LifeOnHardMode · 26-30, M
My intuitive belief right now is that there is a God but he/she/it is not fully omnipotent.
Something created God without it's consent in 'blackness' as described in the bible. That was the experience of being paralyzed in a hospital bed with all senses lost and only the mind's lonely cries for console.
Since God could not endure this alone or did not wish to the universe was created with us in it to troll or for some more complex agenda.
God's favorite past-time appears to be building people up and breaking them so that they 'bow down' and accept that it is the ultimate form of greatness. It may want intelligent lifeforms to give up their free will voluntarily.
Perhaps there is an afterlife where people who gave up free will are used as God's slaves directly without any feeling of choice whatsoever.
It seems that God is far more cruel and inconsistent than portrayed today. In fact, there may be a constant state of imbalance and wrath as described in the old testament.
God may not intend to do evil but the whole system creates it by building and harnessing our suffering. After all, according to some scripts 'Satan' was created by God and is indirectly his 'greatest servant'.
Aside from God I think it is all just positive and negative charges: +1s, -1s and 0s. Any number represents strain or 'pain' that seeks to balance itself. When all of the pieces balance our universe will cease to exist and go back into a state of 'nothing' or 0.
There could be an eternal state of zero somewhere (ie: 'dimension zero') with infinite +- potential. For an unknown mathematical reason, there can be a split at any time from 0 to '+1' and '-1'. '+1' would be one universe with a positive charge (net dark matter bias) and another would be biased towards negative charges (e.g. dark energy, electricity). It seems our universe is negatively charged and expansion may result from the negative attempting to balance with the positive of its opposite.
Something created God without it's consent in 'blackness' as described in the bible. That was the experience of being paralyzed in a hospital bed with all senses lost and only the mind's lonely cries for console.
Since God could not endure this alone or did not wish to the universe was created with us in it to troll or for some more complex agenda.
God's favorite past-time appears to be building people up and breaking them so that they 'bow down' and accept that it is the ultimate form of greatness. It may want intelligent lifeforms to give up their free will voluntarily.
Perhaps there is an afterlife where people who gave up free will are used as God's slaves directly without any feeling of choice whatsoever.
It seems that God is far more cruel and inconsistent than portrayed today. In fact, there may be a constant state of imbalance and wrath as described in the old testament.
God may not intend to do evil but the whole system creates it by building and harnessing our suffering. After all, according to some scripts 'Satan' was created by God and is indirectly his 'greatest servant'.
Aside from God I think it is all just positive and negative charges: +1s, -1s and 0s. Any number represents strain or 'pain' that seeks to balance itself. When all of the pieces balance our universe will cease to exist and go back into a state of 'nothing' or 0.
There could be an eternal state of zero somewhere (ie: 'dimension zero') with infinite +- potential. For an unknown mathematical reason, there can be a split at any time from 0 to '+1' and '-1'. '+1' would be one universe with a positive charge (net dark matter bias) and another would be biased towards negative charges (e.g. dark energy, electricity). It seems our universe is negatively charged and expansion may result from the negative attempting to balance with the positive of its opposite.
LadyGrace · 80-89
@LifeOnHardMode What you shared came from a very deep and intense experience. I can imagine how heavy that must have felt, especially feeling that kind of isolation. Thank you for being open about it.
Sometimes experiences like that can shape how everything looks afterward—even how we see God.
You mentioned the possibility of God being cruel or creating suffering in a controlling way. I understand why it might look that way from what you went through.
But when I look at Jesus Christ, I see something very different. I see someone who didn’t ask people to suffer for Him—but instead chose to suffer for us.
From what I've read in God's Word, He gave His life on the cross to take on the weight of sin and the separation it causes, so that we wouldn’t be condemned by it. That kind of love doesn’t reflect a God who is trying to control or break people—it reflects a God who is willing to step into pain to rescue them.
I don’t believe what you experienced defines who God is. From my 54 years of trusting him, I've experienced there's more to Him than we know.
