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seth wrote:For me anyway there’s no negative cause or association with lucid dreaming (anxiety or depression or whatever). Like I said I often quite enjoy when it occurs

It certainly sounds fun, and is from the few times I have... I wish it happenned more to me

Yeah, just stay right away from the Paralysis end of things and you'll be fine.

I guess I'm a bit late to the game - and honestly haven't been around a great deal lately, but here I am.  . Nice to meet you Dust.  

OP - yeah, getting old sucks, and I feel it now more than when I was in my 40's - and running a bunch due to military requirements, and way more active.  Now I'm 56 and it hurts lol - and time is certainly a factor here.  I have things I want to do, and then things I should do - and things I must do.  Exercise has become a should - and it doesn't often make the cut.  I'm working on that - and with my upcoming military retirement - maybe that'll change.   

Miracles - well, where to start.  Have I personally witnessed a miracle?  No.  Does that shake my faith?  No.  Have I seen the result of miracles - the consequences on a person - yes.  

A couple thoughts here:  First - Jesus referred to what he was offering to us as humans, as faith.  Faith means believing without seeing.  Now - there are a plethora of examples of written anecdotes in terms of evidence of those who experienced miracles.  I haven't.  

But how weak a faith is, if you require direct experience to validate the faith.  Again - I have a physical heart.  I have experienced the results of it - I can feel the effects of it - I have faith that it's a heart, and not a metal machine inside my chest running on Lithium batteries that only last 75 years, but an actual flesh heart.  That's faith.  
Then again - a metal heart would be pretty. . . metal \m/ \m/.  In philosophy, Descartes made an argument for skepticism, arguing that you can't be certain that you aren't being decieved by a malevolent demon.  Further, it was argued in a famous thought experiment - how do you know you're not a brain in a vat - being fed impluses directly into your brain giving you what you believe to be physical experiences, as they are all just electrical impulses - how can you be certain?  Perhaps we're all in the matrix - still plugged in, even if the steak tastes real.

I'm good with faith.  And I believe in miracles - and other things I can't experience directly.  Like oxygen. 

Thanks!

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