(July 24, 2014 at 11:13 pm)SilentVex Wrote: Hello everyone, names Vex and uhm, I'm having a little bit of an, I guess you could call it an identity crisis. I'm hoping the lovely folks out there could help me a little bit with this.
I'll start off by saying I 100% do not believe in a god or any powerful deity/supreme being. However I do have beliefs that don't involve a god of any sort.
I believe that all of life is comprised of energy, Aether, and when we die it flows into essentially this grand Life stream of aether spanning all of existence, more specifically Earth. When we die we rejoin the complete stream, and remain for a variable length of time until returning to earth in some form, be it human, animal, plant, etc. When we die again we join up with our complete set of aether and basically remember everything of our past lives, and eventually are reborn and come back through the infinite march of time. This cycle of rebirth is an Aetherflow.
Recap: All of life composes Aether that follows an individual Aetherflow that goes from one life to the Lifestream and back.
This being said, some of my friends and I are not quite certain if my Aether beliefs make me distinctly *not* an atheist, or if my lack of belief in a deity is all that is required to be able to appropriately and logically use that term to describe myself. Or if it's really up to me.
Your thoughts?
Atheism do not stipulate or have any requirements relating to how you arrive at your assertion that you do not believe in the existence of any deity(s).
So, yes. You can call yourself atheist without fear of contradiction.
MM
"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions" - Leonardo da Vinci
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
