I just joined. My name is Jeff. I'm 55 with 2 adult kids (ages 28 and 31). I'm originally from northern California but I've lived in Pennsylvania since 1984.
I identify myself as an agnostic because I honestly don't know if I can believe in God or not. I'm a follower of an Indian mystic named Osho, and he was an atheist (as his book "The God Conspiracy" makes abundantly clear, although his earlier books seem to indicate that he was originally an agnostic (from a Jain background), who gradually evolved into an atheist).
As to belief in an afterlife, I'm unsure about that. My personal opinion is that of all the afterlife theories reincarnation makes the most sense, where you keep coming back to try again until you reach whatever the goal of existence is. I just can't force myself to believe that a god would torment someone for all eternity just because some of their religious beliefs turned out to be wrong.
Well, enough about me, the reason I joined this forum is that I want to try to sort out what I believe or don't believe and I want to get input from the people here, (as well as a general religion forum I'm also a member of) to help me get it all sorted out.
I identify myself as an agnostic because I honestly don't know if I can believe in God or not. I'm a follower of an Indian mystic named Osho, and he was an atheist (as his book "The God Conspiracy" makes abundantly clear, although his earlier books seem to indicate that he was originally an agnostic (from a Jain background), who gradually evolved into an atheist).
As to belief in an afterlife, I'm unsure about that. My personal opinion is that of all the afterlife theories reincarnation makes the most sense, where you keep coming back to try again until you reach whatever the goal of existence is. I just can't force myself to believe that a god would torment someone for all eternity just because some of their religious beliefs turned out to be wrong.
Well, enough about me, the reason I joined this forum is that I want to try to sort out what I believe or don't believe and I want to get input from the people here, (as well as a general religion forum I'm also a member of) to help me get it all sorted out.
Jeff a.k.a. wheatpenny
"If God sends me to hell I will start a commune there. And it will be the greatest commune ever because all the best people will be there"
(Osho)
"If God sends me to hell I will start a commune there. And it will be the greatest commune ever because all the best people will be there"
(Osho)
