Religion

[bent_brokenrose]

Ok. I;ve been feeling more communicative (yes I know I make up words and spell them wrong). I've talked to more people and I've posted here more.

And what is on my mind today (as well as the bad thoughts that I am hitting with pointy sticks) is religion/spirituality/belief whatever you wanna call it.

Comments

[bent_brokenrose]

lol. See if I spent half my time seeing Angels and Demons and the half I didn't. I;d spend the time I wasn't seeing them looking forward to seeing the Angels again. Maybe thats the difference between the sane and insane?

Sometimes I get crazy and I doubt stuff, I doubt my thoughts, my beliefs, my sight, hearing and my mind.

Thats an interesting view. I know nothing of nihilistic atheism. See I have a werid view of fate. Somethings are in our hands somethings aren't. I think when we are born and when we die definatly aren't in our hands. Our lives are like a story book, some of its written in pencil and can be rubbed out and changed, some of it is written in pen and can't be changed (no there is no tip-ex). We don't know what is in pen or pencil so we have to live it as though its all in pencil. Dunno if that makes sense to anyone else.

Lol I'll agree with that last comment

[bent_brokenrose]

See I have the science background as well. I think that helps make me doubt everything. Sometimes people say things and I'm just 'really???', other times I can put the science aside and just believe. Most of the time however I somehow manage to combine the two. Biology and my spiritual beliefs can somehow mesh ok

[bent_brokenrose]

See I never knew you were a Buddist, even a lapsed one. Damn we need to spend more time together

[bent_brokenrose]

lol yep, the human brain is a strange thing. Resident evil is never good for making me paranoid. The zombies always get me!

Dans

[theplaidsheep]

A healthy dose of scepticism can help you keep perspective, but don't let it frighten you or necessarily doubt what you experience in your mania.

It puts me in mind of the 'god-touched', those people who were considered to be closer to the gods or spirits because their minds didn't function 'normally' and saw and experienced what others didn't. Shamanic rituals rely on elevating the mind of it's normality to experience the spirit realm, and you make a valid point that a high enough level of mania would open the mind up to divine experience. The mania is not the ritual so much the state of mind required to experience it.

Part of your growth is coming to know and accept the various parts of yourself and integrating them into a working whole. In your case the huge step you have made in coming to terms with your condition and learning understand it and function with it will take you that much further forward spiritually.

[bent_brokenrose]

Thank you hun,

once again your words seem to strike a cord. We need to get togethe soon. I miss talking with you

*hugs*

Dans