And I'm not going to mention what I saw because all you atheist people going to say its a bunch of BS. I know what I experienced and I'm going to keep it like that. Its always this, "oh I need proof" The proof will come when you pass away and get judged. I'm not trying to force religion on people. I'm just trying to tell people there's really a god but I can't explain it.
See, if most people saw something they couldn't explain, it would be just that. They wouldn't have this problem with admitting that they didn't know what just happened to them. They could describe their experience, and that would be that. There's no need to put labels or explanations on things you don't know about, they just are.
If I see lights in the sky at night, I don't need to be able to explain them. It could be any of a number of things, or something that nobody has ever thought of before. But I can still tell people "I was standing on this hill here, looking east at about quarter to ten and this green light went across from north to south about thirty degrees above the horizon, and then a minute later it was followed by a blue light. Weird."
Religious people, on the other hand, have decided on the explanation before they've even started. It was God. The fear of revealing what happened to others comes from the fear that actually it wasn't God, it was just something normal that you happen to not know about yet.
That fear of ignorance comes to pretty much everyone over the age of about five. We are trained that we're supposed to know the answers, and that there's something wrong with us if we don't know.
It's ********.
Nobody knows even a fraction of the stuff that goes on. Really smart people can figure it out most of the time, if they happen to have access to all the right information, but even that is rare. Mostly, we live in a world where a bunch of weird stuff happens and the chances of us figuring it out before we die is low.
We're lucky these days in that we're educated with the last few thousand years of human knowledge, which helps a lot. But there's still a ton we don't know, and that's OK. Not knowing stuff is OK. Lumping everything we don't know into a big category called "God" isn't that helpful, that's what primitives do.
Maybe there's a god or God out there, and when the time comes it will be obvious to everyone. Until then, you can either share your experiences in the hopes of helping to enlighten the whole human race if it was indeed a true spiritual experience, or enlightening yourself if it wasn't. Or you can keep it to yourself and continue hoping that it was real, but always too scared to actually find out.
I was rewatching parts of Good Will Hunting following Robin Williams' death yesterday, and there's a bit where Robin Williams is laying into Matt Damon for meeting this great girl, but being too much of a pussy to go and ask her out in case she turns out not to be the perfect woman he thinks she is.
That's how I feel about this attitude to God. You're so afraid that He might turn out to not be what you think He is, that you refuse to think about it or pursue it too hard. And nobody ever fell in love that way, and nobody ever got the most out of their spiritual connection that way.
If you want a real connection with God, you have to accept that He is what He is, and it might not be exactly what you think or want him to be. Examine your experiences and learn more about what they mean, and you might learn more about Him, instead of simply confirming your own biases.
never mind 1000 years!
