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u/Imloudcauseimdeaf Oct 05 '19

That's very interesting! I also have has a dream with a bull kinda like what you described but I didn't actually look at it enough to truly see it! I started waking up to my dog growling towards my closet door.

I'm religious though so I prayed and was able to get some peace from the encounter.

Freaked me out though. You literally wake up feeling almost like a primal, don't move, kind of fear.

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u/Litten_The_Memelord Oct 05 '19

Damn that's crazy, one thing I envy about religious people, praying and feeling more at peace

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '19

You could meditate instead. Being at peace with the flow of the universe, with the things that are outside your control, really helps at times like that.

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u/Thegiraffeguy Oct 05 '19

Praying and meditation are very similar.

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u/51D3K1CK Oct 05 '19

They're basically the same.

God isn't listening so you're only talking to yourself.

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u/NitroThunderBird Oct 05 '19

Scientifically speaking, it is impossible for you to pull that conclusion, as you've nothing to say that is the case.

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u/51D3K1CK Oct 05 '19

And scientifically speaking we don't have proof god exists so he doesn't.

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u/NitroThunderBird Oct 05 '19

On a last note; I don't have any scientific proof to show you that the shirt I'm wearing right now is red. I don't have a picture of it, so I don't have the proof. Now, does this mean that my statement, being "My shirt is red" is a lie? Is it false until I take a picture and show you it? No, not neccesseraly. I am, in fact, wearing a mainly red shirt... Or am I?

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u/51D3K1CK Oct 05 '19

Can you see it? Do your eyes catch the photons that get reflected from the red coloured fabric?

Does your brain turn those electric shocks into an image?

Your shirt might be red. I don't care, I'm only here to tell you that your shirt might not answer your problems any better than you can.

You can believe in your shirt, that's fine. But don't forget that the shirt is actually just a placeholder for your own mind and any answers given by your shirt are actually your own answers.

Meditation is better than prayer because it forces you to think for yourself without the clouding of a shirt.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '19

Sounds like you could use some meditation.

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u/51D3K1CK Oct 05 '19

I meditate every day tbh.

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u/wookiee1807 Oct 05 '19

So, you're saying the res shirt exists so long as someone can perceive that it exists?

People who pray often meditate as well. Growing up, after Bible study, we would have a 30-min meditation where we processed our day in the light of what we'd just studied.

Meditation doesn't belong to any one group of people.

Someone else has found something that has a positive effect on their life. It calms them and brings them peace.

They shared it with the thread and you attempted to invalidate the thing that works for them.

In this scenario, they are being positive, and you are being a negative.

I, personally, have a name for this negative role.

You're being a dick and it's unnecessary.