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writes: DO you think there is a higher power, that we can use to turn to when our life turns bitter? How can we actually know there is a higher power, if we never actually seen it? How come, some of us can easily believe this higher power thing, and can make their life so much better with this? Trust it on daily basis, and ask help, and guidance... When, actually nobody really can hear the answer, or see the actual helper.... I mean good for them. I really don't want to judge them. I just don't have this help myself, yet I feel, it's really great when you do. I just can't see how am I ever going to believe something like that, with no evidence... How can people get there, to make this a whole system, what do you think? I really don't want to hurt anybody, I need help, to understand something.. Thanks Reply to this Question
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reader, anonymous, writes (18 January 2009): yes. I didn't have to read the details (of the question) to know their is one. I was SAVED lots. trust me, he's there. He listens and there's nothing that he was except your love and compassion as well as loyalty. And with that, you'll be fine.
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reader, anonymous, writes (14 January 2009): Hi
Satindesire
Miss anon' hope you find what your looking for'
I think your words are great and a lot of truth and wisdom within in them, spoken from a genuine heart. I agree that i don't need to understand faith, and i am sure you mean well ....but i do realize.....what faith is TO MYSELF and although 'nobody' may 'understand it' myself included....it could be when we REALLY HAVE TO FIGHT TO LIVE! and believe we can SURVIVE what some have never experienced and hope never do...and a few words from religion is not always enough to pick you up out of the dirt, to stitch the scars, to take incessant pain away. Why would God come and pick me up instead of the abused battered child in another part of the world? Surely he would not CHOOSE? It can be the WILL to live which is found WITHIN the faith that things will get better, as i suggested in my original post...and so you are quite correct i don't need to understand it! but i don't need to REALIZE anything regarding faith either as ,I LIVE IT, and have from five years old unless you have walked in the self same shoes, when you PRACTICE with experience then PREACH. Please don't be offended by my words just letting you know that i do REALIZE.
Again i think your words were great and wise and will mend many hearts in the future , but lay off the preaching bit, telling me 'i need to realize' ...that's when you have been asleep ,and Ive been awake enough to feel life's sorrows and have FAITH as my sleeping pill.
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reader, anonymous, writes (14 January 2009): Sending some Vitamin L(Love) to Flynn from a believer :)
You'd be an interesting Bible Study partner!
Take Care
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reader, anonymous, writes (14 January 2009): This is an issue that will rage on forever, because you cannot prove the existence of any deity.Faith and Truth are two seperate thing. If a god was proven to exist, it would no longer be a matter of simple faith (which requires there be NO EVIDENCE to support a theory, just faith that it is correct) it would be a matter of fact.My own belief is that there is probably no god in the form that we could understand. That this is it. And so we best make good because we won't get other chances.I may well be wrong. There may well be a god. It could be Zeus, Vishnu or Mohammed or even Buddha. No one can realistically know.I figure if I live a good life and don't rape or harm or kill anyone and try to be as kind as I can to people, then I should be fine if the afterlife turns out to be real.If I go to a hell because I chose not to form a definite opinion on the matter without enough evidence to draw a decent conclusion, then such a god was not worth worshipping in the first place.I will say I see no reason why an all powerful, all seeing and all knowing god would NEED to be worshipped at all and require his SON be tortured to death to make up for the sins of an entire species, despite the fact that that particular theorised death has made no difference to people sinning.These are just my own personal beliefs. It may well come about that someone proves beyond all doubt the existence of some god or other. I will gladly follow that god when/if that time comes.Flynn 24
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reader, anonymous, writes (14 January 2009): I'm an Agnostic... which means I believe in a higher power, but I don't subscribe to any one religion.
That said, yes, i do believe in one. And while i don't believe that God works like a genie or He'll save me from my problems by sending a choir of angels down to tell me what to do, fact is I do believe He gives me strength when I need it, and sometimes He will send a messenger my way, be it in signs or through a person or even just my gut feeling. Unlike the olden days of the Bible, God doesn't send down angels directly to tell you what He wants, least no so far as I have seen.
Anyway, that's what I believe.
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reader, HonningKanin  +, writes (13 January 2009):
 I dont believe in a higher power at all. There is no proof and I would much rather deal with reality on realities terms. I dont feel the need to cheapen the beauty of what is actually here and go on about a probability of something that may or may not exist. I dont work that way. I work with what is only.I also dont feel the need to cheapen MY OWN personal achievements by giving the credit to something mystical. Its mine and mine alone and that actually makes me the one accountable for my actions. If I became a drug addict i dont blame it on a devil much as i dont blame my recovery on a god. Both were my own choices. Choices can be either good or bad but ultimately you need to analyze your life, take a good look at what you want and then move towards it. Thats not divine intervention thats just critical thinking. As for faith, I dont believe things blindly. They can lead you down messy paths and you can easily be coned or lied to when you do believe blindly. As for a comment made by Sheribaby38 about thinking of my loved ones I have to say that that is an emotional plea. Of course the idea of losing my husband is unpleasant, but thinking i will see him after death, to me, cheapens the whole experience i am having with him now. I think life is wonderful and precious as an atheist because it is the only opportunity I ever have to experience it. It means so much more knowing that death is final and there is nothing after this. I take so much more pleasure in the things I do, cherish more the people I am with because I know i will not ever know them again once they are gone. Just because the idea of an afterlife is comforting doesn't make it true. If you told someone who was critically ill that everything would be fine, its comforting, but ultimately untrue.Again as for higher power, for me, there is none and because of that this world is what it is and is even more beautiful than when i was a believer. I have been dead for millions of years before i was alive and will be dead for millions more after. Life is only a brief break of light between the two voids of darkness and i intend to make the most of it.
