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Yes or No?
    #5889076 - 07/22/06 09:55 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

Do you?

I think that gods (and Christian God) are formed from fables and the uneducated trying to figure things out. That's just my opinion...

What if there are God(s) that can be explained by science? Are they still Gods if the "miracles" they preform isn't magic?


Do you believe in "Gods" at all?
You may choose only one


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Re: Yes or No? [Re: theuser]
    #5889389 - 07/23/06 12:08 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

It is way more complicated than what you might suppose.


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Re: Yes or No? [Re: theuser]
    #5889395 - 07/23/06 12:09 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

Some things lie outside of our reason.


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Re: Yes or No? [Re: EquilibriuM]
    #5889428 - 07/23/06 12:26 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

No I believe when you die ur in the dirt


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Re: Yes or No? [Re: capliberty]
    #5889462 - 07/23/06 12:39 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

the dirt is after death and before life.


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Re: Yes or No? [Re: EquilibriuM]
    #5889507 - 07/23/06 01:06 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

Mythology and Most Early religions were used to explain scientific events (moon and sun setting, seasons) that they could not explain. Later it was a way for governments (people in power) to prevent chaos in their society and give people a reason to live/ die.

The one's that focus on people and spirituality as a whole (indigenous cultures and Buddhism) and bettering one's self and their community are the religions that have lasted. Even though they are Not really the same as Religions but are ways of thinking and being spiritual to me.


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Re: Yes or No? [Re: malarki]
    #5892865 - 07/23/06 11:51 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

Yes there is to way too much involved with life as we know it for it all to be just a huge accident. It's statistically impossible. So even if you can explain and convince yourself to believe that every form of life has evolved from proteins in primordial ooze that were exposed to lightning, thus creating the first single cell life form (that is the current theory), how did lightning come about, or the particles that created the "big boom", atheism is a joke IMOP, an easy way to avoid pondering the things we can never know. It goes against the actual laws of science it supposedly holds true to. Take the laws of thermo dynamics; the law of entropy states that all systems decay or break down over time, not evolve.
It takes every bit as much faith to believe there is no god as it does to believe there is


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Re: Yes or No? [Re: theuser]
    #5893516 - 07/24/06 04:21 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

I think that our sience is not yet evolved enough to explain god.


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Re: Yes or No? [Re: capliberty]
    #5893520 - 07/24/06 04:26 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

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capliberty said:
No I believe when you die ur in the dirt




Why? What made you come to that preclusion?


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Re: Yes or No? [Re: theuser]
    #5893522 - 07/24/06 04:30 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

"I don't need to believe, I know." -Carl Jung  :smirk:


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Re: Yes or No? [Re: theuser]
    #5893612 - 07/24/06 05:26 AM (17 years, 6 months ago)

Yes, I believe in God.
There was a time in my 20,s, when I stopped, but
have come back to believe. If I didnt I would have
given up hope many years ago. :smile:


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Re: Yes or No? [Re: Triplexiosis]
    #5894169 - 07/24/06 12:12 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

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Triplexiosis said:
I think that our sience is not yet evolved enough to explain god.




I don't think science will ever evolve enough to explain god. If there was a systematically clean way of explaining the events that go on then there wouldn't be faith in anything. If science proved something then we could anticipate the works of "divinity".

What once people thought God or a dragon was angry and sent fireballs down to burn a village, now we can see a meteor shower and can reasonably explain it.

Though, if you meet the love of your life through a series of "too good to be true" events and I guess you could analyse it. How reasonable would that analysis be?

You could be lost wandering around a good bit of your life and just happen to come across something that would change your whole perspective of everything around you. This happened to me and I don't believe in religion but I do believe in god or that there is a god or a spirit of certain aspects of life. I have no idea and if I try to work against them, they will do me in. Then again it could be all in my head. I could have a standard of understanding things around me and anything that pertains to nature and just comes out clean and crisp is the truth while those who talk with a assertiveness and, while may be natural liers, you can sense there's something amiss. Even if you go through with it and are scammed, you know there was something wrong, even though subtle.

Anyways, you'd go crazy trying to explain god, but I believe if you know yourself and where you came from and what makes you what you are today then that's more than any religion can offer. If the glove fits, wear it... Don't fight yourself. Social norms and books like the bible, taken literally, are not healthy for you to just to conform to a norm.

Find a way to be free, because we are certainly not with the way today's society affects us.

