Redefine Your God, or Freakin’ Die Trying. Is that too clickbaity?
Maybe the ‘Freaking Die Trying’ part is the clickbaity part. But hey, we all die, so that takes a big chunk of the sting out of that.
Which makes the clickbaity part; Redefine Your God.
So let’s get right down to it, shall we?
Redefine Your God: a definition;
To take every idea or notion or thought you’ve ever had about God, and seriously question it. After you have researched the questions you‘ve come up with, you will discover that you’ve learned a great deal about what other people think about how you should define God, but more importantly, you will, with great certainty, be capable of defining your own Uniquely Individual and Personal God. It is the most satisfying thing you can learn to do for yourself
First Myth: Separation between you and your God.
All you atheists out there, and all you theists out there, you need to stop scuffling in the dirt like preschoolers at recess and come to the realization that there is only one answer to the one question that each of your sides proposes. And that answer is no. Each side needs to understand that their version of a God, or their version of a Not-God, is incorrect, and these versions are so preschooler-esque in their conception as to be almost laughable if it wasn’t soooooo saaaaaaad. I reiterate, if both sides of the argument are so preschooler-esque as to be laughable, then the answer to their questions can never be yes.
Second Myth: You can’t have a connection with your God unless you do it our way.
The straight answer, which counters this myth, is that the only way you can have a strong connection with your God is to do it your way.
And so we can wrap up all the atheist nonsense, and theist nonsense, and oh, let’s throw in the agnostic nonsense too, and spend some time exploring how each and every person can develop an individual and unique connection with their own personal God.
Unless you are able to utilize a gargantuan portion of your genius-capable intelligence, you will not be able to develop an individual and unique connection with your own personal God by investing any time within the organized structure of the Abrahamic religions. You may be able to make slightly better headway toward that connection with God by use of some of the tenets of Eastern religions.
As an axiom you can take to the bank, so to speak, the Quran won’t do it for you, the Torah won’t do it for you, the Bible won’t do it for you, the Bhagavad Gita won’t do it for you, the Tao Te Ching and the Zhuangzi won’t do it for you, the Ramayana won’t do it for you, the Vedas and the Upanishads won’t do it for you, the Hadith won’t do it for you, the Agam Sutras won’t do it for you, the Dasam Granth won’t do it for you, the Avesta won’t do it for you, the writings of Bahá’u’lláh won’t do it for you, even Lao Tzu’s ‘’Art of War’’ won’t do it for you.
Do you get my drift here, or are you still scuffling in the playground dirt, like children during preschool recess?
All of these purportedly sacred texts won’t do it for you, because most of them have been around for thousands and thousands of years, and if they worked as intended, there would be millions and millions more enlightened and connected-with-God people living on the face of this planet than there are currently.
I conjecture that you would be much more successful at experiencing a connection with God by jettisoning all the biased and filtered misinformation provided by all those aforementioned sacred religious texts.
You can either peruse through some of my previous writings here or wait for my next post in Unpopular Opinions.
To get started;
Pay more attention to your perception than you do to your perspective.
S. Kirby 6–16–22
Kirby 12–20–22
p.s. I write because I think all I’ve got is a notion I’d like to share.
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