Why doesnt God answer prayers???

Why!?! You ax.

Why doesn't God heal amputees but still heals cancer victims???

This is a non ambiguous situation where the only thing that could restore an amputee's leg is God's intervention, it is a perfect test of the power of prayer. So obviously God doesn't exist because a fair God would definitely heal every good willing person regardless of their life wrecking ailment! I choose my words carefully because I am paraphrasing http://www.whywontgodhealamputees.com/

Who uses this rationale as evidence that God is nothing more than an imaginary figure that has no purpose in OUR lives. I do not intend on crushing this argument which is skillfully drawn out over about a million pages, my only purpose is to inspire ideas.

Why doesn't God answer my prayer you ask. Like a pretentious bastard I answer in questions, 3 infact.

What is your prayer???

Are you testing God or do you truly want what it is that you claim to be asking for?

A predictable response i know, but one that wasn't addressed in the site, in the appropriate

section at least, please if you find it tell me.()

What makes us happy? Answering this question will determine what God desires to give us, we pray for what we want, we want what makes us happy.

I am going to tell YOU what makes YOU happy, OK! Tell me if I am wrong because thats what people like me need, people to tell them to stop assuming the thoughts of other people and the workings of the universe as if they think they are GOD.

But anyway here we go:

We WANT to be part of something, to involve ourselves in a group things or individuals no matter how large or small. This is why friends and loved ones are the best thing in the world, that build us up and destroy us. Achievments make us happy because we believe it will help us be accepted by people. Now this seems simple enough but in result we are caught in a cycle of finding ourselves accepted and then naturally, uncontrollably ascending from this safe haven and seperating ourselves again, as we always strive for a higher plateau....of ....who we are accepted by.....like having better friends. (God is the only thing that fulfils my life, YOU all can go out and party with friends and do all the craziness you like, but know that I have been there, exactly where you are, in youor life, and any happiness is shallow compared to the specialness of being connected to the everlasting GOD.

Whew, that sentence was TOO LONG. o well, it makes me wonder though (if you agree mildly with what I have ranted) that how would magically regrowing your leg help you in this situation, people don't judge you for being an amputee and you can still have friends (If they did judge you, you wouldnt want to be friends with them no?)

But the question is still there, if an amputee claims to have prayed to GOD sincerely with all the faith of the world there is still no effect to this action. Well this takes me to my next topic:

What is praying?

OK when you pray you think of closing your eyes, looking to the heavens and speaking as sincerely as possible in order to inspire within us an awareness of the presence of the concious Lord of the universe. In the end it can be dissapointing when there is no epiphany or warm awsome feeling. That is because GOD is present ALL THE TIME. he doesnt just take notice of you when you do a few hail Marys, etc. And you don't feel different because you have known GOD all your life and you just accept it as the norm.

Hence every sincere thought and deep desire is a prayer to the Lord, the truthful statements that are made within yourself, the voice of your soul. 

So maybe an amputee asks GOD to heal his leg or eyes because at that particular point in time he wants to play a game of soccer with his friends. But deep down being amputated means he attracts many people sympathetic of his ailment and being amputated is a blessing. So is this the answer to a prayer? What does God have to do with any of it?...

How do you know your prayer is answered?

If you had your leg amputated and having that leg is the only way you can ever speak to another person again, than you have prosthetic legs, which by this stage are just about better than real legs...almost. And what if loneliness is your blessing. When I feel lonely it makes me feel closer to God, I like it better than most things....Haha....loneliness is happiness can you believe what I am saying? You must think I am MAD! Go away and never question the real world again if you do accept that all you see with your eyes is all there is, you live for the purpose of laughing and moaning only, you are a slave to no-one but yourself....ye scurvy dog! Yarr

If your prayer has been answered, you will feel happy. The end.

BTW there is also the possibility that I am correct about each person being hosts of multiple selves and each one of these could pray differently resulting in CHAOS! YOU DO NOT WANT WHAT THEY WANT! YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU WANT! YOU WANT TWO THINGS AT ONCE! God somehow makes you both happy. For example: One self wishes to be left alone while the other to be surrounded by friends. All the person's friends die. The person is now both alone AND surrounded by God's love at the same time (as he always was but never appreciated it in the same way or made himself open to it.). Aetheists do not understand that liberated feeling of loneliness in the way that I do. They do not understand themselves the way I do. This may or may not be truth.

What am I doing now?

What am I doing writing in these blogs?

How rational are my sentences really. How deluded can I be and to what extent can people correct my arguments, nobody does becasue of either two things: They don't care, they believe I am correct or they want me to remain in a state of ignorance so that they assert their higher level of awareness of the workings of the universe.