We didn't come out of a concrete jungle. We didn't have cars to get around. We didn't get fruit in the middle of January or almonds in july just like that. Those are all seasonal and served a purpose for the season they were cropped. Nature takes care of us and while we take advantage of nature... and it's sad.


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Re: Yes or No? [Re: Cracka_X]
    #5895003 - 07/24/06 05:21 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

You should never rely on science for the explanation of something that only can be explained by experience. Once people turn to themself they will find the answeres they are looking for. Do not let others guid you, let them inspire you. You hold all the answers.


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Re: Yes or No? [Re: twelvelookslikeu]
    #5895027 - 07/24/06 05:28 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

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twelvelookslikeu said:
You should never rely on science for the explanation of something that only can be explained by experience.




Such would then only apply to one's personal experience, and nothing more. Beliefs pertaining to one's personal experience are great, but the moment that belief is made to also pertain to anything beyond one's experience, as beliefs in god often are, then the belief is entirely baseless and irrelevant.

Sure, feel whatever the hell you want, and tell yourself that it is God, but the moment you say that God caused this to happen or whatever, fuck you, you're wrong, you have no substantation for that baseless assertion.

And that is how it works. :wink:

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Re: Yes or No? [Re: fireworks_god]
    #5895052 - 07/24/06 05:34 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

i have no idea

i won't until i do.

unfortunately this complicates my life. i guess i should just trust what i've been shown or told.

i.e. we are all GOD.... it was such a fleeting experience, but I did ask for it, and did receive it.

also apparently sleep is a good way to tap into your higher consciousness.


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Re: Yes or No? [Re: leery11]
    #5895285 - 07/24/06 06:58 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

WOW! Well let me correct myself its not all in experience it also involves alot of faith. Wait fuck this! Every time I try to say something on this fucking forum I get someone who wants to start an argument. Is that all you people do is sit around and wait for someone to say something that goes against what you believe and rat them out. You know what the truth is know one knows shit haha. Neither do I.


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Re: Yes or No? [Re: twelvelookslikeu]
    #5895347 - 07/24/06 07:19 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

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If you choose to post in this forum be prepared to have your ideas and opinions challenged, refuted, disputed, rebutted, analyzed, shredded, pooh-poohed, and yes - even supported. If having your beliefs, opinions, and positions scrutinized critically makes you uncomfortable, this is not the forum for you.




Apparently it troubles you that others hold different viewpoints than your own, and are willing to address different aspects of your own viewpoints in manners that they deem necessary?

Its called engaging in discussion; this is not the fluffy forum. Your assessment of the situation probably reveals more about yourself than what is actually occuring. I guess I can't blame you for not realizing what forum you were posting in before you did so, though, right? :smirk:

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I wouldn't fear
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Like being here
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Re: Yes or No? [Re: twelvelookslikeu]
    #5895351 - 07/24/06 07:21 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

i'm not arguing with you dude. not sure who that's directed at.

to me i just.... faith in what? The Christians don't seem to be conducting themselves like enlightened beings would, whereas the Budhists and Taoists are much more "Christ-like" to me.

faith ? Well, why? I would like Jesus to be real, But I'd also like for us to all be manifestations of God, capable of accessing our own divinity by going inward, and I'd prefer the God who doesn't have a torture chamber in his basement... eh? Those Christian authors sure have written some evil things... don't see how it can possibly work that way in such a vengeant manner.

of course they will argue well no he loves you, you do it to yourself? Well I dunno.

agnosis

a state of not knowing. I don't think many of us know anything, so what can you do?

if Jesus reads this then please set me straight. I've prayed a lot and keep being led away from you dude.....


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....I embrace my desire to feel the rhythm, to feel connected enough to step aside and weep like a widow, to feel inspired, to fathom the power, to witness the beauty, to bathe in the fountain, to swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human......
Om Namah Shivaya, I tell you What!


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Re: Yes or No? [Re: leery11]
    #5895365 - 07/24/06 07:26 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

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leery11 said:
to me i just.... faith in what?




No, dude, fuck this! Don't converse!

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I wouldn't fear
For I've never known completeness
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Re: Yes or No? [Re: fireworks_god]
    #5895366 - 07/24/06 07:26 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

huh? converse? with whom?


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....I embrace my desire to feel the rhythm, to feel connected enough to step aside and weep like a widow, to feel inspired, to fathom the power, to witness the beauty, to bathe in the fountain, to swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human......
Om Namah Shivaya, I tell you What!


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