Do you believe in God? [Spirituality & Religion]

@Emosaur Surely whatever necessitate a creator must also apply to that creator, thereby necessitating another creator and so on ad infinitum.

@Sharon *reaches for Tylenol*

@Emosaur what makes you think exactly that theres not?

@DeluxedEdition What makes you think there is?

@HeteroDox i've had a near death experience and experienced and saw things that there is no way anyone would ever convince me otherwise that there isn't a God.

@DeluxedEdition The brain operates as on his own level, it will make yuo see whatever it wants to try and make you comprehend what youre seeing. This is why people misremember things but swear by them, or hallucinate something apparetly absurd... its how your brain analyzes, interprets and makes sense of what t sees.

Im sorry youve been indoctrinated ... religious illusion is actually quite common along side the "life flashed in front of my eyes" meme

@Emosaur i didnt make any assumptions. i simply turned your own question around on you to see how you would respond.

@DeluxedEdition Others have had NDEs and saw other gods.

@Sharon ^ this too ^

@DeluxedEdition What did you see?

@HeteroDox "10. Consciousness may continue after death. There is little scientific research available that tells us what happens to the mind after death, but a 2014 study may offer some insight. Researchers at the University of Southampton in England examined over 2,000 cardiac arrest patients in the United States, United Kingdom, and Austria. Of those who survived, 140 were surveyed about their near-death experiences, and 39 percent reported feeling some kind of awareness while being resuscitated. This sense of awareness included feelings of peacefulness and a sensation that time slowed down or sped up. Thirteen percent reported feeling separated from their bodies. While only two percent exhibited full awareness, researchers say this proves that more studies need to be done."

reference i'll post the link since we're not in college class .


https://www.everydayhealth.com/news/things-your-doctor-wont-tell-you-about-dying/

@DeluxedEdition Sorry, cherie - not exact American Journal of Medicine... but you are stating my point for me... the brain will take great steps to do what it has to do to protect itself... and thirteen percent are hardly "everyone sees god".

Sorry hun... til the big blood thirsty jerk appears on the lawn of the whitehouse or least a full page in the Times.... its utter impossible rubbish

@DeluxedEdition Just because your heart stops doesn't mean you're dead. You're not dead until your brain is dead.

@HeteroDox Who is the big bloodthirsty jerk and why would he be on the lawn of the White House.

@quitwhendone who else...? the only way anything has any shred of credibility is put yourself on camera or ..well... you got nothing

@HeteroDox You totally lost me. Who are you talking about? God?

@quitwhendone Oui.. who else would i be talking about given the thread? if he doesnt appear on camera to make hiself known then its nothing more than a rubbish mythology

@quitwhendone i was literally struck by a car going 55 while i was going for a run. when i was knocked out and woke up it was instantaneous. my leg was hanging mangled while my bone literally stuck out inches from my leg.

when i was loaded into the ambulance i had lost so much blood i was shaking uncontrollably. i was freezing. then a thought occurred to me (i'm tearing up right now) i teared up while i lay there because i was only 18 years old and i had to face the fact that there was a very high possibility that i was going to die. I began tearing up because i didnt understand why god would take my life because i had big plans of becoming a nurse and helping people. I literally said god i understand if you dont want me to be a nurse, but please spare my life for my baby so that i can raise her because her father is too incompetent to do anything for her without me.

then all of a sudden i wasn't freezing anymore nor was i shaking. a perfect white haze began to overtake my field of view. suddenly i saw envelopes flying in and out of my vision. They were bills. at the time i was overwhelmed with stressing about money. it was all i eat breathed or spoke. then i was at a money factory watching dollar bills being manufactured in the machine where it prints the designs onto the paper then goes into the next area to be cut. next i was in a cotton field watching people gather cotton. suddenly i hear a very distant voice and it speaks to me.

"all your life revolves around is a piece of paper intertwined with cotton. There is so much more to your life than that"

then I "woke up" from the haze and i still was no longer cold but i wasn't afraid anymore. I was somehow filled with this strange sense of relief. and at that moment i dont know how i knew but i knew i wasn't going to die and a little smile formed across my face and remained and surely enough i did not die that day.

now i am a patient care tech who is almost done with nursing school. because of that accident i received some money and was able to use that to move to florida away from my toxic baby daddy and my suffocating abusive family and get out of poverty. the first thing i did was bought myself a cna license.i bought myself a house and a car. and I now work at a rehab basically taking care of people who have had traumatic injuries similar to my own. although i have a titanium rod in my leg for a bone. i dont let it stop me from anything. It has given me a newfound appreciation of everything. i am so grateful for every single little thing in my life. I always tell my story to my patients to try to encourage them. hey if i got better and im doing this you can too.

im even grateful for being hit by the car. nobody can convince me that that was not God who literally flipped my life upside down. when i say poverty my husband made $200 a week. now i make 19 an hour working as a cna for an agency

@HeteroDox that reference is fine my college professor gave us that website to use as what she stated was a "credible source". but you obviously know better than my professor who has a doctorate. am i right?

@Emosaur you can believe whatever you want. that's the only freedom we have in life is figuring things out for ourself

@DeluxedEdition it is good that u believe what u want to believe and noone can take that away from u not even those smart Asses on here. 👍

@Idontknowlol u are absolutely right