warmleatherette wrote:rorymac wrote:Zambo wrote:Does it matter what you do in your life? What happens in the afterlife if you have been a serial killer v spent you whole life worshipping God and putting everyone else ahead of yourself? Are you treated differently, or do you just end up in the same black chasm of emptiness, like the one before you were born.
Or, maybe you retain consciousness and have to form queues for those appointed to allocate you to different afterlife experiences. God only knows how you will see to join these though, unless you pick some new eyes up on the way in.
It's kind of the wrong question with respect and err the black chasm of emptiness .. hey maybe it's white
It's not what you believe anyway .. how do you behave is all that matters. And thing is if you've never had a faith then unless you're zapped with a religious/spiritual experience (like Rossco) or something causes you to reevaluate everything in order just to survive (like most people of faith that I know) or you really are seriously clever and have a desire to learn about faith then you're either a material winner or loser, and everything is about politics and money. Everybody knows that's not true really don't they !
I believe it's true that if you practise behaving in a certain way then you will find God for yourself and it becomes a constant living experience that gives meaning to everything and not an intellectual theory. Telling people what God thinks is not part of that for me anyway because I haven't a clue about that .. just do this for a bit and watch what happens is my experience.
The human condition is original sin and you'd have to read Thomas Keating to see what that means .. basically it's living wide of the mark (sin) looking for happiness in the wrong places.
End of the day everyone is human and has a false self that has to develop just to survive initially and then has to be understood in order not to go insane and divine therapy sought in order to get well again.
At any given time you could be me or me you is the conclusion and human evolution is heading that way .. hence globalisation is spiritual destiny. Stuff gets a lot worse seemingly before it gets better .. he's an optimistic ol soul tbf
Got to start with yourself before blaming everything else and ask .. what am I doing to enhance stuff or am I just thinking what can I get out of this ? there's nothing wrong at all about seeking answers .. it's a good thing obviously .. but like for me it's beware those who tell you they know the answers and God's plan. They can't possible which is why your questions are wrong iykwim.
This post actually sums it all up rather well, I think it’s basically saying if you stop acting like a cunt and be nice to people you’ll find a feeling of well being or faith in your kindness and become a better person for it, the reason people like myself struggle with this is because we’re already not cunts and have trouble understanding why others need to label not being a cunt as a faith.
No offence meant
Indeed. I try to be a good person without religion. I respect religious people for their fiath, it is not my position nor want to challenge them unilaterally on beliefs, on some questions of morality it is. And religious people, like all people are not homogenous, hence never judging all on their creed.
Bishop Graham is sadly retiring this year:
http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/bishop-of-n ... -1-5534059
He has been a good egg in Partridgleland. Open, inviting and an easy going guy, didn't really want the big job last time when a mid favourite.
Happy times at various Bishop's garden parties, free vino and canapes and err mingling with the socalled great and good of Norfolk.
Many whom could be described as err this seemingly popular term on here, 'Gammon'. But, that is outdoors Norfolk folk whom are often ruddy, booze or sans booze, Brexit or remain.
Schmoozing with pissed MILFs who seldom veer far from the wine table is always good.
Something I learnt, retiring Bishops have to retire at least a county away from their Bishopry. Bon voyage and God Speed, Bishop Graham.
Maybe she's born with it, maybe it's Maybelline.
Non mihi, non tibi, sed nobis.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
