RE: Quick Poll - Do you believe in God?
August 13, 2012 at 3:49 am
(This post was last modified: August 13, 2012 at 3:53 am by Barbie.)
(August 9, 2012 at 3:16 am)Kayenneh Wrote: Didn't you just say that you feel that there's something akin to a god out there? What's the difference between your feeling and their feeling? You just happen to be right because you don't support organized religion? Wake up and smell the pancakes, kettle!
Nope, I never used the word feel concerning my own beliefs, just read up! I just said I believe. My beliefs aren't based on feeling, guts or anything, because, as I said, I would never assume that because I feel it, it would make it for something to exist. That's just plain and simple arrogant. As I don't count my beliefs to be the truth. They're my beliefs. I come from a family of "mediums", if you want to call them that. My mom has seen spirits since she was a child. She doesn't really talk to them most times, nor she helps them "crossover" like you see it on television, but she's seen them since she was a toddler. So has my grandfather. She's a completely normal, down-to-earth person, with absolutely no signs of insanity. In fact, she'll never even talk about it. She doesn't like to. It's something as natural to her as seeing live people. But, when I was a kid, she told me, "Barbara, either spirits exist, or I'm crazy. I'd rather believe they exist."
I guess I believe in something greater because I believe in something minor. Though I don't believe in religion, I'm very interested in reading a doctrine called Spiritualism, propelled by Allan Kardec in France, then down to Latin America.
Lately, more and more people who believe too much have been suffocating me. I'd like to see the other side of the coin.
(August 9, 2012 at 11:37 am)Kayenneh Wrote:(August 9, 2012 at 9:29 am)Brian37 Wrote: You know that many of us who are now atheists, like you and I, did not suddenly jump from belief to outright opposite. For most we went from a specific label, to not sure, to "less likely, but not sure", to "off". That journey can take months years and even, in my case almost a decade.
Absolutely. It is sometimes a long and hard process, for me it took years to get rid of my faith. But by constantly questioning my own belifs I got to this point. I think Barbie is on a very good path, denouncing organized religion, but I cannot stand the hypocrisy of believing in something ridiculous and then have the stomach to blame others for doing the same.
Lady, you've got me all wrong. I've never claimed my beliefs to be absolute, nor have I said that because I feel whatever it makes it right. I'm the first person to the open to the possibility of non-existence, much more to the possibility of religions being right, though I believe it's something right in the middle.
Though, I doubt it I'll stop believing some day, I'll never stop having an open mind about it.