Have ever been a lost soul in your life?

Question

By that, I mean not knowing what to do believe ...and impossible to choose something to believe in ... and if finally at the end you came to believe something ..what happened in your life to make you believe in that particular thing ...
and my other question is: do you think people choose faith by attachment rather than by reason ..? by that , I meant someone who choose a faith not because he thinks it is the absolute and only true faith but because that persons love the faith ...!! and shouldn't choose faith by love instead instead searching a reason for it ..? because there is no absolute truth after all ...what do you think ?

Answer 1

you still smoke that stuff

Answer 2

Yes, I have. What happened? I realized something very, very fundamental: the idea that I could be wrong about something implied objective truth. Even if everything is subjective in anyway, the fact of subjectivity impled objective truth. What this meant was:

1 - Whatever exists, really does exist
2 - The fact that I'm conscious of this existence means that being conscious exists

After examining the two of those, I realized that they applied to any proposition; even their denial first presupposed their truth. This quality led me to another one that ended up being crucial:

3 - Whatever something is, it is itself.

From there, I moved forward. Slowly, painstakingly, over many years, rebuilding everything I understood about sensory perception, the state of the universe, the human conditions, the purpose of emotion... everything was rebuilt and integrated into a cohorent and ordered system. Ethics was the hardest, but I found a way through that tricky quagmire, too.

Why do people go with faith rather than reason? I think they go with "what feels right to me." Here's a better question: why are people's reason and emotions not in sync with one another? An emotion is a lightning-fast value judgment...it shouldn't be disconnected with the apparati with which you make other judgments. So, the question becomes: "why are people not living integrated lives?"

I think there are a lot of reasons for that. For one, reason and emotions are often seen in our culture as antagonistic; for example, the person who's too smitten with another person to "think clearly." Another reason is that people don't realize that integration is possible, even if they can accept that the two are not antagonistic. Another reason? Even if you can move past those assumptions, the path to integration is hard to grasp; what would it involve? And what might you have to sacrifice along the way? Even if you find a method, and are willing to let go of some of your assumptions, could you have contradictions that you can't immediately resolve waiting in the wings? And how long are you willing to go on like this, day and night, until you give up from the internal pressure that is screaming for closure, when it's so easy to just be who you used to be?

Answer 3

Of course I have, and most people have I believe, of course I am only saying that because I have faith that it is a truism, but love may not be the only reason one chooses faith, perhaps it may be that faith is the only thing they have to love and hold on to, but yes, there should be a reason behind faith, because if it is not so then it is blind faith, which often leads to more doubt, and ultimately no faith.

Answer 4

yes when i was a teenager and i needed to believe in something...but then i realize that "choosing" whatever to believe in is just silly. It is not like i wake up one day and tell myself: "hey man, you need something to place your faith upon" and then i go to a bookstore i buy all the books about religions and then choose the one that suits me better, like a shirt.
Believing in a religion is something educational. If your parents, partner or friends "force" you to believe then you believe. If there is no one to do so, then it is harder to believe, unless you feel alone and use religion just to become part of a membership and therefore trying to avoid loneliness

Answer 5

Sure...for years, I tried to believe in Christianity because it was my family's choice of religion. But it never sat well with me, and from the time I was six years old, I questioned it. So, I knew what I didn't believe, but I didn't know what I did believe. Then I got to thinking really deeply about what God is - and it was so obvious - God is nature and everything in it. And to my relief, religion had absolutely nothing to do with my beliefs.

Answer 6

I've been a lost soul. Because im a big pushover i'll believe in something then if someone says something i'll change my mind and agree with them. Like i can't choose a major in college and its driving me nuts. Because people keep asking and i don't know what to say.

Answer 7

yea, i have. ppl seem to always think that Christian were born saved. i was so low and my spirit was so dead b4 i met Jesus. now i truly have a reson to get up in the morning. which is why i preach the word of God whereever i go, no matter how insulting people want to be. when u see Christains rejoicing and trying to tell u about God, dont think that they were always at that point. every TRUE christian had to be born again....so when u feel down, dont ever think u cant get up

Answer 8

not in my case via fact the guy i'm with now i've got self assurance is my soul mate... in no way met any guy like him in the previous and that i thank the losers of my previous for messing up and clearing the way so i must be with him.... i'm sorry approximately your loss =/

Answer 9

I think you're confused. Check out this website:

www.law.umck.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/jesus/greenleaf.html

I challenge you to study the Bible & prove it wrong, then we'll have something to talk about.

Answer 10

yes i feel i'm a lost soul. i don't know why god wanted me in this life .
i feel i was a mistake and i choose to believe my mom that god will let me know where i should be if i just believe in him and wait for a sign...........................

Answer 11

Swedenborg taught me