Thread: An atheist searching for God?

Believe in yourself, sweet friend. No simple child's "God".

You are so majestic and beautiful. Swirling and changing and infinitely complex and simple.
So many colours and opals, stars and lights.


'God' doesn't even come close.

Yes, but can you make a rock so big you can't even lift it, but you really can?

Heavens, don't delude yourself. Doublethink is a quagmire.

Let experience be your God, and search for a purpose to your life. Do you have one in mind at present?

You are so majestic and beautiful. Swirling and changing and infinitely complex and simple.
So many colours and opals, stars and lights.

Thanks for 'advice', mates. Anyway, I now realized that the reason for this all is my inability to fall asleep, which is still only a result of something much more serious.
Precisely, so to say 'self-talking', or playing in my mind scenes in which I talk to some people I know and express my mind very freely. Maybe I often play these scenes in my mind in a positive way and even quite often when I once had imagined for example tellings something funny to someone and making the person laugh, the joke only being funny in a specific situation, later it happened that such a situation really ocurred and I actually did the same thing that was previously visualized. So it's a positive side of these visualizing, I'm perfectly aware of the fact that visualization is a very strong device.

But when I'm there is darkness, I'm supposed to sleep but I still feel that I want to talk with someone, share my emotions, feelings... And it's not that I'm a loner, when I'm among people, I'm very talkative, I always introduce other people into conversations and so on... However, when I come back to my empty room, I still want to have someone to converse with...

How to get rid of this? Is there any way or is it an innate feature of every human? Learn how to just 'absorb' the world, instead of analyzing and thinking about it? It's so damn difficult to me when I eg. hear a good song not to immediately visualize a scene in which I play it to someone or talk with someone about how good that song is... Just to say 'stop' and no thinking anymore from this point, just feeling how the wonderful the world is, and how beautiful am I myself as a part of this world, still without evaluating... Simply a matter of strong will? Any advice?

It seems to me you're just a naturally social guy and like lots of social interaction. Nothing wrong with that.

As for your problems, meditation and other relaxation and concentration exercises might probably help. Also, you might consider sharing an apartment so that there's people around you when you're home. Personally that's not my thing so I prefer living alone but everybody's different so it might be a good idea to cater to that. Although you didn't say anything about your circumstances so it's a bit hard to give advice there.

I think that everyone has such a need, to just... believe in something...

Don't project yourself on to other people. Plenty of people may well have such needs, but everyone?

Certainly I have no need to believe in something for believing's sake.

I did not say that everyone thinks in the same way as me... But it's just true that one has to believe in something and where did I say tha it is just for believing sake? You're a nihilist, ain't you?

Originally Posted by Nick89

I did not say that everyone thinks in the same way as me... But it's just true that one has to believe in something and where did I say tha it is just for believing sake? You're a nihilist, ain't you?

I am in the same position as you my friend. I can THINK for Britain, it's all I do all day, but I can't find anything to believe in .

I've gone from atheist, to agnostic, to practically a nihlist... and now I'm studying Christ

By the end of it I'll probably be a Sikh or something crazy like that!

Originally Posted by Idolfan

I am in the same position as you my friend. I can THINK for Britain, it's all I do all day, but I can't find anything to believe in .

I've gone from atheist, to agnostic, to practically a nihlist... and now I'm studying Christ

By the end of it I'll probably be a Sikh or something crazy like that!

Cool cool I'm on the Qu'ran(english translation lol) at the moment, tbh if you've read the Bible it's not way different. Just get rid of Jesus being son of God, basically do the OT. Allah not YHWH, Muhammed's the main man, it sounds more like the start of an epic story like quotes below:

"and the fragments of ancient knowledge flowed throughout the world, new faiths sprouted on the words of the wise and noble, the nations of man drifted away and rivalries emerged". Seriously it's like LotR or something.

I'm also looking the Sikhism, I'd say so far it's the most sensible religion I've read into, but might be because it's quite young too.

Woah, what religion is sensible at all?

Originally Posted by Idolfan

I can't find anything to believe in .

Originally Posted by LOOK UP

Believe in yourself, sweet friend. No simple child's "God".

You are so majestic and beautiful. Swirling and changing and infinitely complex and simple.
So many colours and opals, stars and lights.


'God' doesn't even come close.

lul