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growler_south ([personal profile] growler_south) wrote2008-01-29 11:22 pm

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I'm reading "Conversations with God: an uncommon dialogue" by Neale Donald Walsch. Basically Mr Walsh sat down one day and wrote an angry letter to God, and at the end of the letter he just kept writing, and out came

Do you really want the answer to these questions, or are you just venting?

Allegedly he just kept writing (and still is) and the replies he wrote are in here verbatim: kind of unbelievable, and the skeptic in me is having a field day, but I just reached page 24 and the guy (God, really) just explained the Big Bang in a way that fits in with my own beliefs. Like, perfectly. No kludging necessary.

This is kind of scarey. I mean, I've always thought my beliefs were pretty close to being correct, but now the alleged voice of God is backing me up.

Enough typing. More reading.

[identity profile] pa747sp.livejournal.com 2008-01-29 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Have you considered the fact that you might be God?

[identity profile] pa747sp.livejournal.com 2008-01-30 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
yes, as in the statement 'I have never considered the fact that I might be THE God',
as opposed to the statement 'I consider myself a god. Specifically, a sex god'.

The difference is quite important. Apparently.

[identity profile] growler-south.livejournal.com 2008-01-30 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
I dont see the distinction ;-)

I have considered that I might *not* be God, is that near enough?