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Re: Ask HN: What is your spiritual practice?

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Post by mbfg »

geoduck14 wrote: post #959
mbfg wrote: post #941

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How did you differentiate a god talking to you, and you talking to you? What evidence to you have for that? How can others collaborate your story?

>How did you differentiate a god talking to you, and you talking to you? What evidence to you have for that? How can others collaborate your story? These are good questions, and I've been thinking about how best to respond. For one, I believe in the God of the Christian Bible. There are various stories of God interacting with people. The most common interaction for me and the people around me is for God's Holy Spirit…

Ok, but don't you think this argument is circular? You start off by believing in the bible and because it says stuff that you believe is happening to you, you believe what is happening to you is true. What reason do you have to believe what the bible says is true? You likely will say you believe the bible because it's from God? But why do you believe that? Perhaps the answer will be because the bible says so. Again circular.

I would say anyone who is looking to help out other people will definitely find the opportunity and mechanisms to help other people. Good for you that you want to help other people, I applaud you. But i'm sorry to say, but from the outside, your account seems incredibly normal.

Re: Ask HN: What is your spiritual practice?

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Post by faebi »

TedDoesntTalk wrote: post #735
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Totally on your world view here. I was around 10 when I came across the Hubble deep field image as a gif. I proceeded to find it on google sky and I just couldn‘t get the mind boggling size of the visible universe into my brain while all of that supposed to be 2000 years old and only happen on earth. It blew my mind. One needed to scroll so hard only to reach that image which again has so many galaxies. And thats my…

Sincere question. How did you make the leap from the vastness of the universe to nothing? I have sensed the nothing but not in this way. How did it happen for you?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future

Re: Ask HN: What is your spiritual practice?

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Post by fjabre »

dang wrote: post #921
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You started a religious flamewar with this and perpetuated it egregiously below. That's really bad. It's against the site guidelines and definitely not what HN is for. Please don't do it again. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

What a ridiculous comment. A flame war? Do we still live in the 90s?

It is clear I am being unfairly targeted for my views by you and this community.

You happen to disagree with what I am saying and are not creative or brave enough to come up with a meaningful response. Be honest with yourself.

Ive said nothing abhorrent. I defended my religious and spiritual beliefs against a community which is clearly very pro atheist.

Dont tell other people what to do and stop disrespecting others’ religious beliefs. Let’s start with that.

Re: Ask HN: What is your spiritual practice?

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Post by dang »

fjabre wrote: post #964
dang wrote: post #921

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You started a religious flamewar with this and perpetuated it egregiously below. That's really bad. It's against the site guidelines and definitely not what HN is for. Please don't do it again. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

What a ridiculous comment. A flame war? Do we still live in the 90s? It is clear I am being unfairly targeted for my views by you and this community. You happen to disagree with what I am saying and are not creative or brave enough to come up with a meaningful response. Be honest with yourself. Ive said nothing abhorrent. I defended my religious and spiritual beliefs against a community which is clearly very pro athe…

I don't disagree with what you're saying—but more importantly, that's beside the point. The point is that you shouldn't be crossing into calling names, attacking other people, or fulminating—especially when the topic is an emotional and divisive one, like religion.

Incidentally, it's generally a bad idea to identify the community as hostile. That comes from a cognitive bias which we all seem to have: we place greater emphasis on the things we dislike, and are more likely to notice them in the first place. The things that we consider favorable end up getting far less emphasis. This leads to false feelings of generality, and a negative sense of being surrounded by enemies. The people who disagree with you feel the same way, because they have the same bias (like I said, we all do).

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Re: Ask HN: What is your spiritual practice?

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Post by dhimes »

Subsentient wrote: post #953
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I only recently learned that the Satanic Temple split from the Church of Satan. The ST moved next door (to Salem, MA).

The Church of Satan was on the right track in some areas (such as viewing Abrahamic God as evil and nonexistent), but in others it is clear that it is an incoherent "first attempt" with lots of contradictory statements, such as the belief in magic yet the disbelief in Satan, and its hatred of abortion despite its otherwise Social Darwinist leanings. More damning (no pun intended) is how the Satanic Bible (LaVey's wor…

Sorry I'm so late in my reply. I largely agree with you. After reading the "manifesto" of TST I find that it's much more to my taste (although keeping "Satan" in the name is a bit much of an "inside joke" for me- the evangelicals in my family can't get past it.
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