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Punisher__
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What made you start believing?
Were you born into the church? Synagogue? Mosque?
Or did something happen to you one day, and you said to yourself "That has to be ? "??
Were you born into the church? Synagogue? Mosque?
Or did something happen to you one day, and you said to yourself "That has to be ? "??
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I dont believe anymore, but the reason I did for a long time is because growing up it was just that you had to be. I dont know anyone who didnt believe at that time around me and I went to church 3-4 times a week. I guess you could say I was brainwashed into believing because everyone around me preached it and made me afraid to not believe. Once I was old enough to realize I didnt have to believe everything they told me and got sick of churches giving me unreasonable responses to questions, i said ? it and went elsewhere for the truth.
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imo it would be irrational to believe ? doesnt exist
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TX_Made713 wrote: »imo it would be irrational to believe ? doesnt exist
You're not as dogmatic as you were before the IC went down.
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I pray to ? for the truth. I trust in him and he leads me to it as every day passes
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I would call myself more of an intuitive acknowledger/knower in progress. I used to be a beast out there. I got shot and literally died. I didnt see all that bright light, loved ones with open arms waiting for me ? people lie about. I was looking down on myself being defribulated and seeing other "things" moving to and fro in the air. From the on I knew it was more to life than eating, sleeping and ? and Ive been obsessed with finding the Truth ever since with no respects to religion or mans fake ass boundaries. Never been the same since, but i know I'm on the right path by the results that i experience.
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I would call myself more of an intuitive acknowledger/knower in progress. I used to be a beast out there. I got shot and literally died. I didnt see all that bright light, loved ones with open arms waiting for me ? people lie about. I was looking down on myself being defribulated and seeing other "things" moving to and fro in the air. From the on I knew it was more to life than eating, sleeping and ? and Ive been obsessed with finding the Truth ever since with no respects to religion or mans fake ass boundaries. Never been the same since, but i know I'm on the right path by the results that i experience.
this explains a lot about your beliefs. What do you mean by ? froze in the air -
TX_Made713 wrote: »this explains a lot about your beliefs. What do you mean by ? froze in the air
It was real fast and i was disoriented, but i could make out human looking shapes..they were slightly opaque but I could tell they werent like physical people because I could see the physical bodies clearly.The thing I saw the clearest was a big bug looking entity I couldnt describe totally if i wanted to. I guess maybe it looked like a cross between a crab and some kind of flea if or tick if you were looking at it under a microscope. It was just posted up in the corner of the ambulance. Scared the ? out of me. -
I know this is going to sound like "heaven"'s response to the question "what made you start to believe", but I'm going to say the Holy Spirit made me believe. I had verses thrown at me here and there but I can't really say that there was some "enlightenment" that I receive by mere effort to believe. I can't say that I made the Bible make sense. It is strangely understood as ? 's Word and despite efforts to even refute it in myself, I find myself unable to let go.
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Im not a believer anymore .... but when I did Believe... it was a result of having a strong family influence. I grew up praying and worshiping never to give it a second thought until i moved out on my own and started traveling the globe , learning more about science, and really started thinking outside the box.
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From the time I was a little boy, I just always had a sense or intuition of a higher existence. I didn't go to a house of worship or anything, I just knew. Certain things you can't get from a book, graph, chart or research.
You can't really quantify intuition.
Plus, Certain things I don't believe anymore, I know. -
The things that make people believe are usually indoctrination, desperation, and stupidity.
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Punisher__ wrote: »What made you start believing?
Were you born into the church? Synagogue? Mosque?
Or did something happen to you one day, and you said to yourself "That has to be ? "??
Because I had a personal encounter with Jesus Christ. -
DoUwant2go2Heaven? wrote: »Because I had a personal encounter with Jesus Christ.
enlighten us please -
From the time I was a little boy, I just always had a sense or intuition of a higher existence. I didn't go to a house of worship or anything, I just knew. Certain things you can't get from a book, graph, chart or research.
You can't really quantify intuition.
Plus, Certain things I don't believe anymore, I know.
That's interesting.
How do you identify yourself? Are you simply just a believer, with no type of affiliation to organized religion? -
Punisher__ wrote: »That's interesting.
How do you identify yourself? Are you simply just a believer, with no type of affiliation to organized religion?
I do have an affiliation but I am not dogmatic, I can see the commonality in different expressions where it is not a problem for me to respect and even embrace differences. Root knowledge helps you see past differences and look into the core of a thing. Branch Knowledge leaves you out on a limb, scared to move, and an intellectual coward.
In some instances I am a believer, because my knowledge is not absolute and I have not met my goal yet. However in some instances, what I have applied what I have accepted and the benefit or success I have achieved has put me past belief into knowledge.
Organized religion is to me wrongly labeled. I don't see organized religion. I see organized rituals, traditions, and dogma. -
TX_Made713 wrote: »imo it would be irrational to believe ? doesnt exist
No one believes ? doesn't exist....people just don't believe that ? exists. There's a subtle difference.shootemwon wrote: »The things that make people believe are usually indoctrination, desperation, and stupidity.
Sums it up perfectly...QFT.
