How We Compensate When Disconnected from God

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Really, why should God pay any attention to human beings? I am sure he has bigger fish to fry (even if he exists).

Look at you all! God makes you talk.

 

[talloola]

Prayer is to ease the mind of the prayee. It really has nothing to do with god. It is a psychological Linus' blanket.

yes, I totally agree, and if that works for some, so be it, it is a better cure
than paying some quack psychiatrist big bucks to do nothing.
people do have ways of soothing themselves, and if praying and believing in
a god keeps them happy and balanced, do it, and we shouldn't interfere with
that therapy, if it is working for them.

 

[talloola]

Look at you all! God makes you talk.

god does nothing, he isn't, but the subject creates (parden the pun), chit chat.

 

[SirJosephPorter]

Look at you all! God makes you talk.

Maybe God makes YOU talk. Evolution makes me talk.

 

[big]

Maybe God makes YOU talk. Evolution makes me talk.

Go in the proper section then.

 

[Cliffy]

Go in the proper section then.

Do you understand the concept of a discussion group?

 

[talloola]

Go in the proper section then.

it is proper to discuss whatever one wants, wherever one wants, and when
disagreement takes place, doesn't mean anything negative, just good conversation,
debate and that is what makes up a good forum.
we are 'on' topic here.

 

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Do you understand the concept of a discussion group?

respect the topic

 

[talloola]

respect the topic

you mean, 'agree' with you right.
disconnection from god, fits right into 'who' I am, an atheist, so topic
is right up my alley.

 

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you mean, 'agree' with you right.

I'm not the topic

 

[AnnaG]

I have a better solution, disconnect from the mortals' (right from Moses to Oral Roberts) interpretations of religious matters.

Good idea. Dumping other people's influences on you is a start.
Having no dogma to follow other than the "do unto others as you'd have them do unto you" idea means you aren't constantly relating things back to that dogma. One simply get into the habit of being nice. At least that's unless one thinks one is a god (I can do no wrong) or deliberately like hurting people.
Being disconnected from religious dogma helps because it is one less bias to interfere when one is trying to be objective. There are other biases, though, which direct thoughts, sometimes in errant ways.

 

[AnnaG]

I'm not the topic

Exactly, but you sure like to interrupt the flow of the chat.

 

[AnnaG]

Anyway, perhaps it is the gods that simply disconnect themselves from us. IOW, they just don't give a hoot. SO, IMO, I return the favor.

 

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Good idea. Dumping other people's influences on you is a start.
Having no dogma to follow other than the "do unto others as you'd have them do unto you" idea means you aren't constantly relating things back to that dogma. One simply get into the habit of being nice. At least that's unless one thinks one is a god (I can do no wrong) or deliberately like hurting people.
Being disconnected from religious dogma helps because it is one less bias to interfere when one is trying to be objective. There are other biases, though, which direct thoughts, sometimes in errant ways.

If being disconnected from God is being masochistic then the Golden rule takes a strange twist.

 

[AnnaG]

If being disconnected from God is being masochistic then the Golden rule takes a strange twist.

So? That behavior is not the norm. I imagine there are other ones that are aberrant in varying degrees from the "golden" rule, too, sodomy for one. What's your point?

 

[Cliffy]

If being disconnected from God is being masochistic then the Golden rule takes a strange twist.

Not sure how you jumped to that conclusion. Disconnecting from dogma doesn't mean disconnecting from god (an impossibility). IMO it is exactly the opposite to masochism.

 

[big]

So? That behavior is not the norm.

Masochism seems prevalent in this discussion though.

 

[JLM]

Prayer is to ease the mind of the prayee. It really has nothing to do with god. It is a psychological Linus' blanket.

Now, now, Cliff, Oral and Jimmy aren't going to like that. :lol:

 

[Cliffy]

Now, now, Cliff, Oral and Jimmy aren't going to like that. :lol:

Don't you wish you could make their kinda money slinging BS the way they do?

 

[big]

Not sure how you jumped to that conclusion. Disconnecting from dogma doesn't mean disconnecting from god (an impossibility). IMO it is exactly the opposite to masochism.

What kind of disconnection do you think that freedom is?