RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCES - can anyone help

[§äñît¥ Pôí§ðñ]

i have a required religion class that i am taking with an extremely biased gay and jewish professor (not insulting, but he is that) and he hates me merely because i am atheist/agnostic. the class is supposed to be objective and not graded upon our beliefs, but as is usually true, that is just hypocritical CRAP

SO, i really need help here. i have tried extremely hard to do/say what he wants to hear since i have been failing miserably for giving my own non-religious viewpoint.

I have to write a term paper and am given a choice of two topics. It is basically, one easy topic for religious people, or a hard son of a bitch topic for those that are non religious

topic #1
We have investigated a variety of concepts of "the saced". Terms such as "numinous" and "the holy", "Ultimate reality", "god" and "pivital value" have been used. Using categories and terms discussed in your reading and in class (an absurd amount) , present your understanding of "the sacred"

topic #2
We have investigated a variety of descriptions of "religious experience". Using categories and terms discussed in your reading and in class, describe as best you can, an experience from your life that you understand to be religious.


the second topic is UNBELIEVABLY EASY if you are religious, but i am incapable of having anything like that,. I ask, I BEG that if anyone has a religious experience of any kind that they might be willing to describe and perhaps let me borrow and mold into the form of this paper that i need to write, please oblige and i will be very very grateful.

I have been in a rut about this paper for weeks because it's so hard for me to understand and comprehend what people understad as religion" and why they have it and i dont

anyway, plese i hope i get some replies. dont flame me for asking, i'm not trying to plaguerize anything, i would just be really glad if this could be made easier for me. this is a tormenting subject for me to think or concentrate about

many thanks.

 

[MoneyBags]

i always feel like a genius when i hear about the shit other people do for school. what a fucking joke. i could write that paper in 10 minutes.

 

[§äñît¥ Pôí§ðñ]

moneybags, i can write the paper in ten minutes as well, the problem is the teacher is a smug piece of shit. i have to write it with what he wants to hear. i am failing..... FAILING AN OPINION BASED CLASS just because he and his religion disagree with me which is completely unfair

i dont unerstand the basis of religion, i could philosophically debate it all day, and i did on other essays, hence he failed me. he doesnt give a shit what i say since i dont see eye to eye with him

i just want a religiios experience or something to write about

the papaer is only 2-5 pages long, no big deal.

i think u misunderstand my basis for asking thequestion in this thread. i could write all day about this, but not specificaly what he wants to hear AND I NEED TO PASS. period.

 

[danielson]

once when i was in a car on a busy road all of a sudden everything seemed to stop. i could see everything happening in front of me, but there was no noise, it was a beautiful sunny day, cars, birds, people and i was looking at it all through this screen....and all i could hear was the wind blowing. im not sure if what i heard was 'aum' but im pretty sure thats what its supposed to be. it didnt last long in real time, only like 2 seconsds but it felt like an eternity and and instant all in one.

im guessing the car didnt have its carbon monoxide filter fitted properly. anyway thats the ONLY religous experience i can think of thart really made me ponder my existence and that comes close to conforming to my religion.

im sorry but i tend to have quite a sciency kind of mind so im not incredily spiritual which i find isnt lways such a good thing

sorry but its all i cant think of, oh and when i was a child i always thought a picture of sai baba (drawing of the real one) was smiling back at me.....i thought that for like 2 years but i was young. an he isntt a god.

sorry a suck.

 

[§äñît¥ Pôí§ðñ]

thanks danielson

 

[§äñît¥ Pôí§ðñ]

im well into my fourth page of bullshit now
i have done everything possible not to include an opinion
i will most likely post it so maybe i can get some last minute opinions on how it is or what changes i should make....

