Do you ever feel the presence of God or someone else who isn

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People tend to assume one particular thing is "normal" and that any belief that conflicts with that normalcy needs to be proved. Yet what is considered the "default theory" tends to be a baseless assumption in the first place. This is why I consider atheism a religion. You have the reasonable followers of it, who say "I don't believe in god.", and then you have the fanatics, who say "God doesn't exist." They have to be right, just because, and to change their minds, you'd have to supply them with proof. I've seen the same thing with Christians. Some are perfectly reasonable and merely believe in what they do because it feels right, then there are those who refuse to acknowledge their beliefs as a "religion", instead calling it "the truth - the way things are". Again, they must be disproved in order to change their beliefs.

The problem with requiring proof to change your mind is that there is no such thing as proof. As Yog-Sothoth pointed out, the human mind is quite powerful, and that no matter how convincing something is, it might not be the truth. You may not even be reading this text. Maybe Wrong Planet has never existed and you are actually locked up and completely delusional, imagining all of this. People who require proof to change their minds, rather than merely an establishment of greater likelihood, will hold the same beliefs until they die, completely unable to change, learn, or grow. We really have no choice but to listen when our minds tell us something is true. That is why when I get that feeling, I believe it is from GOD. I explored many possibilities prior, and could never completely eliminate all of them, but this is what I feel is the most likely possibility. I may be wrong, yes, but we can never be sure of anything. Some goes for those who say I am just imagining things. It is possible they are wrong as well. It's important to realize we don't actually understand everything. That is why we think things, rather than know them, and I don't see anything wrong with that, so long as you don't get the two mixed up.

It should be acknowledged that God is a socially manufactured product. When someone has a strange feeling of a superior presence they can look around for a convenient category in which to place it. I have never had any feelings of a superior presence, but if someone does it may be a psychological glitch or if it has some reality it might just as well be an intervention of an alien mind from an overflying saucer or or something from a parallel world. I do not subscribe to any of that but the possibility exists, it seems to me, just as well as the conventional sense of God.

I've felt the presence of G-d quite often, and more so recently.
I've been involving myself in religious activity more often recently.

You cant know an entity is real until you converse with them. Just hearing a voice isnt enough. A physical manifestation before you is most persuading.

I think if God talks to you it is non-verbal.

If you cannot learn God's name from writing or speaking, how do you find out what it is?

I have felt God's presence many times throughout my life.

No, all that mumbo-jumbo has been banished from my mind. I am convinced that "believing" is one of the biggest wastes of time known to humanity. I think, I question, I doubt, but I don't believe, nor do I necessarily feel the need to "know" anything. I'm convinced of a few things, but that could change at any time.

Having faith in something greater than me is what keeps me from going off the deep end. Simple as that.

I was raised as an Atheist and I've NEVER felt ANYTHING metaphysical. I like the idea of gods, and I've tried to be religious, but I have never felt or believed in gods. I think it's mainly how you were raised that determines it. Well, unless there IS a god, which I can't disprove, and he actually DOES give you an external or internal sign. If that's the case, well, congratulations.

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Just remember that your rational thinking was given by the gods. I wish all religious people of all faiths would remember that.