Secret Chief
Veteran Member
St Frank,
Keep on trucking. Focus on the flowers, try to ignore the weeds. Gardens have both.
Keep on trucking. Focus on the flowers, try to ignore the weeds. Gardens have both.
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I give up on religion.
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InvestigateTruth
Veteran Member
I can offer a quote from Baha'u'llah, that helps me:
"The world is but a show, vain and empty, a mere nothing, bearing the semblance of reality. Set not your affections upon it. Break not the bond that uniteth you with your Creator, and be not of those that have erred and strayed from His ways. Verily I say, the world is like the vapor in a desert, which the thirsty dreameth to be water and striveth after it with all his might, until when he cometh unto it, he findeth it to be mere illusion. It may, moreover, be likened unto the lifeless image of the beloved whom the lover hath sought and found, in the end, after long search and to his utmost regret, to be such as cannot “fatten nor appease his hunger.”
O My servants! Sorrow not if, in these days and on this earthly plane, things contrary to your wishes have been ordained and manifested by God, for days of blissful joy, of heavenly delight, are assuredly in store for you. Worlds, holy and spiritually glorious, will be unveiled to your eyes. You are destined by Him, in this world and hereafter, to partake of their benefits, to share in their joys, and to obtain a portion of their sustaining grace. To each and every one of them you will, no doubt, attain." Baha'u'llah
GoodbyeDave
Well-Known Member
Sister Wendy Becket, the Catholic hermit and art historian (now, there's a job description!), said that she was once asked by a TV cameraman "I don't feel any need for a religion. Do you think that's wrong?" and she told him "If God wanted you to have a religion, you know. Just try to be a good person."
Have you been looking for a religious answer to all your problems? A deus ex machina? You do need to get out and do something, anything. That will give you a sense of purpose. In the mean time, consider yourself prayed for.
Have you been looking for a religious answer to all your problems? A deus ex machina? You do need to get out and do something, anything. That will give you a sense of purpose. In the mean time, consider yourself prayed for.
FearGod
Freedom Of Mind
Hey,Frank....life is beautiful and tomorrow maybe better than today.
Just be optimistic Buddy :slap:
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kashmir
Well-Known Member
Stephen Hawkins is such a good man, I would gladly give up my legs for him to walk if it were possible.
Thanks again, everyone. You're being so nice and everything. 
Avi1001
reform Jew humanist liberal feminist entrepreneur
Thanks again, everyone. You're being so nice and everything.
Hey Frank, glad to see you are feeling better today ! You can see from this thread how many good friends you have here on the forum. That's a tribute to you !
Hey Frank, glad to see you are feeling better today ! You can see from this thread how many good friends you have here on the forum. That's a tribute to you !
Thank you. I was going to request to have this thread deleted but decided not to since I'm enjoying the posts here.
:hug:
work in progress
Well-Known Member
I came across a few of his lectures..or maybe it was portions of his lectures, posted online a few years back. I think he's a good reference for most westerners to go to, to understand the eastern philosophical approach to God, meaning and purpose in life etc.
Desert Snake
Veteran Member
What is 'the eastern philosophical approach'?
What is the 'western philosophical approach?
From reading the forums, it varies greatly in both geological areas.
Serious question...btw, seems like many people are thinking whatever they were taught is universally taught or something.
ametist
Active Member
You personality doesnt feel like someone who is destined to have no social life at all. Just like you can change your idea about religions that you want to follow you can also arrange to have a more lively social life. But having a lively expanding social life depends a lot on how you are feeling daily, so following doctors appointments are very good idea also to get to that goal.
Being close you your mother,is a very good thing on the other hand. Happy mothers day to her...
There can be mothers day breakfasts or dinners arranged somewhere by some groups or organizations which you two can join and meet with other people and families. Lots of opportunity to make big and proggresive changes with small touches.
Drolefille
PolyPanGeekGirl
I don't have much to add Frank, I'm stuck in the mire of not knowing what to believe or whether it really matters too.
I just want you to know you're loved.
I just want you to know you're loved.
Nyingjé Tso
Dharma not drama
I can totally relate to what you are going though
Don't hesitate a single second to drop a pm if you need to talk mate
Don't hesitate a single second to drop a pm if you need to talk mate
... I'm enjoying the posts here.
:hug:
Except mine, eh? You never said you were enjoying my post. I've noticed that. And frankly, Frank, I'm a little put off by your studious indifference to my post. Very studious indifference, I might say.
That's creepy.
psychoslice
Veteran Member
Why not just forget about religion and try to focus on the life all around you, I meet many people just going out for a coffee, you end up talking and it leads onto or can lead onto a friendship, you have to make the first move, the world isn't going to come to you, you have to go to it
Desert Snake
Veteran Member
Drolefille
PolyPanGeekGirl
Um... We're all on a religious forum lol...
but, anyway..
And there are many non-religious people whether they be a/theist or a/gnostic.
Being dismissive and sarcastic is something like picking a fight, and this is Frank's thread in a DIR, so please be courteous.
psychoslice
Veteran Member
Um... We're all on a religious forum lol...
but, anyway..
Well sometimes we have to walk away from it, and maybe this forum also.
psychoslice
Veteran Member
I hope you don't see me as that, I was serious, sometimes its best to walk away from religion and discover life for yourself, its nothing to do with not believing or believing.