Love - a path to follow
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What is your experience in these matters Tomasz?
To talk about the documentary and is also to talk about what people choose to believe and how do they act upon what they believe.
What I have to say about the documentary is that I have no doubt that what happened to these peopleis true, but I won't act on that belief.
I will keep, as before, acting on my belief as I think most people do or should do, and the only rule that should guide our belief is truth and respect for the truth of others.
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@jql said:
What is your experience in these matters Tomasz?
I have written about my experience here:
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=179%26amp;t=12323%26amp;p=93314#p93314It matches very close what this man talks about Light and Love and a feeling of being united with everything4:41.
For me it was the strongest experience I have every had. I want to live more and more with this Love in my heart everyday.
You are right we all have to build on what rings to us true and is based on what we have learned so far.
I expect that my experience can be shared, because it was happening in early days of Christianity and it is sill happening in so called Charismatic Renewal in several Churches. Receiving Holy Spirit usually happens through putting hands on someone's head and asking for that gift.
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I think the religious view is coming to the for here too. Love is not a single plane, it is certainly NOT the remit of others to decide what sort I have for those around me. To state that the love one person has for another is the love of a deity is perverse as it is attempting to proscribe the love I have for any other human being I care for.
Perhaps remove the religious doctrine.
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I'm not religious myself, I don't believe in a God that is described by someone else, but I know it exists, everywhere, for many people, in different shapes. As Humans there is definetelly something that binds us together and is greater than us all: Love and Truth, driven by Consciousness and Respect is what I believe. But I know God is the ultimate truth for many.
The only thing I don't agree with the view of god is that it is, many times a view that is imposed by routines, doctrines and not consciousness of the self and of the surrounding universe. It's usually religion as in blindness not in conciousness.
Unfortunatelly a religious God is used by some people (too many) as the thing that splits us and not what binds us, but you cannot speak of a supreme Love, Truth, Consciousness and Respect without speaking of God as the concept is probably the same.
Again I say, I don't like religion, but I have no doubt that God exists though I profoundly dislike calling it God as the word carries too many perverse meanings and dogmas.
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I seriously distrust those who try to proscribe how my feelings are formulated. I have no doubt god exists in the minds of religious followers but absolutely refute the right of anyone to state that the love of one person for another comes from a deity.
I am constantly being told that everyone is the child of a deity and without religious faith I cannot have morals etc.
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There are 3000 gods in our society.
If you're an atheist then you believe in only one less god than someone who believes in one god. Everyone is a an atheist in some fashion.
Nothing wrong with having or, not having, a faith/belief system. Whatever gives you warmth and fulfillment is sustenance for living.
Doing the right thing is what matters.
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@rich o brien said:
Doing the right thing is what matters.
But it is your belief system that drives what is the right thing.
So, before all else, it's what controls belief that drives everything.
Ultimatelly it's your consciousness that allows to create what your belief.
How your consciousness is built, is born, or emerges is really what matters.
What Religion tries to control is how your consciousness is shaped and that's what I don't trust in it.
Religion is a major block to freedom of consciousness or to a true consciousness, as religion is a collectivelly built instrument that is controled by many people, not usually yourself.
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Thank you for the positive expression Tomasz.
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I love this thread
Thanks for the little burst of positivity 
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@mike amos said:
absolutely refute the right of anyone to state that the love of one person for another comes from a deity
You do not have to believe it to love anyone. What if your whole existence is a manifestation of Love, in your unique, completely free way?
I know that my love to my wife is a ray of the light/love I have seen. I simply felt it one day and still feel it in a way. I do not find it intimidating. I simply know that there is something I still have to learn.
My experience tells me that the love is a foundation of everything that exists and to truly fulfil myself as a human being, I have to follow what Love invites me to do. So it is more like flowing with my deepest dreams then being a "puppet of a deity". Love doesn't work this way. We all are Gods, "sons of the Highest."
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