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Do you think that there is a revelation for everyone, a sort of a guideline for (re)designing our lives?
Sometimes, individuals feel that they need some kind of guidelines for continuing with their lives. Several reasons establish an stagnation-like way of living. Maybe you and I were in this situation in any time. It were hard to find a person who really understands our feelings and thoughts about a certain matter. So, we were forced to take crucial decisions by ourselves. But, in some cases, we realized that decisions taken this way were not the ones we should take. Then, we ask to ourselves: "Could we get some kind of revelation in order to feel we are doing 'the right thing' from now on?" What is the nature of this source of revelation? Can we trust this source of revelation? How can we be sure of the value and scope of revelations given? Are revelations only possible inside a theological framework?
Obey No1kinobe 50+
I prefer the word realisation to revelation unless you mean to involve a belief in a higher power.
If you mean to involve some supernatural agency I have nothing more to add as I see no evidence for any gods, goddesses, divine astrological destinies etc.
I think humans have attributed imaginary agency to life, periods of good luck and bad, from natural spirits, to sickness, to poor crops and drought, where there only nature and luck.
Rare events and coincidences happen. This does not imply supernatural agency. People are always selecting data to reinforce their beliefs. I heard one chap say it was a miracle from that the US senator shot in the head survived. It is pretty uncommon to survive a headshot, but it does happen, no gods needed, and I'm not sure being brain damaged and having several others killed is much of a miracle.
Intuition followed by some solid reasoning seems the best way to me. Intuition on its own has its place in survival situations but often misfires when it comes to making complex decisions or judgments or understanding life the universe and everything. 10 people can have 10 different intuitions about the same situation but there are only one set of facts.
Often we are looking for simple explanations and their aren't, or there are but not the ones we want to hear, like most of us will not have everything, that hard work is required, discipline, balance, that we get old, that we have to work for a living often well beyond our interest in it, that we get sick and die, and that we only get one life and it is not always easy, but there is much good to be found in it.
If you want to believe in magic, that is up to you. The natural universe is amazing enough for me.
Mark Kurtz 20+
Auto would be self. Epochal would be for a large number of people over a substantial time frame and likely intend huge benefits for mankind.
What you seem to be asking is of the auto revelation type and you seem to be wondering about its origin.
I viewed the nine suggested presentations. All of them directly relate to human relationships, life improvement, sharing for progress, etc. Is it possible the minds of such people were prepared years in advance for sudden new ideas? Is it possible individuals are being watched and unbeknowingly aided? Seems like a reasonable assumption.
Someone recently asked about equality. We are not equally endowed intellectually, but we can desire to serve and to have good ideas. Capability varies, but effects can be astonishing. Someone several weeks ago asked about intuition. Some people call them "heavenly hunches". Would this be a type of auto revelation?
Revelation. A topic worthy of discussion. If not possible, then why not?
MK
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Mark Kurtz 20+
I have little experience with such incidents or events you describe. However, I heard from other people who describe strange events. Some people refer to these as Providence in that many agencies of God, angels or other beings may be involved in changing situations. (intervention) Sometimes I doubt this.
What Providence is involved for real crashes with loss of life? Where were the angels when an aircraft crashes or a shuttle craft disintegrates in space? Tough questions and difficult for people who want faith, but are befuddled when their preferences are stolen.
My take is this: there are some protection events for some people for some reason. Why? I don't know. There could be an "event" in the mind causing a person to change decisions. What causes a person to take a different flight and be saved because the intended flight crashed without him on board? These kinds of questions are difficult.
Perhaps we'd be wise to attempt a larger perspective. Maybe life here on Earth is just the start and many new learning opportunities await us. Life ended early here may be a loss, but larger learning provisions are available. Is it really a loss to die here early? Survivors miss family and friends, but we who remain are still limited in the flesh, while those who go on are free of material limitations. Perhaps there is a larger plan for each person. Perhaps, if you accept the idea of Providence, there are personalities waiting on high.
Caution here! We ought not to use ideas of such possibilities as an excuse to terminate! Life lessons are many and strong. Robust character of bravery and courage to deal with challenges is better that looking at the easy way out or to escape.
Linked to revelation as you describe? Not sure at all. Life, experiences, possibilities, watch care, relationships----lots of questions for sure.
Ramiro Benavides
Adriaan Braam 20+
The moment when our body dies is determined based on where we can be most useful, in this life or the next. That is the subject of this talk.
