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14 years ago
Disclaimer: If you aren't openminded, you probably shouldn't read this.
These are my opinions! I don't demand that you approve them, but to respect them.
It was half a year ago, when I got quite busy with thinking about religion, god, and such.
And I'll start here with the conclusion first: It was a waste of time for me.
How did I come to this?
Well, other than pondering if I believe in a god, I took a different attemp: What I was sure that I disbelieve in. And there are 3 major things concerning this matter:
1) There is no judgement after one dies, meaning that there is no hell, no (place of) punishment. Especially not for not believing in any god, jehova, Allah, Buddha, or whichever diety.
2) There is no one above who is helping of forgiving me in any matter or situation of my life. Everyone is fully responsible for oneself and every action he/she does.
3) There will be no eternal life in that form that one's deceased ancestors will be watching one from above or hear any prayers.
Note: Those are things that I, and only I, believe or disbelieve in! I don't want to force ANYONE to believe or disbelieve anything! I just encourage everyone, to think about it, but of course not too much, hence my conclusion stated above. To think about whether religion is important to oneself or not.
So? I'm neither an physicist nor a biologist, which would force me to think about evolution or creation.
That said, there is no need for me to agonize over it. Shall others wrack their brains about those questions. I'll concentrate on the things that are important to me and the ppl in my sphere of influence.
I wouldn't really call myself an Atheist, not exactly. Atheists believe that there is no god, which I can't disprove. Neither am I a real agnostic, because that would mean that I would care.
I'd maybe call myself an agnostic atheist, who doesn't care anymore. I'm not following any religious belief or book. ...although I'm thinking about joining the Pastafarians.
The absence of a hell doesn't mean that I will do whatever I want, committing crime or such. Or with simple words: Living without morals. I DO care a lot about what's right or wrong. But I won't pray for forgiving. We have to forgive each other, and most importantly, ourselves.
Thanks for reading. Take care everybody.
Comments are open.
It sounds like you're a definitive agnostic atheist; you don't believe there's a god, but if there was irrefutable evidence in front of you, you'd probably concede that point. Agnosticism doesn't explicitly imply that you care, and are outwardly seeking answers, it's just a word that defines your point of view on the concept of higher power(s).
I'm an atheist agnostic, and as it happens, a physicist. I don't think there is a god, but if there was evidence that couldn't be disputed or faltered, I'd have to accept it. In such a case though, I'm not entirely convinced I would immediately change my life, or throw everything down in worship of some supposed deity. I think if there is some higher being that created the universe, it is probably not at all interested in us, and not at all inclined to grant us rewards in any way shape or form for a warped opinion of 'good' behaviour; much less so an afterlife.
Religion does not grant moral superiority; it should be a unique and personal view on the world around you, and I think it's something that is so complex that to simplify it to the point of being able to impart it to someone else is to entirely miss the point of having it. People ought to spend a lot more time focusing on refining their understanding of others and properly examining the ambiguity of morality rather than trying to twist their fundamental beliefs into someone else's overbearing catagory they've pretentiously termed as "religion".
I think this comment kinda got out of hand. >.>;
It saves a lot of time if you just don't think about it really. If you've ever played the game chinese whispers...it's basically that...
A lot of religions have something in common, Jesus even turns up in the quern, but as a prophet instead of god's son.
There are quite disturbing messages in the bible too. /:
Old ideas.
Back then a lo were illiterate so when it was finally written who ever wrote it could write what ever the hell they wanted.
I think the same, really it's up to each other to forgive.
if we screw up the world we have to live in, we still have to live in it.
that is the real reason not to. but boggie men are easier for some people to understand.
we don't know what there is or isn't, other then that there is a bigger, wilder, and very probably more diverse universe, then we can possibly begin to imagine.
nothing has to be known or imagined in order to exist. so nothing really has to not do so. it just doesn't have to have anything to do with anything anyone thinks they know about it if it does.
what about eternity? this life not being eternal neither proves nor disproves anything. some of us were born with dreams and a sense of having existed in other lives, before being physically born into this one. this does not mean they had to have been on this world or one entirely like it.
will awareness cease at or near the time of death? probably. will its cessation be permanent? possibly not.
what are heaven and hell really? they are a way of experiencing things resulting from ingrained ways of how we've learned to look at things.
heaven would only heaven as long as people didn't screw it up. hell would only be hell as long as they did.
i can say this because it applies to any place as individuals we are capable of interacting with.
when i say people here, i don't mean only people on this world, or only people who live lives of flesh and blood on one world or another.
a person in this sense is everything that experiences. even if it is unseen, has no physical form, or even if it resembles a god.
there may still be a god too, who is separate from all else. but if there is, there is no reason to believe every religious belief doesn't get it in some way wrong.