 

[TxCollegeguy]

Well I sruvived an all night visit to the Emergency room due to an overdose on medication provided by former pharmacist...I felt I was spared by the grace of god after throwing up everything in my stomache including bile for more then 6 hrs and having my blood taken 6 times

 

[§äñît¥ Pôí§ðñ]

yikes man
thats painful

 

[OMEGA]

i woke up one morning quite normally di d not party the night before or anything......
I was sitting at the coffe table, and drinking.
I picked up a phto album and proceeded to look through the pictures of my family.

i then proceeded to weap....i started feeling very emotional and feeling of guilt and the impression of selfishness proceeded to invade the deepist recesses of my mind.....I bgan to cry more......and then I realized that I was unhappy, and the root of my unhappiness was in my selfishness....then i glance back at the phots in the album and i realized a paradox......i was most happy when i was with people I loved.....and I asked my self why was i happy with these people....and the answer is cuase I made them happy , by doing things for them, and caring for them, and they inturn did the same for me......so I realized the more each of us gave the more their was for everyone to recieve....and I cried because as I became older I began to take more than i gave, i was decieved by myself, and I feel by todays society, that taking is the root to happiness, wether through consumer products of by using people.........and the more I took the less happy I was...till i reached the point I am discussing with you...I was spiritually and morally banrupt, i hand been duped in to a viciuos game that not omly harmed my self, and my family, but also the family of humanity as a whole....and then felt an undeniable presence over my head and body, I began uncontrollable crying, and felt over come with a with feelings of grief, misspent youth, love, fear...everything.....and this presence wich I thought was only a fleeting feeling of magnified emotion, went into the recesses of my mind and told me to start giving, instaed of taking....i then said...but if I do no one will care.....and the presence answered it does not matter, the point is that you gave, and if you give someone outthere will be better cause of it. I tried several times to push this force a way whatever it was..but it stayed, and help me realize that giving is the true answer to happiness not taking...... this presence also told me that we are not perfect and that the road that i now chose would be difficult, and That I may never see the fruits of the seeds i sow,and may indeed never directly benifit, and the truth is it does not matter, the idea me benifitting from my actions would just be another form of taking...the point is to give truly with your heart for the sake of giving. because there is a little of cceation or GOD in all of us or whatever you want to call it ..i can say for certain that GOD Exists

 

[§äñît¥ Pôí§ðñ]

thank you for sharing, Omega

 

[OMEGA]

 

[§äñît¥ Pôí§ðñ]

wrote my paper, so u guys dont hafta give me any more religious experiecnes

im not going to post it unless anyone actually cares to read it. its pretty basic. im just trying to get a decent grade, not write a mind blowing paper

 

[Bigsatan13]

As usual it looks like freedom of religion does not mean any religion. I wonder how it would work if someone else,(different religion\any religion) was asked to write a paper that was against their beliefs?

 

[OMEGA]

just curiuos Dread

how did it go??????

 

[§äñît¥ Pôí§ðñ]

well, i wrote it without too much problem
i just hope i took it in the direction the teacher wanted so he wont fail me
he is so fucking slow on grading anything im sure i'l never find out how i did on it unless i send him a self addressed stamped envelope and $5
F you and to that guy,,,,

i just took my last exam before the final in Dec. i did crappy.. i studied and everything, but shit. it was over judaism and islam in depth and used their terms which i have never been exposed to before. just too much to learn at once. and the class was in consensus with that. i just want a C.. no one deserves to be graded so harshly in an opinion based class and his exams are formulated so that he can easily discriminate who is rligios and who is not (me) and grades accordingly..
its real annoying

i can post the paper i wrote, but its not very good honestly..

 

[OMEGA]

bull, I don't believe it. you probably did better than you think.

email me a copy when you get a chance

OMEGA

 

[OMEGA]

I woke up one morning quite normally did not party the night before or anything......

I was sitting at the coffee table, and drinking.
I picked up a photo album and proceeded to look through the pictures of my family.

I then proceeded to weap....i started feeling very emotional and feeling of guilt and the impression of selfishness proceeded to invade the deepist recesses of my mind.....I began to weap more......

and then I realized that I was unhappy, and the root of my unhappiness was in my selfishness....then I glanced back at the photos in the album and i realized a paradox.....

I was most happy when I was with people I loved.....and I asked my self why was i happy with these people....and the answer is cuase I made them happy , by doing things for them, and caring for them, and they inturn did the same for me....

