Can you believe in a higher power, without going religious?
Ive had some weird events where I was in a bad place and something came upon me like a single ray of light through the clouds.
Should we give this any weight about there being some higher Being, instead of just happenstance?
Religifags with rules written are not allowed.

Ultimate enlightenment is a wordless state, clinging to knowledge makes one a slave.

>>508886193 (OP)
Sure, you just realize that spiritual experiences are real, but you also realize that if there's some supreme god among all the weirdos out in the spirit realm, he probably didn't get degenerate jew kooks to write down his will.

>>508886193 (OP)
No., There is nothing new under the sun. All your belief can be put in a frame of religion.

>>508886193 (OP)
Taoism and Spinoza's God

>>508886193 (OP)
>Should we give this any weight about there being some higher Being, instead of just happenstance?
I would recommend you to give a bit of weight to this statement since there is a higher being. The next question for you is do you need structure and religious practices to believe in a higher form of life which is able to create humanity, and if not, should it be enough to believe that said higher being exists and try to understand it's will?

deism or something similar considering you believe it interacted with you. The smarter people all have their own version of a higher power (not brainwash religion)

>>508886193 (OP)

>>508886599
>All your belief can be put in a frame of religion.
By that logic ideology is the new religion, go fuck yourself.

>>508886193 (OP)
You can believe in a higher power but if you want that belief to have an effect on society then it has to become a religion

Just the way things work

You want to profess your belief then go on a hill

That enlightenment will only effect you though

Once you preach it to others then of course it starts to become a religion

>>508886193 (OP)
My ally is The Force.

>>508886888
Yes. I worship the supreme God, the Almighty ONE above all else. Eventually. Someone will put me in a category.

>>508886948
>My ally is The Force.
May the Force be with you always.

>>508886193 (OP)
Actually, you're one of those roasties that say
>I'm spiritual but not religious

>>508886991
>Yes. I worship the supreme God, the Almighty ONE above all else. Eventually. Someone will put me in a category.
And you can completely disregard this someone completely since they aren't you and will never truly understand your beliefs.

>>508886193 (OP)
It's just God. You'll continue to be a plebbitor until you except this. Hiding like a coward. Do you think God shows himself to every slackjawed retard? Go ahead, attempt to rationalize it

>>508887079
Not really. The superiority of my God can only be demonstrated by fighting them in a battle to the Death.

>>508887178
You must be 18 to post here

>>508886948
Are you female?

>>508887257
Might makes Right. Power is Absolute.

>>508887178
>Not really. The superiority of my God can only be demonstrated by fighting them in a battle to the Death.
Man, that's also how ideologies work today, people believe their belief system is superior and if are fanatic enough would go to war over this. It didn't change religious structures but only re-made them to fit modernity.
Therefore i'd never blame you if you end up killing people to prove your belief is superior.

>>508886193 (OP)
When alcohol and drugs take control of me, I can't say no. They are a higher power

>>508886193 (OP)
If there is a god it definitely isnt the god in any of the jewish fairytales but something that transcends all

>>508887344
>When alcohol and drugs take control of me, I can't say no. They are a higher power
because you conditioned yourself to consume to such a point that your own resistance is futile.

>>508887325
My Master is the best.

>>508886193 (OP)
>Ive had some weird events where I was in a bad place and something came upon me like a single ray of light through the clouds.
That's your 5th dimensional self assisting you, the 4th dimensional hologram of itself. That continues upward until you reach the single unified everything consciousness that could be called God

>>508886193 (OP)
> Me? Oh I'm a special snowflake - it doesn't matter what all of my ancestors believed or how the principles of their faith formed the foundation of western civilization and fostered modernity with unparalleled prosperity.
> I've seen a lot of jewish media, so I know the 'Religifags with rules' are wrong and a lot of them are hypocrites.
> I choose my understanding of the universe and eternal objective truth based on what aligns with my personal brand - it's a lot like how I picked whether I wear skinny jeans or cargo shorts.

>>508887178
Not really. The superiority of my Chad can only be demonstrated by fighting them in a battle to the Death.

>>508886193 (OP)
OP, I'm gonna tell you what they won't. You absolutely can, but you can also just create your own gods. Jews hate this one trick, but it works everytime. Any god you create will be just as valid as any god they are trying to hand you out of a crackerjack box.

Try it sometime

>>508886193 (OP)
Yes. It's called agnosticism. It is the only intellectually honest option.

>>508887446
>My Master is the best.
Keep with that faith retard, it won't stay for long if you're retarded enough.

>>508886193 (OP)
Religion is simply your relationship with that higher power. Do not make the mistake of confusing institutions with religion. The river bed is not the river.

