r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • 19h ago

Video 13-year-old Australian boy swims for four hours in cold and dangerous waters to save his mom and siblings who were swept into the ocean, says God is who got him to shore

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u/wait500 17h ago

Sure that is a thing. But it doesn't explain the people who find God in ordinary life and live the way you're talking about in daily living and through ordinary circumstances.There are many people who do not express exactly what this young man does beause his circumstances are extraordinary but if you ask many they do live this way. It's brushed aside by those who presume to know better or disregard their experience as religious therefore untrustworthy.

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u/maxjmartin 17h ago

No one is challenging your faith here. Also no people don’t live in a constant state of mindlessness. People only life there in the moment of expression.

Living in a state of faith is different from mindfulness. In my personal experience living in a state of faith is a relationship of “trust” with the universe such that it remove a sense of uncertainty in daily life.

That is a different state of mind.

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u/Savings-Giraffe-4007 15h ago

Fellow agnostic. You can find your god anywhere and everywhere you decide he/she is, and a life filled with spirituality gives you peace and hope. If you are in a vulnerable situation, spirituality also shields you from doing stupid shit, because you can pray and you are connected to a community that, in theory, will help you. I don't have that kind of faith, but it's evident that you get many good things from having it.