Desire to experience God.

[chinu]

Fact: despite of God is well capable, but God will NOT complete any of your desire except the one which is written below.

Do you still desire to experience God, why ?

Kindly note: this thread is only for the people who want to experience God. Others please do refrain participating.

 

[chinu]

I think nobody want to experience God. All want to fulfill other desires.

 

[Quintessence]

Direct experience of the gods is kind of the bread and butter of most Pagan traditions, my own included. One can't not experience the gods on a routine basis when one's gods are things like the land, sea, and sky. And they aren't regarded or expected to be like cosmic sugar daddies, fulfilling every selfish human need or desire.

 

[danieldemol]

Fact: despite of God is well capable, but God will NOT complete any of your desire except the one which is written below.

Do you still desire to experience God, why ?

Kindly note: this thread is only for the people who want to experience God. Others please do refrain participating.

You haven't written which desire it is that God will fulfill "below" yet in my view.

 

[sun rise]

Fact: despite of God is well capable, but God will NOT complete any of your desire except the one which is written below.

Do you still desire to experience God, why ?

Kindly note: this thread is only for the people who want to experience God. Others please do refrain participating.

I just saw this thread.

People's desire for God is truly born only after a very long time. In terms of my belief 8,400,000 LIVES as a human being. Only then has the human soul be ready to take the journey to experience everything.

 

[chinu]

You haven't written which desire it is that God will fulfill "below" yet in my view.

Now, Desire highlighted in OP

 

[chinu]

I just saw this thread.

People's desire for God is truly born only after a very long time. In terms of my belief 8,400,000 LIVES as a human being. Only then has the human soul be ready to take the journey to experience everything.

What about you ? Question is for you.

 

[danieldemol]

Now, Desire highlighted in OP

I assume you mean desire to experience God directly.
For me it depends, what will I have to do to experience God, and will that experience come with demonstration that it is genuinely God and not an imposter in my view.

 

[sun rise]

What about you ? Question is for you.

I expressed my desire in a poem I wrote in 2010:

Stuck with gentle breezes,
I long for the tornado.
Old structures must be
swept away.

But they are too anchored
to the earth.
Only a mighty wind
can uproot them.

God's unfolding wind Word
is stirring up air roar
as the funnel cloud
of His Name grows.

I would throw myself
upon that Holy wind
every bit of flesh removed
leaving only bare skeleton.

Oh Lord, I long for battle,
to drink the sacrificial wine
and offer myself as kamakaze
to be destroyed in divine wind.

No greater goal is there
but to sacrifice myself
as wind's fury
to destroy the enemy:

myself.

 

[Viker]

God wanted me to experience desire.

 

[Nakosis]

Fact: despite of God is well capable, but God will NOT complete any of your desire except the one which is written below.

Do you still desire to experience God, why ?

Kindly note: this thread is only for the people who want to experience God. Others please do refrain participating.

My only desire would be for the truth.
If the experience of God does not provide the truth, what would be the point?

 

[RestlessSoul]

My only desire would be for the truth.
If the experience of God does not provide the truth, what would be the point?

And if all truth resides in God, what would be the point of shutting the door and remaining in darkness?

 

[Mock Turtle]

And if all truth resides in God, what would be the point of shutting the door and remaining in darkness?

Except we aren't going to see much with a lit match.

Science perhaps could be seen as the floodlights illuminating the pitch, whilst religions are more like torches or searchlights. Guess which is the more honest approach? And especially when desire is often aligned with the beams of light.

 

[Hermit Philosopher]

God wanted me to experience desire.

That does make sense, because what cannot be grasped through empathy, shall instead need to be learnt through experience.

I too was unable to learn from others’ experiences and the wisdoms that they had already acquired through them. I had to follow my own will and fulfil my worldly desires in order to understand that they had never mattered in the first place. Only then, could I willingly do away with what I had and free myself from the chains that I had created.

But this is not the case for everyone. Through life, I have come across many (especially from the younger generations) blessed with a higher sense of empathy, which allows them to not have to go through all their wants and desires before understanding their lack of real value. They are able to observe where things take others and tap into what those predicaments really are like to those people. I find this incredibly moving and wished that I too had had their sensibility - it would have saved me much hardship, disappointment and suffering.

Yet, it is as it should be: We all sail the same storm in very different boats and each have a unique way of getting through what is.

Humbly,
Hermit

 

[The Sum of Awe]

Fact: despite of God is well capable, but God will NOT complete any of your desire except the one which is written below.

Do you still desire to experience God, why ?

Kindly note: this thread is only for the people who want to experience God. Others please do refrain participating.

Not going to dedicate my life to something that has no real benefit to me.

 

[RestlessSoul]

Except we aren't going to see much with a lit match.

Science perhaps could be seen as the floodlights illuminating the pitch, whilst religions are more like torches or searchlights. Guess which is the more honest approach? And especially when desire is often aligned with the beams of light.

Good metaphor. Although I think scientific enquiry, with it’s laser focus on the material components of reality, is the spotlight, while spiritual enquiry, which exhorts us to widen our outlook and cultivate detachment from material phenomena, is the floodlight. And neither approach is more nor less honest; as many perspectives as possible are required, in order to gain a comprehensive perception of the totality of things.

 

[Mock Turtle]

Good metaphor. Although I think scientific enquiry, with it’s laser focus on the material components of reality, is the spotlight, while spiritual enquiry, which exhorts us to widen our outlook and cultivate detachment from material phenomena, is the floodlight. And neither approach is more nor less honest; as many perspectives as possible are required, in order to gain a comprehensive perception of the totality of things.

I think that usually having to rely on one particular text, and relying on such to have full authenticity probably sways the many non-religious - it does mainly for me. Science rise or falls on its merits - and doesn't necessarily exclude anything.

 

[RestlessSoul]

I think that usually having to rely on one particular text, and relying on such to have full authenticity probably sways the many non-religious - it does mainly for me. Science rise or falls on its merits - and doesn't necessarily exclude anything.

Sorry, who has to rely on one particular text?

 

[Mock Turtle]

Sorry, who has to rely on one particular text?

So Muslims aren't reliant on the Qur'an, Christians on the Bible, etc.?

 

[RestlessSoul]

So Muslims aren't reliant on the Qur'an, Christians on the Bible, etc.?

Both Christians and Moslems are allowed, indeed one would hope encouraged, to read other texts. Even to write them, as was the case with Nicolaus Copernicus' On The Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres, and Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica, to give but two examples.