Just refound god (No SPAM!)

Morlock · Post by **Morlock** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 5:07 am

I know that some people here might disagree with what I say- this is me talking, and I just have to share this.

I do not connect to god very often, but last night I saw the most amazing display of nature, which may have a hundred and one scientific explanations, but to me, it reafirms that there is a god.

While I was walking my dog last night at about 23:00, I saw a huge flash of lighting across the sky. I waited, but there was no thunder. after a minute, another one, totaly lighted up the sky, almost to the point of llooking like daytime. After that- it really started. for 15 minutes, he sky was totaly filled with lighting, every second there was another flash. No thunder, no rain, just lightning.
It is amazing how it outlined the cloud filled sky, showing all the clouds separetly.

I'm sure you find it impossible to visualize (as I would before last night) But it the most awe inspiring sight of my life.

fable · Post by **fable** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 8:34 am

I hear you.

It's a purely subjective thing, and has no roots in objective analysis. Of course, what I find in nature at such moments isn't an Oriental thundergod from Mt Sinai or his later incarnations, but something else altogether.

frogus · Post by **frogus** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 8:46 am

*mumbles*...friction between water particles in clouds....build up of static charge....rational explanation...

Vinin · Post by **Vinin** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 11:59 am

Sometimes I get the same feeling. One time in Chemistry class staring absent mindedly outside on a rainy day, I saw something incredible. It had been a dark and gloomy day the entire day and I was just sad cuz of the waether. All of a sudden however, there was this one patch of light that just opened up and seemed to dry up a patch of grass on the soccer field. It was such a brilliant flash, yet i saw it all. I was so amazed that i gasped, nearly fell out of my chair, and was left with an open mouth. FOr some reason noone else saw it....

fable · Post by **fable** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 12:09 pm

Originally posted by Vinin
FOr some reason noone else saw it....

Nobody can, or will. That kind of experience is always individual. Did it actually happen, in other words, as a physical fact? Who knows? Who cares?

/-\lastor · Post by **/-\lastor** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 12:30 pm

I never had one of these revelations, and I really regret that. I'm a "switcher", if I come by a religion which appeals me I will probably take it. I used to pray sometimes for good fortune but ironically the good fortune came when I stopped praying, so I stopped doing that.
I'm currently an atheist but I hope there is something out there.

seraphshattered · Post by **seraphshattered** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 2:08 pm

there have been a few times in my life
where there has been confirmation that
there certainly is a higher power out there.

very similar to morlock's encounter with the storm,
the sky, the horizon, my entire vision has been filled
with it. the sunsets over the 'big sky' over the midwest,
the approach to the rocky mountains, just seeing the
land rise, and reach up suddenly to touch the sky,
and...just...the moon, always the moon.

there was also one time in my life, a few years ago,
where i was incredibly unhappy,
after a situation i won't describe -
the lowest point in my life that i can remember.

i was lying in bed, feeling terrible,
feeling that i was sinking into it, drowning..
when..suddenly, there was this incredible warmth.
i felt that i was being embraced...and i could hear
whisperings of female voices that i could not understand.

maybe i was just so out of it i was hallucinating, or my
own brain was trying to save me from myself, but i
believe it was an angel, or the goddess herself.

(and, just to clarify - i believe there is a god, and a goddess,
i don't really follow any specific religion per se, i just...have
my beliefs, and faith, most of the time..)

so...yes...weather..landscape..things that seem complex, but
can be seen as so incredibly simple....

KidD01 · Post by **KidD01** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 2:56 pm

The AllMighty (not Buck !

) works on mysterious ways. There are lots of things happen on people around the world which later they called as enlightment. Congrats anyway on your new found belief

Bloodstalker · Post by **Bloodstalker** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 3:02 pm

This is why I prefer the outdoors to the inside of a church

Gnu · Post by **Gnu** » Thu Oct 17, 2002 8:04 am

I found out the fact that God doesn't exist at the age of six. I just don't get why people are religious. Maybe they need some hope, because they are afraid to die?

Jaesha · Post by **Jaesha** » Thu Oct 17, 2002 8:19 am

I haven´t seen anything like this in my entire life, but I´d give anything for a night with northen light (aurora).

fable · Post by **fable** » Thu Oct 17, 2002 8:21 am

Originally posted by Gnu
I found out the fact that God doesn't exist at the age of six. I just don't get why people are religious. Maybe they need some hope, because they are afraid to die?

That's certainly one reason, and it's been played upon by various churches over the years. But what makes you think it's the only reason? Some people are drawn to religious belief because it's tradition; others because they believe it reaffirms their feeling for order, or their belief in good. And some believe because their senses inform them that they are surrounded by an unquantifiable presence, just as some don't believe because their senses inform them that there is no such presence.

Gnu · Post by **Gnu** » Thu Oct 17, 2002 8:25 am

Therefore the 'maybe'. If people are religious because it's tradition, that increases my despite for mankind. At least if a whole lot are. Up here in Norway 75% of all christians are christian because it's tradition, not because they believe in God or Jesus.

fable · Post by **fable** » Thu Oct 17, 2002 9:06 am

Originally posted by Gnu
Therefore the 'maybe'. If people are religious because it's tradition, that increases my despite for mankind. At least if a whole lot are. Up here in Norway 75% of all christians are christian because it's tradition, not because they believe in God or Jesus.

Mind, I dont' agree with it, but--is there something particularly despicable about people holding to a religion out of a sense of tradition? Are cultural traditions evil?

RandomThug · Post by **RandomThug** » Thu Oct 17, 2002 9:25 am

Belief in god

The other day I was watching the news and I saw the most horrific thing, people being killed in the hundred for no real reasons beyond personal greed of those who were running the show.

Oh yeah and I saw a pretty flower too.

fable · Post by **fable** » Thu Oct 17, 2002 9:28 am

Re: Belief in god

Originally posted by RandomThug
The other day I was watching the news and I saw the most horrific thing, people being killed in the hundred for no real reasons beyond personal greed of those who were running the show.

Oh yeah and I saw a pretty flower too.

Now, there's a punch of reality for you, and from two sides, too. I wonder which is the entrance and which, the exit.

RandomThug · Post by **RandomThug** » Thu Oct 17, 2002 9:33 am

Bargh

Take two tablets of reality and call me after you die.

fable · Post by **fable** » Thu Oct 17, 2002 11:16 am

Re: Bargh

Originally posted by RandomThug
Take two tablets of reality and call me after you die.

Who said I'm alive?

RandomThug · Post by **RandomThug** » Thu Oct 17, 2002 11:47 am

well

You dont reak of the normal stench of the dead, you know that old comotose like aspirin staleness. You have more of a fruity smell to you. Kinda like a plum, no wait better a qumquat. Yeah thats it.... Hmm its kinda nice out today, maybe I'll lay off the negatives..

And in other news http://www.tshirthell.com has sunk to a new low. Proving that htier is indeed a devil and his name is Greed