Do you believe? or should that be in what do you have faith?
By ESKARENA1
@ESKARENA1 (18261)
August 4, 2008 3:36am CST
After a long while on mylot I have become quite interested in the psychological problems experienced by sceptics. Now I ask, in what do you have faith? If you do not accept any form of psychic experience does this make you an aitheist? can you be religious and sceptic about the supernatural? would be interested in your thoughts
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@ellie333 (21016)
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4 Aug 08
Hi Eskarena, I have my faith in God, good, light, and am very open and accepting of others and am continually questioning everything, I am definitely not a skeptic and if someone tells me they have experienced an unusal happening I will believe them as I have experienced many myself also. Ellie @:D
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@ESKARENA1 (18261)
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6 Aug 08
i feel you have the balance right, keep your own faiyth but recognise the validity of others
blessed be
@zandi458 (28102)
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4 Aug 08
Many earnest Christians have convinced of its truth, but remained christian. In my place many people believe and practice supernatural. There is good evidence for the occurrence of otherwise inexplicable physical manifestations. It is well to keep an open mind and pursue investigations but data on supernormal phenomena are still not available in sufficient quantity to permit logical examination.
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@ESKARENA1 (18261)
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6 Aug 08
I have no problem with chritianity as i have no problem with islam, or any other personality cult for that matter, but do believe that the believers in such ideas are by their very nature believers in the supernatural and the occult
blessed be
@derek_a (10874)
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4 Aug 08
I wouldn't say that I have faith in the conventional sense, but more like a sense of trust. Meditation is the practice of that trust - trust in the truth of the here and now, for what else can be true. My ego-mind will tell me different though.
So do I have faith in God? Again I will say not in a conventional sense for that means that I would need faith that God does exist. If God is everything, I can experience everything there is to experience, when I experience it, so am I not having an experience of God, for God would not be excluded from anything no matter what it is. I do not need faith (meaning hope and trust that it exists), when I can experience part of what is whole. If you get my meaning :-)
I feel that I have proved to myself that psychic experience exists time and time again by knowing things that I could not have known by means of my intellectual mind. Proving such abstract things to others though,is near impossible, but I don't need to do that. If it helps anyone I am communicating to, that is what matters, not trying to prove anything to a sceptic.
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@frankiecesca (2489)
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6 Aug 08
I am not religious but believe there could be a psychic world out there - if I had proof then I would believe no end! x