[FONT="](This part is continued from the previous post.)[/FONT]
[FONT="]I usually write and rewrite my exchanges for these posts! And when I feel that my answers are adequate then I post them. On Feb. 10, I was ready to post my answer. In that answer I had explained, in general, the essence of Gods communication with me! (Of course, the way that I rationalized them, and not the actual hearing voice of God!) In reviewing my answer, I thought that generalized characterization could not really explain the essence of God communication that I was experiencing. I was evaluating how to mention my stock buying incident as an example, without giving a wrong impression. I knew that incident the way that I explained it earlier, it hardly could be accepted as a viable communication, that interpretation sounds more like an illusion, from a very sick mind! That story was too ridiculous and too trivial. I thought mentioning that event would not help my argument at all, instead it would diminish the essence of my argument. But, I was determined to explain the subject of Gods revelations in a simple and straight forward manner, and without any ambiguity. But I knew that story was not good enough, and it was too corny![/FONT]
[FONT="]On Feb 11, around [/FONT][FONT="]3:10 AM[/FONT][FONT="] I woke up, (every night I usually wake up once or twice, and then I usually go back to sleep. If I am not sleepy then I would watch TV until I get sleepy. I have watched a lot of good programs at these early morning hours on some PBS stations.) This morning I was not sleepy, so I turned on TV to watch something. Without changing or searching for any specific channel, the TV channel was on the station which was broadcasting a Frontline program. Each Frontline program is about 50 minutes long, and this episode was about Digital Nation. At the time that I started to watch the program around [/FONT][FONT="]3:13 AM[/FONT][FONT="], the program was discussing how multitasking had damaged the writing skills of the American students! The program was explaining; because of too many distractions from digital gadgets, the students were losing the ability of writing long essay, and they usually were losing their narratives from one paragraph to the next, and their writings had become fragmented. [/FONT]
[FONT="]This peculiar Frontline program, at this weird hour, about the effects of distractions was so relevant to the stock transaction incident which I wanted to express as an example of Gods messages that sometimes we are fortunate to receive them and to recognize them. These two much related coincidences collectively were pointing to one comprehensive message, which I concluded that God was directing me not to get distracted and do not mess up my tranquil time. (Here I need to make a confession; with these entire clear messages that I was sure that I had received from the divine God, still I stubbornly and stupidly got involved in purchasing few shares of that stock few days later! Sometimes it is hard to resist the temptation of the material world!) [/FONT]
[FONT="]At first I thoughts these two related coincidences were directed at me to tell me the distractions nature of material attachment. Then I thought obsessive desires for material things also has corrosive effect on our mental health and that causes us to lose our mental freedom, which is recommended for our spiritual growth. So, the message was also helpful from this point of view! [/FONT]
[FONT="]These two conclusions were beneficial for the tranquility of my mind and my well being. Then I realized If I had interpreted these two much related coincidences correctly, and my interpretations were not just the fragments of my active imaginations, then the essences of these two coincidences were far more significant than my original conclusions. These two much related revelations had directed me to something far more profound! If the events of our lives are choreographed by God, then the issues of our Free Will becomes much more marginal and murkier! At the time which I was debating whether to buy the stock or accepting the perceived message and not to buy the stock, I felt that I was totally free to exercise my own decision, and ignore paying any attention to my perceived message! After all my own interpretation had a lot to do with the perceived message! I simply could have made an excuse; and claimed that there was no comprehensive message! And I was not really acting against any divine recommendation! So, for sure my Free Choice was there, and I was fully aware of that. But, what about the tenant!? Was she aware of her choices when she forgot to pick up her key, and she locked herself out!? Was she in control of her faculties at that specific moment!? Because, without her scenario, the message which was getting choreographed for my enlightenment, at that specific moment, could have not been materialized! In the past, in some other situations, I had reached to the same conclusion. I feel that such a divine control is on us all the time, only occasionally we are privileged to observe their existence. Usually these revealed messages go against our personal choices and wishes! It seems intentionally the individual believer, at those special moments, is being tested to choose between his/her personal wishes versus the prescribed direction which is communicated to him/her by God! It seems that our readily acceptance of these perceived messages in those rare occasions, reflects the strength of our faith. And this sums up the extent of our Free Will, which affects nothing in the events of this world! [/FONT]
[FONT="]I finished the previous paragraph on Feb 13. On Feb 14, when I was thinking about our Free Will, I thought to add the following phrase into that paragraph; It seems where it comes to our Free Will we are less than the probe satellites which we dispatched to the surface of the Mar. Right at that moment a simple incident alerted me not to do that! Then, it downed on me, that my conclusions regarding our Free Will might be still too primitive and too naïve, and this very complex issue might be way beyond my head! Last week in Nova Science Now program on PBS there was a segment regarding the animal intelligence, and how scientists were trying to communicate with animals. At the end of the program in his cosmic perspective, Neil Degrasse Tyson,(He is the host of the program)commented and I paraphrase; that animals have hard time to grasp some of the abstract ideas which we human are dealing with them so routinely. Then he mentioned there might be some other intelligences in the universe which their simple abstract ideas might be too difficult for us to comprehend. Then, I thought the concept of our Free Will might fall into the category of beyond our comprehension! Only in last few centuries Mans logic has reached to the maturity to begin wrestling with this complex issue. It seems when it comes to our Free Will our known logic does not work, and we need to find a new logic outside of the box! [/FONT]
[FONT="]These three revelations which I mentioned them in this post are the sample of the revelations which on and off I sense them, and sometimes I received them in abundance, and sometimes for months I sense nothing. As you noticed all these revelations are such moment specific and my own interpretations played a major role to make a sense out of them, and they just made sense to me at those specific moments! As time passes by I forget most of these incidences, only very few have some lingering affects. [/FONT]
[FONT="]These revelations which I presented in this post, they are part of my private thoughts, which makes me uncomfortable to expose them in public, and probably they may make no sense even to many believers! And they may even find them weird and laughable! However, in my effort to express my views with clarity I thought revealing them could shade a little light about the interaction of God with us. And this sample might also give some clarity when I was talking about the mysteries of the way that the Educated Believers were accepting their mistake prone Holy Books as word of God. [/FONT]
[FONT="]We only can interpret the world through the prism of our own logic which we have developed it through our training and our experiences! [/FONT]
[FONT="]May God Bless Us All,[/FONT]
[FONT="]Unes[/FONT]
