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[B Jenkins]

Aside from my personal experiences.

I believe there is a spiritual war being conducted between truth and deception.

For example, I learned last year I learned I had type 2 diabetes, I really need to watch my diet and had to give up alot of foods I used to love. I have to discipline myself now. Same goes with spiritual matters, one has to watch what they intake just because it feels good or tastes good in that there is some emotional gratification or spiritual self-satisfaction doesnt necessarily make it good but that can amount to self-deception leading into harmful delusions.

Edited by dside, 30 March 2012 - 03:45 AM.

[Rlyeh]

dside, on 30 March 2012 - 03:44 AM, said:

Aside from my personal experiences.

I believe there is a spiritual war being conducted between truth and deception.

For example, I learned last year I learned I had type 2 diabetes, I really need to watch my diet and had to give up alot of foods I used to love. I have to discipline myself now. Same goes with spiritual matters, one has to watch what they intake just because it feels good or tastes good in that there is some emotional gratification or spiritual self-satisfaction doesnt necessarily make it good but that can amount to self-deception leading into harmful delusions.

Not sure how that is an example of a war.

[Beany]

_Only, on 30 March 2012 - 03:41 AM, said:

I can appreciate them. I admire your sharing of what you believe, without trying to put a right and wrong aspect to belief, as others grip to. Some people just get that shift.

when one has been wrong as often & consistently as I have been, one learns humility. don't know who's right & who's wrong, or even why it must come down to that, so I just put one foot in front of the other and keep plodding along, counting on that truism: even a blind pig finds an acorn every now and then.

Edited by Beany, 30 March 2012 - 05:06 AM.

[B Jenkins]

Rlyeh, on 30 March 2012 - 03:56 AM, said:

Not sure how that is an example of a war.

What is an example of war? I am speaking in the sense of contention.

[gnostic-deity]

Beany, on 24 March 2012 - 10:29 PM, said:

In my personal worldview and experience, there are no demons, no evil beings. There are thought forms, which are created by fear & negative thinking, and the only power they have is that which we give them. I understand this isn't true for everyone, but this is my truth. I refuse to buy into fear and remain firmly grounded in the benign, loving, intelligent energy that runs the universe, that protects me, comforts me, informs me, and guides me. In my world there is nothing else, and nothing to fear.

YES!

[dreamgoddess11]

I believe the following: (all subject to change)
we have nothing to fear but fear itself.
We have the ability to overcome, Belief in the negative will feed the negative & visa versa.
Spiritual experiences can not be proven; We have to search with in ourselves for truth of the spiritual.

Edited by dreamgoddess11, 15 April 2012 - 03:07 AM.

[shipdog7]

Is there really a spirit world? Absolutely! I was a caregiver for my oldest sister Gail. A couple of hours before she died she asked me to help her sit up in bed. I was directly in front of her face. Her mouth opened. Her lips didn't move. A deep voice came out of her. It wasn't hers. I am still not sure if it was in Tongue. Latin? Maybe 20 to 30 seconds. She laid back down. My sister filling in for me had experienced the exact same thing an hour or so later. At the moment of death she was sitting up. Her arms went out like a bird ready to fly. She yelled out in ecstasy "Cliff" (her husband who had passed away in 2000). And then she was gone. I analyzed what had happened for a long time. I asked Priests. Reverends. My conclusion? It was her husband speaking to me from the other side. Trying to tell me he was there. Waiting for her.