..so I realized the more each of us gave the more their was for everyone to recieve....and I cried because as I became older I began to take more than I gave, I was decieved by myself, and I feel by todays society, that taking is the root to happiness, wether through consumer products of by using people.........and the more I took the less happy I was...till i reached the point I am discussing with you...

I was spiritually and morally banrupt, I hand been duped in to a viciuos game that not omly harmed my self, and my family, but also the family of humanity as a whole....

at that moment I then felt an undeniable presence over my head and body, I began uncontrollable crying, and felt over come with a with feelings of grief, misspent youth, love, fear...everything.....

and this presence wich I thought was only a fleeting feeling of magnified emotion, went into the recesses of my mind and told me to start giving, instead of taking....

I then said..."but if I do no one will care".....and the presence answered "it does not matter, the point is that you gave, and if you give someone out there will be better cause of it."

I tried several times to push this force a way whatever it was..but it stayed and persisted, I felt love, I felt pain, grief, and joy all in one.

and this experirnce ehatever it was( I say GOD) help me realize that giving is the true answer to happiness not taking...... this presence also told me that we are not perfect and that the road that I now chose would be difficult, and that I may never see the fruits of the seeds I sow,and may indeed never directly benifit from my action, and the truth is it does not matter,and its not the point of giving.........

the idea me benifitting from positive actions would just be another form of taking...the point is to give truly with your heart for the sake of giving, for givings sake. Because there is a little bit of creation or GOD in all of us or whatever you want to call it ..I can say for certain that GOD Exists

and that we all need each other

 

[buddy28]

I woke up one morning quite normally did not party the night before or anything......

I was sitting at the coffee table, and drinking.
I picked up a photo album and proceeded to look through the pictures of my family.

I then proceeded to weap....i started feeling very emotional and feeling of guilt and the impression of selfishness proceeded to invade the deepist recesses of my mind.....I began to weap more......

and then I realized that I was unhappy, and the root of my unhappiness was in my selfishness....then I glanced back at the photos in the album and i realized a paradox.....

I was most happy when I was with people I loved.....and I asked my self why was i happy with these people....and the answer is cuase I made them happy , by doing things for them, and caring for them, and they inturn did the same for me....

..so I realized the more each of us gave the more their was for everyone to recieve....and I cried because as I became older I began to take more than I gave, I was decieved by myself, and I feel by todays society, that taking is the root to happiness, wether through consumer products of by using people.........and the more I took the less happy I was...till i reached the point I am discussing with you...

I was spiritually and morally banrupt, I hand been duped in to a viciuos game that not omly harmed my self, and my family, but also the family of humanity as a whole....

at that moment I then felt an undeniable presence over my head and body, I began uncontrollable crying, and felt over come with a with feelings of grief, misspent youth, love, fear...everything.....

and this presence wich I thought was only a fleeting feeling of magnified emotion, went into the recesses of my mind and told me to start giving, instead of taking....

I then said..."but if I do no one will care".....and the presence answered "it does not matter, the point is that you gave, and if you give someone out there will be better cause of it."

I tried several times to push this force a way whatever it was..but it stayed and persisted, I felt love, I felt pain, grief, and joy all in one.

and this experirnce ehatever it was( I say GOD) help me realize that giving is the true answer to happiness not taking...... this presence also told me that we are not perfect and that the road that I now chose would be difficult, and that I may never see the fruits of the seeds I sow,and may indeed never directly benifit from my action, and the truth is it does not matter,and its not the point of giving.........

the idea me benifitting from positive actions would just be another form of taking...the point is to give truly with your heart for the sake of giving, for givings sake. Because there is a little bit of creation or GOD in all of us or whatever you want to call it ..I can say for certain that GOD Exists

and that we all need each other

great post Omega. Thanks for sharing that.

 

[uNOwho]

here's an off the topic post.

if you feel that you were unduly biased against, because you are agnostic. you may be able to take it up with the department head or dean of students and challenge his grading of your classwork. if it is truly and objective class then your work will prove your grade, not his viewpoints.

thought i'd throw that in if you weren't already thinking of that.

~p~