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I believe that there is a higher power and creator

It is just I feel the world the way it is was never a random accident. What caused the Big Bang and other phenomena? I feel there must be some kind of spiritual power at work. There must be something after we die. I believe in the afterlife and believe in god or gods and goddesses. Lately I have been feeling and hearing words inside my head almost like whispers ( not the schizophrenic kind). I believe god is talking to me and trying to hold open the door to allow the light in. Jesus is inviting me to trust in him and lay my problems at his feet. For some reason, I want to believe. A kind benevolent god whose love is for everyone is such a comforting thought. I wish my faith could return but I see so much wrong in the world and how I let my life turn out. I see how my family has suffered throughout the years and I ask why did we suffer? What was the point of that god? Was it to teach us a lesson about life and faith? Sometimes I wish I was dead so I could go back to Jesus and watch over my family and friends from the afterlife. I would no longer have to worry about what will happen to me after my parents pass away. I would no longer have to be worrying about being a burden on my family although they don’t view my mental illnesses and cancer as being a burden but just challenges I need to deal with and live with as best as I can. The cancer part should be resolved as soon as I finish my radiation therapy after a few weeks of resting from my cancer removal surgery. But it is the mental illness part and my lack of motivation to try improving my life because part of me just wants to die and have my life be over. I need to learn to take care of myself financially and psychologically because if I live decades longer I will not always.have someone to take care of me. There is so much to learn and so much I am scared of screwing up on. I’m afraid I will not be able to look after myself. My parents want me to have supports in place like an assisted independent living. Environment. My mom and sister.thought I should try a group home like setting until I was more independent and to transition myself to an independent living ( supportive living) environment once I learned the skills and practiced them enough when I eventually moved out of my parents house. My parents want me to keep my disability. Benefits for life. To have as a financial safety net. I can work part time and I think they think I may not. Be able to work because I am not showing them any completion of a vocational course or higher education that I am concentrating on to finish that will lead to a part time flexible remote career for me.( although they think I would benefit from a more structured onsite job with set hours during the week for a few hours a week maybe 10-15 hours at most) I can make up to about. $1,500 dollars per month before my disability benefits get cut off. They think I may not work at all or if I ever end up finishing my online vocational courses I could do my freelance work as much as much as the social
Security administration allows. My dad is eventually willing to send me back to university one course at a time to complete my bachelors. Although I wonder if over being a decade out of school if my community college credits would count toward a bachelors transferring my associates. Degree anymore or if I would have to start over again. That would take me many years to finish school. Part of me used to picture myself with a bachelors and masters degree and 20-35 hours a week or its equivalent for a career. If money and.time were no concern, ideally I would have two bachelors and masters degrees in English ( creative writing and journalism) and history ( world and U.S. history or public history).with vocational certificates of completion and diplomas in proofreading and editing, writing and blogging, transcription, translation. (Certificates in foreign/modern and ancient/classical languages,) and many other skillsets where I would. Get a diploma. Or a certificate of completion. I could also do scoping, court reporting/ broadcast captioning/cart providing,subtitling, digital marketing, visual design, web design/development, illustration and animation etc.

Yet realistically. I would be lucky to finish one bachelors and masters degrees or two. Bachelors degrees, I would even be fortunate enough to finish one bachelors degree and get vocational certificates or diplomas on top of that. I would be very lucky if I could work closer to full time and make my living without disability benefits and make enough to live on. I would be fortunate. If I made $50, 000-$100, 000 annually. It’s not a lot but if budgeted correctly and I found ways to. Reduce rental expenses. And housing I could live very comfortably. But if I don’t put in a serious effort to change my life none of my personal goals for my hobbies/interests/talents/passions/skillsets/aptitudes or my educational or professional ambitions will never come true. I also need to find the energy for house cleaning, laundry, cooking, house repairs and household management.( household shopping, taxes, bills, and insurance). I need to find the motivation. To get up by 11:00 am -12:00 pm every single day as I am not a morning person and don’t feel my energy pick up until around early afternoon, continue to increase in the evening hours, and staying that way until late night into the early hours of the morning. and start my day earlier not leaving my bed at 3:00 -4:00 pm even though. By the time I go to bed at 4 or. 5 am the latest with decent amount of sleep I should be waking up at noon to one pm the very latest.

