I'm Agnostic.
Athiesm is TOO FINAL and too depressing for me.
I feel much better beleiving someone is there for us, i just dont know anything about him/her.
Ne ways WHY DO WE NEED A GOD?
It's like we dont feel that we're worth anything unless we think a superior force loves us ?
DO WE NEED THAT to feel important?
Wow..self esteem issues bro
Originally posted by Roulette
Yeah, me too.And I agree with that....it is too final for me...
I can't rule out the possibility of a higher being.
How can we be so certain of anything that we cannot prove exists?
Well, I agree, but how far do you take it? I mean we can't really be certain of anything, can we?
Yeah, me too.
And I agree with that....it is too final for me...
I can't rule out the possibility of a higher being.
How can we be so certain of anything that we cannot prove exists?
I prefer to beleive in my OWN VERSION of God, it that sounds hypocritical or not....
A God who truly loves us and doesn't care what kind of lives we try to live, as long as we are not trying to harm another human being or animal.
I cannot beleive in a judgemental and prejudice God. The creator should be open to all his creation, not just a select few.
"Oh yeah...sure! It's better to have no sense of conviction and just spend your whole life walking around hedging bets! Great life! Woo! Go you!"
turn down the sarcasm please!! It doesn't mean you wonder around. Nature has all the answers. Maybe there is a higher being? Who knows? That is one of the things nature can't answer, but the quote. Oh yeah. Best to keep an open mind. Why bother spending time in a chiurch if it does nothing but waste time? Why be an athiest when it will give you sadness in hell? You see, keeping an open mind means trying hard to not offend anything that is a higher being but not sucking up while you're doing that. And not...well. it's hard to explain properly without raising fury.
Originally posted by Storm
Atheism is compatible with religion/spirituality. Atheism is the absence of belief in the existence of any gods, not the absence of religion, the absence of belief in the supernatural, the absence of superstitions, the absence of irrational beliefs, etc.
I agree. Its in most religionus polls. Its just not representative to poll world religions when over 1/5th of the world in non-religious. Athiesm/agnosciticsm should be represented in religions debates
Originally posted by Lord Urizen
Yes, Athiests tend to beleive that when we die, we become nothing.
That's tooooo sad for me to beleive.I think we are worth SO MUCH MORE to result in becoming nothing more than rotting bodies.I strongly beleive in a SOUL, whether or not God exists.
I'm athiest, I believe you have a soul. It just dies when the rest of you dies. Your soul is like your life force/essence.
And then you compost! 😱 I don't know why people NEED to feel that they have a romantic afterlife.
Because some people base the worth of thier current life on the worth of what they think thier afterlife will be.
I don't.
I personally think THIS LIFE is worth so much regardless of an afterlife.
But I DO beleive in a SOUL..that is eternal and lives on SOMEHOW.....not necessarily Heaven or even reincarnation.....
But just somehow....the essense of who we are must exist in SOME way after we die.
Originally posted by Bardock42
Well, I agree, but how far do you take it? I mean we can't really be certain of anything, can we?
I made a very general statement before....I was referring to such things as ghosts, spirits, god....etc. Things that some people believe in, and others don't. Now, I've never seen a ghost, but some people are so sure that they have. Just because some people have said they've seen one, doesn't mean that I should believe that they exist.
I can't be certain that there is a higher being because I don't have hard evidence that one exists. But then I start wondering how exactly the world came into existance. It's all very complicated. I like to stay inbetween.
Im an atheist. I dont believe in a Higher Being or the existence of an immortal essence like the soul, mind, chakra or whatever that will live on once you passed away . . . . and frankly its not really that sad. It is depressing on the first few weeks/months of being an atheist but once you got over that hump, things would settle back to normal.
Anyway, if im wrong and a Higher Being does exist, im counting on two things:
If he's perfectly good, im just going to count on his better nature to forgive my sins.
If he's perfectly just, then im just going to argue my case as to why i should be saved (assuming i did plenty of good deeds in life). If he couldnt be argued with, then i just have to take solace on the fact that i didnt wasted my life worshipping a petty, prick who likes to play hide and seek and deliver conflicting doctrines with his believers.
If he's a cruel, cold-hearted, SOB, then F him and see above.
Originally posted by Templares
Im an atheist. I dont believe in a Higher Being or the existence of an immortal essence like the soul, mind, chakra or whatever that will live on once you passed away . . . . and frankly its not really that sad. It is depressing on the first few weeks/months of being an atheist but once you got over that hump, things would settle back to normal.Anyway, if im wrong and a Higher Being does exist, im counting on two things:
If he's perfectly good, im just going to count on his better nature to forgive my sins.
If he's perfectly just, then im just going to argue my case as to why i should be saved (assuming i did plenty of good deeds in life). If he couldnt be argued with, then i just have to take solace on the fact that i didnt wasted my life worshipping a petty, prick who likes to play hide and seek and deliver conflicting doctrines with his believers.
If he's a cruel, cold-hearted, SOB, then F him and see above.
I actually agree with you very much here.
I rather live my life and have my fun, then have wasted it on serving a selfish bully of a God.
Regardless of whether or not there is an afterlife, THIS LIFE matters very much.