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Originally Posted by Angela  It's interesting how you phrase this belief system: that you say, for instance, that "God had me turned inside out" rather than " my belief that there is a God had turned me inside out;" and "without god I'm such and such" as opposed to " without my belief in a god I am such and such."
You even say God was very real to me and now he's not -- like this god you don't believe in is a person for you (a person who does not exist!  ), not a thought.
I am not picking on your semantics, but just pointing out how the shape of thoughts creates feelings -- in the case of this wording, it creates "god" as an entity (who doesn't exist) and must be exorcised (and therefore has a kind of reality) -- in other words, it occurs as resistance. When you talk about god and how he doesn't exist, it occurs as stress rather than peace. As if you were at war with god -- who doesn't exist!
By the way, I believe there is no personal interventionist god. |
Thanks Angela. I was of course speaking metaphorically as the whole experience was internal. As you rightly point out, I have been at war with god and I still am. However, it is the belief imprinted within the psyche and the effects of those beliefs on sense of self that I am warring with, and not actually god, who doesn't exist right?
Ding! Ding! Bloody hell, I'm fighting myself! ha ha ha
What kind of god do you believe in?