I believe in a God, thus there is one.
I'm sure that sounds absurd and foolish to non-believers.
I made a list of what God is to me:
* Natural
* Everywhere
* Everything
* Everyone
* Omnipitent
* Omnipresent
* Omnicient
* A flower opening to the sun
* The oak in the deathly grips of winter
* A tree, iceberg, tiger
* Divine
* Singular
* Infinite
-Signs of God:
* Love
* Suicide
* Temptation
* Vice
* Virtue
* Hurricanes
* Tornados
* Change
* Progressivism
* Conservitism
* Jihad
* Orthodoxy
* War
* Lust
* Faith
* Trust
* Materialism
* Reading
* Knowladge
* UCSD
* Religion
* Flowers
* Water
* Seasons
* Life
* Tides
* The size of the moon and the sun in the sky
* Existance
* Erosion
* Trees
* Animal mating riturals
* Trancendence
* Spirit
Free will is the ability to take temptation, to be unnatural. Can a tree be evil without free will Good? The ability to trivialize things, and then to make them extremely important, vital, and full of meaning.
Jesus, and others, show us that this is not all there is. There is more to living than our bodies, our minds. There's our spirit.
Jesus is a liberator, freeing us from the fear of change and failure, from death.
God is extremely present in our lives, much more than something like Catholicism might have you think.
Science and God don't cancel each other out.
We are spiritual beings having a material experience.
Einstein's belief in Pantheism, the universe = God, is a more accurate description than others to describe my conception here. Taoism is also very similar to my current beliefs.
Spinzoa as well:
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Benedictus de Spinoza (1632-11-24 - 1677-02-21), named Baruch Spinoza by his synagogue elders and known as Bento de Spinoza or Bento d'Espi?oza in the community in which he grew up. Along with Ren? Descartes and Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz, he was one of the great rationalists of 17th-century philosophy. He is considered the founder of modern Biblical criticism. His magnum opus was the Ethics.
Born in Amsterdam to Sephardic Jews, he gained fame for his positions of pantheism and neutral monism, as well as the fact that his Ethics was written in the form of postulates and definitions, as though it were a geometry treatise. In the summer of 1656, he was excommunicated from the Jewish community for his claims that God is the mechanism of nature and the universe, and the Bible is a metaphorical and allegorical work used to teach the nature of God, both of which were based on a form of Cartesianism. Following his excommunication, he adopted the first name Benedictus (the Latin equivalent of his given name, Baruch). Since the public reactions to the Theologico-Political Treatise were not favourable to Spinoza or his brand of Cartesianism, he abstained from publishing his works. The Ethics was published after his death, in the Opera postuma edited by his friends.
Known as both the "Grea-*test*-('") Jew" and the "Grea-*test*-('") Atheist", Spinoza contended that "God" and "Nature" were two names for the same reality, namely the single substance that underlies the universe and of which all lesser "entities" are actually modes or modifications. He contended that "Deus sive Natura" ("God or Nature") was a being of infinitely many attributes, of which extension and thought were two. His account of the nature of reality, then, seems to treat the physical and mental worlds as two different, parallel "subworlds" that neither overlap nor interact. This formulation is a historically significant panpsychist solution to the mind-body problem known as neutral monism.
Spinoza was a thoroughgoing determinist who held that absolutely everything that happens occurs through the operation of necessity. For him, even human behaviour is fully determined, freedom being our capacity to know we are determined and to understand why we act as we do. So freedom is not the possibility to say "no" to what happens to us but the possibility to say "yes" and fully understand why things should necessarily happen that way.
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I don't fully agree with him, but I bolded the parts which I do, or find interesting.
No religion is more right than another; different paths to the same destination. It's just whatever works for you.
Is there a God?
Do you believe in God? (or what-you-will name God)
What is God like?
Is there a religion that is more right than others?
God to me is like CHEESE. I worship him and love him. Heck, I don't even use his name in vain. If you peeps haven't noticed I usually replace God's name with "Origin".
i thought you were being nice....
lmfao kidding
god for me.. well, i appriciate everything it could have done ie life etc, but other then that i don't really follow the religion or any religion...so..i really cut my own path
looks like i'm going to hell...
God to me is everything, I owe everything to him. I even kill Cathrine if he told me to kill her. And trust me I love Cat more then my own mother, I'd do anything for her.
"I even kill Cathrine if he told me to kill her"
And God will smite you.
I am not an extremely religious person.
I do believe in god, but I don't look to my religion to guide my life although the doctrine of my religion has some good philosophies...
Anyways, I do what Origin basically said, create my own path and do what will be best for all and not negative.
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i thought you were being nice....
lmfao kidding
god for me.. well, i appriciate everything it could have done ie life etc, but other then that i don't really follow the religion or any religion...so..i really cut my own path
looks like i'm going to hell... |
Aw, just because you're either a solitary practioner or an aetheist dosen't mean you're going to hell.
Heaven would be a pretty crappy place if it were only open to one (or even ten) religon(s).