trying to seek solace in a higer power, but it all feels like a lie

[Perpetually99]

How do you believe in God when you have become completely disillusioned by it? Every time I try to reach out to a higher intelligence for help, I feel like the biggest fraud to myeslf.

I have been riddled with debilitating health problems all of my adult life. I have learned that free will is all but an illusion. How can there be a God if free willl doesn't exist? We are all puppets. Every thought and action is based on our genetics, environment, and experiences.

I find myself longing for a higher power to seek out. I need to surrender to something greater. To feel like everything will be okay. But am reminded of that cold hard truth that everything is ultimately random and we are determined individuals.

 

[BeansOfRequirement]

Every thought and action is based on our genetics, environment

 

[Life_and_Death]

i personally find "god" within myself.

 

[Deleted member 8579]

You really have a video, gif, or picture for everything, don't you?

 

[BeansOfRequirement]

You really have a video, gif, or picture for everything, don't you?

I simply use the "gif" option, it's next to the emojis and media functions.

 

[WornOutLife]

Yeah, I know that feeling.
If there's any kind of God, he's just an evil bastard. Just go to a hospital and see how children are suffering and dying. Nonsense!

I've given up on believing in "God" because I was raised as a Catholic but, If I had been born in the middle east I'd probably be a muslim. Each religion is probably just a lie.

The only thing I could really believe is in the simulation theory. IMO, it's that or simply eternal nothingness and no explanations about the true meaning and purpose of life and this universe.

 

[FuneralCry]

I personally don't believe in any higher powers, I just tell myself that this life is pointless, once we die we return to the eternal nothingness we came from which comforts me. We certainly do not have any control, most of the bad things that have happened to me I couldn't have prevented in any way.

 

[Deleted member 8579]

I simply use the "gif" option, it's next to the emojis and media functions.

Proving once again that I am barely technically literate.