with Christmas coming up, it'd be cool to talk about things considering religion and your position on all that. i've always been kind of interested in what people believe, because sometimes, they say some pretty interesting and deep things that make you think.
when answering, think of some of these questions to get you started:do you believe in god or some form of deity and do you believe they exist? why or why not.how do you believe mankind originated?do you believe we will ever find out how and where mankind originated with undeniable or at least somewhat creditible evidence?what do you think of all these other planets, solar systems, galaxies, etc. and do you believe we will ever find life out there?i am very interested in knowing what you guys think.now, hopefully, no one will make this get out of hand, but just in case, don't post anything that is purposely offensive to others. try to keep it reasonable and please, try to keep an open mind about this.edit: i don't think I've mentioned my religion and all that stuff i believe in.i am christian, so yeah, i believe in god. :pbut i'm not the type of christian who forces their beliefs all over you, and judge and insult you and you're religion, if you don't believe what i do.
Someone fix the +1 feature already, I need to spam it on Pounce's comment.
Common sense made me atheist.
My own experience of religion made me antitheist.I am extremely confident that we will travel to other stars at some stage (assuming we don't destroy ourselves). However I doubt we will do so in our current physical selves. In fact I'm confident we will have left our current physical selves well before we travel to other stars. It doesn't feel like it will be long until we will have a good enough understanding of the brain for this to seem perfectly feasible. This isn't like answering the creation of the universe - this is figuring out an object that's right in front of our eyes (pun not intended).As for finding other life, I'd wager we will make life before that happens, if it happens, unless it's very, very easy to find life. To weigh our chances of finding life, we first have to know how hard it is to make, and if we do that, finding other life will be pointless anyway.Apparently 'other life' has found -us- numerous times over the years. So I mean, we can just sit back, chill, and point at hovering, funny looking things in the sky without going on a whole journey.
I'm not sure about my religious stance, I think simply holding the belief in something more powerful than ourselves and trying to comprehend it is something so bizarre and complex that categorisation doesn't do it justice. So I will just say that I am a theist, as I don't support a lot of aspects of Christianity, but I believe that a god has to exist. I feel that this deity as I envision it manifests itself not in a typical or expected manner, but rather in subtle and divine instances; for example, humans' innate and seemingly instinctual characteristic that is creativity, or man's ability to think and ponder to an infinite extent.
What I see as the biggest hole in Judaical Christian faith is depictions and accounts of a heaven. I believe in the afterlife (I cannot comprehend just not existing, and I think that life is cyclical and continuous), but not as it is typically described. I do not like the idea of entering a pre-defined place after death, because with it comes limitations. If I'm going to be spending eternity in the afterlife, I hope it's not constrained, it cannot be constrained, that would just be incomprehensible for me.I like to think that after this life, we become gods, in a sense. We spend eternity in a cosmic sandbox, in which we can create whatever we want, limited not even by logical constraints and impossibilities. That is my ideal envisioning of the afterlife, and I think it's very cool and appropriate to think that our world is simply a manifestation within someone else's afterlife. Does anyone know of any kind of religion/faith what I just described sounds familiar to? I've had a hard time finding people who share this same belief.Gee, that was harder to write than I thought. It took me about 4 rewrites.Speaking of that quote. Have any of you guys read this short story called "The Egg?" Cause if you haven't, you really should. I think that's my ideal afterlife right there.
And here I was going to make a blog asking about your ideas of the afterlife. Seems I don't need to.
Just read that story, Eva. Woah.
what if none of us actually exist, and we're just part of the imagination of one, gigantic brain, floating in the outer rims of space?
btw, im jk about that. im just being stoopidWhat if the gigantic brain doesn't actually exist, and is just the imagination of a ginormous brain, floating in the outer rims of nothing?
Inception.