I don't have a "religion" I have a personal relationship with god. Too much instilling fear, brainwashing, greed and corruption going on with organized religion.
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I don't have a "religion" I have a personal relationship with god. Too much instilling fear, brainwashing, greed and corruption going on with organized religion.
i am a mesh of ideas, philosophies
i believe in God, or an equal supreme being. This God may manifest itself in anything, it could be a God of everything aroun dme, it could be sitting in a throne, but i couldn't tell you.
I think the spiritual realm is inivisble.
I like to study Buddhism, Wicca, Taoism, Christianity, Paganism, Existentialism, Scientology, Astrology...........just about anything, tiny parts of each one are part of what i believe
I couldnt pick one set religion.
I am very spiritual, I believe in impossiblities, the paranormal, parrallel dimensions and self-fulfillment.
I love nature, i believe in its important within our existence. That there must be a connection there, somewhere...
I do pray to God. The God. A God. Goddess. Whatever we are a part of, whartever rules or flows within us all.
I believe happiness and harmony and peace and love are meant to be the best feeling, everyone must acquire a sense of them, or to acquire whatever senses you are here for
drugs are on this earth because they were meant to be. they may be our lost keys.
There may be a heaven, and a hell, because i believe in karma, and if you don't deserve the greatest you will get the worst because there has to be a parallel to everything. there has to be an up and a down, the heat and the cold.
I believe we make our lives to what we believe they should be.
agnostic--believe in some sort of higher power but not necesarilly GOD/JESUS or whatnot...........I think everyone is agnostic to an extent...everyone questions their "god" at some point..........and personally...."god" is just what they sum up their supreme being/power as.....so doesn't that make everyone agnostic? (or am I not making much logical sense?---->muscle relaxers :))
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Originally Posted by royalHIGHness
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(but yeah, that made perfect sense)
I'm Pagan.
im chrisian because i like the knowing that if i just ask for forgiveness i will go to heaven and hang out with all my lost family members.
plus i dont go to church or read the bible, i dont feel like i need that material to be connected with God. PEOPLE connect with God, i dont need priests or a book to tell me what i have to do.
sorry for posting twice
Tibetan Buddhist, Dzogchen, Nyingma lineage. I only beleive in what I can experience myself.
MelT
I believe everyone who is religious is so for one of these reason's.
1.Thats all they know and were hard wired with it as a child, were never given a choice.
2. Weak minded...can't accept the unknown.
3. Traumatic experience...had no one to turn to expect "God"
I think most religions are good though....if it makes you a good person and satisfies your needs go for it. Personally I see it as a waste of time and $$. I have hardcore science and fact based beliefs. When ever I have a discussion like this im almost always attacked and told im going to hell by the religious person and I always say to each their own, live and let live.
More death and terrible things have occurred due to organized religions(and you think the Nazi's were bad)....it has always been that way and always will continue to. If you were given the choice and left to think freely I think more people would believe in Bigfoot and ghosts than any concept of "God".
I don't discredit the possibility of some sort of supreme being('s) though, more like the concept of Q in star trek though.
I agree with you to some extent Cyclonite. The thing that drew me to Buddhism was that it isn't a religion and it doesn't claim to be able to cure the world's ills and nor do we worship anyone. Buddha encapsulated I think the only approach you can have to any religion or belief - prove it to yourself rather than taking someone else's word for it.
[align=center]Do not believe in anything simply because
you have heard it.
Do not believe in traditions simply because
they have been handed down for many generations.
Do not believe in anything simply because
it is spoken and rumoured by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because
it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority
of your teachers and elders.
But when, after observation and analysis,
you find anything that agrees with reason,
and is conducive to the good and benefit
of one and all,
then accept it and live up to it.
-- The Buddha's Kalama Sutra[/align]
This applied to even his own teachings. I can live with a philosophy like that.
MelT