I try to inspire him to let him know that his inspirational words are what is needed in places like he describes full of sin. I am a spiritual. I'm not particularly anyone religion or religious. I do love the story of Jesus. I understand where he's coming from and I'm trying to encourage him to stay because it is better to be that light in the darkness than to leave all those people in the dark. That's how I feel anyway
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:37
But for lack of a better word, I feel it and I revel in it because I want to share one thing with you based on the question you have for us. And that is lately I found myself answering the question of a lot of people's questions about who are you? What do you believe in? Where were you last year? What's your book? Education. A lot of questions that come out for a little bit of a where you have to put a stake in the ground
Sontaia Briggs
@PKBriggs · 4:43
And hopefully it doesn't feel like disrespectful to people who say they don't subscribe to a higher power. But I believe there's something over all of us. But I have very specific words and I read the Bible and I navigate my relationship through those tools if you want to call them. So what I've learned and what I've experienced is that with your friend, you have to protect your spirit
I feel like I've done that far more in person than I have. Maybe in an online space, sort of like wisdom. I feel like I've tried my hardest to carve out communities for myself, online where I don't feel like I'll encounter those moments. But in person, certainly growing up in a big city and in College, there are times I think that a lot of us are faced with situations that make us uncomfortable or sort of question how we got there to begin with
Kamahana Kealoha
@Kamahana · 0:44
Thank you all for your time and presence. And I believe, Deborah, that is part of my answer, too, is that I am here. I understand that to be meaning, that I am present. And like you said, here in front of you to experience. And I like that thank you very much for sharing. I think that's an excellent concept. And I'm going to marinate on that for a little bit. Mahalo, thank you. Bye
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Kamahana Kealoha
@Kamahana · 3:06
Aloha PK. It's Kamahana. Nice to meet you. Thank you for your thorough response. It made total sense to me, and I completely agree with everything you said. It actually from how you identify as Christian and you use those tools for your religious experience. I use some of those tools as well. I don't identify as just Christian. I think maybe the labels kind of don't really do it for me, although I don't disparage anybody else who wants to identify as such
Kamahana Kealoha
@Kamahana · 1:40
Aloha Taylor, I'm Kamahana here. Thank you for answering my question and offering suggestions or examples actually believe in that power of intuition. And I believe that is how one way that people describe as God is talking to them or something told them something. I don't think they really heard it in their ear. I think they heard it inside, like in the mind's ear
Enfinit Evolushun
@Enfinit · 4:57
But when it comes to telling people that they should do spiritual work, I think that's where it gets kind of. Iffy that's the Gray area, I can't tell him you never know what people are going through spiritually. That's what I want to say. So you are not your brother's keeper when it comes to that part. And it's not easy to, you know, encourage somebody to keep doing spiritual work. Because spiritual work has so many hidden dimensions
Ophelia Johnson
@LadyO · 4:24
So no matter what path of spirituality you decide to take, I think that it starts within a lot of work has to be done to have the light and the dark to understanding oneself and how they want to walk in this life and what path they want to walk in this life. I've never heard of this app, by the way, but it seems interesting, but some people aren't ready for maybe what your friends had to say
Kamahana Kealoha
@Kamahana · 4:21
I get all of my information from spirit creator has guided me before and I feel like if the Creator wants me to know something, it will find a way to make it known to me. Sometimes that comes in the form of other people, though I must admit so I do keep my eyes and ears open for that kind of message, but most of the time it's told directly to me, whether as an intuition or as a thought or a dream of direction
Kamahana Kealoha
@Kamahana · 4:00
I'm glad I talked to him and encouraged him to go back, at least to take control of the situation and reestablish his own confidence in that. I just hate to see him walk away and be defeated and question everything he knows because one person comes along and heckles or hacks his profile on wisdom, and it's just another social audio app. It's pretty cool. There's a lot of listeners. I wish there was more interaction as far as social interaction between two people instead of just listeners
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 4:38
And that's where your art or your content can get affected by that. We've all seen that happen. That person who we thought was so cool. Suddenly they're getting sponsorships now and they're talking about Patreon every 5 seconds. And almost like they're not really making the content they used to make. It's just become now a money grab