A Stranger/Christian Asks You "Do You Believe in God?"...

[Nahm]

@Saumaya Aware this ‘christian’ is me, of course. Unless I wanted to contest myself, which would be ridiculous. 

This reminds me of that picture of a dress that trended a while back. People would swear the dress was white, others black. No self / The Self seems to work like that. One day a person experiences / realizes (whatever today’s word is lol) and they look at that same dress wondering how they ever saw it the way they used to. Same damn dress lol.  

[Natasha]

38 minutes ago, Nahm said:

If you know what you are existentially, and in simple terms you believe in yourself, it’s kind of an easy yes. No?

 

37 minutes ago, Saumaya said:

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As Absolute embodied, we have self knowing existentially, or (the way Nahm put it) believe in ourselves.

 

 

[Nahm]

@Natasha ??❤️

 

[Saumaya]

10 minutes ago, Natasha said:

 

As Absolute embodied, we have self knowing existentially, or (the way Nahm put it) believe in ourselves.

 

 

Ah ok thx, that was downright a riddle

[Key Elements]

God is everything and touches everything.

[egoeimai]

@WildeChilde I say I don't believe in god. That easy. I'm an atheist. 

Whatever they respond, is pretty funny to me. 

[Leo Gura]

Casually respond to them: "I am God."

And watch them squirm.

Hehe

P.S. It works best when you're actually conscious that you are God.

[Monkey-man]

Well, faith and devotion to God can lead you to enlightenment. Thats not the main purpose of monotheistic religions, but just one step of it, it’s high step but not the highest step. That’s what I would tell him: if you still didn’t experience God even a bit, it means your faith doesn’t yet govern your life 24/7.

Edited February 23, 2018 by Monkey-man

[WildeChilde]

@Leo Gura  That made my morning, thank you Leo.

If I said that where I live, I'd be tied to a bed and exorcised.  

[Ether]

13 hours ago, Shanmugam said:

Yes.. I feel hard to understand him sometimes too. But his word usage is different. .. I am going to try to learn his language, just for fun. ,, But I find some similarities in his choice of certain words and the words used by J.Krishnamurti.

Im going to try to learn his language hahaha

[Nahm]

@WildeChilde They might even nail you to a cross. 

[PsiloPutty]

It's rarely a non-loaded question to begin with; very few people ask out of genuine inert curiosity. The question usually serves as a door-opener for them to unload their own perspective on you in an effort to either make you believe what they believe, or to make them feel superior to you. We all know that vibe. If that's the vibe I get from someone, I just tell them "yes, I believe in God" in order to diffuse the game. If I think that they honestly want to exchange ontological and philosophical ideas in a non-judgey way, I'll of course play ball and share my beliefs. 

[Key Elements]

10 hours ago, PsiloPutty said:

It's rarely a non-loaded question to begin with; very few people ask out of genuine inert curiosity. The question usually serves as a door-opener for them to unload their own perspective on you in an effort to either make you believe what they believe, or to make them feel superior to you. We all know that vibe. If that's the vibe I get from someone, I just tell them "yes, I believe in God" in order to diffuse the game. If I think that they honestly want to exchange ontological and philosophical ideas in a non-judgey way, I'll of course play ball and share my beliefs. 

Hmm..very good point. If they're fanatic, and even if you are the "same" religion, they will respond with something like, "your beliefs are immature." Even if you say, "Yes, I believe in God," they would want to dig even further. Maybe Leo is right  saying, "I am God." But then, watch them try to spread some funny rumor. Then, you'll have to say, "Thou shall not gossip (judge) thy neighbour is the first commandment of the bible."

[sgn]

What they're basically asking I think is: Do you believe in my/societys definition of god? Then I would say no.

I only use the word god on this forum because it seems to have a different definition here that I think makes sense.

Edited February 23, 2018 by sgn