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Originally Posted by craigimass
You (or some others) think that you should not be obedient to yourself, but to some perceived or imagined God who sits somewhere outside of yourself and tells you what to do.
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You said that you sometimes meditate and that the answers (or direction) just pop into your head and then you know what to do - same thing for most people who pray, you just use different words to describe it. Christians for example call that "contemplative prayer" and believe they should seek silence and open up their mind to possibility so that they can find God's will for them. How that is any different than what you call meditation I can't imagine.
I don't think that most adult/thinking people who have an understanding of God think of God as a wise old man with a beard floating around on a cloud shouting answers down with a megaphone, so I don't think it is fair to dismiss people by suggesting it. There are plenty of us out here who see evolution as one of God's tools, for example, and see God's will in the rain, not much different than you I suspect.