General Chat

Have you ever done wrong? Following on from that, are you good? I'm not.

yes i think i am good as are alot of other people!

Lynda, Im sure you are all those, but you must of had a bad thought about someone at some time. Have you never hated a person? I know I have, I would not say I am 100% good,I still have a long way to go spiritually,I try but often I fail:-))

You didn't answer the first question - have you ever done (or said, or thought) wrong?

having a bad thought and actually doing bad are two different things....yes i have hated people but have never done anything against them!

no me nicky.x

Tell us Forget me not blue, What do you think when you think positive thoughts? Rupert

Hi Christine, I'm sure you are all these things - I've got many friends who could say exactly these things of themselves. And I can say all of the above too. But what is 'white' when you've done your washing? Would you be happy with a beautifully white sheet - with a (small) splodge of black ink in the middle? I think not. God doesn't like it either. As for Mother Theresa - undoubtedly another excellent human being. However, I suspect that she would have been the first to admit that she didn't come up to scratch with God's standards. We don't define 'good'. God does - and he's perfect. William

Hi Lynda, Please see below - when I quoted what Jesus said about hatred. He equated it to murder in terms of how evil it is. Yes, I know, murderers cause more harm to society than haters do. But God hates all sin. William

There are many “good” people in this world and we have all known some. It doesn’t mean that they have never erred. I think that “good” people see only good in others, and hey! “How many of us are capable of that?'

Pilgrim Father,very well put!!

'' If god is in heaven, how can this happen here? In his name they use the weapon for the massacre.' Phil Lynot 1978. I lost my dad,aged 41 when i was 14 and then to lose my brother aged 20 4 years later made me question 'is there a god?' No, not for me i'm afraid. Nick

To go back to Rupert's question ... when I send out positive thoughts I send a positive energy which comes from me and nobody else. I believe there is a Universal energy which has nothing to do with God. It is there to be tapped into....BC

i respect your opinions william but do not believe them sorry ive had too much heartache to believe that this perfect god exsists!!

That's the way I see things, Christine :)

Could someone please answer my question - it has always bothered me. What happens to the many indigenous people from many corners of the globe who have their own very personal spirituality but do not necessarily believe in a Christian, Islamic, Jewish etc etc God? I am thinking for instance of the Austalian Aboriginal people and the American Indians who have such a beautiful spirituality. Are they damned because they do not believe in the God of the major world religions? I am not questioning anyone's beliefs but this is something which I have always thought about. Anna

No I don't believe in God. Positive thoughts and prayer are not the same thing at all. Jean.

Hello Anna I don't know what anyone else believes but I'm sure we all go the same place - all of us. To me denominations & religions are all just interpretations of a higher being (which I think of as God). Someone said to me recently that the only path to Heaven is through Jesus & the Church if England - well that seems pretty stupid to me because the Church of England is only 500 years old, so it would be pretty quiet up there:) Given that most of the Saints have been Roman Catholic and the Apostles were Jews etc etc, I think whatever afterlife we all end up in is going to be very inclusive of all beliefs & spiritualities.

I lost any ideas I had of a God when I lost my daughter, who was wanted so much by me. I went to a priest that evening that she died but he offered me no comfort or explanation, nothing, in fact I can't recall anything he said at all, certainly nothing that would have been memorable to me and helped me understand why she had to be born early and then die. Yesterday I attended my friend Mabel's Requiem Mass at the church she had attended for many years. It is an Anglo-Catholic church. I found the whole service rather fussy and stuffy altho there were a few humorous comments made during the eulogy. It was just as Mabel wanted and very dignified, and I am sure she was pleased if she was watching from above, but to me it didn't feel right somehow. Can't explain how I mean that but i came away feeling odd. R.I.P. Mabel

On the subject of positive thoughts, it has been scientifically proved that a person undergoes physical changes when another person is thinking about the first - even if the person being thought about isn't told they are being thought about. Prayer/positive thoughts/meditation/curses - they're all part of something that we can't yet full explain or understand. Whether or not it's to do with a God or a Higher Being who is responsible for our existence has yet to be established beyond all reasonable doubt. As for is there a God? Don't know, don't mind one way or the other. I do mind that not enough people on the planet find a reason to be kind to one another.