Have you converted/deconverted anybody?

Originally posted by Paul Dirac II
I would say that this is wonderful for you, but I would add that the Buddha has never talked to me.

Oh thanks.

It was wonderful and really scary at the same time. Later I discovered it was only my own fear being magnified.

I haven't heard of the Buddha specifically talking to anyone else either, but I either report as accurately what I experience in my life, or I am living a lie.

I sometimes wonder why Jesus doesn't talk to more people, because the people I've met that have claimed to have talked to JC all seem to be nuts (fundamentalists)

Originally posted by Paul Dirac II
If your deity would like me to make Him the central focus of the rest of my life, all He has to do is speak audibly to me, or better yet appear in front of me and speak to me. If the voice I heard was saying something like, “Do good deeds, my son,” I would not find that sufficient, because I would conclude it was more likely that my own mind made up th ...[text shortened]... t is a “load of tosh” that your deity would actually communicate personally with a modern human?

I didn't think you would say it was a "load of tosh".

I do hear what you are saying though; it is asking a lot to expect someone to pay up and state faith in something which most people think is tosh or worse, and has little or no physical evidence and in many ways is either contradictory or nonsensical. So you are not alone in this respect.

In answer to your question, no, I've never bothered looking into other religions because the well I drink from provides all I require; should the time come when I feel otherwise then I would do that.

I also hear what the slavering douchbag atheists say and of course it all makes sense, (well some of them do - the others are just idiots) especially to me as I used to be one. But when I close my laptop and my eyes it's just me and He, so despite my own rationality and despite the physical evidence [or lack of] my view is f*** them, I'll believe whatever I choose to believe and whatever brings me peace. And even when I screw up and let go...

Deut 31:6

Heb 13:5