(March 19, 2019 at 9:12 am)tackattack Wrote: @Abaddon_ire and @Brian37 I promise to not take person offense. It isn't about me personally or the validity of my beliefs either. It's about your perception of how I communicate what I believe. Also, neither of you really answered the question. I'll take you opinions because I didn't make this a serious thread for a reason. Let me rephrase:
If you had to list things you think you know about me that I've expressed here, would there be more things I am for or more things I am against? It's a simple binary answer, but you can expound if you would like.
Good.
I am going to be bluntly honest.
Humans, no matter their religions, worldwide, DO base their decisions on those beliefs. The problem with doing that is when those sects base their politics on those beliefs.
If we were talking about something outside religion, say sports, or a movie, or a book, or band or food, I am sure we could run into something we both like.
But the problem with religion, is far too often it divides humans politically. It isn't that one can get rid of any religion by force, you cant. But it is still a problem in our species in the fact it distracts humanity from the fact we are not a separate species,
And as far as being "for" something. You need to consider that one can be for something and dead wrong at the same time. The ancient Egyptians were successful for 3,000 years. But none of that success made Ra, Osiris, Horus or Isis real.
What drives a Christian or Muslim or Jew or Hindu or Buddhist to do what they do, and support whom they support is the same. That grouping is mainly done because it is handed down to the respective youth long before that youth can formulate adult critical thinking skills. And respectively, in turn those individual sects, compete for the attention of the governments that rule over them. That causes divisions, even under the same umbrella label.
It is why you cant get a Tibet Buddhist to agree with a Chinese Buddhist whom wont agree politically with a Japanese Buddhist. It is why Catholics and Protestants in Ireland have had a history of divisions. It is why you cant get an Obama voting Baptist to agree politically with a Trump voting Baptist. And why Sunnis and Shiites also don't get along.
You can list what you are for, or against. Only after that can I comment on your position.
So again, "IT DEPENDS" on the individual claim on your part, what you claim you are for, and also the individual claim of what you are against.
I was for my late mother, always, but I am against the idea that someone needs to believe in a super natural cognition to be the decent human she was.
