Found answers to some of my questions...in my religion

@vandana7 (100214)
India
January 8, 2023 12:14am CST
You never know when the right person will just say hello to you, and the conversation will lead to removal of the doubts you have had for ages. I pride myself to be logical. So I question. Do not follow everything blindly, unless I have not thought about the issue deeply enough to have doubts. Over the years, I have had plenty of doubts in my religion. Option to convert have also been presented. But I have clung to my religion hoping that somebody would have some answers. If I go into another religion, and have doubts there, the set of people I know would be lesser. That way, if I have doubts, I may never get answers, and would die as non-believer, even if I did everything ritualistically. Because I am born a Hindu, my circle of friends has more Hindus, and they cannot be answering about another religion, can they? So yeah, I have a few answers now, which I could share...not all answers are there with me. I may also not have had a few doubts, which I should. All I can say is, now when I bow my head before god ..utter prayers or listen to them, my heart is more believing. Have you also gone through similar phase of doubts and rekindled belief? It doesn't mean I don't believe your religion is true. It just means that I believe in god....
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@LadyDuck (471253)
• Switzerland
8 Jan 23
Believing does not mean being religious. I stopped going to church many years ago, that does not mean that I do not believe.
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@vandana7 (100214)
• India
8 Jan 23
I am with you about that. The person who cleared my doubts has hardly been in touch with me since then. Kinda, she was sent just to clarify the doubts and then disappear I think. I do hope she will reappear. After all, she has managed to make me feel more safe and grounded.
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@TheHorse (218450)
• Walnut Creek, California
8 Jan 23
Understood.
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@TheHorse (218450)
• Walnut Creek, California
8 Jan 23
@vandana7 Where did she go?
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@crossbones27 (49376)
• Mojave, California
8 Jan 23
Good for you and all I ever ask believe what you want but be fair and logical about it and do not force it on other people. I
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@vandana7 (100214)
• India
8 Jan 23
NEVER...it would be so dumb to force my beliefs on others...LOL I am not a blonde. Evil Grin.
@ifa225 (14461)
• Indonesia
8 Jan 23
I don't understand either how praying make a calm of soul and make me more believe what I am praying for will soon come true It is just in there and I can not explain it
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@vandana7 (100214)
• India
8 Jan 23
I feel something like a cross between safe and calm. Yeah calm, almost the carefree feeling of childhood, when I pray nowadays...I quite like it, and I am kinda in the prayer...mind does not waver that much as it used to.
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@vandana7 (100214)
• India
8 Jan 23
@dya80dya I do...feel calm ... when I pray.
@dya80dya (36579)
8 Jan 23
Do you feel calm when you pray?
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@wolfgirl569 (105801)
• Marion, Ohio
8 Jan 23
It's normal to have those times. The main thing is to keep looking for the answers.
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@vandana7 (100214)
• India
8 Jan 23
It is easier to question god and become "logical", when things are not going our way. LOL
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@wolfgirl569 (105801)
• Marion, Ohio
8 Jan 23
@vandana7 It is. But questions is how we learn new things
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@TheHorse (218450)
• Walnut Creek, California
8 Jan 23
@vandana7 Some do the opposite.
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@dya80dya (36579)
8 Jan 23
I have many doubts. I wish I can believe without any doubt. This would make me feel much better.
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• Indonesia
8 Jan 23
believe in what you believe. sometimes logic does not match the reality that God has shown us
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@vandana7 (100214)
• India
8 Jan 23
How true. I have asked help from gods innumerable times, and received it...from different gods as well. But each time logic ruled...and while initial thankfulness was there, it immediately got replaced by ..logical summation. Now, I find some help coming my way for which I cannot attribute any logic. What I don't understand or find contradictory in the religion, I tend to tell me, I have yet to come across the logic in that belief. Once I do, my faith will be reinforced. So kinda, I use tentative stubs as like in software programming.
@marguicha (222737)
• Chile
8 Jan 23
Belief escapes me but I have respect for the beliefs of everyone.
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@marguicha (222737)
• Chile
8 Jan 23
@vandana7 God should hurry. I´m 77 years old.
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@vandana7 (100214)
• India
8 Jan 23
@marguicha He possibly thinks you are a good soul, even without believing in religion, you have followed it. So last moment help is all that is needed. :) I think he always comes...don't worry.
@vandana7 (100214)
• India
8 Jan 23
You will find the person who will help you believe. God takes time to send such a person. That is what I have learned.
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@jstory07 (139467)
• Roseburg, Oregon
8 Jan 23
I am glad that you believe in GOD. I also believe in GOD.
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@vandana7 (100214)
• India
8 Jan 23
In some vague way, presence of god makes us feel everything will be alright, right?
@RasmaSandra (79649)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
8 Jan 23
I have always had faith in the Lord. I pray each day a morning prayer I made up myself and The Lord's Prayer at night. I find it best to pray in my parents' language that I learned Latvian.
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@TheHorse (218450)
• Walnut Creek, California
8 Jan 23
You might make a good Jew. One of the things I like about Judaism is that people are ENCOURAGED to question. But the answer to your question is "yes." There are times when I "feel" the presence of God and know I'm "doing the right thing." Often it's when I'm "playing" with a 1-year-old.
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@vandana7 (100214)
• India
8 Jan 23
And I feel presence of god when I torment you. Why is it so Pony ji? Evil Grin.
@LindaOHio (177809)
• United States
8 Jan 23
I'm with Anna on this one. I don't go to church anymore; but I am still a strong believer.
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@vandana7 (100214)
• India
9 Jan 23
I go to temples when I feel like going. That is how I have become. Feeling is not essentially when I want something from god. Nor when I am not at peace. Or any good days. Just when I feel, today I want to go to god. That is how it is...nowadays.
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@LindaOHio (177809)
• United States
9 Jan 23
@vandana7 I feel there's nothing wrong with that.
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