RE: Ask a former atheist
November 15, 2017 at 12:17 am
(This post was last modified: November 15, 2017 at 1:05 am by ErGingerbreadMandude.)
Whateverist Wrote:Your secret is safe with me.
It's no secret lol
Quote:You're just trying to make me feel bad for the occasional insulting remark. (Well played sir, well played.)
Nope. You're pretty awesome.
(November 14, 2017 at 4:20 pm)FFaith Wrote: Are you ok with it being possible that God does not exist, or is that a super scary prospect to you? I mean, isn't it the comfort that you get out of your beliefs that really matters most? Whether heaven is actually real or not, it never ceases to be real for believers because they never find out they're wrong when they die. The way I look at it, there's not much real difference between heaven actually being real, and a person merely having the belief that heaven is real. If a religious person dies believing in heaven, that means that heaven is real for their entire existence, and never stops being real, because they just never find out.
Lol I mean, sure that's a nice question but c'mon what you're describing is impossible to actually happen it's meaningless to even explore that. It's like saying.."if God says tomorrow it's okay to kill, will you do it?" that's a unfair question because look at God's will or objective morality it never changes so what good is it to imagine something will change when it can never change. It's like saying "if the gravity of earth suddenly triples tomorrow will you or will you not consider gravitational theory false" - > "well yeah obviously" - > "aha so gravitational theory is false". I don't think your question has any effect on a religious belief but it can be used to gauge my mental toughness, I would say I wouldn't find it bearable if God ceased to exist.
(November 14, 2017 at 7:39 pm)Cyberman Wrote:(November 14, 2017 at 2:40 am)pool the matey Wrote: Let's hear it 🙂
God didn't put it there.
lol
(November 14, 2017 at 10:29 pm)Succubus Wrote: Do you believe it is possible that in certain instances the protected status of this sub forum can be open to abuse?
This sub forum doesn't have a protective status. It has some guidelines, guidelines that I didn't make but are there for a reason. I think what you mean by "certain instances" is "when a theist(like myself) makes a thread" and what you mean by "abuse" is "I can't troll this theist". I don't make the rules bro, if you want changes you're much better off asking the admins.
(November 15, 2017 at 12:12 am)Grandizer Wrote:(November 13, 2017 at 12:23 pm)pool the matey Wrote: * I had a experience. Not sure if I can call it "near death experience" but I could've died but I didn't, I was saved. Sorry I can't say what it was but at that time I thought I would die but it felt unnatural like someone wanted to save me.
I get the feeling, and won't deny how remarkable certain experiences/observations can be to the point that something possibly supernatural may be happening instead of just sheer coincidence. But why jump to God for explanation rather than just think this is a mystery what happened to you and you don't know what is behind all this but it's nevertheless remarkable? For all you know, it could be extraterrestrial aliens that saved you, or demons, or super AI from the future, or other powerful beings that aren't necessarily omnipotent.
Demons would want me dead, aliens are a product of our imagination, super AI from the future is just a concept we made up for a movie, I don't know what other powerful beings are. I see your point, I could've attributed what happened to any other thing but why did I attribute it specifically to God, right? I think the reason is because of what I felt at that moment, I didn't feel a demon going "mwahaha" I felt a father helping out a child, I felt God. That's what I FELT and we don't feel things in a vacuum, so something must've happened that triggered that feeling. I can't really provide hard evidence if that's what you're asking.
