Is it Possible to Experience God?

[chinu]

Is it possible to experience god?[/quote]

Yes.

Would you be able to know whether that question had a definite answer without having experienced god?

No!

Why?

Because: We are Questions, God is Answer.

why not?

Because: Definatly this is a Question not Answer.

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_/\_Chinu.

 

[sandandfoam]

Yes it is. To my mind God is experience.
I took these this morning. High seas, raw weather and tall mountains. They express God to me.

 

[chinu]

Yes it is. To my mind God is experience.
I took these this morning. High seas, raw weather and tall mountains. They express God to me.

Great & Thanks.


_/\_Chinu.

 

[nrg]

[/quote
Yes.


No!

How do you know that it's possible to experience God, when you say that it's absolutely impossible to know it happens? How did you reach the answer "yes" to the first question if you also believe that we have no idea that it happens when it happens?

 

[chinu]

How do you know that it's possible to experience God, when you say that it's absolutely impossible to know it happens? How did you reach the answer "yes" to the first question if you also believe that we have no idea that it happens when it happens?

When during night you go to our bed for sleep, Can you yourself note the exact time of your sleep ? or when you sleeped ? or can you yourself note the exact time of waking ? or when you waked ?

Man is ment by sleeping
God is ment by Awaking

But definatly in the morning when you wake up, realize there is sleeping and waking.

_/\_Chinu.

 

[mmmcounts]

Is it possible to experience god? Would you be able to know whether that question had a definite answer without having experienced god? Why or why not?

It's quite normative for Christians to experience God. If it hasn't ever happened, it's hard to know or understand exactly what it's like. But knowing you haven't experienced God should be doable, at least.

 

[zenzero]

Friends,

It appears that most missed when had stated that God is never experienced as to experience you yourself is a part of that God and so to experience God you have to go outside of God to experience it.
Only when the MIND is STILL, God IS!
When the Mind is Still, the experincer is not there and so had stated that when the seer and the seen are ONE, God is!

If someone states that God can be experienced then it is incorrect as then he cannot consider himself part of God. Can water experience water when it itself is water?
It is only the individual's mind that creates that *illusion* of having experienced God.

LOve & rgds

 

[nrg]

When during night you go to our bed for sleep, Can you yourself note the exact time of your sleep ? or when you sleeped ? or can you yourself note the exact time of waking ? or when you waked ?

Man is ment by sleeping
God is ment by Awaking

No, but I know that I was sleeping because there's a big memory gap between last night and this morning, and dreams and observations from people I know all tell me that I slept. So I can now define very accurately the difference between being asleep and being awake.

But even if I can't tell the difference between sleeping and being awake, I still don't think this is a valid argument. How do you know it's the exact same thing as being awake or sleeping? How do you know that you're simply not being awake all the time, and are confusing moments of confusion with the feeling of God? There's been lots of studies made on dreams and we've all observed the memory gap of what happened around us during the time of our sleep, what empirical evidence is there that makes you attribute whatever it is that you're feeling to God?

 

[jmvizanko]

Yes it is. To my mind God is experience.
I took these this morning. High seas, raw weather and tall mountains. They express God to me.

Those express the laws of physics and light to me...

 

[jmvizanko]

If it were possible to experience god, then why are there billions of people that belong to religions that do not include any such experience? And why do people from different theisms experience gods whose individual existence would contradict one another?

 

[Storm]

If it were possible to experience god, then why are there billions of people that belong to religions that do not include any such experience?

"Possible" does not imply "common."

And why do people from different theisms experience gods whose individual existence would contradict one another?

Interpretation.

 

[sandandfoam]

If it were possible to experience god, then why are there billions of people that belong to religions that do not include any such experience? And why do people from different theisms experience gods whose individual existence would contradict one another?

When you experience the colour red can you know that it is anything at all like my experience of the colour red?

 

[jmvizanko]

When you experience the colour red can you know that it is anything at all like my experience of the colour red?

Well unless you have an alien or chicken brain, then yes. Its not like your genes build a mind that vastly differently comprehends the sight of color.

 

[jmvizanko]

"Possible" does not imply "common.".

Why would god only choose certain people to experience him?

Interpretation.

Even when they are experiencing contradictory attributes of the same god?

 

[Storm]

Why would god only choose certain people to experience him?

Doesn't work that way. It's a paradigm shift on OUR part. Not everybody does it, simple as that.

Even when they are experiencing contradictory attributes of the same god?

Attributes are a function of interpretation. So, yeah.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Is it possible to experience god? Would you be able to know whether that question had a definite answer without having experienced god? Why or why not?

I'm sure I experience what other people call experiencing god all the time - I just don't label it as such. As human beings, we're not as varied as people like to think, and we all share pretty much the same range of emotions/experiences - we just decide to call them different things.

Based on other peoples' descriptions of experiencing god, I have no difficulty identifying with what they're experiencing, but simply see no reason to deify it.

 

[Alex_G]

Is it possible to experience god? Would you be able to know whether that question had a definite answer without having experienced god? Why or why not?

Hm, well i think the answer, (as best as one can give an answer), relies heavily on the definitions. (when does it not right? )

In a way we experience God everyday, atheists alike, if you consider 'God' as a just a concept or idea that is present and available in our society. In a way, how more immortal an entity can you get?

That of course isnt really what i imagine you mean.. so i would think for it to be possible a few things need to be satisfied, or at the very least presumed to be correct.

1. God exists
2. We exist
3. There exists means whereby God may be experienced
4. Those means are compatible with our human condition ( we are valid 'experiencees')
5. One can recognise the occurrence of such a genuine experience. (and might this step be the very 'proof' of God?)

Some degree of infinite regression then occurs.

I think im trying to highlight, as it were, logistical hurdles to overcome, but clearly how one defines both 'god' and 'experience' alike, will lead to them to the conclusion in question. The process, as defined by the individual sets up a sort of in-build guarantee that the conclusion be met. The 'test' is constructed to yield the desired result for the individual.

I'd be interested to know what you think about the topic?

Alex

 

[Tathagata]

Yes it is. To my mind God is experience.
I took these this morning. High seas, raw weather and tall mountains. They express God to me.

Richard Dawkins sees that everyday. If that's God, how can there be any Atheists at all? Answer: Thats not God. Those are clouds, a product of natural processes. It is absurd to just look at anything that looks wonderful and say "hey, that must be God!"

 

[PolyHedral]

Yes .

 

[Father Heathen]

Is it possible to experience god?

Via psilocybin and dimethyltryptamine.