But here we go, I went out for a bit of saturday night fun last night for the first time in years. I went to three parties all through the day, they were all very different from eachother. A shindig in the park with some roudy former school friends, a house party thrown by soccer nuts for a girl's 21st and then it was ouit to the city where me and two mates snuck into the club to enjoy the DJ and dancing and live musicians. Didn't drink that night but I know from experience that it doesn't help in any way in changing my experiences. But anyway I thought a solid night of adventure was it.

Anyway this was fun in the same way that I would enjoy knitting underwater. Strange and menial at the same time. It's not where you go or what you do that adds to the experience but the people you're with or the possibility of hooking up. 

I feel that this is why I don't go out often, I enjoy being around people but only for a short amount of time, say an hour. This is because I purposefully attempt not to develope any sort of relationship with anyone if I don't have to. I know that If I do I will eventually betray them and they will betray me in a way, because they or I will change into another one of our "selves" (see previous blog entrys). This would be fine if I could have a relationship with just one of their selves but what you tell that self will be known by their other selves, enemys and strangers. There is no solidity in a relationship like that. The only solid relationship that I can find happiness from is this one right here. Sifting through my thoughts in my never-ending conversation with God and the devil. In the divine creator is one self that has only love for me and you (but i don't really care about you do i?). This is the only relationship I need in my life the best that can ever be found in the universe. My feelings are proof enough to me.

Or heres food for thought. Because I am surrounded by people on a day to day basis (my family, friends, colleagues, superiors, whatever) I am mistaking the happiness I recieve from them as a result of only my intimate relationship with God. 

What the fuck do I know go to bed!~

You're not going to believe this

I don't think the justice system we have is not correct fro this day. More appropriate I believe would be intead of accusing someone of a deed such as murder or insider trading we go a step further and accuse them of the personality traits we automatically associate with these deeds such as being untrustworthy, malicious or epically devious.

Good idea? Nah you're right forget you read anything.

Here is some lines for you to think about:

"Contaminated order"

"Enslave the body to free the mind"

Seperate selves seperate souls?

I don't know If I have told you my thoughts on the seperate selves within us. This should support my last idea of God being that voice in my head because even though I am forced to shift between identities that voice remains unchanged, only my emotions are affected and how I respond to certain situations. By the way I am very scared because I don't know wether this eternal voice is My Lord or The Devil....in all his sly and ...mysteriously devious glory. 

Ok well all that aside here is my opinion on seperate identities that arise in response to either the environment or the people around them, just as one identity associates with work, one with home and one with your yoga class or whatever, put simply. But I think we can change identities as often as every 10 minutes. Sometimes we have identities that don't arise for years. This is my explanation for our forgetfulness and the way the years seem to get away from us as we get older.

The reason is that if one of our identities remembers an event than the other identites will not remember it. This is how the brain works, we only remember something when we find a path to the desired information through our brain cells, through associated memories. This is how we move from self to self. Since every self has it's own experience of things, the time between when a self recedes and when it reawakens can seem like no time at all, like in a deep sleep we are out for hours yet it seems like only a few minutes. This causes people to say: "Well that went quick" or "It seems only yesterday that I was -x- years old." 

Well this concept is fairly accepted I think already, but I have another twist to put on it. If we have many different identities than is it not viable that each identity has it's own soul. Than our bodies must be host to 5-100 souls, each with their own fate in the afterlife...what a thought, the seperation of these souls when we die, able to look at eachother objectively. Some will burn in eternal damnation and some will enjoy eternal life and paradise.

STOP!

I insist on explaining my interpretation of what our soul is. Put simply it is the identity that we construct throughout our lives that we aspire to become, in all it's totality. Becoming one with our souls is what makes us happy, I can't speak for the whole of humanity but the greatest paradise is to be one with our soul for all eternity, the afterlife. Isn't someone's ultimate aspirations the real way to seem into someone's heart, and the most beloved possession we can own, and share with great caution. I'm not talking about fickle goals like "I want to be a vet" or "I want to own the most awsome guitars in the world." I t is more along the lines of, "I want to be adored by everyone." or even "I want to be the most tragic figure that ever lived, striking awe into those who hear my story." What makes us happy? I tell you it is not enjoyment of the moment and what it does to our bodies it is the exitement beforehand, during or after that is really us becoming closer to our souls.

