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Originally Posted by delieterkop
Well if I may pick at your philosophy, your 'higher power,' which you keep referring to, is something that you have devised with that magnificent contraption of yours known as the brain. Essentially, you are saying, I USE MY BRAIN. I EXIST. If not, please, clarify, because your higher power is bogus.
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If my higher power is non-existent and false, then so is every other intangible concept. I'm pretty sure idea's are a noun by grammatical standard.
Okay, my decision making up to a certain point is terrible. One day I decide that everything I decide to do turns my life to rust, so I devise using my brain something of greater power then myself. I chose what I want this thing to be like and I make it as such. I then use it much like tool, or even better, like a good friend. Obviously this "higher power" does not exist.
After communicating with my newly created higher power for some time, I decide my will and my life is better in it's hands then mine. So I let go of everything and give it to something else, it actually is not so easy to do.. especially for me; I was very stubborn and valued strongly having control... even over things I did not have control over in the first place! Hahaha. So my higher power, who does not exist, now has an effect. The reasoning for this is that there is the capacity for better decision making, acceptance, and serenity where this "higher power idea" is applied when without it there is none of they above.
In some instances I cease to pray and meditate, and usually I have tried gaining control over a person, place, or thing that I really don't have control over before I get to the point of losing contact with my idea of a higher power. All times I have continued without any contact I immediately start again running my life without any acceptance or serenity. Once I feel the consequences of this I am forced to consider that I need this idea in my life.
As I said before, I don't know what this thing looks like and I chose what it's characteristics are. It is an imaginary friend that gives me something I would not have without it. I have tried to go on without it, thinking if it comes from me I could easily do so, but alas countless trial and error proves this wrong. I empathize with you if you have any frustration toward organized religion, I also have seen the damage it has done. My question to you is this: do you have a problem with me having a higher power? Honestly, do you? If so, what is it?