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Thankyou.

by joebangles @ Tuesday, 07. Jul, 2009 – 14:10:02

To all of those that were prepared to answer my question, How did YOU find your God, belief or religion? http://hopechild1.blog.co.uk/2009/07/02/how-6437461/
The many comments were very interesting as this question has long been in my mind to ask, when I found the right place, the right readership.

As some of you will be aware, I am not a believer, but, as I have written on other occasions, I have tried, or, as I saw written recently in a book, I have walked into the light but I never felt the warmth. Yes, I have also admitted that I sometimes feel a little jealous of those that do have a Faith to turn to in times of trouble.

Frankie Laine ( yes, that does kinda date me ) sang the words in one of his songs, "My Friend", and presumably we will all find out one day,

"...life is a road and though it ends at the bending,
.....then there's a road beyond this road that is unending..."

Once again, thanks to all.
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- stmss
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- Wednesday, 08. Jul, 2009 @ 08:38:02
I liked your comment about walking in the light but never having felt the warmth.

All our stories are meant to be different and we each have our own path to tread,sometimes in the light,sometimes in the shade,sometimes in pitch blackness!
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- stmss
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- Wednesday, 08. Jul, 2009 @ 08:40:31
oooh,meant to say we could do with a link to the Frankie Laine song
- - trevor downer (Visitor)
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  - Wednesday, 08. Jul, 2009 @ 11:56:06
  I did mean to leave the link to the song, please enjoy.
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdyA02TyiNQ
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- deleted user (Visitor)
- Wednesday, 08. Jul, 2009 @ 09:12:21
I started to reply to your post, but I found I had written pages LOL.
I think many of us find the warmth, then grow 'look warm'.
Some of us look warm, but are cold inside.
I have never been blessed enough to be on fire all the time, and I doubt that many are, even if they say they are.
Some lessons are hard to learn, and sometimes like children we don't want to learn the lessons that God wants us to learn, and so we act like children by throwing tantrums LOL.
The Bible is full of fallible people like me, that's why I love it.
GBY Joe we live by faith, not by feelings.
Faith tells you to keep searching, your feelings tell you its futile.

PROPHET
- - trevor downer (Visitor)
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  - Thursday, 09. Jul, 2009 @ 00:04:47
  Unfortunately the Bible is also full of untruths, statements that are proven to be wrong. Yes, understandable as it was just story's given as answers to the question that was put over 2,000 years ago, "How did we get here?" At that time there were no scientific answers, the "leaders" had to make up an answer, the bible is not founded on facts. That the Christian faith is founded on these tales is ridiculous.
  
  I believe that the Bible could be a basis to promote a "christian" way of life. Let's drop those tales that we know to be untrue or unproven, base the teachings on the Ten Commandments that remain a guide to the way that we should all live, that would really make a difference to our world, and may reconnect with the people of the world.
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- avenscent
- Wednesday, 08. Jul, 2009 @ 11:56:34
Never give up joe all those who now have faith have been where you are now.
- - trevor downer (Visitor)
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  - Thursday, 09. Jul, 2009 @ 00:08:59
  Hiya Jane, I have picked out the bits that I believe to be right, the guide lines that are in the Bible that I believe, if I live by, will make me a good person. I only have faith in that that I can have proven.
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- tylluanpenry
- Wednesday, 08. Jul, 2009 @ 17:23:07
You're definitely one of the good guys, Joe. And even if you feel you've never found 'god', I reckon it's an odds- on certainty that 'god' (a god, the god, one of any number of gods) has already found you.
- - trevor downer (Visitor)
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  - Thursday, 09. Jul, 2009 @ 00:13:38
  Thanks Tylluan, that is a lovely thing that you write. Maybe finding your God is simply doing what you honestly believe to be right, and I do try to do that, I don't always succeed.
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    - Thursday, 09. Jul, 2009 @ 09:11:22
    You're very welcome. As for succeeding - nobody succeeds all the time, and those who believe they do are the ones you are waaaaaaayy off course!
    
    Good luck on your path, wherever it leads you.
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- jollyweez
- Wednesday, 08. Jul, 2009 @ 19:39:37
You have a beautiful soul, Joe. That is the warmth you feel when you love. One day you will have a wonderful surprise. JW xx
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  - Thursday, 09. Jul, 2009 @ 00:17:37
  Thanks for that comment JW. I certainly welcome any and all surprises, they make the day interesting.
  
