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When all else fails .... just make crap up!
August 28, 2012 at 5:22 am
I was strolling through a thread on another website about personal beliefs about God. I noticed many people had a falling out with their religion and, well, didn't hesitate to just design their own! Here's a small sampling:
"I found God on my own but no religion matched my beliefs. I believe god gives us our own purpose in life and reason for being here."
"I believe in many deities and angels but they all serve one god (and apparently this is the god of the bible and the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita)."
"I believe we all look for God with our hearts and it's the goal of our lives to be with him."
"God didn't create the universe and he isn't personal. I interact with him through nature."
"I don't believe in a God. I believe in a force."
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RE: When all else fails .... just make crap up!
August 28, 2012 at 5:31 am
"May the force be with you, always"
Religions are full of contradictions, so people just create their own personal view to avoid those undesired details. They may create a number of other undesired contradictory details of their own, but they can't see it. They just want to keep the mental crutch that prevents them from thinking too hard about the world around them.
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RE: When all else fails .... just make crap up!
August 28, 2012 at 6:22 am
(This post was last modified: August 28, 2012 at 6:24 am by Ace Otana.)
Religion is all about making shit up. Like how every Christian seems to have their own version of Christianity. Some Xtians believe there is no fire and brimstone, some do. Some believe Xtians are as likely to end up in hell as atheists, some don't.
It's all about making up what you want to be true instead of actually finding out what is true or not.
Godchild believes each believer gets his/her own galaxy to rule. This stems from desire, he want this to be true and so he believes it.
All make belief. Which is why I stick to science.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan
Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.
Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.
You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
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RE: When all else fails .... just make crap up!
August 28, 2012 at 6:49 am
My personal favorite is, "I'm not religious. I have a personal relationship with God."
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: When all else fails .... just make crap up!
August 28, 2012 at 11:46 am
"I'm not religious, I'm spiritual." (which in some cases can be somewhat different)
"I don't have faith, I have something else that is faith that I don't call faith because I feel faith is a bad word to use."
The true beauty of a self-inquiring sentient universe is lost on those who elect to walk the intellectually vacuous path of comfortable paranoid fantasies.
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RE: When all else fails .... just make crap up!
August 28, 2012 at 7:18 pm
"I don't believe in a God. I believe in force." (Mao Tze Dung)
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RE: When all else fails .... just make crap up!
August 28, 2012 at 7:36 pm
(This post was last modified: August 28, 2012 at 7:37 pm by Cyberman.)
Darn, FNM beat me to it! They never have a religion, do they? It's always a personal relationship. Personally I like my personal relationships with real people with whom I can interact in some way, physically or online. You know, people I can be reasonably sure actually exist and will at least acknowledge my presence. I'm just funny that way.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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hrug: At least these religions aren't forcing others to follow them and tend to be accepting of other's views. Though, occasionally, this is how some cults are formed...
