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It is something that makes people feel hope, even if it is a false hope. However, most religions teach "morals" and those morals are destructive when taken too literally. I also think no religion so far has been even remotely plausible or realistic.
(This post was last modified: 04-01-2012 10:08 AM by fish20.)
04-01-2012 10:06 AM
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I was an athiest for some months then i went to my old religion. I don't feel content with it the system of heaven and hell bothers me. My emotions are overlapping
While it gives people hope and something to feel part of, most people I know take it too literally and have their lives revolve around their religion, and that's when it's taken too far and becomes somewhat destructive.
(04-01-2012 10:22 AM)Luizão876 Wrote: Religion is not actually all that bad, it's just some people that become fanatics and cause shit in name of their religion.
This. I have no issues with religion. I have mine, you have yours. Don't let it control your life, don't talk about it 24/7 and relate every event in your life to it, and sure as hell don't try and convert me.
I don't have qualms with religion, if you believe in some God of some kind, kay then, that's your choice (even though most of the time you are raised believing). But seriously, I let you believe in your religion as long you don't turn in a batshit insane fundamentalist, and you can respect atheism and other kinds of belief (or lack of).
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But I on my own believe in something. I don't know what. I just think that I'll have a chance to meet my ancestors when I die, somehow.
I still don't get the "Believe my religion or you'll burn eternally" bullshit - well I get it, a lots of money and stuff - but I don't buy it.
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(04-01-2012 10:06 AM)HeartofShadows Wrote: Something to make fun of.
This, but I also say its something to practice me kicking the proverbial asses of morons who don't know anything about logic when I present to them their own self-contradictory, ridiculous, wishful thinking, non-evidence-based belief system
in other words, philosophical target practice.
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Max Stirnir Wrote:"In the time of spirits thoughts grew till they overtopped my head, whose offspring they yet were; they hovered about me and convulsed me like fever-phantasies -- an awful power. The thoughts had become corporeal on their own account, were ghosts, e. g. God, Emperor, Pope, Fatherland, etc. If I destroy their corporeity, then I take them back into mine, and say: "I alone am corporeal." And now I take the world as what it is to me, as mine, as my property; I refer all to myself."The Ego and Its Own, pg. 15
Charles Manson Wrote:“Look down at me and you see a fool;
look up at me and you see a god;
look straight at me and you see yourself”
HeartofShadows Wrote:"Life is nothing more than a druggie trying to get their quick fix of happiness while dealing with the harsh withdrawal of reality"
Osip Mandelstam Wrote:"I divide all of world literature into authorized and unauthorized works. The former are all trash; the latter--stolen air. I want to spit in the face of every writer who first obtains permission and then writes."The Fourth Prose, 1930.
Lukas Foss Wrote:That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
Religion is, as Karl Marx would put it, simply a device used to escape the meaninglessness of life. It is clung to by the masses as true, even without any evidence, regardless of reason or intellectual thought. It can be shown that there is no proof, yet people still feel it to be ultimately true. I think that it is the remnants of a time long ago when we hadn't the means to define our universe with science and mathematics. Religion is a relic from years ago, when stories were all we could come up with to explain our surroundings. Now that we have a greater understanding, it, to me, seems like a frail system of beliefs in which no one should buy.
Some theologists can put up some decent, but ultimately faulty arguments, but none stick to a direct interpretation of any books. These theologists, I can kind of sort of see reason in, but to those who blatantly disregard reason, disregard contradictions, and believe in what the bible or Koran preach? I think it's silly.
I don't believe in any gods or creators, bit I do believe that the earth is made up of countless numbers of beings that exist in different dimensions. I follow aspects of Wicca and Zen Buddhism, but do not try to force my beliefs on others. I'm more of an agnostic that leans towards the paranormal.
You know, even though sometimes religion can cause shit storms and wars, it is actually not that bad as long as your not a fanatic. I view it as something good for cultures. For example, Roman Catholicism has excelled in the arts and inspired beautiful music. Also, believe it or not, priests helped begin the studies of science and then later science become more available to more secular people. Islam also excelled in science back in their days.
btw, I can't really say I am religious. I just can´t stand some of the members of my religion, too much fanatics. Although I do respect religious people who actually do some good for the world.
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