So this is a new one for me...There is a super religious lady at work who I generally avoid talking to so she is not aware that I am an atheist. She was talking to another person at the desk next to me about all sorts of really nonsensical religious nonsense when all of a sudden this comes out of her mouth:

"all people are religious to some extent. They just might not realize it. Even Atheists are religious. They believe in something too. They believe in themselves.".

WTF?

I wonder if this means I can refer to myself as God now.

What she said is profound and correct. Think about it more. And keep thinking about what is "you".

(August 31, 2013 at 11:35 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: What she said is profound and correct. Think about it more. And keep thinking about what is "you".

Why don't you enlighten us?

I absolutely believe in myself. I have evidence that I am real, too.

It's her stupid fucking sky-daddy that I consider an absurd brain fart of primitive men.

(August 31, 2013 at 10:40 pm)mostlysilent Wrote: So this is a new one for me...There is a super religious lady at work who I generally avoid talking to so she is not aware that I am an atheist. She was talking to another person at the desk next to me about all sorts of really nonsensical religious nonsense when all of a sudden this comes out of her mouth:

"all people are religious to some extent. They just might not realize it. Even Atheists are religious. They believe in something too. They believe in themselves.".

WTF?

I wonder if this means I can refer to myself as God now.

She wass just left of the nail. Not everyone is religious, but we all believe in something(Not neccessarily with faith). For example, I believe that all people should work to make the world a better place in whatever way suits them best.

(August 31, 2013 at 10:40 pm)mostlysilent Wrote: So this is a new one for me...There is a super religious lady at work who I generally avoid talking to so she is not aware that I am an atheist. She was talking to another person at the desk next to me about all sorts of really nonsensical religious nonsense when all of a sudden this comes out of her mouth:

"all people are religious to some extent. They just might not realize it. Even Atheists are religious. They believe in something too. They believe in themselves.".

WTF?

I wonder if this means I can refer to myself as God now.

It doesn't make much sense to me, all of my senses tell me I'm here, I'm thinking, I'm typing and I'm breathing, even if I was extremely horrified about something and repeatedly said to myself "I'm not really here" and tried to believe I'm not here my senses would still tell me I'm here.
This is like the opposite of religious belief, religious people can go to church or israel or mecca or wherever and pray as much as they like and wish heaven exists as much as they want but the reports of people seeing, feeling, smelling, tasting, hearing god, heaven or whatever are few and far between.

It doesn't matter what I believe my senses insist I'm here, healthy sane peoples senses insist god doesn't exist but wishful thinking and belief in religious documents and hearsay insist there is a god.

Sometimes... I'm a god... other times, I'm a simple shy geek sort of guy...
This schizophrenia does take its toll...

(August 31, 2013 at 11:38 pm)pineapplebunnybounce Wrote:

(August 31, 2013 at 11:35 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: What she said is profound and correct. Think about it more. And keep thinking about what is "you".

Why don't you enlighten us?

Retrace your footsteps. When did you believe in a praise objectively? When did you see it's true value?

We been reacting to our parents praises, tv praises, teachers praises, and we are all in a box, picking out of praises that differ, and often contradict each other, but all don't measure exactly the same way.

If you knew praise objectively, why do people differ to your view points, have a different sense and taste? What makes you right and others wrong?

That said I have realized everything I think I know about others and myself maybe wrong.

When did you fully distinguish between knowledge and belief, and when did you really care to know to distinguish falsehood from truth.

And when you question how you know anything from praise/honour/beauty perspective, you have to ask, when and why did you perceive that and why?

It was a few days ago I saw a person that was covered with all tatoos, there was a single part of his face, neck, arms, legs etc but was covered to tatoo. Not even a small separation.

What happens if one day he thinks he did the wrong decision?

He made a decision, but what lead to his decision. To want to be totally free, is to enslave yourself to chaos.

You may chose as you will, but do you will as you will? Do you will according to what? Your best interest? Others best interest.

When we are a slave of passions, we become totally blind to other viewpoints that contradict our personality/path.

Still, the biggest question is, what you see in the people you hate/deem enemies/deem bad/you belittle, is it truly missing from you?

Still, when you think these thoughts, how distressed are you about knowing the truth? How much does it matter?

The reason people can't cure madness, is because to do so, they have to have cured themselves first.

I can't show you yourself or tell you how to wield the divine sword in the soul, because I haven't done it myself and I'm not sure if I do it myself, that I can even teach how to others.

I know there is a divine sword, but I know there is many false swords, and I have yet to find the divine sword/the master sword.

When I was a kid, I wrote a story about the "the quest for the golden sword", I think it was three friends went in a dungeon, and had to kill a monster, but I don't recall the conversation I put.

It was odd, they had to go fight the monster and subdue it, but could only kill it, when they found the golden sword.

I don't know why I wrote a story about that, instead of a love story.

I don't know why when Link pulled the sword out of the temple of time, it had such emotionally impact on me.

Every society might have a gem stone we have to get from them. They have some treasure and that's what binds them together.

But to to pull out the master sword, we need unite the treasures of the cultures out there.

What are you smoking and where can I get some?

(September 1, 2013 at 8:55 am)MysticKnight Wrote: When I was a kid, I wrote a story about the "the quest for the golden sword", I think it was three friends went in a dungeon, and had to kill a monster, but I don't recall the conversation I put.

It was odd, they had to go fight the monster and subdue it, but could only kill it, when they found the golden sword.

Gold would be a horrible metal for a sword. Heavy as crap and soft.

It would be practically impossible to keep an edge on it.

Don't have to worry about rust but totally not worth it.