So there you go, we can identify our different selves by our soul's own identity. Let me put some more questions into our head. As children time moves more slowly, we don't change identities as much when we are infants? Now is this because these identities are dormant or can we create identities? When considering the latter we face the idea that we create souls...this makes things complicated. No I think it either of those that i mentioned before. As children our various selfs are unified in their sole purpose. It is as we grow older that these seperate. It is also apparent that collisions between two of these selves is what makes us angry, not violent but angry and resentful.

The next question is what should we strive for. A unified collection of selves, returned to a state close to which when we were infants? This would surely help us remain constant in our values and stop us from forgetting things but I must "meditate" on this.

I'm posting again, because I asked God for wisdom over anything else around five years ago so I'll write with the assumption that maybe he has given me something worth sharing, but I'm just a retard at heart so no worries if no-one can make sense of any of it I just need some kind of outlet so here I am writing long pretentious sentences. Strap in and lets faff about some!

Where is God? It is something I would love to know for sure, out of all the voices that speak to us constantly which is the voice of reiteousness and infinite wisdom? I'm going to take a guess. Within my head is two entities that are with me at all times. I'm going to call these two voices "My emotions" and " My conscience".

My emotions are feelings that often confuse my conscience, giving me urges and fears that I don't understand. They are activated by being in different environments mostly and sometimes by the people I interact with.

My conscience is a voice inside my head that speaks to me in very unexpected manners, it takes on the tonal qualities of my own voice and distracts me from the rest of the world when listening to music, having a conversation or trying to get to sleep, in fact all throughout the day, non-stop.

Other voices which speak to me are external, such as from other people, words and sounds generated by mechanics or the wind. However I like to believe that God is with me always so I think that he couldn't be any of these voices (however I do believe that through uncanny circumstance and timing I am recieving messages, but this does not satisfy me as being God's only voice, he is more involved."

I am mildly sure that My conscience I have known for a few years now (since I devoted myself to serving a higher power having been dissatisfied with humanity), that keeps me awake, causes me to do clumsy thing on an hourly basis and has an opinion on just about everything is God speaking directly to me. I don't know If anyone else has this same voice but I would love to know your thoughts.

But the more I think on it the more it makes sense, from this voice there seems to be an everlasting flow of information that I don't have any idea where it came from. People call me a quiet person when I am around a few people, maybe so but I tell you it's God's fault, he won't shut up. I can't play music, among other things with his drawl.

When the conscience speaks to me it seems so clear in my head but it gets fudged when I try to express it. It also conflicts directly with my emotions, it is able to take an objective approach to everything. When I obey it's orders I become relaxed and happy whereas the places my emtions take me turn everything to ship.

Tell me I'm crazy, go on, how do I know you don't secretly suspect the same thing, how do we know when we are on the path rie-tchess-ness or wether we are deep in the thick black tar of our humanity, how do you know I won't change my mind and post something completely
different in another year? God knows, ask him.

I was thinking today about how the afterlife works, what allows our consciousness to move from this world into God's reality. After some thought I have concluded that our relationship to the next world and the connections we make with it in this world that live on, by knowing God. What is connecting us to this world is our perceptions of it, it is our reality. However once we leave it behind and we have no conscious mind existing on Earth we become conscious of God's reality and live in it.

Intro - A fair starting point

My greatest interest is the question of a belief in God. I think that this is a very transitory period we are facing, with the begining of a new millenium atheism is among a multitude of rapidly growing trends. Interesting that it was almost 4000 years ago that abraham first made popular, the concept of a single, all-powerful creator. Suposing that was 2000 years before Christ it would make sense (from a symmetrical point of view) that in 2000AD this era would come to a close.

However, no assumptions can be made on this basis, all I want to do here is Provide a Christian point of view in face of the overwhelming influence of those people whose faith has turned to their own self reighteousness. I must stress that this is not a crusade of hatred against any group of people, my best friend is a very aggressive atheist and a cunning intellectual, the most enjoyable thing I find about having him around is getting involved in a violent religious debate. I have never shared anything over the internet like this before, I'm going to provide my reasons for being both a theist and a Catholic. There probably isn't anything anyone can do to prevent the death of the church and belief in God (Most Atheists explain that even if they were provided with undeniable evidence of God and Jesus's ressurrection they would not abandon their beliefs.)

Mainly I want to do what I can to help other religious individuals with questions about their faith be them Christians or Jews or Islaam, etc. But what I'm hoping for is the attention of atheist communities and the thrill of a religious debate with others from around the world.

By the way I am not going to use any verses I know from the bible in any argument. Some may say that I am being lazy, but a verse from the bible means nothing in relation in atheism. Essentially I'm a bit of both I suppose. So by all means read it whenever you can, it has some secrets to understanding people (that the satanic bible likes to rip off a fair bit) and more importantly it can help you to find love in your heart for all people of the world.