I ask Jesus and God to help me figure out my life and to find the motivation to see through my hobbies/interests/passions/talents/skillsets/aptitudes cultivated to an advanced level. I ask them to see that I create motivation and discipline for my educational and professional goals. To have. The ability to live on my own and take care of a household of one and be able to travel and volunteer. It’s a long way to go but if I can live on my own and be self. Motivated. Naturally by sometime in my middle age whether that be late 30s-( not middle aged until 40s) to 40-50 I will consider my later life a success even if the. First half of my life was a failure. That depends on my cancer and how many decades I have to live. If my cancer comes back it could cut my life short. I pray to god to give me. Something to live for besides my family. I don’t know if I will ever love someone romantically. Again or if I my friends will become close life long. Friends. Let god let me be able to move from New England after a few years of living on my own here as a starting point. And live in another part of the United States especially the southwest United States. I hope I will not always have to live. Close to my family for support and socialization. I pray god let me. Be able to drive a car again someday so I can bring myself places instead of having to wait for rides. And to learn. To use public transportation as a back up so I know how to get around towns and cities. I pray for an independent life where I don’t have to hear my family criticize and comment. In my overly warm clothing choices. I hope I can live an independent adult life or at minimum. A semi independent life. My end dream wasn’t an assisted living facility. And I ask god to get rid of my broken heart for a person I can no longer have. Maybe I will find a spouse who can help me with life responsibilities and who will love me despite all my flaws. I already lost the love of my life because of my fault. I hope I can find love again to patch up. The hole in my heart. I pray to god for a lot of things.
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JollyRoger · 70-79, M
First and most importantly: Believe in God!
Jesus is God's son who was given to us by God to teach us how by believing in God as he did that miracles can happen! Even a miracle like you overcoming your health problems and finding joy in your life! BELIEVE IN GOD!

The rest of what you seek to have and do will follow.

God gave us our soul so we can develop it and prove to him (on Judgment Day) that you did your best to show love to others though helping, by teaching (even teaching others to be strong through their pain). Do pray to God, not to Jesus, but to God as Jesus wants us to do. Don't ask God for favors, but do ask him for guidance. If you are hearing voices that guide you to do good, then God is answering your prayers...listen and act!

You are God's child, perhaps you are a bit imperfect to us, but not to Him. Work on improving your soul...that is the reason God gave you your soul and body... your attitude toward others: love, forgiveness, trust and helpfulness are your means.

I don't know you and you don't know me...but we both know that God has a reason for having given us life... Let's both honor Him by doing our best.

I am praying that you will ask God to show you your purpose while you are with us in this testing of our souls that we call 'Life'.
@JollyRoger

Prayer
A recited incantation designed to force or cajole a deity or deities into changing the normal, existing, or probable course of events in the universe, obtain an advantage, or avoid a divine penalty. Also an expression of gratitude or adulation, or an affirmation of continual fear, made to a deity.

A prayer is often accompanied by a promise or a sacrifice (the firstborn, money, giving up a favorite vice, not lying, a select bit of food the priests can eat) to seal or satisfy the agreement. A spell.
JollyRoger · 70-79, M
@BlueSkyKing I'm not sure....are you saying prayer has purpose or that you interpret prayer as an 'ask' from God? The definition is very vague. When I pray I just open my mind and listen.
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ItsMeMorgue · 46-50, F
@SomeMichGuy
I'm not your and never would be your hun.
Don't flatter yourself, sweetie.
But vocational certificates actually are available at community colleges (vocational prep is one of their strengths).
That's not the part I was laughing at.
Harass someone else (it's against the ToS).
Oh, you're one of those people who think that if I don't blindly believe your narrative about God and Jesus, you're bEiNg PeRsEcUtEd. I didn't know.
@ItsMeMorgue

Don't flatter yourself, sweetie.

You're the one who said "hun".

And I'd never be your sweetie.

Oh, you're one of those people who think that if I don't blindly believe your narrative about God and Jesus, you're bEiNg PeRsEcUtEd. I didn't know.

No, not at all. You don't even know my "narrative", at all; you assume an awful lot.

But now you're just harassing me to harass me, which is against the ToS.
ItsMeMorgue · 46-50, F
@SomeMichGuy
You're the one who said "hun".

And I'd never be your sweetie.
Typical man, assuming those are terms of endearment. Like I'd be attracted to you. 😆
No, not at all. You don't even know my "narrative", at all; you assume an awful lot.
You act like you're being persecuted when nobody is persecuting you, hun. Classic Christian tactics.
But now you're just harassing me to harass me, which is against the ToS.
Nope. I'm just responding to the messages in my notifications.
uncalled4 · 56-60, M
There probably is a higher power, and lots of other information that by design is unavailable to us. That's where faith comes in. That is not to disregard science or the empirical, but at the same time, we cannot perceive everything, just look at the powers of perception that animals possess versus our own. Staggering.

