Does God speak to you?

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara


I have, twice. The specific sensation has a name, and it's on the tip of my tongue.

1st time, I was in church on Maunday Thursday, and I started thinking, really thinking about what it meant to trade you life for another, about Jesus' sacrifice. Wham! the feeling hit me like a sack of bricks and I began weeping uncontrolably, but ecstatic and guilty at the same time.

The 2nd time I was working at UPS, and while I was stacking pallets, I was reflecting on the Marx I had read earlier, and Wham! I had the exact same sensation. I wasn't weeping, but I was zooming in my head. My thoughts wer flying miles a minute, and I really got it and understood it.

It's a natural human sensation that happens when you understand something really profound. It has a name, and as my experience shows, it isn't simply linked to the mystical.

God wants you to become an communist christian

Jon Miller

[mrmitchell]

"There's a difference, when Lincoln prayed, he talked to God.
When Bush prays, God talks to Bush."
--Mario Cuomo, to Bill Maher

He says it like you can have a command of the Lord or something, and have him talk to you. It's blasphemous.

Is this a thing specific to America? What about India, South America, Africa? Do elected representatives in those areas claim to have personal relations with their dieties? Even in Europe, what if an intelligent charismatic pro-separation of church and state socialist (IOW, someone that would be very popular if they didn't say God spoke with him) politician said God spoke with him? Would the Euros still like him? Part of the reason I nearly toss up every time I hear someone say "God speaks with me" in the US is because it's invariably always said by a slimy double-faced politician wishing to forward an agenda so backwards and repulsive that he has to claim divine support to barely make the polls 50-50.

[Alexander's Horse]

Hitler thought God, in the form of "providence", spoke to him and he was God's instrument.

[beingofone]

God speaks to my cat, then my cat tells me what he said.

[beingofone]

In all seriousness, those who can be taken as experts in this practice would be mystics.
Almost all mystics from any religion or philosophy agree on one thing. That God becomes the nature of their life and thought. Meaning their thought and God`s thought merge and their life into a place of union with the absolute.

This requires letting go of all attachment and involves complete abandonment or surrender to the higher source of the All.

"For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it."
-- Jesus

[Alexander's Horse]

all I know is God doesn't give lottery numbers

[DaShi]

Or at least the winning ones.

[beingofone]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
all I know is God doesn't give lottery numbers

That is because God has a big budget, it takes money to run such a big universe. So he takes most of the money.

[Drake Tungsten]

Does God speak to you?

No. He speaks through me...

[Alexander's Horse]

google search it

[Seeker]

I think 'providence' is more like the god of Spinosa.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
God has banned me for a week for spamming heaven and using a DL in prayer.

[Spiffor]

On topic:

"Jesus was sexually liberal, he had sex with guys and girls, God told me this, I'm not about to argue with him, maybe you'd like to." -- Thorn

The reason why I love this quote so much is because:
1. I think Thorn was serious and really believed that God told him so.
2. It shows to the religious people that you'd better take any "word of God" (and especially its bearers) with a grain of salt.

[child of Thor]

I believe that on earth, in this mortal realm, God is part of all the cultures that exist, in many different names. After all its mans interpretations of 'Gods' wisdom that causes the problems.
Too many cultures/peoples have their God for it to be pure fabrication.
Something in the stories of the faith ring true to our human condition.
And this is the wisdom of 'God', weather your a buddhist/Taoist/Bible belter/Jehova/shintoist/Islamist/Thorist etc.

And in these 'wisdoms' people find guidence in how to live thier lives. Generaly they all form a simular pattern and rule set. Be respectfull of life, be kind to one another etc.
Of course these are hard rules to live by, especialy if you've been wronged, but its the ultimate spiritual goal of the human race.

And it definately doesn't help when 'God' gets hijacked for political reasons, and the good messages get warped by personal interests; the crusades showed this all too clearly

I think the real test for humankind, in a spiritual sense, is if we can all put our intolerances aside and see the love of 'God' for what it really is. At this momment we will truely understand the wisdoms of 'God' imho.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by child of Thor
Too many cultures/peoples have their God for it to be pure fabrication.
Something in the stories of the faith ring true to our human condition.

Don't you think that could come from the fact that there are many commonalities in human mass-behaviour, that transcend individual cultures? For example, a great many cultures have a patriarcal structure. Does it mean it's divinely inspired, or does it mean it's a likely outcome of a society forming?