Can one attain spiritual inner peace without seeking God?

[Bab00n]

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[Gangstalker #32194]

no

 

[Tablet County]

no

Clearly you've never perfected your golf swing.

 

[Sparkletor 2.0]

Yes. Through God all things are possible. Even achieving spiritual peace without god.

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

Yes. Back in '07 I mediated for two weeks straight. I thought deeply about my place in the universe, who I was, where I as going. When you live a rough life on the streets, fighting for your every last scrap of food, you need to toughen up to survive. But you exist in a state of spiritual malaise; alas, this is who I once was. A young ragamuffin that had to fight with the other kids in the alleyway just to eat crickets who did not think about the finer, more beautiful parts of life.

As I sat there mediating about my life, the past, and the future, I started to hallucinate deeply. Rich, chaotic fractals filled my perception, and I went through a bizarre inter-dimensional tunnel of light. On the other side, it was God, and he told me that he had a test of faith for me. He told me that I had to become an atheist, and stop believing in Him, and I would find spiritual peace. Since then, I've served the Lord in my atheism by refusing to believe in his divine presence, as commanded.

I hope you find inspiration in my story.

 

[SpergioLeonne]

Imagine believing in spirits, but when asked where you think they come from, you’re just like “pfft fucked if I know”

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

No, but people can delude themselves to the contrary.

 

[dick brain]

Define God.

 

[parsnip]

I think I'm pretty internally peaceful and I don't believe in god.

 

[SofondaCox]

I think I'm pretty internally peaceful and I don't believe in god.

You might just be dumb, though. Considering where we are.

 

[SofondaCox]

I think you can achieve a sort of moral exhaustion, existential exhaustion, where you can be said to be at peace/blissful.
Humans are primates. Primates have a god shaped hole. If you don't believe in a god, you will fill the hole with something
else, and it could turn out to be something much, much more destructive....like a dilator.

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

No. You can't because eventually the question of God is unavoidable. God exists all around us.

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

I may be an atheist but I'll stick up for my Christian homies way before I show dignity to to any commie Marxist scum.

 

[User names must be unique]

Yes. it may even be easier.

 

[parsnip]

You might just be dumb, though. Considering where we are.

entirely possible! But blissfully ignorant is still blissful

 

[dick brain]

No. You can't because eventually the question of God is unavoidable. God exists all around us.

I mean, I'm of the opinion that God is all there is, everything is an aspect of God and nothing else exists, and that the depiction of God as a conscious entity separate from ourselves is just a way to conceptualize the way in which we interact with and align ourselves with the larger whole of which we are a part, but that makes Christians cry and pee their pants.