>>508887513
Well said, anon

>>508887496
You are a stupid retard

>>508887513
>The river bed is not the river.
Pyrric victory is not a victory.

>>508887556
>You are a stupid retard
And you're a fucking child.

>>508887468
Not really. The superiority of my Chad can only be demonstrated by fighting them in a battle to the Cum.

Would you look at that, the Bible wins again.

>>508887626
Better be an eternal child than a worthless adult

>>508886193 (OP)

>>508887848
>Better be an eternal child than a worthless adult
Then you want to suffer for eternity not being responsible for yourself?
At least as a worthless adult i know my worth.

>>508887848
Better be an eternal Jesus than a worthless Shitskin

All of /pol is christian.

>>508886193 (OP)
Sure, just go dieist. Deist. Whichever.

>>508888053
I will live with my God for Eternity. You will suffer and die, then get reset like a retard.

>>508886193 (OP)
Belief in a higher power is useless. It will give you nothing because everything is subject to hierarchy. The higher being does not contact the lower, it contacts only with equals or close to itself. Gods are closer to people but the God that the jewish religions talk about does not even think about you

>>508888393
Belief in higher power useful. You cannot compete for shit if you keep listening to low-tier garbage.

>>508886193 (OP)
Of course. Some of us are of the opinion that God doesn't even like religion. Nature is alive, the environment is a man made concept. Nature is a body but where is the mind? And who can ever bring the 2 together. the main reason jews and homosexuals shit on religion is not because of religion even but passion scares them since they never seem to have any themselves. A man with no passions is dangerous; but the passions even more so, so that scares weak men.

>>508886193 (OP)
Of course. Some of us are of the opinion that God doesn't even like religion. Nature is alive, the environment is a man made concept. Nature is a body but where is the mind? And who can ever bring the 2 together. the main reason jews and homosexuals shit on religion is not because of religion even but passion scares them since they never seem to have any themselves. A man with no passions is dangerous; but the passionate man even more so, so that scares weak men.

Religion is so vital that it persists in the absence of learning. It lives in spite of its contamination with erroneous cosmologies and false philosophies; it survives even the confusion of metaphysics. In and through all the historic vicissitudes of religion there ever persists that which is indispensable to human progress and survival: the ethical conscience and the moral consciousness.

Faith-insight, or spiritual intuition, is the endowment of the cosmic mind in association with the Thought Adjuster, which is the Father’s gift to man. Spiritual reason, soul intelligence, is the endowment of the Holy Spirit, the Creative Spirit’s gift to man. Spiritual philosophy, the wisdom of spirit realities, is the endowment of the Spirit of Truth, the combined gift of the bestowal Sons to the children of men. And the co-ordination and interassociation of these spirit endowments constitute man a spirit personality in potential destiny.

It is this same spirit personality, in primitive and embryonic form, the Adjuster possession of which survives the natural death in the flesh. This composite entity of spirit origin in association with human experience is enabled, by means of the living way provided by the divine Sons, to survive (in Adjuster custody) the dissolution of the material self of mind and matter when such a transient partnership of the material and the spiritual is divorced by the cessation of vital motion.

Through religious faith the soul of man reveals itself and demonstrates the potential divinity of its emerging nature by the characteristic manner in which it induces the mortal personality to react to certain trying intellectual and testing social situations. Genuine spiritual faith (true moral consciousness) is revealed in that it:

>>508886193 (OP)
Almost die. Pay attention to how you feel right at the moment you realize you didn't die when you should have and watch what happens to your skin. Remember that moment forever.

>>508886193 (OP)
You can, but if you don't believe in the jew on a stick in exactly the same way everyone else does, they will call you schizophrenic and get you locked up.

>>508888235
> I will live with my God for Eternity. You will suffer and die, then get reset like a retard.
Man, by this logic God already judged humanity and the execution of said judgement is why suicide exists.
God judges people that are unworthy of living to suffer until they kill themselves, then they wait for eternity in a void-like hellscape that burns your soul until you get automatic eternal suffering again.
Which means, fate exists and all who refuses it dies.

>>508888994
1. Causes ethics and morals to progress despite inherent and adverse animalistic tendencies.

2. Produces a sublime trust in the goodness of God even in the face of bitter disappointment and crushing defeat.

3. Generates profound courage and confidence despite natural adversity and physical calamity.

4. Exhibits inexplicable poise and sustaining tranquillity notwithstanding baffling diseases and even acute physical suffering.

