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[attachment=0]Larson.jpg[/attachment] God is left handed? 😮 LookingHard wrote:
God is left handed?😮
Apparently. Does that mean lefties are closer to perfection?
Maybe or maybe not, but it used to no be so 
[img]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/67/00/93/670093bb7fcfc9accaffc36d5827043c.jpg [/img] DarkJedi wrote:
LookingHard wrote:
God is left handed?😮
Apparently. Does that mean lefties are closer to perfection?
I’ve always thought of God was ambidextrous; I’d also bet he’s pretty good at basketball, chess, and playing the accordion.
Quote:“You know what really ticks me off? When people do not walk around praising me all the time and doing exactly what I say!”
Lucifer’s plan in a nutshell. Just saying.
Also: A) God is perfect.
He makes nothing but good choices. A+B=C) God does not play the accordion.:thumbup: for Ray’s rock solid deductions😆 Sometimes I fall into the details in trying to decipher inspiration. Where I’ve landed lately, though, is something akin to the human growth and development model. If it is within our capability to become something more (Mormonspeak for God) than what we are right now (humans), then it stands to reason that we’ll have to go it alone more and more, just like we do when we grow as babies to toddlers to children, then teenagers and hopefully adults.
I’m sure that sometimes we have equally “good” choices and equally “bad” choices, but what I’m not sure about is how often those dichotomies strictly play out. Thus, I choose to see not feeling particularly inspired as an opportunity for me to exercise my abilities as an agent of action. Also, according to psychology studies we’re really bad at knowing what will make us happy. Sometimes the struggle makes us strong and we find peace in the strength. Other times it’s a sh*t show. I don’t tend to prescribe to the notion that God leads us down “wrong” paths. I think it was on another thread that someone mentioned Elder Holland’s talk about this. However, being knocked off my own “right way” and into the deep and troubled waters of a faith and church crisis, I can say that it’s one of the best things that’s happened to me, and I would not have ventured into this arena if I hadn’t been knocked into it, especially in the manner in which it happened. I don’t wish it for others, I’m not sure I’d ask for it again (but I do think now I’m capable of handling a lot more so maybe I won’t perceive it as happening again, or not as badly at least), but the power, strength, and autonomy I receive from claiming my life is something I will always treasure.
Old Timer wrote:
Quote:“You know what really ticks me off? When people do not walk around praising me all the time and doing exactly what I say!”
Lucifer’s plan in a nutshell. Just saying.
Satan has a way of sneaking himself into the Bible. That thing had millennia to be fiddled with. It’s a miracle it came out as good as it did.
Beefster wrote:
Satan has a way of sneaking himself into the Bible.When you have mortals writing what is in their heart…this is bound to happen
Quote:That thing had millennia to be fiddled with. It’s a miracle it came out as good as it did.
give those mortals credit…they were mostly good people doing thier best.
I think the real issue is that revelation doesn’t come in words, it comes in impressions or feelings. Impressions and feelings are very difficult to translate into words. I think for some people (like me) inspiration can come through words, but most often it is words with feelings/impressions behind it. I am the type of person who is guided through the universe on words. I feed myself words. I develop relationships through words. I talk through problems with words. If words cannot be used to describe or define it, it does not exist very well for me. I wind up creating a mini translation guide for the words of people I love translated into the equivalents in my brain and think about writing the translation guides down for me to remember them:) Most of the time, what I recognize is “inspiration” is specific words in my brain that do seem to be independent of my thinking. Since I have come to this forum, I have been re-thinking that all thoughts that are independent of my thinking are actually so – they might be “inspiration” that my brain found subconsciously and finally dredged to the surface. I don’t have a percentage of “inspiration” that comes by words that is actually my brain figuring things out vs “inspiration” that my brain is fed and retains. However, I do know that they are at least opposite ends of the “inspiration – words category” spectrum.
I believe that there are instances of words being received by the brain that are not subconscious thoughts, and I call these “inspiration”. Also, sometimes “inspiration” for me is the words being brought to my consciousness by an exterior force far stronger then my brain would make them. I will never be able to forgot my father saying, “I think you should serve a mission.” and the way those words echoed and sounded in my brain and the feelings that came with it. Since I had 1 foot out the LDS door at the time, I was not thinking of myself that I should serve a mission. I think my father had been saying stuff like that for a while, but it had “gone in one ear and out the other” until then.
I was stunned to be sitting in sacrament meeting one day without my husband, and I heard in my heart and mind these words, “It’s time to start your family. Your first child should be born by the end of next year.” While I had been thinking in general terms of starting our family, we weren’t seriously thinking about it. I brought it up to my husband and we spent 3 months talking about it (I told him “This is what I believe is revelation for us – go talk to God yourself about it” as needed.) Our first child was born in November of the next year.
AmyJ wrote:Most of the time, what I recognize is “inspiration” is specific words in my brain that do seem to be independent of my thinking.
I like that guide to go by. I like to believe in the mystical things that happen, even if we don’t fully understand them.
Amy, I believe I have experienced both of these. I remember feeling something akin to longing to get married in the temple. I took this as revelation because I had never given the topic much thought.
I have also experienced an assumptive world collapse and was super impressed to at how strong my subconscious mind was. It was like my brain was rebooting and there were established rebooting protocols that were activated just past the edge of my conscious mind. I could feel them happening but I was not in the drivers seat. I was being pushed along like a cart on a predetermined track.
I believe that there is room to interpret things as inspiration/revelation or subconscious messages. We are free to choose the option that is most meaningful to us personally (with the caveat that I also believe that our subconscious mind heavily influences our choices).
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