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Re: Religion [Re: Silversoul]
    #17972765 - 03/18/13 05:51 AM (10 years, 10 months ago)

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Gnostic Christian




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Re: Religion [Re: Jadecrayon]
    #17972768 - 03/18/13 05:54 AM (10 years, 10 months ago)

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Science, it works, bitches.




Science sprang out of the western esoteric tradition.

Science and "religion" are not mutually exclusive.


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Re: Religion [Re: Hakim0777] * 1
    #17982493 - 03/20/13 12:39 AM (10 years, 10 months ago)

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I wonder who the single rastafari is.



Most likely someone who likes pot and Bob Marley but has no idea what the religion is actually about.


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Re: Religion [Re: Redpill]
    #17982759 - 03/20/13 03:08 AM (10 years, 10 months ago)

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Hakim0777 said:
I wonder who the single rastafari is.



Most likely someone who likes pot and Bob Marley but has no idea what the religion is actually about.




yeah its sad when people call themselves "Rasta" but have no idea who Haile Selassie was

Rasta is christian.


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Re: Religion [Re: cybrbeast]
    #17982766 - 03/20/13 03:11 AM (10 years, 10 months ago)

Sikhism is a really cool religion if you look into it.

It very much resembles the philosophy of stoicism which i also think is cool.


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Re: Religion [Re: Redpill]
    #18004633 - 03/24/13 04:24 PM (10 years, 10 months ago)

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Hakim0777 said:
I wonder who the single rastafari is.



Most likely someone who likes pot and Bob Marley but has no idea what the religion is actually about.





Wasn't the Ethiopian dude that Rastas worship like: (paraphrasing) "Im not a god but if they think I am im not gonna tell them otherwise w/e" or someshit? lol.

:lol: Fail Religion.


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Re: Religion [Re: cybrbeast]
    #18207020 - 05/03/13 08:23 AM (10 years, 8 months ago)

This poll needs the option for the below choice.  The "No Religion (i.e. Atheist)" might not be appropriate for those like myself who do wish to have a label on our personal beliefs.

Add to poll.

No Religion (General Spirituality; I do not put a label on my beliefs)

I wouldn't select "Other, Please Specify" due to the fact it's listed under the actual Poll title of what religion I am.

Thanks.


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Re: Religion [Re: Fatherroot]
    #18234731 - 05/08/13 08:45 PM (10 years, 8 months ago)

i'm not full Buddhist but i read the teachings and use them in life but i guess i'm Atheist with buddhist idelism:shrug:


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Re: Religion [Re: cybrbeast]
    #18257617 - 05/13/13 01:03 PM (10 years, 8 months ago)

Humanist.


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Re: Religion [Re: itsaconspiracy]
    #18258906 - 05/13/13 05:11 PM (10 years, 8 months ago)

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i'm not full Buddhist but i read the teachings and use them in life but i guess i'm Atheist with buddhist idelism:shrug:




Close to mine too itsa.  Siddhartha, Jesus (pre-government conspired embellishment turned into "Christianity" and a bloated book to control the masses), Gandhi, Lennon, A. Hoffman, are a few people I've added to my core beliefs.  Sprinkled with the idea that God only existed as a single entity before separating into the infinite expansion of time, space, and matter that forms the universe and multiverses as we know them.  In current form, known as the collective consciousness.  God has no way of existing as one while separated into everything that makes up the multiverses.  My take on it.  Let's talk about Avatar 2.


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Re: Religion [Re: Fatherroot]
    #18259022 - 05/13/13 05:28 PM (10 years, 8 months ago)

:nodofunderstanding:


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Re: Religion [Re: itsaconspiracy]
    #18275383 - 05/16/13 06:22 PM (10 years, 8 months ago)

I selected other...I have multiple beliefs that I constantly weigh against each other.

I'm not atheist.

Then again, I'm not agnostic. I'm not apathetic about some kind of supernatural force or something. I believe something is there.

I guess I would say that I am a pantheist? I really don't know. I follow quantum physics a lot, and if there are infinite universes, then I think that the multiverse behaves like a fractal, always slightly different. If I die, I will reincarnate (or not), into another universe that is just *slightly* different from the last one. Why do I believe this? It would be a pretty good way to keep entropy in check. If there are infinite universes, and this is just me rambling, I believe that:

This universe is about 14 billion years old (last time I looked it up...I think it's roughly 13.8B?). I believe this universe has a giant black hole somewhere in it toward the center, that leads to a white hole that spills into a universe that is 14 billion years old plus or minus a nanosecond, ad infinite. Everything in this universe breaks down, eventually goes to this black hole, gets stripped down to its essential components again, then the white hole spews all the crap out of the adjacent universe into the next one, like a set of dominoes.

I gave the above theory a lot of thought, because I was drawing diagrams of how satellites, planets, solar systems, galaxies, etc., work in our universe--they all rotate around a central mass...so...why can't there be a central "mass" in the center of the universe? I don't know. Perhaps I've read too much into the ideas of quantum physics without understanding a lick of the math behind it.

