Please outline your beliefs

[---Beany---]

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Originally Posted by Obbe

God is the oneness of all.

To be fair that doesn't really say anything about what you believe god to be. Is there anything that differentiates your understandings of God and anyone else's understandings of the universe?

Originally Posted by Thought Riot

1) I have absolutely no idea who or what God is. All I know is that I have this feeling that there's some other, higher force out there. I feel this way more when I'm in nature and less when I'm around people. It's really hard to articulate, but it is really just this sense of awe and wonder and a feeling that accompanies it.

There's a story. I can't remember how it goes exactly but it's something about a Father who asks his son where he's been. His son reples that he's been to the forest to spend some time with God. His father says, "oh you don't need to go to the forest to see God. God is everywhere. God is no different in the forest than he is here in your home", to which the son replied "Sure, but in the forest I am different".

I guess it's about being in a peaceful mental state without worldly distractions. The mind has more clarity and can perceive reality more accurately... which gives rise to an experience that can be related to a closer relationship God.

Originally Posted by Thought Riot

2) I love Jesus's message of Love, Understanding, and Forgiveness. However, I don't really dwell on the afterlife, or whether or not it exists. It's something that we will never know until it's too late. Also, unChristian Christians have been a huge turn off to the Christian religion for me.

3) Organized religion sucks. Personal religion and spirituality are good.

Fo sho!