ITT we describe our spirituality/religiousness and others recommend a book

[Anonymous No.16949694]

The rational part of my brain tells me that modern physics and everything else looks like the universe is held together or better consists of some sort of pantheistic god. I would be a part of that god just like everyone else and probably even everything else. But the rational part of my brain also tells me to trust my intuition in that regard. And my intuition wants me to believe in a god I can talk to, and a god that can influence my fate. There have been too many occurrences where I was doubting my faith and then something highly unlikely yet very lucky happened to me the next day and this in addition to some dreams got me wondering if my rational worldview can be correct.
But unfortunately I don't see any possibility to unite pantheism/panpsychism with a god with whom I can communicate some way or another so I don't really know what to believe.
Please throw a bunch of words (or even better books, essays or other writings) I can look up in order to find the truth.

[Anonymous No.16949746]

I mean, what may seem contradictory to us may be perfectly reconcilable in a god, since it’s way beyond our understanding

[Anonymous No.16949792]

I saw my Lord with the eye of the heart
I asked, 'Who are You?'
He replied, 'You'

[Anonymous No.16949809]

Syncretic universalism

[Anonymous No.16949929]

>>16949746
Why though?

[Anonymous No.16949947]

God is a verb, not a noun.

[Anonymous No.16949968]

>>16949947
>I god
>you god
>he gods
I think you are speaking of "got", no?

[Anonymous No.16950117]

>>16949968
God is the process that occurs on the outer borders of the universe, where non-existence becomes existence.

God is the creative process that occurs all around us.

At any given moment exists an infinite number of variables interacting with one another in an infinite number of manners to yield an infinite number of potentials. This pre-existence matrix that is ever-changing is God.

God is the process of trapping infinite and perfect potentials into finite and imperfect reality.

[Anonymous No.16950123]

>>16950117
why would you think there are any outer boarders of the universe though?

[Anonymous No.16950128]

>>16950117
Very interesting, are you speaking about the probablistic events in quantum mechanics?

[Anonymous No.16950132]

>>16950123
Is the universe not expanding?
Does expansion not imply a boundary?
Is it not expanding into non-existence as the universe is the very nature of existence?

[Anonymous No.16950139]

>>16950132
I think you would be interested in the Weyl curvature hypothesis

[Anonymous No.16950413]

>>16950117
do these processes betray anything like an intention? can it forgive?

[Anonymous No.16950477]

>>16950413
"It" is only flux.
It is the flux between perfection and infinite and imperfect and finite.
God is the umbilical cord that connects pre-existence with existence.

[Anonymous No.16950483]

>>16950413
What is there to forgive?
Being in inherently the creation of Imperfection.

[Anonymous No.16950491]

>>16949694
Highly syncretic worship of Sol Invictus/Ahura Mazda/Ame-no-Minakanushi and his various emanations. "Julian's Gods" by Rowland Smith is a great read that I would recommend to everyone here.

[Anonymous No.16950498]

>>16950477
I understand it is just that, it seems that what is brought to exist follows patterns. The sun rises every day for instance. Many people believe in a prevailing moral order
>>16950483
I suppose it really depends on what intention is

[Anonymous No.16950597]

>>16950491
Lmao best larp I've seen this week. Did you ever talk about worshipping an ancient sun god with someone irl?

[Anonymous No.16950616]

>>16949694
I believe there's probably a higher being and its probably the Christian God. But not enough to practice anything. I'm really scared of dying and nothing happening, I really want to believe really bad, but I just can't . Any book recs?

[Anonymous No.16950631]

>>16950616
>probably the Christian God
Why? Also why are you scared about literally nothing?

[Anonymous No.16950678]

Why is it so unbelievable for Christians to believe God sent down another book? I'll hear Christians say, "The Quran came six hundred years after Jesus, so its false lol." when Jesus legit came several centuries after Moses.

It literally makes perfect sense since Ismail was sent to Arabia. Do bible thumpers really think God sent Ismail away just to appease a jealous woman? Prophets are always from the progeny of other Prophets so its not like Muhammad was any different than any other Prophet in this regard. Literally, you can't name one striking difference between him and the other Prophets of God other than the fact that He was the most successful Prophet ever who conquered the entirety of Arabia and is remembered every day by billions of people throughout time. I literally cannot fathom how people reject his Prophethood when he checks all the boxes perfectly.

[Anonymous No.16950701]

>>16950117
Any books for this feel?

[Anonymous No.16950872]

I’m miserable and believe that I am trapped in reality for eternity, but I believe that I am only here because some form of consciousness that is mine decided to be at some point.

[Anonymous No.16950912]

>>16950678
So you believe that both the bible and the quran? Is this a common thing among muslims? Sorry if this is a stupid question but I don't know anything about cristians or muslims at all
>>16950872
So your consciousness decided to exist before it existed?

[Anonymous No.16950943]

>>16949929
Our reason is limited and couldn’t comprehend infinite things

[Anonymous No.16950944]

>>16950678
Islam is the most inauthentic of all the Abrahamic religion.

Imagine being such a prole that you believe an all powerful being sent it's most important message down to mankind to one guy in the deserts of Arabia.

Imagine believing that this God didn't bother to have it even written in a way that is understandable in other languages
>> Muh if you want to understand Islam you. have to read the Quran in Arabic

Imagine believing that this God, wanting to create a code of conduct and beliefs that is suppose to provide humanity for the rest of their existence answers, also thought that it was important to include in the same book
"btw when the prophet dies, none of you can sleep with his wife"

How obvious is it that this was a manmade book (quite literally - written by a man who didn't want anybody to sleep with. his wives when he dies)

[Anonymous No.16950965]

>>16950912
Yes Muslims believe in the bible that was sent to Jesus, not the bible of today because they believe it has been tampered with. Take for example John 1, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." Who said this? Which Prophet was this revealed too? Who wrote this into the bible? This is the kinds of questions they ask. And part of the reason why God sent Islam was because there wasn't a clear path to salvation since priests and monks began toying with the laws of God to the point of creating monasticism which pretty much made marriage prohibited when God made it permissible. All in all, the Gospel wasn't made to direct the entirety of mankind. Even Jesus said he was only sent to the israelites. The Quran, being the direct word of God, is the last testament of God's will to human beings.

[Anonymous No.16951061]

>>16950912
I think consciousness is all there is and the rest is an illusion. It doesn’t make sense that particles bouncing around would, in some formation, create the experience of the color red for instance.

[Anonymous No.16952120]

>>16950872
kek @ pic

[Anonymous No.16952467]

>>16950117
This board should stop putting up with vague schizophrenic ramblings with no bearing or point, or at least stop telling the poster they're "very interesting".

[Anonymous No.16952788]

>>16952467
>he got filtered by an effortposter
kek

[Anonymous No.16953438]

>>16950965
>believe in the bible that was sent to Jesus
When did the bible get sent to jesus though? Isn't thr NT just the story of his life?

[Anonymous No.16953523]

>>16953438
it isn't exactly the same. the Gospel I mean. but it is a book that yielded a community of believers. the members of that community will be judged based on how they lived up to the commitments inherent to that book.

I guess from Gods point of view there is no element of chance involved in Jesus' teachings eventually being made into a book, or series of books.

[Anonymous No.16953861]

>>16953523
I mean from Gods point of view there wouldn't be any chance involved in the world, right? After all he is the one in charge of everything

[Anonymous No.16953866]

>>16949694
Chaos Magick

[Anonymous No.16953933]

>>16949694
i don't know
and by this point i don't care
i treat others better than i treat myself and that's about it
dont litter