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#5763735 - 06/18/06 09:40 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Please state the religion you identify most closely with or select other and elaborate.
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Silversoul
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Gnostic Christian
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lsdandfrisbee
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Presbyterian.
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cybrbeast
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lsdandfrisbee said: Presbyterian.
That's a form of Christianity, no?
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cybrbeast
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I forgot that option. Oh well.
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cybrbeast said:
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lsdandfrisbee said: Presbyterian.
That's a form of Christianity, no?
Sure is. I just thought I would be more specific.
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Alright. Are you an active Presbyterian?
I'm suprised by the amount of atheists especially considering how much of the general population is religious. That's pretty cool and enlightened IMO.
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I'm personally surprised there haven't been any Buddhists or "New-Age" responses yet.
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Oh, and I just noticed that you left out Taoism.
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True, but it's not really a defined religion
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Wiki says: Much uncertainty exists over the meaning of "Taoism". In some countries and contexts (for example, the national "Taoism" organisations of China and Taiwan), the label has come to be applied to the Chinese folk religion, which would otherwise not have a readily recognisable English name. However many, if not most, of its practitioners would not recognise "Taoism" (in any language) as the name of their religion. Moreover, the several forms of what we might call "elite" or "organised" Taoism often distinguish their ritual activities from those of the folk religion, which some professional "Taoists" (Daoshi) tend to view as debased.
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Is it just regular Christianity that believes the Earth/universe to be 6-8000 years old? They are silly.
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Re: Religion [Re: TODAY]
#5782755 - 06/23/06 01:41 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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TODAY said: Is it just regular Christianity that believes the Earth/universe to be 6-8000 years old?
No. Those are the hardcore fundamentalists. They are insane beyond all hope, and have nothing to do with mainstream Christianity.
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Ok, so not all of them are nuts??
I was approached by 3 of them on my college campus this week and we had a good 30 min or so chat about all sorts of things. Its fun to ask questions like:
Me: Do the people who you don't 'save' go to hell? Christians: yes. Me: What about indigenous people living in the forest that have never had contact with Christian crusaders? Do they go to hell if they've never had a chance to be saved? Christians: That's a hard question. Me: I mean, how could God make them and isolate them, knowing they'd never have contact with Christianity? Wouldn't God be condemning them to hell at the same time that he made them? Christains: That's a hard question.
They don't trust science and scientific dating because of this argument:
"You know, science can't prove everything. Can science proove you were in class today? Or can science proove what you had for lunch? No, it can't. But testimonials from the people in your class or the people you ate lunch with could prove it!!"
LoL, they told me that when they see things like the Grand Canyon they are just so amazed at God's creation. They were so amazed that God up and *snap* created the Grand Canyon. I told them the Grand Canyon was a result of the Colorado River cutting away at the landscape for millions of years...but what do I know??
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Re: Religion [Re: TODAY]
#5787053 - 06/24/06 05:24 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I am a very spiritual person and definitely believe in some type of higher power beyond what we consider reality that we have no way of understanding in our current state of evolution...I really hate the way evolution and religion have gotten all tied up together...evolution exists wheather u believe in god or not and imo are totally seperate...I also believe that its impossible for our reality and universe to be all that exists...I cannot wrap my head around the idea of having nothing and then getting something...based on our laws of physics and time etc this is just not possible...in nothingness the word evolution dosen't even exist
I also believe it is built into human beings to be spiritual I just think its silly to think u have the answers...also this need to know more of what we are and where we came from plays a role in our evolution as a species...its part of what drives us to keep improving
I chose other btw
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Oh, other! Wish I'd seen that, I said neopaganism in that it seemed to be the one that was closest to Taoism. Maybe. Neopaganism's like wiccan stuff and the like, right?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neopaganism
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Iamthewalrus said: I also believe that its impossible for our reality and universe to be all that exists...I cannot wrap my head around the idea of having nothing and then getting something...based on our laws of physics and time etc this is just not possible...in nothingness the word evolution dosen't even exist
Ah but this is with our current understanding of physics. Our universe could be created in a higher dimensional space or in the heart of a supernova. But then there's always the question where did that come from. But if we were created by a higher power then where did that come from? That would also be something out of nothing.
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Could it be that it just is? That we and everything else that exists, simply exists.
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thats what I"m saying tho...based on our reality u can't get something from nothing...so all I can assume is that there is some sort entity that is beyond our understanding and does not function within the realms of time etc
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Why is it that I get the feeling that so many people just don't get it?
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