You’re not alone in this, and God’s love is closer than it may feel right now.
Sometimes experiences like that can shape how everything looks afterward—even how we see God.
You mentioned the possibility of God being cruel or creating suffering in a controlling way. I understand why it might look that way from what you went through.
But when I look at Jesus Christ, I see something very different. I see someone who didn’t ask people to suffer for Him—but instead chose to suffer for us.
From what I've read in God's Word, He gave His life on the cross to take on the weight of sin and the separation it causes, so that we wouldn’t be condemned by it. That kind of love doesn’t reflect a God who is trying to control or break people—it reflects a God who is willing to step into pain to rescue them.
I don’t believe what you experienced defines who God is. From my 54 years of trusting him, I've experienced there's more to Him than we know.
You’re not alone in this, and God’s love is closer than it may feel right now.
LadyGrace · 80-89
Hi Bruce,
I love the way you’re thinking about this--your reflections are gentle, honest, and very human. I believe the reason we’re here is deeply simple, yet endlessly profound: we’re here to learn how to love. Just like Jesus did and he was the perfect example. It's easy to love people when their lovable and acting lovable, but it takes real courage and strength to love people when they may be hateful to us. This is the test of true love in my opinion. We are to love people like Jesus loves us, unconditionally. Of course we have to keep our boundaries in a healthy way so that we don't allow people to hurt us but I'm not talking about that. Jesus said to love everyone. There was no "if" in that sentence.
Not in some abstract sense, or just “being nice,” but to truly learn how to see another person, to feel their joys and pains, and to respond with care, patience, and kindness. Because if we can’t learn to love each other here, in all the messiness and imperfections of life, how could we ever fully love in heaven?
Life is fleeting, and yes, there are injustices, inequalities, and suffering. But maybe that’s the classroom--our hearts are being shaped in real time. Each act of compassion, every little difference we make, every moment we choose patience over frustration, those are the ways we live with meaning.
So when you sit with your coffee, feeling grateful, or when life feels heavy, know that those moments are exactly the moments where love matters most--small, quiet, but infinitely important. The purpose is not something grand we have to achieve; it’s a daily choice to love, again and again.
Humbly and warmly,
Grace
I love the way you’re thinking about this--your reflections are gentle, honest, and very human. I believe the reason we’re here is deeply simple, yet endlessly profound: we’re here to learn how to love. Just like Jesus did and he was the perfect example. It's easy to love people when their lovable and acting lovable, but it takes real courage and strength to love people when they may be hateful to us. This is the test of true love in my opinion. We are to love people like Jesus loves us, unconditionally. Of course we have to keep our boundaries in a healthy way so that we don't allow people to hurt us but I'm not talking about that. Jesus said to love everyone. There was no "if" in that sentence.
Not in some abstract sense, or just “being nice,” but to truly learn how to see another person, to feel their joys and pains, and to respond with care, patience, and kindness. Because if we can’t learn to love each other here, in all the messiness and imperfections of life, how could we ever fully love in heaven?
Life is fleeting, and yes, there are injustices, inequalities, and suffering. But maybe that’s the classroom--our hearts are being shaped in real time. Each act of compassion, every little difference we make, every moment we choose patience over frustration, those are the ways we live with meaning.
So when you sit with your coffee, feeling grateful, or when life feels heavy, know that those moments are exactly the moments where love matters most--small, quiet, but infinitely important. The purpose is not something grand we have to achieve; it’s a daily choice to love, again and again.
Humbly and warmly,
Grace
LadyGrace · 80-89
I'll have to share my thoughts on that in a post. That's a very interesting and important subject. Thank you for your thoughts on it. God gives us the answers in His Word.
pikminboy · 31-35, M
me i find the bible quite fascinating....
it doesnt feel like it is a fraud/fake stories that people invented... it speaks with a strange wisdom that doesnt feel like a man could create that.
