Let’s talk about God’s presence in our lives.
By: Adam Borowski
Tags: Covid 19, Investing, Health, Psychology, God

Let’s talk about God’s presence in our lives.

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God works in mysterious ways, weaving a tapestry of life all around us. People we meet and situations we encounter are all parts of the tapestry.

God and prayer

We can communicate with God through prayer, even when it takes the form of a dialogue with the Creator. I realize there are many materialists who will never accept the idea of a divine spark in humans. That’s perfectly alright. I respect atheism as much as I respect the fact we should all be given a choice to have a unique relationship with God. I see God as a self-aware infinite intelligence. Anthropomorphism — understanding of God using human descriptors — has never made sense to me.

There are two Bible verses I live by: don’t cast pearls before swine and by their deeds you shall know them.

God and personality types

Interestingly enough, the way someone defines God usually reflects their personality type. An authoritarian personality is more likely to see God as an omniscient, punishing father-figure; while someone with a more liberal mindset usually refrains from rigid categorizations.

God and communism

How we see God has a crucial impact on the socio-political sphere. For example, communist regimes base their ideology on denying the divine spark in humans. If consciousness is a random accident and there is no afterlife, then regime representatives have absolute authority. For all intents and purposes, they are gods. And it’s much easier to condemn a million people to starvation when your victims are reduced to slaves that exist as a collective to serve you. That’s the main reason why so many people who profess their faith in God are imprisoned, experimented on and killed in communist countries. There are countries like South Korea that are beacons of religious freedom while being surrounded by nations espousing hostile ideologies.

God and UFOs

God is present in our lives regardless of our belief systems. Even when you are an atheist, it’s virtually impossible to ignore the fact that the social and international order is deeply influenced by how humans see God. American exceptionalism and the divine right to rule are two prominent examples of the ever-presence of God in socio-politics. The perception of God has also been grotesquely twisted to serve various agendas. An empire that worships a deity demanding blood sacrifice is only going to care about conquests and killing disbelievers. How can you reason with someone who believes he must kill disbelievers to please God? You can’t. For some disturbing reason, sacrificing humans to please some kind of a supernatural being is a common historical theme. Take the story of the serpent at Sa Gol Cave in South Korea demanding an annual sacrifice of a young female virgin as an example. Or Aztec sacrifice rituals, for that matter. Are the stories and legends about sacrificing young female virgins to the gods a reflection of humanity’s collective darkness? Even ufology can’t escape the theological debate. There are those who believe aliens are demonic.

God and coffin therapies

On a different note, there are people who believe that polyglots received the blessings of the Holy Spirit. Surely, a talent bestowed on a K-pop artist can also be a sign of God’s love? I agree that God’s love seems scarce these days. Countries like South Korea have record suicide rates. There are coffin therapies in South Korea and China to make people value their lives. Where’s God’s love then? Do we really believe individual life matters when looking at human history? It seems that most of us are trapped in the let them eat cake world with no say in how the governing system functions. It’s exceedingly rare for anyone influential to listen. Deep down, we know it, so we’ve created an illusion of influence by being legends in our own minds. And the world of social media makes it oh-so-easy to think we’re all celebrities. It’s an inconvenient truth but it’s better to know the truth than delude oneself into believing that virtue-signaling, thought-terminating-cliches and empty platitudes can actually change the world. No, they can’t. And they won’t because they are just robotic reactions to complexities of life many, if not most, people can’t, won’t and don’t want to understand. Just look at how many ‘’haha’’ reactions there are on Facebook where there definitely shouldn’t be. What’s the psychological profile of people who enjoy their schadenfreude a bit too much? Are they psychopaths, sociopaths, malignant narcissists. . . or just jesters? Whoever they happen to be, they tell us a lot about society — its negative side — just as people like Maximilian Kolbe are shining examples of selflessness.

God and success

Does God — the Universe if you will — put people in our path? Let’s say I want to find a literary agent for my novel. When I finally find the agent, does that mean God — the Universe — has helped me by existentially engineering a set of situations which have led to my success? What if it’s my own ingenuity, my entrepreneurial spirit and lateral thinking rather than some sort of a divine intervention? This is the million-dollar question. . .the question of free will. If there’s an infinite number of alternate realities, then what (who?) causes us to live in a particular reality? What causes this wave function collapse? Is it us? Is it an act of God? Both? A random accident?

God and vanity

As always, the answer you’re going to get depends on who you ask. After all, there are those who assert everything’s already been said. Vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity? If that’s the prevalent mindset of humanity, then humanity is doomed. I prefer a different mindset: we’re exploring the mind of God (self-aware, intelligent infinity). And as such, wisdom is knowing how little we know. There’s always more to uncover, more to invent, more to invest . . . and more to write. It seems to me that no matter how many scientific experiments are carried out, there’ll always be unanswered questions about the grand scheme of things: life, God and our place in the cosmic performance.

T he cosmic, absurdist at times, game. We need to make genius great again.

There’s a dramatic difference between intellectually exploring and engaging in a debate and needlessly complicating things by pointlessly philosophizing.

For example, expanding bureaucracy is like playing tennis in stilettos. . . sure, you could do it — but why would you want to?

God (probably) loves you

In these hard times, with the world devastated by the pandemic and its consequences, nothing is worse than being denied a voice. If you feel voiceless and apathetic, remember: God always listens. God cares. God sees all. That’s all you need to know in life to succeed.