Hhhhmmmm, my brain is now mush.
I like the KISS approach.
If you want some simple evidence of a higher power working miracles and all things being destined, check out an a.a. meeting sometime...works for me on a daily basis and applies to every aspect of your life, not just drinking
By the sounds of AA, it's a bunch of people telling stories about how a Higher Power performs miracles and how everybody has a destiny..
1) Personal accounts of miracles are worthless.. There are people in mental institutes who tell personal accounts while drooling in their bed pan..
2) There is no Higher Power intervening with divine benevolence..
3) Destiny (the hidden power believed to control what will happen in the future; fate) is total nonsense...
Tolerance? Ba! Humbug!
you're a sad person Barn...I hope you feel better soon
Like I said, please don't knock something you know nothing about!! You admitted it yourself, "AA sounds like..." . You know nothing!!!
I rest my case.
whether you like god or not,i have seen aa do amazing things to help people get their lives back on track and filled with happiness. i am not a god person but im glad they are around to help people who need it
i picked up a really ugly chick once or twice or..... that was my choice. i could have gone home by myself but chose to nail the ugly chick,it was a good choice she was a freak maybe someone else or something else was thinking for me in a pre determined way? are lotto winners destined to win lotto or is it they bought a ticket and luck was on their side
The universe provides us with many things. It provides us light, and air, and matter, and energy, and wonder. Every atom of every one of us was born in the heart of a dying star. How's that for wonder? But it does not provide us with meaning. And why would it? Until we came along, a millisecond ago, meaning was not required.
My view: we have to find meaning for ourselves. Even that may be a stretch, it implies meaning is there to be found. Perhaps making meaning for ourselves is closer. So where do we find (make) meaning in this random absurd universe?
The people we love, the things we love, the things we love to do. Some of us are lucky enough to get the chance to change things for the better.
For me, the god thing is a cop out. Like giving up, saying the puzzle is too hard so just let's make a god that's responsible for everything.
No more bothersome thinking needed.
But I don't blame those that choose this path because it does get really hard sometimes. It's a long long time since I was stuck in the dark teatime of the soul but I can remember it like it was yesterday. When waking up to another pointless day just made me want life to stop.
But that was a long time ago.
It is sad beyond bearing when people just can't take it anymore and check out. Because you can't help feeling that if they hung on just a little but longer they'd break through into the sunshine one day.
The universe is wonderful. The universe is terrible. But it has meaning, it has the meaning that we put into it. That's what we are for.