Ima interested

So, you guys atheist, agnostic, atheist/agnostic (like you dotn believe, but not sure) or religious?


wait for the pole

 

the pole.... that'll hurt....

 

sorry, my computer crashed, poll coming

 

and I think bhuddism is actually a philosophy as opposed to a religion......

 

Rubbish...it sounds less like following a god and such.. saying it like that [so more like your not as idiotic] .. but the benedictine monks could be viewed as following a 'philosophy'.. nope.


I despise religeon.. and think even 'spirituality' is a waste of time.. get up from the lotus position and help people [or don't] ..this takes no 'faith' at all. i have found drinking [in moderation] is a good 'religeon' to follow..

 

I'm a mix of heathen and lots of other stuff that has nothing to do with it... Hard to explain

 

I think most people are..

 

I said I think, technically christianity is whatever bhudissm is or something very similar, religion is a search for god, christians have him......

bhuddists don't have one so they don't plan on looking....

it's not a philosophy in terms of a proof without the math bit because there is faith involved, but it is something.....


there has to be a word for it....

 

maybe poetry...following 'spirituality' 'religeon' like it is poetry

 

meh, it's opposite isn't prose.. I don't think that works.....


religosophy?

did not actually think about that, it's only as valid as lunner or brunch....

 

brunch is very valid.

 

It's just another interpretaion of something that tries to define its self as something else when meaning the same thing.. i am not sure on all the 'teachings' .. but darn sure it is filled with the same illogical misunderstanding of basic science [and the like] as any other kind of 'religeon'.

 

there are all sorts of angles you can approach christianity from with scienc... I chose the "god uses metaphors and is unchanging so why couldn't he have before" approach.... works very well..... numbers even start to make sense....

 

Anything that makes 'science' clear.. is not a bad thing.. the fundemental 'beliefs' you have to question though.

 

now that is the thing


fundamentalists believe that everything that the holy book (be it koran <qua'ran?>, bible, torah, what have you) is precisely as it is written


the thing is that in christianity there are bits that tell you not to do that, jesus uses parables, the reason he uses is a legitimate reason for giving moses 7 days instead of 65 million years....


because he just wouldn't understand.....

at least that is how I approach it, it makes logical sence, everything fits very elegantly and it just works for me


might not for everybody, but I'm not figuring out how it should be interpreted for everybody, if I were I'd be a fisherman and I would bave been born before 0......

 

The universe is a bit older than 65 million years.. billions of years we were not even around [explain that].. There are many humanistic 'truths' within any 'religous' text.. i like to call that 'no shit sherlock'..

The bible or any other text is written like that..because thats how the writer interpreted the world.. vastly flawed as that was.. i have not stumbled across any other writings that have been written for 'smart' people..

If it 'works' for you .. thats fine [as deluded as you are]

 

Good fucking call. You should watch asome eddie izzard stand up. he rips the shit out of christianity

 

Im a christian... ex-athiest... the way I see it, Id rather live life believing in god, and finding out there isnt one... opposed to, living life not believing in god, and finding out there IS one...

To each his own..
Peace

 

But isnt that just hedging your bets? surely that not real belief?

 

oh come on I was using the 65 million as an example, I know this ball of rock is even more than 4 billion older than that,

and frankly the people wasn't written for smart people, would it make sense to write a religious text with very narrow appeal?

that is why you have to look at it intelligently if you want to get anything out of it

I think you need to look into the thing before you start bagging on it

it's remarkable how stupid remarkably smart people begin to sound when they start talking about religion, on both sides