#194793 - 10/28/10 02:41 PM
The night sky
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ghoti
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I remember spending long hours as a young child just laying on my back on warm summer nights and looking up at the sky. We live in a small town with few lights, so it was easy to see thousands of stars. When the moon was out it put on a show of its own, and every once in a while you'd catch a glimpse of a meteor streaking across the sky.
I'd sometimes borrow my folks' binoculars and could see craters on the moon very clearly with them. Every once in a while we'd even be treated to a display of the northern lights.
It gave me a sense of wonder that made me tingle right down to my toes, and it was the first time I remember ever really sensing that the universe was a huge and mysterious place. It was my first true spiritual experience, and also likely the thing that spurred me to want to find out how things work and what was behind it all.
What was your very first spiritual experience like?
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#194795 - 10/28/10 03:17 PM
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ævory
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I grew up Up north and the Northern Lights are so spectacular there. I've never seen them nearly as grand as when I lived there.
I may have an earlier experience, but when I was around 7 my mom caught the train to Kansas from WI to attend her mother's funeral. Dad was always gone..working, and we had a babysitter for 2 of us girls. I was in my bedroom the day I was told that grandma died and I just really felt her come into my room and be with me. Then...at 23 and I had my accident, I believed that the voice I heard in my ear that day was grandma, keeping me calm. I've had many a spiritual experience...so many.
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#194797 - 10/28/10 04:06 PM
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flicka
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I was around 10 years-old, laying on my back on a cottonwood tree branch. The sun was shining through leaves that were rippling in a slight breeze. I slowly became aware of my 'place' in the world and of the existence of an almighty power.
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#194815 - 10/28/10 07:52 PM
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I used to love to lay in the grass and watch the night sky! Haven't done it in years - afraid I wouldn't be able to get up. LOL
I have never seen the North Lights and want to - I have seen pictures and even movies but it doesn't seem real and I have never been able to "feel" what it would be like. Maybe some day soon. 
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#194912 - 10/29/10 07:50 AM
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corlorde
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I remember spending long hours as a young child just laying on my back on warm summer nights and looking up at the sky. We live in a small town with few lights, so it was easy to see thousands of stars. When the moon was out it put on a show of its own, and every once in a while you'd catch a glimpse of a meteor streaking across the sky.
Very cool, I think we all have had similar experiences. I once let a huge buck pass while sitting in a tree stand. I also saw a pile of bodies burning and asked, "why"...and thought of God. I remember thinking once I have done so much wrong, why am I still alive and figured it was to get my daughter and son on their way, because they are destined for big things. Then I think of my first blowjob, and KNEW God meant for us to be happy and appreciate women.
At the same time, I wonder, why do I have so much food, am warm when it is cold because I can afford heat, have a change of clothes when I need it, and have enough food for 20 people...and I have seen poverty in its worse form.
Why me?
Be seeing you,
~Corey
Edited by corlorde (10/29/10 07:51 AM)
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#194947 - 11/02/10 06:52 AM
Re: The night sky
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ghoti
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Nobody else chooses to share their first spiritual experience?
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#194950 - 11/02/10 07:22 AM
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ævory
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Can you reveal what was said to you, Ghoti? Don't remember if ever heard any details of your conversation.
Thanks
Paul Paulwa, I've reported on it in detail many times before. Anyone who has been reading my posts in this forum can easily figure it out. Everything I've said here over the years is based on that conversation, and I'm sticking exactly true to what was told to me. I was an life-long atheist before then, so if he had never communicated with me my postings here would have had a very different tone. He told me he wants us to be kind and compassionate to each other and cooperate to make the world better, and all the other dogma and ritual that have built up over time is nonsense in his eyes. It's just that simple.
It sounds not like what God spoke to you. In otherwords, it sounds like you are bushing around the beat. Did I say that wrong? Oh well, you know what I mean.
I have asked, you, Ghoti, on many occasion before on NM to please tell us what was 'spoken to you by God' but you have been not so cooperative. Just because this is something that others have followed, it was NOT what I have read before from you. So that is WHY we ask you politely if you can reveal that, since you bring up the thoughts of yours.
I, too, have revealed many of my own existential experiences (not to say that yours was existential or not) but I was ridiculed, laughed at and made fun of for that,...as well as for my openness about my breakdown. The names I remember are the names that post on PowerQuad, and That is the truth. The very followers of each other, and who respect you (as I do) simply made harassing out of it. Are you too much in fear that others will ridicule you for your forthcoming? Or they won't believe you?
Excuse me, but you bring this up and then when someone asks you, you don't say. We would like to hear, if you could be open about it, what were the words. You don't remember?
Ghoti, how is one suppose to easily figure out what your experience was? By your saying that we are to be kind, compassionate, etc? Do we see that in every one of your postings? I don't follow each and everything on the boards and I've asked you before, what God said to you. What were the words but I don't think you remember or you don't care to share because you are afraid of something. If so, you shouldn't bring it up anymore because, to me, this is a board of sharing. Is it on the members only forum of PowerQuad? You won't find me ever ridiculing someone's experience.
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#194959 - 11/02/10 11:28 AM
Re: The night sky
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ghoti
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Ronda, you posted this on the wrong thread so I'll answer you back on the one this came from since I don't want to derail this one.
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#195034 - 11/03/10 03:51 PM
Re: The night sky
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ævory
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Ronda, you posted this on the wrong thread so I'll answer you back on the one this came from since I don't want to derail this one.
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#195039 - 11/03/10 04:05 PM
Re: The night sky
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ghoti
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I've been very busy organizing the benefit concert we're holding for my daughter, so I wasn't very active on-line.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=154858174551566&index=1
Edited by ghoti (11/03/10 04:07 PM)
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#195040 - 11/03/10 04:32 PM
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ævory
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you were active enough on PQ.  is OK....i just wanted you to know that i knew where i was posting it.
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#195042 - 11/03/10 04:43 PM
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ghoti
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Sometimes real-life issues are more important than discussing esoteric issues with people who don't know me and don't care about me as an individual. Most of the debate that takes place here just goes around in the same old circle, anyway.
Did you look at the Facebook link to see why it's important to me?
Edited by ghoti (11/03/10 04:44 PM)
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#195267 - 11/10/10 07:23 PM
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Wasn't my first spiritual experence but it made the most impression on me because it was spoken directly to me and had a very bulls eye hit on what was going on in my life as a slot machine addict. The presence that rode away from the casino with me waited till I had stopped speaking to the Lord about my casino experience sad to me like a voice in my mind, "Luck does not come from the kingdom of God, it comes from the other side!' Those words hit me like a ton of bricks in its reality. That was the last time ever entered a casino as my addicton was painlessly taken away that day after 20 years of addiction.
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#195272 - 11/10/10 07:59 PM
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flicka
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I am not minimizing your experience in any way, because it is fantastic and was very effective, but...
Luck does not come from the kingdom of God, it comes from the other side!
Do you think this in general, or do you believe this was only aimed directly at you to quench your addiction? I ask because if you think this is true, are we wishing the absolute worst on a person if we wish them "good luck"?
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#195274 - 11/10/10 11:06 PM
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Paulwa_dup1
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Well if you think about it Flicka, there is no luck envolved when you turn to God, He gives His gifts freely to those who repent and ask of Him. Lucifer seems to run the casino's in the background maybe,lady luck and some of the praseology to charm whoever gives you good luck. Gamblng can be a real curse to families and individuals. I believe what I heard as truth. No I don't think wishing some one good luck is cursing them but it might be better to wish them good fortune instead. catch myself from tme to time at almost wishing someone good luck but nsted just wish them the best or good fortune instead.
Paul
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