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[myyarnball]

¿Who or what is “God”?

-By José V. Tercero P.

   This is not about if God exists or not, that is up to you, what I pretend is to explain what it is.

   “Gods” it's an idea that's been existing since the beginning of the history of humanity, it's been spoken of many gods, little by little every single one of them stopped existing but the idea still remains and one still exists. It is an all-powerful God, creator of the earth and the universe, or that's is its description. ¿But what makes this "God" so special? ¿Why is easier to believe that just one made everything and not several? ¿Why some believe in him and others don't? ¿Why this "God" still exists?    There is a religion called "Christian Atheism" which rejects the idea of the existence of God as something physical and only follows the teachings of Jesus. Instead, God is a metaphor, an idea, a symbol, and with this idea in mind, that God is a metaphor, or actually, the whole Bible, this is my definition of God:

   God is all of us, and we are also Jesus and his mother the virgin Mary, everything is a big metaphor and analogies. God represents our minds, Jesus represents our hearts, and the virgin Mary represents our instinct, that motherly instinct that is inside us and that fights for our heart, begging to the mind to listen to our hearts. Going to heaven is achieving an harmony between the three, and when you achieve that, you feel in peace, but if you don't, if one of that parts is not in harmony, then you go to hell.    Think about it, our mind (God) is the source of all wisdom, responsible of judging ourselves and everyone else, of creating everything around us, it guides us and lifts us if we feel lost, it gives us everything and takes everything from us, it makes our heart (Jesus) to sacrifice himself, is capable of doing the most beautiful things or the most horrible, just like the bible describes it, and if you don't respect your mind, if you don't love it, it can send you to the floor (hell), it can make you fall down on your knees. When you don't respect your mind (sins), you leave memories and thoughts in it, and those memories and thoughts torture you, they make you suffer, they punish you. Your mind sees everything. You feel like you are going to break down (go to hell) and that is why it's so necessary to speak those thoughts, get them out of you (to confess), so you can be fine with yourself and stop suffering (go to the sky).    Our heart (Jesus) is who always knows what we need, it knows how to treat the others, it gives us every teaching we need, capable of sacrificing everything, full of kindness and humility, but if you don't listen to him, you lose yourself, you don't know what to do, you don't know where to go... sometimes you wish to kill him, or in the search of something else, you betray him (like Judas), and so, you betray yourself, but it doesn't matter how much you betray him, how much it suffers, the heart always comes back, never gives up, resurrects.    Our instinct (Mary) is that thing that we want to protect us, to take care of us when our heart is broken, pleading for your heart when the mind doesn't want to listen, is always there to comfort us and listen to us, but if we don't respect that part of us, then is like abandoning our mother. Our ideas are uncontrolled and so is our heart, we loose reason and love becomes very painful, we start to love for things that only hurt us, and so we don't want to love anymore, our ideas become lethal so we want to destroy everything, end everything. We all need a mother, an instinct to tell us what is good and what is wrong, who to listen, how to love, how to think.

   This is why it is said that God is everywhere and that you must believe in him, because he is in everybody's mind, that you must accept Jesus in your heart, because he has all the answers and the teachings that you need, that you must respect the virgin Mary, as she doesn't lets your heart and mind get lost, and when you have a balance between the three, then you have intern peace, but if you don't, you either go to purgatory or straight to hell.    In religion, it is no surprise that Jesus and Mary are often represented of many different ways, as this is a way to represent what is love or a mother for us as individuals

   And that is why the idea of "God" hasn't died yet and is accepted as absolute, because it describes the human being in a very deep way and that is what it makes it easy for many to believe in him, even if they can't see him. Skeptics will say that he doesn't exist simply for the fact that they can't see him, but believers will just believe even if they don't know what it is.    In my personal opinion, God doesn't exist and at the same time he does exist. He doesn't exist because he isn't something physical, is not a being, we won't go with him when we die, but at the same time he does exist as an idea, the most powerful idea ever created by humans. If a god does exist, it may not be the one that everyone believes in.

Do you believe in God?

[psych-facts]

“The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another person—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other. They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other.”