My other belief is that we live in a Matrix, because I think Nick Bostrom, Leonard Susskin and S. James Gates, Jr., as well as other physicists are subscribing to this idea a bit...Bostrom says the probability is about 20%--of course, this is just a ballpark estimate, but with quantum computing being millions of times faster than today's supercomputers, and the fact that all of google's computers combined could provide enough computing power to simulate a universe for six people (as of now), and computer power doubling every 18 months or so...if all computers in the world were quantum computers, we could simulate multiple universes with great ease, and the inhabitants would be none the wiser. It doesn't seem a far fetch to think that some distant alien civilization has already done this and we're the inhabitants. After all, when we look at distant stars, even with amazing telescopes, the Matrix would just have to feed astronomers visual information, that they can photograph, but when they aren't looking millions of light-years away in a telescope, the simulation doesn't have to render much. It would be very easy to do, just like in a computer game. Just code the Matrix so that things only render right before and when we look at them, so it would save on processing power.

Why no supposed glitches? Maybe there are. Maybe there's a backup computer that keeps glitches at a minimum, or perhaps the aliens could pause time, wipe our memory of any glitches we perceive, and we would never know time stopped, because if time stopped, our ability to think would stop. They could do this at any given time and then unpause time, and we would continue whatever activity we were in the process of doing. Perhaps when things "slip our minds", aliens have paused the Matrix for maintenance. Apparently quantum physics says that anything that falls into a black hole is broken down into small information and stored in the black hole...as well as anything in the universe is stored on the 2D surface of the edges of the universe. I don't know...all I know is that I've had some wild trips, and I know for a fact that no one can separate themselves from the universe. I am completely connected to everything around me, but my regular conscious can filter out most of it, so I can move around (salvia, anyone? :laugh:)

I've started to actually look at my surrounding environment as bits of information, much like in the sci-fi Matrix movies, and I have been able to do some small-scale manipulation. Usually it is with random things in my environment. I have, on several occasions, been able to have seemingly superhuman strength (I can't lift cars or anything, but it's strong--kind of scary), and when I practice Parkour, I never fail when I really concentrate mentally. I have opened a brand new deck of cards and kept pulling out the ace of spades without looking while I am shuffling. I did this once, pulled out the ace of spades 11 consecutive times before I got creeped out, shuffling three times inbetween each random draw. I was not place-holding the Ace of spades, I wasn't remembering where it was going in the deck. It was strange. It all happened under a strobe light too, so it made it look even more cool. I wish I made a video of it. I'll try and do it again sometime. Of course, I am not going to try and fly or anything similar...but I believe we do live in a world based on rules, and that we can bend these rules slightly. As humans evolve more, I think we'll be able to bend the rules even more, especially if we can merge with technology--I'm not sure I want to be alive when that happens in this universe, but yeah...

Third belief: Everyone has the ability to tap into the infinite if they try hard enough. No one is immortal yet (as far as I know), but I think that's because of the problem of increasing entropy if that were to occur.

Anyway, sorry for the long rant. I like this thread! To each their own.

Lastly, your life is yours! You have your own world, inside a larger world. You can change your world at any time to be different, based on your own choices, within the realm of possibilities without completely violating fundamental physical laws.

Cheers, good vibes, one love. :smile:


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Re: Religion [Re: cybrbeast]
    #18592453 - 07/22/13 12:04 AM (10 years, 6 months ago)

Jewish witch.


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Re: Religion [Re: weedwhisperer] * 1
    #18592763 - 07/22/13 01:36 AM (10 years, 6 months ago)

Fuck religion, deities are for the weak minded. Humanist atheist.


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Re: Religion [Re: cybrbeast]
    #18593499 - 07/22/13 09:05 AM (10 years, 6 months ago)

I use to be a christian , but realized was all a big lie.

It is amazing how gullible and easy it is to brainwash a fool :nodofunderstanding:


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Re: Religion [Re: Vitalux]
    #18593898 - 07/22/13 11:02 AM (10 years, 6 months ago)

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sloantbone said:
I use to be a christian , but realized was all a big lie.

It is amazing how gullible and easy it is to brainwash a fool :nodofunderstanding:





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Re: Religion [Re: RockyRaccoon]
    #18711156 - 08/15/13 08:11 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Just watch Alan Watts videos on youtube and by the end you'll have you answer.


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Re: Religion [Re: Z O M G]
    #18713444 - 08/16/13 07:39 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Having no religion doesn't implicitly make you an atheist.


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Re: Religion [Re: cybrbeast]
    #18834529 - 09/12/13 09:42 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

I feel it doesnt make sense to be so sure of something
that is so complex that we cannot even BEGIN to comprehend

...just fucking look at the some pictures of the vastness of the universe
we have no fucking clue what any of this is


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Re: Religion [Re: SeattleBlue]
    #18836969 - 09/13/13 01:20 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

I wouldn't Agnosticism a religion


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