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Old 06-26-2012, 12:15 PM   #5
regular.joe
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Calling things here like I see them, not out to rile anyone today.

Almost all of the Cellar Dwellers as well as most church goers that I've met have no spiritual experience. I mean that 95% of the people I've meet in the world, regardless of professed faith or professed no faith have had no experience with anything spiritual in nature. Quite naturally many people dismiss the idea that there is a spiritual, Godlike, nature to the world or universe based on their own experience in life. Or like most churchgoers who want this experience, they really are just doing what they are told...but they are seeking after a fashion. For myself, my ideas and faith in God are based today on my past experience. It is kind of like me telling someone I've been to a place where the sky is orange. 99.9 percent of the world would say, sorry buba, you may be delusional because I have only experienced the world with a blue sky, always has been this way and as far as I can see it will always be this way. I base my ideas, and faith today about God on my experience and I don't ever expect anyone without the experience to really understand at all. They might could empathize, but that is different.
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