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reader, Ed1337  +, writes (13 January 2009):
 If there is a higher power, I must of really upset them the way my life has gone this last month lol. I treat people how I would like to be treated myself, i've never done anything to hurt anyone, yet i've just been messed around by someone who I liked a lot.
Its hard to beleive that there is someone looking out for you, when all I see in this world is people trying to hurt others. Maybe i'm meant to be with someone better than my ex, someone who won't mess me around, thats why it ended between us. If I am, I wish she would make an appearance soon as i'm getting on a bit lol.
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reader, eddie  +, writes (13 January 2009):
 I am not a believer in a particular faith. I try to do on to others as I'd have them do to me. Why? I do it because it seems like a good thing to do. The alternative is surely not better. If you ask someone who is locked into a particular belief system they can talk your ear off about why their way is "the way". It is especially true if you're talking to a fanatic.
I fail to understand though how the world can bed such a lop sided place when it comes to the haves and the have nots. I have a difficult time understanding or accepting that it is a master plan that some poor folks are born into lives of misery from the time they leave the womb. I know believers will have a reason or two why it's that way but I choose to believe it's circumstance.
It also bothers me when I hear powerful nations talk about how they are fighting God's war or that God is on their side as thousands of innocent civilians die and are maimed. It seems ridiculous and extremely arrogant that nations or people with access to the media make these claims.
I believe there is good and bad. Many times people get away with terrible things. I think that's just the way it works out. For every happening that seems like a miracle, there is one that seems terribly unfair. I think it's chance. Having said that, I don't mind religious moderates because religion generally is a good thing and leads us to make decent choices.
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reader, anonymous, writes (13 January 2009): Hi
You sound very interesting????
This higher power none of us really can know for sure and are we meant to know? Maybe it is FAITH ,as Sheribaby has said.
Do you think there is a higher power within us? does it have to even be external? Can we access this power? The will to live maybe? self healing do you think this possible? Evidence? what could you call evidence? How can one make life better? I do not know, other than it could be more about how we REACT to challenges in our life, do we crumble? Can we find EVERYTHING we need within ourselves to cope? outside the world may well seem bitter, but is this because we have let 'our inner world' become bitter ,so can only view the world with bitterness?
Is this where a possibility of choice comes in?
I do not know the answers, it's just the way i choose to deal with challenges that could leave me bitter, but i can never let that happen AND NEITHER SHOULD YOU , every thing you need is within you! not outside of yourself. Evidence may be blind but can you trust YOURSELF? None of us were born to become wizened with the vines of bitterness that squeeze the life and love and faith from our spirits...we were born to grow and fill our spirits with life experiences for our eternal journey.. but thats just in my opinion...who really knows?
I hope you find what you are looking for..look not far!
via con dios.
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reader, core_confusion +, writes (13 January 2009):
 There is never any definitive proof. You can never 'see' (unless you're trully priviledged) buy tou can see the effects. You cant see the wind, yet you see the grass move, the trees bend and you feel it on you face.I am a Chrisitan and nothign would ever change my belief now. I have been through some serious ups and downs that have tested me to the limit but it is still there giving me strength.I won't preach to you about choosing any one religion to have a belief in - if you want to explore, explore from a central point. All religions have one thing in common, a belief in God. I didn't find my way until I was 21 and it took a serious 'jolt' to start on the route to finding it.Ny mother died when I was 20 and that pretty much threw my world into chaos. A few months later I started a job where I met someone who began to challenge my religious views (which at the time were generally pretty atheist) and they convinced me to utter a simple prayer. It was a prayer to a nondescript God, of no particular religion or faith and the prayer was this;'God, if you exist, I am ready to hear you. Please talk to me in a manner that I will understand.'You do not 'have' to hear anything, but for me the answer that came back was something that I could very deffinieley relate to. Everyone in my family rides motorbike, its in the blood and one thing I learned from a pretty young age is that if you get on a bike, sooner or later you will come off it, and when you do its usually pretty serious. My answer came as this. I was riding back from my friends house, the one who convinced me to say the prayer in the first place, and I came off on a patch of oil doing 80mph. Experience tells me that at that speed at the very least I should have had some broken bones. As it goes I did not. I was so unhurt that I was able to get straight up, and my bike was hardly scratched and I was able to ride it home. To me I cannot argue with that. I'm sure that others will and it is at this point that it becomes about Faith. That answer took time, a coupple of months atleast, but it came.Maybe if you ask you will hear something too? All I would say is that if you ask, be preapred to listen for an answer.I hope you find your God, whoever they may be, and that you find some kind of strength from them.If you want to talk further, you're welcome to contact me directly.
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reader, sheribaby38  +, writes (13 January 2009):
 Well it's called faith. I myself used to run around with an athiest someone who does not believe in god he had me convinced for years there was no god. Well I was young then and gullible. I know now that there is some higher power working. Look around you. Do you love anybody so much that the thought of losing that person forever rips your heart to shreds? Well chances are you do. I don't think that we were put on this earth to love our loved ones so much in this life and then to be taken away from them forever that would be mean and would be terrible. I definitely believe that theres a higher power who looks after us and helps guide us. You just need to have faith and believe.
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