Don't have a religion :/
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But I believe in God. Dunno what else. So what does it mean when someone believes in the basic principle of many religions, but doesn't know enough/relate enough to fit into one. What does the person say when asked about their religion?
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I'm not one to tye myself down to any one religion.
I believe there Must be something out there. That something doesn't necessarily mean a god though.
Some sort of supreme design that pertains to all life.
Love is the law love if thou wilt.
I still hope that there is something after death, but I know its not going to be due to one being (God). I think it would have to be just as natural as this world.
I don't know-- just a bit of hope.
I just can't think of what it would be like not living though, what would it feel like? (I know it would hurt dying.) But what would you feel afterward?
I just refuse to believe that there isn't anything beyond our life-- It just wouldn't make sense to me.
I don't know though.
I think the reason that I kinda have to believe in God (even if my beliefs don't adhere to one specific religion) is because if I think that there is just a black abyss when we die then there's really no point in living and we just don't want to go to that place
Start by educating yourself on the history of religion. You can read up on Hinduism, Buddhism, Greek religions, etc.
Accustom yourself to different customs and find your place.
All in all, you are where exactly where you chose to be here and now. You can go in the route of what most would call spirituality, for me its just a seeking of higher truth.
So even though you haven't been sucked into any one specific faith; you're still using 'religion' generally as an excuse not to improve your (presumably) shitty life in this world. Sounds great. Have fun with that.
It never ceases to amaze me how self-obsessed people are; it has been a couple years since we operated on a geocentric model, but these super-chimpanzees are basically still stuck there, thousands of years ago, thinking existence revolves around them.
1. there is no hard evidence to support a god
2. there is no way to disprove it
3. religion is fallacy, and in thousands of years will be vastly different if it is still thought of in the traditional sense. JUST as the religions of times past faded into obscurity, so will those abounding today..
4. Buddhism is hard-pressed to be called a religion, more of a positivist cult.
5. Get over yourself and embrace your existence
6. born-again christians get no sympathy, only pity.. absolutely pathetic to find joy in delusion IMHO
7. muslims make me facepalm, too.
The same as it felt before you were born. You were not, for a brief period you were and then you were not once more.
There is energy/matter which make molecules which make cells, these cells undergo many changes. One such change is into human form from sperm/egg reproduction. You grow as you consume other forms of energy and eventually you die. The molecules change form again and eventually are reused as energy by future animals.
That is beautiful.
There is no god, such a simple explanation repulses me. It's like asking how a clock works, the intricacies, the precision - and then someone comes along and is like "lol, god did it". Urgh.
Life is just pattern forming of molecules on a grand scale. It's amazing enough to blow your head wide open.
Most religions share a body of assumptions, known collectively as The Perennial Philosophy. Leibniz coined the phrase, but Aldous Huxley usually gets credit for it, having written "The Perennial Philosophy," which I highly recommend.
"Be what though wilt" is closer to the truth.
If you wish to be pedantic "Be what though wilt" is truer a statement than "Do what though wilt".
Unlike other human beings, I do not believe that God has influence or involvement in our lives. That is the true power of free will.
We ain't nothing but tricks and hoes.
That's not at all true in the context.
Also, "To be is to do."
But is "To do is to be"?
I make a distinction between being and doing. A rock can do, a rock cannot be. At least not in the same manner as you and I.
Yeah, but a rock is right there in my driveway.
Sure, the rock is an actual occurence. Everything that exists is an actual occurence. That doesn't mean all actual occurences are the same. In this case I am making the distinction between spiritual being, and material doing. Material can do, but only spirit can be; though both these things are actual occurences. That's what I mean't when I said "being can do, but doing cannot be". In more other words, living things can enjoy others and be enjoyed by others, but non-living things can only be enjoyed by others. Although I believe in reality there are no "others", and that it is just a cleverly decieving abstraction.