to - literally) but they would have gone after my wife. I felt powerless and outraged. My blood pressure soared up to 190/110. Meditation and coping was not working.
I had a flash of intuition and decided that God was too impersonal to appeal to, and that maybe Jesus was "more human" in spirit. What did I have to lose? So I appealed to Jesus (who the Muslims believe sits at the right hand of God despite not being God) to relieve me of my stress. I know that anger and rage and a desire for revenge can be very unhealthy. It worked. Within two days my blood pressure dropped to 140/90.
I went to a health resort to get my head together to accept that I would take a serious financial hit with legal costs that would eat much of my savings (I am 70 years old).
I got my blood pressure down to 140/79, and am doing okay. Am I pushing religion in peoples faces? No. Did I get comfort from a belief? Yes. Am I delusional? Well, first people need to prove there is no God and that the spirit of Jesus does not exist.
I have chosen to fight the corporates by using the media and have resorted to my standby of "When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade". I intend to expose the corruption as much as possible.
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