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Anonymous asked this question on 1/23/2000:
Ok.. I find the whole God thing a little hard to believe. It
doesn't make sense that he created us, but yet will not give
any proof that he exists. And I don't want to hear that the
bible is proof because it's not. The bible was written by man.
And if you have ever played the pass it on game at school, you
know when it gets to the end of the line... it's always changed.
So forget the bible. Then they tell me you can feel him, or you
can feel the holy ghost. Well, sorry I felt anything. Plus, I
hear if you don't believe in God you will be punished by not
going to "heaven". Well why should anyone believe it?
He has not proved it to anyone that he is real. I don't know
the reason we are here, or who created us. I am scared to die
because I think it will be like sleep with no dreams forever
and I cannot fathom the idea of not waking up, but anyway... I look
to myself for guidance because I don't want to waste time praying
to some one I am not even sure is there. I am just not sure what
to believe... so what am I? Also.. if you have any ways to get real
proof i'd like to hear them.
Greg Churilov gave this wonderfully freakish rant on 1/24/2000:
OK: Your beliefs are a personal thing and it would be moot and
destructive to tamper with anyone's deeply rooted beliefs. Those
are emotive and subjective things, and even if your beliefs are
wrong (I am not saying they are) you would be doing yourself a
disservice by going against them. A viking would believe in Valhalla
and be a better viking as a result. Depriving him of that belief
could've destroyed him.
"Who Am I" is an o this exercise with me. Look at your
body. That is your carriage, your ID card, the thing that you move
around. Think of it as your hardware, or your interfacing tool to
communicate with others.
Now close your eyes, and picture a cat. Get an image of a cat. Did
you do it? go ahead. Visualize it. OK, that thing that produces
images for you to see, that thing that displayed the cat for your
benefit, that is your mind. Your mind is not your brain by the way.
Think of it as software, kind of.
Think of it as that collection of images and perceptions that allows
you to orient yourself. Maybe we could call it your Operating System
(I'm just working with analogies here).
OK, Now for the $10 question. WHO is looking at that image of the
cat? Close your eyes again. See the cat? Who is looking at the cat?
What is looking at the cat? that is YOU.
You are a non-physical, spiritual entity, an awareness-of-awareness
unit. You can use words like spirit, elan vital or soul to describe
yourself. Think of yourself as the operator, the user.
If you think of your body as a car, your mind as the instrument
panel, you are the driver. You are immortal.
You have been around for trillions of years.
You will survive your body, as you have survived many previous
bodies. You have tremendous potential which you have forgotten about,
you are so stuck in the petty little game of pushing this one body
around that you are like some kid playing a video game and taking
it so seriously that he's forgotten it is a game.
You are YOU. Best, Greg
And yet no mention of the fact that the individual who asked this
question is infested with invisible murdered space aliens that only
Scientology can scrape off of you -- for a price - flr]
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