@ pixel. I just found a good recipe from the older generation depression era peanut butter cookies. 1 Cup Peanut Butter 1 Cup Sugar 1 egg. bake at 350 for 12 minutes. I’m gonna make it all the time ! ’
I hate to bring it up but a long time ago Daydreamer posted a really rude photo that I won’t bring up because I now respect Daydreamer as a person. Just sayin’ he shocked me one time. I don’t like this thread at all. He’s calling out atheists like an extremist. and that doesn’t set well with me.
I’m not against the idea of God either. If your belief helps you get better, I’m glad for you.
For me… I’ve had some very terrifying encounters with people who kept telling me what good Christians they are.
I’m a dyslexic athiest. I don’t believe in Dog.
I wouldn’t consider myself an atheist. I am an agnostic. I don’t believe in God in the way organized religions conceive of him or her. I believe there is some kind of benevolent presence in the universe because I feel its presence. I like the way Huck Finn put it on another site: Whatever spirit guides my actions values my skepticism. I am very skeptical about organized religion because so many truly horrible things happen so often. I don’t feel like going into specifics right now. I don’t think God can escape blame for them. I think God gave me my mind to use - to question with. I could never accept a God that wouldn’t allow us to question.
There are a lot of Christians down here that don’t believe in science. I live in the deep south though.
Why would I believe in God? I don’t believe in unicorns nor leprechauns either.
For me it’s an attempt at rational thought.
There are way too many religions and gods to contemplate, let alone the qualifiers to make it into a ‘blissful afterlife’ without accidentally picking the wrong one and be doomed to ‘eternal damnation’.
I’d imagine that you posted this question because you are having questions about your faith. This is very healthy.
Many a MI individual who have been raised in a fundamentally religious atmosphere have endured a lifetime of guilt about the underlying cause of their illness. Myself included. “You just need faith”, “Get right with God” etc…
Not OK.
Most of Big Religion touts moral superiority while demanding ‘sacrifice’, promoting xenophobia, homophobia…
Ignorance MUST be bliss.
I’ll never understand.
There is a fundamental lack of accountability in Big Religion and it makes me sick.
you don’t know what you’re talking about…
the bible suggests that there are no true athiests and they all knowingly reject god… which is really stupid but it is a protection mechanism… because the psychology of an athiest lies in the first thoughts of someone else who sees not and needs not a god… someone who simply lives in the physical world as cruel or comforting as it may be to them…
christianity is a control mechanism…
i’d counter this biblical supposition with the proposal of the idea that we are all agnostic… that no one can truly know… a believe system based on faith…(blind submissive ignorance and the upholding incomplete and unfounded ideas)… is obviously flawed, a blatant psychological trick to keep people in line with the christian world view (else the burn forever)…
anyways dude… to me there just simply isn’t a god… it isn’t even a measure of theology… the universe is almost totally explained and there is no indication of conscious influence… human psychology likes to construe good events as coming from some external care giver (we are raised in that kind of environment)… but both good and bad things happen to everyone… there is no plan… but at least we have consistency… for billions more years the sun will rise and set every day…
anyways… you likely only believe what your parents believed… and so on and so forth back until the roman adoption of christianity (for societal control) and eventual christian empiricism… (extending control)…
christian symbolism is a crock pot of pagan sources and even elements from classic greek/roman sources… even some egyptian stuff (horus = jesus)…
I’m sorry man society is dishing out ■■■■ to people because they don’t ■■■■■■■ know and they are barely managing how to wrap their minds around life enough just to get through it.
These topics shouldn’t be on here… I thought we had moved on from this.
Guilt based and messianic based religions need to be countered with rational thought and not condescending opposition.
Can the fact that something out there has the power of eternity in it prove that theres a god? How else can we explain the power of eternal? Its just if there ever was nothing,what would there ne now?
Great reply. A hug to you, sir.
As far as I know humanity today believes in the following:-
a. A Single God - deciding damnation or eternal heaven
b. Polytheism - Hinduism/Chinese ancient religion
c. Scientific Atheism /Materialism - on the break of the body there is no afterlife. This view says that there are no moral laws and conscience is an individual choice based on his own decisions and upbringing - but holds the view that there is nothing would happen to someone if he intentionally does harm to others. (In other words spirituality or moral justice is denied)
d. Buddhism/Taoism - Denies a God but makes a human a high intellectual and emotional being inorder to view the nature of existence by personal observation
e. Paganism/Shamanism/Magic - various rituals involving calling and invocation of the spirits of other worlds to solve problems
f. Philosophical Existentialism - Gives importance to Individual freedom and Individual Consciousness
g. Philosophical Eternalism - typified by Friedrich Neitzsche and Jews and Brahmin community in India - who hold that view that spirituality and moral values are in the end worthless and a form of superman can be attained by as Neitzsche says “Power of the Will” and that the end justifies the means
Among all of these the only logical and sound belief sounds to me of Buddhism/Taoism
I believe I’m about to make homemade waffles and then put peanut butter and Nutella spread on mine.
It’s the small things that make life fun. The big picture takes care of itself.
Pixel.
I had toasted croissants for breakfast, but that sounds way better than religion for breakfast 