There is so much brainwashing and psychological ■■■■■■■■ going on, i hate it.
There is no god as in bible god of love who made earth and rules it, there just isn’t.
We have makers, she should be referred to as a she, but when you see them finally you’ll wish you hadn’t. I can’t begin to express how horrible they really are, oh my ■■■■■■ ■■■■ they are horrible, so so bad, oh man they are really really bad.
What used to be called miracles still happen today, i’ve seen several now.
To the op…maybe you are looking for confirmation of right/wrong , good/evil?
Maybe before you choose to believe in something that is beyond your comprehention you need to know ABSOLUTELY that you are not missing out on life by living a sinless life?
It’s been said that to be in God’s graces you need to have FAITH.
Faith is blind…we are not supposed to have confirmation befor we live a good life.
If we had confirmation beforehand there would be no need for faith.
There is some research out there which shows the potential of religiosity to be a part of the brain structure. My mom is always going on about it.
Praying and ■■■■ is just like masturbation. Self triggered release of oxytocin and dopamine.
It’s a part of human’s ability to imagine deeper meaning and structure to the world than is actually there. This capacity must be filled in some. Other people need the community, other’s the promise of heaven, there is a whole list of reasons people get stuck in it. They want to feel some level of control or influence over things. They want be at peace that they are inherently good just by affiliation.
Some people are forced into it and just accept that that is the way it is and wouldn’t risk ostracizing themselves even if the secretly questioned their faith.
Anyways, you have to believe in God deep down before you feel his presence. The presence you eventually do feel is just a hallucination. It’s like a mental blanket.
I think you’re better off just doing what comes natural to you. It’s probably the safest psychological state especially for a SZ.
I can’t bring myself to believe either. I studied a lot of physics, this place operates without conscious influence. Our conscious self is contained purely in the network of our brain. We are machines.
Pretty crazy. Matter is comprised chiefly of nothing. Electromagnetism props it all up.
It’s eerie that we are here in the first place, but the potential for separate universe’s with different laws of physics in place exists. The infinitorium of the multiverse. Just as we happened to randomly evolve on the Earth because conditions were right. The universe also just happens to have the right physics in place to allow.
When dealing with infinite time and space. Everything happens infinite times. Literally everything that can happen will happen. Infinite times. We would never be connected to these separate experiences. Enjoy your life, be good, help the others with that mindset shape this into a more hospitable place.
I used to be a fervent believer, I thought God protected me from Home invasions and the night I got shot the bullet didn’t pierce my skull so once again I thought God was at work.
I have prayed a lot in the past weeks asking him to make my neighbor move out. It has gotten to a point where it is affecting my mental health in more ways than one. Of course July 1st passed and my neighbor is still there. I promised myself I would stop believing if he didn’t answer my prayers this time around. And he didn’t. What kind of God has no power over a mere Human to take over his thought process and make him take a decision for the benefit of all?
I don’t want to believe in a God that lets me suffer at the hands of a sadistic bully, when I am a good nature and don’t go around looking for trouble anymore. There is absolutely nothing to be gained from what I’m going through but mental anguish and missed experiences.
As a kid I did not believe (being born to Atheist parents), then growing up I started to believe and progressively got around to reading the Holy Books of Christians and Muslims. Some of it is interesting, but now they do not provide answers to my questions anymore.
I think as Humans we are some kind of slaves due to the existence of Money… Money is like real life points to enjoy things life has to offer, but you either have to sacrifice a lot of time acquiring it or live by not having enough to go by. I read somewhere that mysterious forces exist by feeding on our suffering. Imagine what bliss life would be if Money wasn’t an object.
At this point in life, it’s like eff God, believe in yourself. I’m not expecting anything anymore from Him but what I’m capable of achieving by myself and with the help of other Humans.
Deep down I still believe, there are things that blow my mind in this life, things that I think are beyond our capabilities as Humans, and to me they can only be attributed to the existence of an intelligent designer, I just think that this designer has other priorities than the well-being of a commoner like myself…
Exactly. And honestly ive come to view suffering as not that bad, because i went through hell and im getting better and im still alive. Sure it sucked but why did we invent a God that should make life easy?
If God “didn’t allow” rape, then what freedom would we have? I believe God gave rapists the ability to choose what to do with their lives, and they either die inside with guilt or spend their lives in prison, or both.
But I do think rape survivors ultimately have the last say in that department…
I posted a video about this kind of stuff, i encourage all to watch it even if you don’t believe.
I have been an atheist my whole life, never even considered the possibility of a god till recently.
We only see the world in front of us nothing beyond this reality. You have valid questions as did I about rape, murder, and treachery and even hell. Life is about experience and becoming yourself again and again to become something better, to become yourself only. Life is shaped form the first cell to the world you see around you with intervention from higher understandings of things. We all have choices each and every person making billions and billions of possibilities that all are interacting on a grand stage at this very moment. With so many possibilities we are also gong to have millions of collisions between these choices that will merge on a single moment of bad, good, sorrow, love, hate and many other effects of emotion. As you find anger in the belief of a god others find anger in your unbelief of a god these are collisions that take place on the world stage, and from them a multitude of possibilities emerge. Who is to blame? are we not also responsible for the things we are witness to how do we learn to change if everything is done for us?
If we start tearing away all the things we do not like, we no longer will find anything around us. If I lose the ability to feel I can never experience touch or love and joy. The opposite must exist also pain, hate, and anger these emotions and senses are what makes our experience real. If god did exist he gave us the building blocks to a grander design, it is what we do with the blocks that will seal our fates. I personally do not want god to be here to solve the problems we have instead let us grow as a world and solve our own issues. Perhaps we need to let go of religion all together and find god or a understanding of god within each and everyone of us, good luck to you.
This is too abused/misused a topic. Since, in my community you will meet some talking about Jesus who plan to screw you up or use you, I find this whole religion thing best put away for a while and avoided.
Years ago, a teacher told me some of the people who eventually turned to the church would become a crazy zealot, hating especially the mentally ill persons who had to turn to handouts for a while to get by.
Since many of the churches people in my community do engage in stigmatizing and harassing people in the community for receiving mental treatment and doing even worse unethical stuff if they feel their ‘god’ calls them to do it, I think some of the communities church people are better avoided. If you can figure out which churches are sick/toxic and avoid their peoples, it sure won’t hurt schizos.