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxsaXZlaXR1cHNwaXJpdHVhbGx5fGd4OjEwZDA0MGU1YjNiZThiOTc
One thing to say is "we are a spirit in a body", but that does not say or explain much. This book does explain what it means to be a spirit in a spiritual (parallel) world.
http://webhome.idirect.com/~abraam/documents/TheSpiritualWorld.pdf
What happens to us may also be easier explained if we accept the idea that this life, our life, has a purpose, and that the primary purpose is not about comfort or wealth or old age. We are what we love, so most important in our life is what we decide to love. What we make our ruling love.
But I think I have left enough links for now :)
William Humphrey
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Rhona Pavis 50+
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Rhona Pavis 50+
Fritzie Reisner 100+
If you are looking for a deductive approach, which is to say a prior analysis based on theory, how to make the most promising choices depends very much on the decision problem at hand.
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Fritzie Reisner 100+
Still, unless we have others make the decision of course of action for us, we make the decisions ourselves. The consequences follow from our decisions, from the responding and simultaneous acts of ohers, and from factors in the external environment, both endogenous to our decisions (affected by them) and exogenous (coming from the outside).
Fritzie Reisner 100+
I find often when we are at a crossroads there are actually several good paths. They may be different, and taking one road may preclude following the other ever, but many times when the decision is difficult it is because either would actually be a course worth trying. Whichever direction one takes at the crossroads, there will be some losses and some gains.
[I have a particular interest (personal and professional) in crossroads. What could be more interesting than what happens at a crossroads?]
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John Allyn
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Ed Schulte 50+
Every Human makes the correct decision at the point in time they make it.Just because it turns out that it doesn't please them at some furue point doesn't mean any more then that...they have just discoved something that they didn't know about themselves before. Job Done learning/experience happened ...THAT IS WHAT WE ARE HERE FOR !!!
If every decision made always turns out to be the so - called "Right One" it doesn't mean one is Blessed ...QUIT THE OPPOSITE!!! it means your are a waist of time/resourses and don't neeed to be in earthly form.
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Feyisayo Anjorin 50+
There are times when one knows, without a doubt, that one way is the way to go. There are times when one just has to decide and boldly face the consequences of the decision.
In difficult times, even prior revelation does not make it an easy feeling.
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John Allyn
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Lejan . 30+
forgive me, but to me this sounds a bit like 'I wan't to swim, but I don't wan't to get wet... '.
Part of life is making mistakes, so you could learn from those to make it better next time. But what do you need a guideline for, but the one already echoing in yourself? If a given life situation, for what ever reason, does not suit you, go change it as soon as possible. There is no guarantee it will become better, but there is a chance in it, that it will. Without a change there is no such chance and that is for sure. So if you follow your inner voice you will see up's and down's in your life, but the good thing is, that the only one you could ever blame is yourself and nobody else. This, to me, is a huge advantage and part of my personal freedom.
Ramiro Benavides
Lejan . 30+
What may help not to shock the ones you like to protect is talking with them about what's pressing on your mind. Maybe this way they can also become part of the change and will benefit as well from it if the change turned out well for yourself.
On the long run an ''unfulfilled' or 'unhappy' life may cause more damage to the ones you wish to protect, because a constant unhappiness will effect anybody in a negative way and therfore most likely the interaction to others as well.
So as soon you can identify for yourself what you like to change in your life to make it a better one, talk about it with those people you wish them to be part of your 'new one' as well. Usually this helps to get the 'pressure' of the soul and to keep this energy free for the change itself.
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andrew jones
Examples of things in common include the births or deaths of close relatives and friends. Such massive changes can occur to our lives when these events happen that there is a revelation we feel - a certain knowledge that our own lives are forever altered. All our habits and routines can become irrelevant in an instant - like when a house burns down. And then there's that bone-chilling revelation that, yes, we are just as mortal as everybody else.
Theology does not cause these events, but can help us get through them by showing us the common nature of what to an individual can seem overwhelming, and offering role models and coping strategies that have worked in the past.
All our ancesors were smart people - and they wrote down their most valuable insights on how to live and stay sane through such experiences. The revelation is that we can get back to feeling good after tragedies.
Ramiro Benavides
Fritzie Reisner 100+
Often there is no mystical element to this. It is more a matter of coming upon the right idea at the right time for that person to seize upon it.
I wouldn't say most people have a system for always doing the right thing from now on, but many people sort through their priorities and point themselves in the right direction. They may then assume a habit of reflection (scheduled or not) that allows them to adjust that course periodically.
Ramiro Benavides