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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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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 Nice try but there are not an infinite number of possibilities. Either we are here as the result of a Creator or nothing that we know exists because what we know had a beginning. What caused the beginning? What caused it can not be what resulted from it. You can not use material to explain the cause of material. Add to that the extreme complexity in all we see and know and the utterly fine tuning for it to exist. Your infinite number of possibilities just became an infinite number of impossibilities.
MoveAlong · 70-79, M
@hippyjoe1955
Either we are here as the result of a Creator or nothing that we know exists because what we know had a beginning.

Do you believe in God?
hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
@MoveAlong I believe in an ETERNAL God. Note that word ETERNAL? Since you don't know Him I kind of assumed that you would figure out that I am talking about our physical reality.
MoveAlong · 70-79, M
@hippyjoe1955 Joe, I have no idea what you are talking about. I don't believe you do either.
hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
@MoveAlong I know exactly what I am talking about. Eternal God. The God who created Time and Space but is not limited by it.
MoveAlong · 70-79, M
@hippyjoe1955 No Joe, you believe you know what you are talking about.
hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
@MoveAlong Just because your brain isn't big enough to grasp the concept of Eternal doesn't mean everyone else has the same handicap. Eternal Without Beginning or End. Eternal Always was and Always Will Be. Eternal beyond Space and time and not constricted in any way by it.
MoveAlong · 70-79, M
@hippyjoe1955 But Joe. Infinities don't exist.

(and if they did no ones brain is big enough to grasp the concept. not even yours Joe)
hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
@MoveAlong Who says infinities don't exist and what proof do they have in making such a claim?
MoveAlong · 70-79, M
@hippyjoe1955
Who says infinities don't exist and what proof do they have in making such a claim?

So, you now say infinities exist but earlier you said there is not a an infinite number of possibilities of how the universe could have came about. Do infinities exist or not? Make up your mind. Why do you put limits on things.
hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
@MoveAlong There is an infinite set of possibilities but only one way works. Do try to use you head for more than a hat rack.
MoveAlong · 70-79, M
@hippyjoe1955
There is an infinite set of possibilities but only one way works. Do try to use you head for more than a hat rack.

If there are an infinite set of possibilities then there are an infinite set of ways the universe can turn out.

If an infinite number of monkeys are typing randomly on typewriters they will torn out the complete works of Shakespeare with punctuation an infinite number of times. They will also type out every book that has ever been written an infinite number of times. They will turn out every word that has ever been written by everyone an infinite number of times.
hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
@MoveAlong no they won't but nice try. that idea was debunked years ago.
MoveAlong · 70-79, M
@hippyjoe1955
no they won't but nice try. that idea was debunked years ago.

Yes they would. Remember we're talking infinities. Let's say the 1st work of Shakespeare starts with the word The.

1. An infinite number of monkeys type a random letter in unison. That means an infinite number of monkeys typed T and also an infinite number of monkeys typed something else.

2. An infinite number of monkeys typed H and also an infinite number of monkeys typed something else.

4. An infinite number of monkeys typed E and also an infinite number of monkeys typed something else.

After three moves an infinite number of monkeys have typed the first three letters. Remember 1/26 of infinity is infinity. You will have the complete works of Shakespeare an infinite number of times within the minimum number of strikes.

The debunkers set a time limit. Why? We're talking infinities. There is no time limit.
hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
@MoveAlong So lets talk about getting all the right atoms in all the right places in just one cell. Odds are one E 42,000. Number of seconds in a 13 billion years 1 E 17. Number of atoms in the milky way I E 58.
MoveAlong · 70-79, M
@hippyjoe1955 Life didn't start with a complete cell. We don't know all the steps but if was a building process. Guess what. It worked. Here we are.
hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
@MoveAlong Yeah actually it must have started with a complete cell. The chemicals in a cell have a very limited shelf life. Minutes in fact according to biochemists. Not only would the chemical have to reach exactly the right formulation but it must blend with all the other chemicals who likewise have matured at exactly the right time. BUT even then that would just give you the chemicals. So here is a complete single cell. It doesn't have life. Make it live.
MoveAlong · 70-79, M
@hippyjoe1955
Yeah actually it must have started with a complete cell. The chemicals in a cell have a very limited shelf life. Minutes in fact according to biochemists. Not only would the chemical have to reach exactly the right formulation but it must blend with all the other chemicals who likewise have matured at exactly the right time. BUT even then that would just give you the chemicals. So here is a complete single cell. It doesn't have life. Make it live.

Life did not start with a single cell. Life existed on earth long before single cell organisms arrived. Of course you may be one of those who believe the earth is 6000 years old.
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?