5. Maintains a mysterious poise and composure of personality in the face of maltreatment and the rankest injustice.

6. Maintains a divine trust in ultimate victory in spite of the cruelties of seemingly blind fate and the apparent utter indifference of natural forces to human welfare.

7. Persists in the unswerving belief in God despite all contrary demonstrations of logic and successfully withstands all other intellectual sophistries.

8. Continues to exhibit undaunted faith in the soul’s survival regardless of the deceptive teachings of false science and the persuasive delusions of unsound philosophy.

9. Lives and triumphs irrespective of the crushing overload of the complex and partial civilizations of modern times.

10. Contributes to the continued survival of altruism in spite of human selfishness, social antagonisms, industrial greeds, and political maladjustments.

11. Steadfastly adheres to a sublime belief in universe unity and divine guidance regardless of the perplexing presence of evil and sin.

12. Goes right on worshiping God in spite of anything and everything. Dares to declare, “Even though he slay me, yet will I serve him.”

>>508888645
Only faith in gods is useful. Faith in I don't know what is useless. In this case you will not have a patron who will protect you, this is a fatal risk considering that people are weak and prone to degeneracy. Faith without a basis is also insufficient, you must always be with your patron and not just remember about it when you need something

>>508886193 (OP)
Yes.
Philosophy rather than a religion.
Look at the Neo-platonists.

>>508889222
The false always lie with your own powerlessness. Not with God.
>boo hoo I can't overcome fate
Fucking weakling.

>>508887325
are you a zionist?

>>508889405
> The false always lie with your own powerlessness. Not with God.
You must be absolutely dumb in order to not realise that you'll probably be also sent again to earth to fullfill the same fate you fulfill right now only to go back to praising God in heaven. It is Already set in stone, and nothing you'll say will change your fate. You got lucky since your faith is also your destiny.

>>508889579
> are you a zionist?
No, i'm a Genocidist.
I believe that the world would be better if we genocide humanity by any means necessary, so the survivors (if left) will create a better and new world.

>>508889762
>tf
>tp

>>508889804
>>tp?

>>508889762
The most jewish post I've seen today.

>>508889907
> The most jewish post I've seen today.
And it still isn't jewish compared to ither jews. Your standards for jewry must be very low desu.

>>508889651
A cycle is needed in order to keep things flesh, but at the end of the day, I will live for eternity with God.

>>508890086
You want to check out the space gospel that just dropped?
https://urantiapedia.org/en/home

>>508887426
Scientists claim you only use a very small percentage of your brain.
Your higher power is your brain.
Only you can control it.

>>508890086
> A cycle is needed in order to keep things flesh, but at the end of the day, I will live for eternity with God.
Cycles are needed to keep torturing the souls already punished. Dumbass

>>508890492
Boredom is the greatest suffering for an immortal being.

>>508886193 (OP)
The only way to really believe in a god or higher force is to disregard dogma. Religion was made by man after all

>>508890227
> Scientists claim you only use a very small percentage of your brain.
Scientists also claimed the vax is safe and effective. They were wrong.
> Your higher power is your brain.
If that's so, then reality itself is an illusion.
> Only you can control it.
Which defeats the purpose of a "higher power", which, to remind you, KNOWS ALL, SEES ALL, ALLMIGHTY, and to tip it all off, IS ETERNAL AND UNBOUNDED TO ANYTHING.

>>508886193 (OP)
The only higher power I believe is Higher Love, the 1986 hit by Steve Winwood which anchored itself to the Billboard Top 100 for 5 weeks and net him two coveted Grammy Awards

>>508890551
> Boredom is the greatest suffering for an immortal being.
For an immortal being, i.e for ETERNAL BEINGS.
Mortals are as bored as their limited lifespan.

>>508890748
Go stare at a wall for 3 hours

>>508890833
> Go stare at a wall for 3 hours
And it would be very boring, but for mortals there are limits to anything, therefore the boredom is also temporary.

>>508891012
Go stare at a wal for 3 years

>>508891080
> Go stare at a wal for 3 years
Go stare at yourself for eternity.

>>508891235
No, I will keep staring at God, and admiring God.

>>508886359
I find that picture objectionable as I used to meditate daily but when I started drinking coffee and tea again it killed my meditation.

>>508891394
> No, I will keep staring at God, and admiring God.
No, you will live in a pod
Eat bugs
Will never own anything and be happy.

>>508886193 (OP)
>Can you believe in a higher power, without going religious?
Obviously yes. Also there are many things above us. If you were to think we are an engineered species by a more developed civilization. Like if you think Enki and Enlil stuff are accurate. They have a creator too.

>>508891450
I have God, I need nothing else.

>>508886193 (OP)
Yes and the answer lies within yourself.