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i suppose you could call me atheist in that i believe no god, no afterlife, and pretty much nothing other than what science has proven to be true.

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Drewwyann said:

im an extremely non spiritual person when it comes to beliefs. i suppose you could call me athiest in that i believe no god, no afterlife, and pretty much nothing other than what science has proven to be true.

But to me it seems like beliefs branch directly from the person's desires. For instance, it seems to me people that believe in heaven and hell believe in them for the soul purpose of getting in to heaven.

What i mean is that nobody has an afterlife of suffering for themselves in their own belief systems (except for select few).

Everyone's belief system i know is somehow a direct variation of their lifestyle. I guess i see beliefs more as a convinient superstition more than anything.

I recently talked to my girlfriend about her beliefs and thoughts on afterlife and she said that she believed there was one because psychics would be too hard to explain otherwise, and she couldnt imagine the thought of not existing.

I respect everyones beliefs dont get me wrong, i just dont see any logic or much though into the beliefs of a lot of people i've talked to.

Some people ask me why i believe in nothing. They as me how i can explain the fact that i exist and was brought into this world, and how the human body weighs 21 grams less when you die and i just say that i cant.

Not to offend anyone, which is definately not the purpose of this post, but i dont see how you can go from wondering how the world came to be and then jump from that to a superpowerful being created it, or the body weighing 21 grams less has something to do with the human soul escaping the body.

Please leave thoughts and comments and dont delete this post if it offends you because its intended to invoke thought and reflection on your own beliefs.
much love,
drew

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Drewwyann said:

what i cant understand is how most people dont even give second thought about their religions.

My brother for instance made his own belief system which sounds cool, but has no logical, historical, or scientific base whatsoever.

(im pretty sure this has been a religious belief somewhere in the east for quite some time but he claims its his own)

He says that when you die your energy is put back into mother earth and used for more life. and your energy is recycled and dispersed into every life form.

First of all that would make no sense seeing as the amount of life on earth has been growing almost exponentially since the first organisms came about, so unless the dispersal of energy multiplied your life force, i'd find this quite impossible.

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I am sorry dude, but your brother is completely scientifically correct even if he was talking spiritually. In ecology and Earth science, a biogeochemical cycle is a circuit or pathway by which a chemical element or molecule moves through both biotic and abiotic compartments of an ecosystem. In effect, the element is recycled, although in some such cycles there may be places where the element is accumulated or held for a long period of time. All chemical elements occurring in organisms are part of biogeochemical cycles. Biogeochemical cycles always involve equilibrium states: a balance in the cycling of the element between compartments. However, overall balance may involve compartments distributed on a global scale. And in the law of thermodynamics energy can be changed from one form to another, but it cannot be created or destroyed.

Tell your brother he should take some environmental science courses.

capliberty said:

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i suppose you could call me atheist in that i believe no god, no afterlife, and pretty much nothing other than what science has proven to be true.

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You don't believe in nothing other than what science has proven to be true, what about all the stuff that science hasn't proven yet? You don't believe in that? This is the point where the gray area starts, science isn't just about explaining the objective experience, it also has to cover the subjective experience as well.

What I mean is that everything that we experience, should have a logical explanation right? But so much of what goes on is very subjective, very random, very unexplainable, and very personable.

ate my experience, they didn't experience it.

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