To all the believers...

[ThaChozenWun]

I dont believe anymore, but the reason I did for a long time is because growing up it was just that you had to be. I dont know anyone who didnt believe at that time around me and I went to church 3-4 times a week. I guess you could say I was brainwashed into believing because everyone around me preached it and made me afraid to not believe. Once I was old enough to realize I didnt have to believe everything they told me and got sick of churches giving me unreasonable responses to questions, i said fuck it and went elsewhere for the truth.

 

[TX_Made713]

imo it would be irrational to believe god doesnt exist

 

[Punisher__]

imo it would be irrational to believe god doesnt exist

You're not as dogmatic as you were before the IC went down.

What happened?

 

[TX_Made713]

I pray to God for the truth. I trust in him and he leads me to it as every day passes

 

[judahxulu]

I would call myself more of an intuitive acknowledger/knower in progress. I used to be a beast out there. I got shot and literally died. I didnt see all that bright light, loved ones with open arms waiting for me shit people lie about. I was looking down on myself being defribulated and seeing other "things" moving to and fro in the air. From the on I knew it was more to life than eating, sleeping and fucking and Ive been obsessed with finding the Truth ever since with no respects to religion or mans fake ass boundaries. Never been the same since, but i know I'm on the right path by the results that i experience.

 

[TX_Made713]

I would call myself more of an intuitive acknowledger/knower in progress. I used to be a beast out there. I got shot and literally died. I didnt see all that bright light, loved ones with open arms waiting for me shit people lie about. I was looking down on myself being defribulated and seeing other "things" moving to and fro in the air. From the on I knew it was more to life than eating, sleeping and fucking and Ive been obsessed with finding the Truth ever since with no respects to religion or mans fake ass boundaries. Never been the same since, but i know I'm on the right path by the results that i experience.

this explains a lot about your beliefs. What do you mean by shit froze in the air

 

[judahxulu]

this explains a lot about your beliefs. What do you mean by shit froze in the air

It was real fast and i was disoriented, but i could make out human looking shapes..they were slightly opaque but I could tell they werent like physical people because I could see the physical bodies clearly.The thing I saw the clearest was a big bug looking entity I couldnt describe totally if i wanted to. I guess maybe it looked like a cross between a crab and some kind of flea if or tick if you were looking at it under a microscope. It was just posted up in the corner of the ambulance. Scared the shit out of me.

 

[alissowack]

I know this is going to sound like "heaven"'s response to the question "what made you start to believe", but I'm going to say the Holy Spirit made me believe. I had verses thrown at me here and there but I can't really say that there was some "enlightenment" that I receive by mere effort to believe. I can't say that I made the Bible make sense. It is strangely understood as God's Word and despite efforts to even refute it in myself, I find myself unable to let go.

 

[Shuffington]

Im not a believer anymore .... but when I did Believe... it was a result of having a strong family influence. I grew up praying and worshiping never to give it a second thought until i moved out on my own and started traveling the globe , learning more about science, and really started thinking outside the box.

 

[And Step]

From the time I was a little boy, I just always had a sense or intuition of a higher existence. I didn't go to a house of worship or anything, I just knew. Certain things you can't get from a book, graph, chart or research.

You can't really quantify intuition.

Plus, Certain things I don't believe anymore, I know.

 

[shootemwon]

The things that make people believe are usually indoctrination, desperation, and stupidity.

 

[DoUwant2go2Heaven]

What made you start believing?

Were you born into the church? Synagogue? Mosque?

Or did something happen to you one day, and you said to yourself "That has to be God"??

Because I had a personal encounter with Jesus Christ.

 

[TX_Made713]

Because I had a personal encounter with Jesus Christ.

enlighten us please

 

[Punisher__]

From the time I was a little boy, I just always had a sense or intuition of a higher existence. I didn't go to a house of worship or anything, I just knew. Certain things you can't get from a book, graph, chart or research.

You can't really quantify intuition.

Plus, Certain things I don't believe anymore, I know.

That's interesting.

How do you identify yourself? Are you simply just a believer, with no type of affiliation to organized religion?

 

[And Step]

That's interesting.

How do you identify yourself? Are you simply just a believer, with no type of affiliation to organized religion?

I do have an affiliation but I am not dogmatic, I can see the commonality in different expressions where it is not a problem for me to respect and even embrace differences. Root knowledge helps you see past differences and look into the core of a thing. Branch Knowledge leaves you out on a limb, scared to move, and an intellectual coward.

In some instances I am a believer, because my knowledge is not absolute and I have not met my goal yet. However in some instances, what I have applied what I have accepted and the benefit or success I have achieved has put me past belief into knowledge.

Organized religion is to me wrongly labeled. I don't see organized religion. I see organized rituals, traditions, and dogma.

 

[weezyfgarbage]

imo it would be irrational to believe god doesnt exist

No one believes god doesn't exist....people just don't believe that god exists. There's a subtle difference.

The things that make people believe are usually indoctrination, desperation, and stupidity.

Sums it up perfectly...QFT.