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I used to believe in a god. And now I feel like there is no way he is the way people make him to be. I feel like they are just stories passed down, and sure you're going to tell me about real life accounts. Most stories get twisted around, especially if they've been around for a couple hundred years. I feel more happier knowing that I'm the one in control of my life though. Without having to conform to something, I feel more free and intune with myself. Why am I here you might ask? Dunno. Maybe I'll learn something but I'm not looking for a religion to belong to.

Waheguroo jee ka Khalsa!

Waheguroo jee kee Fateh!

This is a problem with thinking of God as a physical entity, its obvious that God is going to be much much greater than anything we can put him up to be. I mean some people think of God as a white guy with a beard, others think of him as some dude (white?) with a lightning bolt... but that is limiting what God is to our own limited mind.

Waheguroo jee ka Khalsa!

Waheguroo jee kee Fateh!

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I used to believe in a god. And now I feel like there is no way he is the way people make him to be. I feel like they are just stories passed down, and sure you're going to tell me about real life accounts. Most stories get twisted around, especially if they've been around for a couple hundred years. I feel more happier knowing that I'm the one in control of my life though. Without having to conform to something, I feel more free and intune with myself. Why am I here you might ask? Dunno. Maybe I'll learn something but I'm not looking for a religion to belong to.

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Ramana Maharshi, one of the greatest saints and sages of modern India, master teacher of self-inquiry, once said:

"No one doubts that he exists, though he may doubt the existence of God. If you find out the truth about yourself and discover your own source, that is all that is required."

but the question is are you even doing that (discovering your own source)?

besides no one is asking or telling you to believe in God. God is to be experienced, seeked and known. Not merely believed in. It is easy to believe in something, it takes no effort. But to sincerely seek and know this God requires effort. So i ask what efforts have you made in finding the truth behind this God? Do not simply dismiss the existence of God because it is convenient or because lack of valid physical proof exists. Instead dismiss God when you have exausted all means of seeking and found nothing, then and only then is your dismissal of his existence valid. Buddha seeked for 7 years to find the source and every moment of those 7 years were spent in his search.

By no means is the thought of God imposed upon your, rather you are asked to validate your own personal truth of his existence or his non-existence through "HONEST" and "SINCERE" seeking.

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