  "Souls", I think that I sorta understand them.
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- bugelugzaflyonthewall
- Wednesday, 08. Jul, 2009 @ 20:21:00
sadly, I did not see your first post. For me my journey in faith was ignited as a child, it carried me through some really trying circumstances and gave me understanding in perplexing times and afforded me comfort whilst alone. I just knew with the sure kind of knowing that I was never alone, I just knew with an absolute certainty that things would work out and somehow whenever I sought out knowledge understanding would follow. Certainly I erred and took many detours in the journey of life, but it was only in my recovery from alcholism that I ever pursed religion. Though my faith today has biblical foundations that validate my own moral code of ethics, and support my walk in faith I do not profess to be a Christian, as many of their practices compromise these same values.

It is my belief that each of us no matter where we begin, if we live, we do so by faith, the foundations of that faith can be in anything but its simply and attitude of heart that enables us to hope, and engage.
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- trevor downer (Visitor)
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- Thursday, 09. Jul, 2009 @ 00:24:21
Thanks for that interesting comment Bugel.

Yes, to have something to comfort you in times of need is possibly the one thing that I am jealous of, I have seen, as many others have, the help that faith provides when times are bad.

Like you, I am not a Christian, but, I hope that I live a "christian" way of life that is based on the information that can be found in the Bible.
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- reccura
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- Sunday, 12. Jul, 2009 @ 10:06:00
Joe, it's never too late. (:
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- joebangles
- Sunday, 12. Jul, 2009 @ 20:15:00
I know that you are right Reccura, I do try to keep an open mind.
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- h8rp3r
- Tuesday, 14. Jul, 2009 @ 22:40:07
I'm agnostic. I have been in a situation as a young 12 yr old girl where I was asked a question and if I had answered ok/yes, my life would have taken a turn for the worst. However, it was like a million and one voices shouted in my ears and told me to say no, which I did, and it is only now, as an adult and with the power of hindsight, that I realise I was protected from something awful by saying no.

Before that, I did not believe at all but I now think it was more than instinct at work that day. I still can't believe completely as I have dealt with a lot of horrible things in my life. Some people would see them as a test of faith but shouldn't those that are already faithful be the ones that are tested, not those of us who are sitting on the fence and could fall either side?

I too am jealous of those that have faith but I am fascinated with religion. There is scientific proof that there was a flood (not so sure about a guy building an ark for the animals tho) and there are reoccuring themes in the religions and myths of the world. Whether that has anything to do with a "god" remains to be seen.

What I don't like however, is those that subscribe to a faith and don't like it when you disagree with them. I had a day out in York ruined by a girl doing a questionnaire about God and love who argued with myself and a friend because we did not subscribe to the Christian version of things and seemed very intolerant of our views. Which, ironically, wasn't very Christian of her.
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  - Wednesday, 15. Jul, 2009 @ 07:37:36
  I'm sorry you had your day out in York ruined by an intolerant, intrusive person.
  
  What annoys me is that this type of person claims to speak on behalf of all Christians and promotes the myth that all Christians do is go around trying to convert everyone.
  
  There is a moral to this story: avoid anyone with a clipboard
  - - h8rp3r
    - Wednesday, 15. Jul, 2009 @ 08:51:25
    I know she is in the minority and my friend and I had a laugh about it later. I work in a research lab so when people say they are doing a questionnaire or research and it has nothing to do with consumerism/materialistic matters, then I generally do agree to take part. We have studies that involve asking a lot of questions so it wouldn't seem fair to expect others to answer them and then for me to not take part when asked. More fool me!!
    - - stmss
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      - Wednesday, 15. Jul, 2009 @ 09:58:26
      Well yes, you have a moral duty to gravitate towards anyone with a clipboard then.
      
      But ordinarily the person behind the clipboard is neutral-that's the whole point of research-otherwise you'd just skew all the results.
      
      But of course that doesn't apply to chuggers (charity muggers) who seem to hunt in packs around here. Maybe the mad christian girl doesn't seem too bad after all
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- ohtralala
- Friday, 24. Jul, 2009 @ 20:28:51
I do not have a religion, and I doubt if I could be persuaded, though people have tried. I do have values and ideals but that is not the same. I have been badly bruised by a religious bigot.. and where I went to school we had church every morning and twice, sometimes thrice, on Sundays. Didn't work ......
- - stmss
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  - Saturday, 25. Jul, 2009 @ 08:07:48
  It soesn't sound like persuasion,more like coercion!
  - - ohtralala
    - Saturday, 25. Jul, 2009 @ 08:45:27
    I guess it was ... but that was the way of it then. Not effective though!!
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