Osho (via psych-facts)

[psych-facts]

In fact a mature person does not fall in love, he rises in love. The word ’fall’ is not right. Only immature people fall; they stumble and fall down in love. Somehow they were managing and standing. They cannot manage and they cannot stand – they find a woman and they are gone, they find a man and they are gone. They were always ready to fall on the ground and to creep. They don’t have the backbone, the spine; they don’t have that integrity to stand alone. A mature person has the integrity to be alone. And when a mature person gives love, he gives without any strings attached to it: he simply gives. And when a mature person gives love, he feels grateful that you have accepted his love, not vice versa. He does not expect you to be thankful for it – no, not at all, he does not even need your thanks. He thanks you for accepting his love. And when two mature persons are in love, one of the greatest paradoxes of life happens, one of the most beautiful phenomena: they are together and yet tremendously alone; they are together so much so that they are almost one. But their oneness does not destroy their individuality, in fact, it enhances it: they become more individual. Two mature persons in love help each other to become more free. There is no politics involved, no diplomacy, no effort to dominate. How can you dominate the person you love? Just think over it. Domination is a sort of hatred, anger, enmity. How can you think of dominating a person you love? You would love to see the person totally free, independent; you will give him more individuality. That’s why I call it the greatest paradox: they are together so much so that they are almost one, but still in that oneness they are individuals. Their individualities are not effaced – they have become more enhanced. The other has enriched them as far as their freedom is concerned. Immature people falling in love destroy each other’s freedom, create a bondage, make a prison. Mature persons in love help each other to be free; they help each other to destroy all sorts of bondages. And when love flows with freedom there is beauty. When love flows with dependence there is ugliness.

Osho (via psych-facts)

[myyarnball]

I need to know why I'm in love, what for, who I'm in love with, how I'm in love, what makes me feel I'm in love, every single detail, because if I don't know, then it becomes like if I were living with a ghost, I know it's there but I can't see it, things start moving around and sometimes it scares me so much, at first it's exciting, but with time, it makes me lose my mind, makes me crazy, it's maddening, makes me not want to live with him anymore... makes me not want to live. I need to know why it's there, I need to know him so I can live with him, so I don't lose my sanity. Sometimes I wish to not to have the need to know him, not having the need to know why I'm in love, just accept he is here so I don't have to dig in every part of me, so my mind doesn't get tired, so I can stop fighting with myself. Maybe I shouldn't be so... skeptic.

JVTP (jozeecat)

[myyarnball]

In terms of love, ¿What do we mean by 'I want someone with experience'? It only counts as experience if something has been learned, so ¿For what reason someone with experience would be still single? The only ones with experience are those that are already married, those who decided to join their lives, as they have gathered the necessary experience to reach that point, and yet, there's still many that have failed in that stage, and if someone really has experience, then it's someone who already knows exactly what he wants, making it less possible for us to be someting worthy of such person, so ¿Why do we chase the experience? In fact, it doesn't exists such thing, it doesn't exist a man or a woman with experience, every heart is different, every mind, it doesn't exist someone who knows how to take care of every single one of them. It is not experience what we want, or at least not what I want, but someone who is ready to learn from us and also can teach us something, someone that being together with, makes love a whole experience.

JVTP (jozeecat)

[myyarnball]

Feelings are like yarn, you can knit very beautiful things, things to wear, things to show, but it also can get tangled making it very hard to untangle, and in the attempt to untangle it, you must be very careful and patient or it can get even more tangled and that is maddening, and even if you manage to untangle it and you can finally see a continuous line of yarn, then you realize there are still knots, tiny and very tight knots that are very hard to see because they hide between the fluffy body of the yarn, and trying to untangle those knots may be even more difficult, as you have to use your nails, pinching it, pulling it, damaging the fluffy body of the yarn, but knots are not always bad, they teach us something: It is the only way to join a piece of yarn with another, of the same color or a different color, to join small pieces of yarn and make a larger one, to join your yarn with another, and if your yarn is quite broken, the only thing you can do is make knots, join every piece and then you'll not want anything to untangle those knots. You can also have it in a form of a ball, a pretty and fluffy yarn ball, but you don't want to drop it, or it can go rolling around untangling itself, and if it keeps rolling then it reaches its own center until theres nothing more to untangle, and then you have to make the ball again, trying to be careful, trying to not to make any knots and not to lose your patience...

...I'm a cat.

-JVTP (jozeecat).