All the problems with Christianity

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By the way if you don't think I have experienced suffering read my latest blog post it is all 100% true and medically documented.

I am 100% thankful for all of it; as if it did not happen I would never reach this point of spiritual Light in life.

Go with 35 hours of sleep in 40 days and tell me what you learn.

That is what I did here just now.

And that's just a tip of an iceberg of pain.

Just a rhetorical question.

There is no way you can imagine it.

I have no pain now.

There may never be a higher power for you

but I have seen it breathing in my words.

Best wishes to you and all.

I'm thinking of the emotional pain of losing people primarily.... 35 hours of sleep in 40 days sound like it's uncomfortable, but it doesn't sound like anything worth keeping any level of regret for, or questions, or doubts on whether you did the right thing or anything else.

Peace Prayer for East and West

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt235909.html

I did not build this. You did.

That IS how IT works.

Where I am getting at is that Christianity pushes us beyond our comfort zone in the aim of helping others and provides us (we believe) with gifts from the Holy Spirit. And in doing so we find true fulfillement and our true homes. Christianity is by no means the only belief system that does this, but it is radical in the way it advocates complete abandoment of attachments in pursuit of loving others. This is by no means easy and is something I fail at this the time and I am a professed believer!

aghogday, I'm sure you think that your seeing everything as one is deeply meaningful. It isn't though. The problem and the fact that you and we all have to come up with is that we all have broken minds. The whole of reality is broken. No, even worse, it is not something where the terms "broken" and "whole" could ever be applied to. It's a dismal voiceless cry in a vast sea of nothingness. A reality where all of our intuitions of telos and purpose will never truly capture or address on their own terms. So we have people in the billions cry out for things to make sense to them, meaninglessly bleating like lost sheep, seeking answers that could never exist, driven by impulses that were mindlessly given to them by processes that never cared whether the lived, died, found happiness, or fell in misery.

And so what? You claim you have an answer. You've missed the fundamental reality that there is no answer. People seek and cling to notions of good and evil, and they do so because it was the adaptation to handle interpersonal conflicts, but the problem is it was an imperfect adaptation. Your enemies? They are programmed to seek after "good" just like you are, and are not constitutionally different, even in their will. You say that all of the suffering is meaningful? Then I'd say you haven't suffered enough to recognize that the scars you get from suffering will never be answered. That in many cases they cannot be answered, even if you received revenge/justice you'd still want worse to occur, even if you wanted reconciliation there would still be an empty hole or areas where even reconciliation cannot repair the issue, and even if you understood the process the sense of violation of it all would still not fade.

So, sure, talk about how you have "spirals", you petty prophet. You can have as many spirals, squares, circles, and pentagons as you may like because the reality, the underlying workings of the world, are not found in sweet spirituality. The cult leader Jesus died in absurdity as did all of the other thousands if not millions of cult leaders in history.

... The history of mankind is written in mindless processes, pointless wars, senseless madnesses, and so many purposeless things and abominations flowing from their own historical necessity ( instead of moral failing ) that to proclaim to have seen the underlying mental order in these might as well be the same as seeing the mental order of dice throws, coin flips, lottery #s and all of the rest. We live in a world that simply doesn't give a f***, and the truth of that permeates the air like the smell of bread in a bakery. Either cop to it, or let yourself be deceived by the fundamentally poor structure of the human brain. However, once you understand this truth, you will finally be able to make sense of how reality *actually* works. It's like enlightenment, providing as much understanding as their ever could be, perhaps even being a spiritual experience in as much as spirituality can ever be talked about, instead of being touched by the divine, you are touched by a horror of the void, a tumor at the heart of our common understanding of existence.

So, what's your read of that aghogday? Am I still speaking in squares? Have I moved onto trapezoids?

... I'm thinking of the emotional pain of losing people primarily.... 35 hours of sleep in 40 days sound like it's uncomfortable, but it doesn't sound like anything worth keeping any level of regret for, or questions, or doubts on whether you did the right thing or anything else.

What I am doing is cryptic but it is all based on research that most people would never have the opportunity to pursue.

If one starts seeing word salad then there could be a difficulty. 'Trust me' it's not word salad it's a puzzle, with all the pieces in clear view to see.

Again, I sincerely appreciate your concern.

Revelation is just a metaphor; it is not to be taken in the biblical context. It is my spiritual path to share but of course it is only fully meaningful to me.

That is very kind of you to be concerned with my well being. I can see how you might think I have a chemical or organic imbalance. But actually I have a spiritual awakening.

One could even call it an epiphany.

I think that the most valid perspective on life is the one which most closely matches what you really believe and/or are experiencing, at any given moment; the view which *does not deny* your subjective experience. That is why it changes, and still feels true. There is no objective truth about life.

If you cannot say that God hasn't done evil, then how do you know that even the things in the text that seem obviously terrible aren't just God doing evil? How can you be certain that the Christian hell isn't an abomination? How can you be certain that the Flood and the genocide of all of mankind except Noah wasn't just a case worse than both Mao and Hitler?

'Subjective experience' is the biggest delusion. Sorry.

I just _pretend_ Batman exists when reading the story for the sake of enjoying the story.

'Subjective experience' is the biggest delusion. Sorry.