Originally Posted by Arglax
I've never visited Reddit. I know what it's about but I've never been interested in taking a peek.
I didn't mean that literally. See below
Originally Posted by sid
Hellnkellr: that's because you're new here. Take a while and explore the internet outside of 4chan and reddit, you'll find a world that really finds 4chan and reddit silly, idiotic, and pretty late with most trends. Welcome to where the real shit starts.
I'm aware that 4chan and Reddit aren't the whole internet. I was comparing their beliefs with the beliefs of people ON Reddit and 4chan. I've met a LOT of extremists on both sides of the spectrum in my time and while they probably make up quite a small percent of the internet population, they're usually the "loudest" so to speak. The point I'm trying to make is, idiots are everywhere.
Redundant - I wasn't saying my beliefs were special. I was saying they were unique to this thread since there was only one other theist besides myself that posted. I think you all are reading too much into what I'm posting.
Last edited by Hellnkellr; Apr 24, 2012 at 07:42 AM.
Originally Posted by SlyBash
I've been a deist for about a year now, but something doesn't seem right. I can't seem to find a religion that I can truly believe, after being freed from the brainwashing that my parents did to me through christianity (I'm still recovering).
Can anyone suggest one that just makes sens? So far I'm looking into Wicca and I agree with a lot of the ideals but honestly, I don't think I'm a spiritual enough person.
Any ideas?
Originally Posted by lumpysoloAgnostic.Originally Posted by SlyBashI'm not one for unanswered questions, and I bbelieve in a higher power/powers. I'm honestly torn between deism and paganism
Within agnosticism, we have a group called "agnostic theists".
An agnostic theist is one who assumes to be unaware of the existence of God (or another form of divinity), but believe in its existence.
According to what you posted, at the time, you're in the Irreligion. But really, Deism (a conceptual change that is part of Irreligion) fits better with their concepts.
Originally Posted by Oracle
Sly, there's no rush to find a religion. If you aren't finding anything that suits your ideals or beliefs right now, it's best to just keep on going through life naturally. Something will come up eventually that will resonate with you. Whether it happens early or later is not known, but it should happen at one point or another.
Until then, just keep an open mind and ear available.
This is the best option.
Maintain the free-thinking while you do not find anything that fits within their concepts/beliefs is the ideal path to be followed.
Originally Posted by Hellnkellr
I find the possibility of everything in existence happening by accident in a few dozen billion years very unlikely.
The existence of "gods" is also unlikely, and yet the majority of the world, is an adherent of a religion with a God adept.
We are still taking the first steps in search of a definitive theory for the emergence of the universe. However, scientists are still tireless in the search for answers using the most advanced mathematical Theory of Superstrings and M Theory, to maybe one day, find out how was the beginning of the universe.
Well, my family is Christian, and for a long time to explain things to me about religion, how it works, anyway... Unlike many other Christian families, my family has always left me free to follow the path which I consider correct, in the case of belief/ideology.
I, as an agnostic atheist, do not believe in the existence of a God, but do not discount its existence, until science proved otherwise.
The understanding of metaphysical problems, such as the existence of God is unknowable or inaccessible to human understanding to the extent that they exceed the empirical method of scientific evidence, so the knowledge the existence of God is considered impossible.
Originally Posted by guyoliveirah
until science proved otherwise
That is, I'll continue not believing in the existence of a God.
Originally Posted by Peter
I realise this is in off topic so I don't have to give some sort of substantiated answer like the fool above me.
The thread is here to be read and discussed. And if I wanted to give a well reasoned response to the subject and you do not, what's the problem? I'm a fool for giving my opinion when she was asked? You were simply ignorant.
Originally Posted by Peter
I can't even be bothered reading it.
Poft, do not read.
Last edited by Morbid; Apr 24, 2012 at 01:59 PM.
I realise this is in off topic so I don't have to give some sort of substantiated answer like the fool above me. I can't even be bothered reading it.
But what gets me is, everyone in here so amped about religion. The discussion goes stale every time with an uppity atheist, a big headed christian and everyone in between posting some sort of strange explanation for their view.
Like this one.
You don't even need to think about religion. I don't. I don't give any thought to it, I don't care what happens to me when I die. Cause whatever happens, will.
I also don't want someone telling me that I should go for some mysticism religion because my views match, because I'm not looking for a religion. I do life, it's good, not live under the rule of some higher power. Who the fuck wants to NOT eat meat on a friday. I want a fucking sausage. But each to their own, I'm not THAT guy.
Yeah.
But what gets me is, everyone in here so amped about religion. The discussion goes stale every time with an uppity atheist, a big headed christian and everyone in between posting some sort of strange explanation for their view.
Like this one.
You don't even need to think about religion. I don't. I don't give any thought to it, I don't care what happens to me when I die. Cause whatever happens, will.
I also don't want someone telling me that I should go for some mysticism religion because my views match, because I'm not looking for a religion. I do life, it's good, not live under the rule of some higher power. Who the fuck wants to NOT eat meat on a friday. I want a fucking sausage. But each to their own, I'm not THAT guy.
Yeah.
lol
Sly, I think this site will help: http://www.religionfacts.com/
I myself believe in god. I'm a Muslim. In Islam, God (Allah) is an unknown being and unknowable. I personally believe in a 'programmer-like god'.
However, I think death will be the answer of the existence of god questions. Just live the life, do things, wait for death.
I myself believe in god. I'm a Muslim. In Islam, God (Allah) is an unknown being and unknowable. I personally believe in a 'programmer-like god'.
However, I think death will be the answer of the existence of god questions. Just live the life, do things, wait for death.
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I'm a Christian, A Catholic, to be specific, I believe in God, I love my religion, I just hate most Christians who act without reason, the people who don't care for other decisions, the people who persecute gay people. The people who hate all religions other than theirs, yeah.
Idiots. I hate idiots.
I believe in a higher power, due to the fact that our bodies, are so huge, in the way that we have trillions of cells and shit, and all of these work together, our system works together to get things done, everything in the world, coexists with each other, we can reason,we affect each other in different ways!
It think it's impossible that clashing of rocks made life that soon evolved into what we are today.
We're just gas? Elements? Chemicals then?
Just my opinion, because everything seems to be part of a grand scheme.
Idiots. I hate idiots.
I believe in a higher power, due to the fact that our bodies, are so huge, in the way that we have trillions of cells and shit, and all of these work together, our system works together to get things done, everything in the world, coexists with each other, we can reason,we affect each other in different ways!
It think it's impossible that clashing of rocks made life that soon evolved into what we are today.
We're just gas? Elements? Chemicals then?
Just my opinion, because everything seems to be part of a grand scheme.
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