But me too i ponder about the purpose of life. We will all see after our journey here.
i just hope i dont go to hell
it doesnt feel like it is a fraud/fake stories that people invented... it speaks with a strange wisdom that doesnt feel like a man could create that.
But me too i ponder about the purpose of life. We will all see after our journey here.
i just hope i dont go to hell
LadyGrace · 80-89
@pikminboy That's another reason why we're here. To prepare for eternity. To make sure we don't go to hell. We don't have to guess. It takes a willing heart to ask Jesus to come into your heart and life as Savior. He promises to save those who trust in him. I did that on July 21st, 1973, and I've never been sorry.
First I thought you were asking why are we here in SW !
Good question to ask in life, but it never occurs to ask as soon as we are born or while growing up. But we didn't come here in our own accord, but for someone's act and they too would answer the same as they too wouldn't know. So some in the past noted that we can be taught to read and write and can be programmed to behave. They tried with other creatures, but it didn't work. That's why any other animal does not ask such question. So think how a cow or dog or horse would answer, that would be the same for humans too.
Why the disparity? That's basically politics and how money was introduced to more wealth from one place to another.
Good question to ask in life, but it never occurs to ask as soon as we are born or while growing up. But we didn't come here in our own accord, but for someone's act and they too would answer the same as they too wouldn't know. So some in the past noted that we can be taught to read and write and can be programmed to behave. They tried with other creatures, but it didn't work. That's why any other animal does not ask such question. So think how a cow or dog or horse would answer, that would be the same for humans too.
Why the disparity? That's basically politics and how money was introduced to more wealth from one place to another.
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus
“I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got.”
― Hermann Hesse
"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them."
Dalai Lama
― Albert Camus
“I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got.”
― Hermann Hesse
"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them."
Dalai Lama
JustNik · 51-55, F
I know some folks feel they know the answer to this, but I’m not one so I just let it go. We ARE here in this place and time, and what we can answer is what we are going to do with that. In the best cases, I think the first question may lead to a better answer for the second.
SatyrService · M
Well Bruce, unlike many other people I don’t really ask this question why are we here to me assumes a lot. It assumes we are here for some reason or purpose, made by some entity. For its own interests. I know this will be offensive to you but I do not believe in any deity. I believe we happen to be here, due to the laws Of nature. Everything we learn about life, says that the very laws of nature will always create it if the conditions are right. I know many people hate the idea of some thing just happening? Without some being being in charge of it? But I don’t ascribe to that cosmology, physics, chemistry, and biology. Are the rules of the universe we live in. If there’s any reason for us to be here, it is because we make that reason
UnderTheBridge · 51-55, M
Lostpoet · M
Nice writing, btw
God feeds some of his prisoners better than others .
I think the reason we are here is to be fruitful and multiply, to be humanitarian, to strive to seek to find, to understand, to try and understand stand.
I don't believe we only live this one life. I think we keep on living different variations until we reach the stages of nirvana.
God feeds some of his prisoners better than others .
I think the reason we are here is to be fruitful and multiply, to be humanitarian, to strive to seek to find, to understand, to try and understand stand.
I don't believe we only live this one life. I think we keep on living different variations until we reach the stages of nirvana.
Tastyfrzz · 61-69, M
I have no illusions of there being an afterlife of eternal bliss. Maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised but life tends to be disappointing and while God doesappear interested in life it does not appear to interfere with it. It Is more likely in my estimation that we are just ripples in a sea of energy. We come and go but are basically all one and one with everything.
ArtieKat · M
I'm with the ones who said there is no "why" - life is only what we make of it.
MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M
MayorOfCrushtown · M
if you sit and think about it long enough, you'll eventually go crazy or get a migraine, Does your head hurt ???
bugeye · 26-30, F
Im here because one fateful night my parents got horny.
plungesponge · 41-45, M
I know why I'm here, or rather, I've made my own reason. I'm surrounded by narcisissts, thieves and liars, and I figure since all those behaviors sicken me I must been put on the planet to bring some of these fvckers to justice