THE EXISTANCE OF GOD

One common scepticism is the belief in the prophets. "Why would God present his message through a mortal man rather than prove his existance with miracles?" I'm going to go back to the fact that most atheists would not be moved by evidence, as an example. Is the most powerful influence on our lives, since the begining of our existence, the influence of other people. Look at our own day and age and our own celebritarian culture along with the value of family and romance. There is no other thing worse than loneliness, and it's for a reason.

An even more important question: "Is there proof of an intervening, conscious God." Yes. If you look at the way the universe works there is a number of clues to be noted. In many ways science helps prove their is a God. It is accepted that the most basic organisms are the greatest survivors, in theory. How is it then that extremely complex creatures like ourselves are the dominant race. We are an anomilee of the universe, as a species we have the ability to destroy this planet and any other creature. Somehow there are those of us who are capable of slaughtering countless numbers of our fellow man and even break through our most basic survival instinct by killing ourselves. The imperfections and individuality of every human being is what makes the world beautiful and the logical creation of a conscious God.

There is a lot that must be accounted for if the existence of an intervening God was to be ruled out. On a molecular level the one mystery that drives the entire universe is the attraction of positive to negative forces. And this affects everything we see from how a car runs or the weather changes to how different people are attracted to one another and the forces within our brains.

By the way the evolution theory and big bang theory both support the belief in a God (Though i don't found them completely plausible) even my friend agrees!

"HOW RELIGION POISONS EVERYTHING?"

Atheists are opposed to religion because of the way anyone can be forgived so easily, no matter how terrible the crime, allowing them to do wrong over and over again. This is a stupid thing to say because forgiveness does not count unless the person means it. And if somebody asks for forgiveness with intent on sinning again anyway, then i'm pretty sure they don't mean it! People like that would kill or rape anyone even if they didn't claim to be religious.

Okay. Now the reason most atheists (including my favourite atheist, Christopher Hitchins) have such hatred for God is because of their belief that religion has a negative impact on the world. That it should not be taught to school children, and be abolished. Their main concern MUST be the use of religion as an excuse for violence, or it's promise of salvation that causes people to do violent acts(terrorism has inspired this greatly). For those who harden their hearts to religion for the sake of a greater freedom I say "Freedom from what?? Freedom to kill, steal, commit adultery, hate everyone or put your privates in strange and wonderful places??" I don't have an argument for those people...sorry. But for the people of the former group I say this instead: There are people who will do terrible things regardless of their faith, those who influence the young to do violent things on a religious basis or the hypocrits within the church that everyone loves to reference are bad people because that is who they are. Just because someone gets honours at ministry school does not make them a saint in the eyes of the one true God. In itself the promise of salvation can only influence people to value their lives and the lives of others. When Jesus died, you were saved, and in response you may choose to obey. It's not a case of obeying in order to be saved.

ISSUES AFFECTING THE FAITH OF CURRENT RELIGIOUS PEOPLES

A huge issue with most religous people I know is the concept of predetirmination. "Don't the circumstances a person is born under detirmines wether they will be saved or not?(because they have become religious)" Well, the answer is no. I go back to what I said in that last paragraph, you are already saved, all that is required is that your heart has not hardened while on Earth, preventing God from entering. This is what I say if someone asks "What about the newborn baby who dies before they can even learn about God or religion?" A hardened heart is what breaks a person, it is reversible but it is brought on by doing terrible things (such as those outlined as sins in the Bible).

When it comes to the question of gay relationships, i don't know because I'm not gay nor have I had any homesexual thoughts. I don't quite know where to go from their but if you are feeling gay you'll know if it's a sin.

Why I AM a christian

Now I'm going to explain why I am a Catholic of all religions in a few simple points: -A just God would need to make a sacrifice (Jesus, the lamb of God) in order to atone for the sins of the Earth. It makes sense to me. -I like the catholic church better than other churches, they take things more seriously and I feel at home there. -The Bible is like no book I have ever read, there is something about Jesus' being and the writing of the holy book that has a divine nature to it. Once again this is personal. -I can explain how religion works with logic and psychology and the universe and all that but what it really comes down to with me, is feeling the presence of the lord. I see it in everything, everyday, all the time and it is the only thing that makes me happy.

People continuously, all their lives strive for fame, money, and thanks to developements within the internet, pages upun web pages of information. But it all a useless attempt to fill the hole in ourselves that will remain until we are one with God. But don't go around killing people so they may be one with God, people need to live help fill the hearts of others with love. God is love right? what could be simpler.