Will you ever "find god"?

heh.. ignosticism

 

I 100% do not believe in god, at least when I'm in a rational state of mind.

I have no major problems with death, except dying too early = lost opportunities. I am much more concerned with the pain of dying than being dead. Some people are lucky and don't suffer much, but many people suffer horrific agony and fear during their last moments / days.

Its possible I could pray to god while writhing in agony, chocking on my own blood on my deathbed, but that would just be a psychological reaction, not that i genuinely believe in god when able to think rationally.

 

The existence of god doesn't mean any kind of belief in something after death.

 

Was the misspelling deliberate?

 

This^

 

This!

I mean I say it's best never to be certain of anything, and I accept there may be no god, but I'm definitely towards the deist side. I'm pretty damn sure there's a god. And while i'd like there to be some form of afterlife, I don't count on it, I hope there is I mean it'd be nice, but I also realize we're just animals in a gigantic universe that will live and die and there probably isn't.

Plus, to believe in a god but also fully believe in an afterlife, well I think that'd be pretty egotistical of me, I don't know what god's intentions or god's design of existence is. That's for science to figure out as best it can.

 

Is man so ignorant that he thinks he can comprehend the idea of God? To me God is just am attempt to limit and rationalize spirituality and limit true connection with the universe and with the self/soul/spirit.
There are aspects of many religions I do appreciate. Buddhism has an idea that time is simply a mental construct, and that all physical objects are just an abstraction of true reality. Westernized ideals are supposed to be personal rights oriented, and there are some good things to consider in the bible about human rights. But I hold all the "prophets" in the same regard- Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha, Hallie Selassie, ect. I think the true nature of what they believed was distorted so terribly (by the organization of their thought into an "organized religion") to ruin the essence of the message.
Thats all for now, after I smoke I may come and rant some more.

 

I was just quoting Nietzsche. I do think it is a great concept, and I am currently infatuated with post-modernism!

 

I don't believe there is a God based on some of my shits like the one I just made......geez no intelligent designer would ever let something that disgusting spawn from my ass. I think it also is going to single handily accentuate global warming. I can't believe I summed up this whole thread in one post about my dump.

 

I don't believe in god, spirits or an afterlife. If there is anything that even remotely resembles the archetype of "god," it would be some intangible aspect of the universe, analogous to the tao. I doubt very much it would have what we might call consciousness, or even any self awareness. it's an unknown property of the universe that we may very well never understand, but god damn it that's no reason not to try.

 

"intangible aspect of the universe, analogous to the tao." The thing that creates life, where it came from. The way, as you just said. If science was the final ruler, we would be able to recreate everything from scratch. We can not do that with life.

 

But we can scratch our nuts.

 

Yeah, we can. I'd also like to say that my notion of the beyond has completely blown past the word god. God is long gone into the egocentric possession of human greed. What can be found is the underlying current guiding us along through the still and the rapids. It's beyond just the force of creation. In many ways, it is the holy trinity.

 

Mine has settled on the word good in any iteration.

 

fuckingfucktastic?

 

That is a great one!

 

bump

 

after reading all 16 pages, i have much to ponder.

 

Haha, good quote. If god really does exist, where has he been all this time? Come forth and show us the way or leave in a world of wonder. What could really be his big plan for humans? And really why can't any other animal talk?

 

Other animals do communicate and not all humans can talk.