As someone who became a philosophy minor for fun, I believe there is a certain jumping off point or you'll lose it much like Robert Pirsig in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

So, "all I know is that I don't know". Still, I've concluded a few things:

1. An "answer" need not exist;
2. It may exist, but we are ill-equipped to grasp it.

I feel much better that we don't have the information we need. Lord knows what would happen if we did.
“Don't you believe in flying saucers, they ask me? Don't you believe in telepathy? — in ancient astronauts? — in the Bermuda triangle? — in life after death?"

No, I reply. No, no, no, no, and again no.

One person recently, goaded into desperation by the litany of unrelieved negation, burst out "Don't you believe in anything?"

"Yes", I said. "I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.”
― Isaac Asimov
JollyRoger · 70-79, M
@BlueSkyKing And the evidence that God created us is: We are here, we think, we act and we achieve making good things better. We seek evidence and that evidence propels us to greater understanding of our souls and of the universe. What we lack is trust!
Adstar · 56-60, M
Massive Paragraphs cause most people to stop reading..

But yeah there is a God.. He is eternal, He has always existed.. You need a cause to always have existed for anything else to come into existence ( Universe) (Life ) ..

Nothing cannot create something..

Pray to the God of Abraham for wisdom and understanding.. He can cause one to become much wiser then they are now..
MoveAlong · 70-79, M
It is just I feel the world the way it is was never a random accident.

Whatever your feelings are has no bearing on the way the universe is. It could be intelligently designed or it could be just a random happening out of an infinite number of possibilities.
hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
@MoveAlong So what kind of life form existed before cells?
MoveAlong · 70-79, M
@hippyjoe1955 Google is your friend. We're through here.
hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
@MoveAlong So you can't tell me what life forms existed before cells? Give it a try or are you just blowing smoke like all the others who don't know the degree of their own ignorance. Funny thing. Did you know that the simplest cell is doing chemistry we can't do in our fanciest lab? Where did that information come from? You can't build anything without information. One further question since you believe that life is just a matter of chemical reactions how is it that virtually all of life uses only left handed folded proteins when there are just as many right handed proteins which are just as reactive? So I give you 20 left and 20 right and tell you to mix them up and tell me the odds of coming up with 20 all left handed ones? Oh and one more question how did the chemicals in life mix since many of them are destroyed when they contact water?
496sbc · 36-40, M
CorvusBlackthorne · 100+, M
It is an unfortunate fact that our @ProphetOfFarblesnozz is no longer with us, but I am certain that he would have a relevant passage from the Holy and Perfect Gliberoo to share.
Diotrephes · 70-79, M
@midnightmagic =
What caused the Big Bang and other phenomena?

The Big Bang was simply a supernova. It happens all the time.
hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
@Diotrephes The universe had a beginning. Hydrogen is part of said universe. Try to think for a change.
Diotrephes · 70-79, M
@hippyjoe1955
The universe had a beginning. Hydrogen is part of said universe. Try to think for a change.

Cosmic hydrogen is the basis for everything. It goes nuclear, creating stars which cook up new elements. The stars blow up, and the debris forms planets, which create new elements, some even turning into life forms because of carbon.

We have no idea how large the cosmos really is. We are limited because all we can see is our own observable universe, which may be comparable to a galaxy in the grand scope of things. Imagine a cosmos with a billion trillion universes like our own.
hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
@Diotrephes We know what hydrogen is. It is the most common element in the universe. How did it come to be is the question. We know the universe had a beginning. The red shift shows us that. How did the 'singularity' become the universe is the only question. You can't have a beginning of the universe and have pre existing hydrogen since hydrogen is part of the universe.
RisingMorningStar7 · 36-40, M
Knowledge is limited what we know about the observable world is unknown. To say nothing can exist beyond on the limited things we know is unwise and erroneous.
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
@RisingMorningStar7 That is my point. If we put ourselves into these physical bodies, no one is controlling us but us. But if God put us in them, he is controlling us. You understand?
RisingMorningStar7 · 36-40, M
@LordShadowfire but there is still form of freedom.
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
@RisingMorningStar7 Is there? Are you sure about that?

I want you to think for a moment about a major decision in your past. Do you honestly think that given who you were at the time when you made that decision, you could have made a different choice? Or would the you from that time have made the same choice given a second chance?

It seems like every time I hear about a new discovery about human DNA, it's about yet another personality trait turning out to be genetic. And so again, if we put ourselves in these bodies, we have freedom. If someone else did, we do not.
ItsMeMorgue · 46-50, F
Diotrephes got angry with me and blocked me because I know more about the Big Bang than he does.
Punxi · F
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LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
ItsMeMorgue · 46-50, F
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