Quote Originally Posted by ghosty
headshake, I think you and I are on the same thought train here... I would assume you too are an agnostic?
you know ghosty, i'm a little strange. while i agree that most of us don't have a clue about our creator, i wouldn't label myself an agnostic. i don't like labels. labels cause rifts which lead to bigger cracks, that lead to fissures, that lead to schisms and so on and so forth.

i go round and round often with thoughts of a creator. i just think there is too much "coincidence" for their not to be one. not necessarily an omni-potent string puller, but something greater than us. we come back to the chicken and the egg argument. that's a mind bender in itself. i know this is a weird one, but why would sex feel good? i don't think that was an evolutionary thing.

on the other hand, i don't think a supreme being want's to sit and be constantly worshiped. that's the point of free will right? and if "god" doesn't have a sense of humor or can't take a joke then fuck him/her/it. i don't think we have predetermined destinies, but i do believe that the universe tends to unfold as it should.

we must have balance. we must have dark to know light, hate to know love and vice versa.

i do agree with RH that i have a soul. and i'm very spiritual! it does tell me right and wrong.

i believe that religion may have honestly started for the betterment of mankind (although the church basically stole jesus message and warped it into some sort of controlling machine). again, anything that man has touched will be tainted. why do i need to go through another man to get to "god"? i don't. nor do i need to pay any kind of fee (tithe) or anything else. simply ridiculous. all i must do is be a good person, help others, be humble, show respect and other things like that. simple things. things everyone wants to be shown. i truly am out for a better mankind.

we are all bits of cosmic stardust in truth. but i do believe in evolution. i can see proof that it happened. no one can prove to me that their is a "god". that's what faith is though, right? blind belief.

see to me you have two kinds of minds, religious and scientific (or unsystematic and analytical). the religious mind has faith (or blind belief). that's fine, but why would you put ALL of your eggs in one basket? why would you try to argue facts (evolution) etc?

then you have the scientific mind. they NEED to know why. but before a scientist sets out to do something they have a hypothesis, or educated guess. for them to want to set forth working on that hypothesis, they must have the same faith. i mean they are going to dedicate their lives work to it. there has to be some faith there. one major difference is that that faith doesn't lead to a predetermined answer as religion does.

they really are similar, they just see the coin from different sides i think.

back to what i believe, i have a sorta buddhist mentality. i don't practice any religion. i live by my own set of rules so to speak. i believe in karma (she's a bitch!). i believe in balance, in nature. my three favorite words are balance, harmony and focus. i believe wall all need those things. they are all interwoven and correlated. three simple things that can lead to a better world.

but that's just me. enough of my thoughts. sorry for rambling. passion can be a bitch sometimes too!


-shake
headshake Reviewed by headshake on . Wrap your mind around this... Yo peeps, I got to thinking about some world religions and philosophy the other day. And I came up with this thought that My friends agreed was pretty profound... Thought I'd share it with you. I was pretty stoned when I came up with this and I am kinda now, but I'll try to keep it understandable and coherent. ;) warned in advance this might get long. It touches on the concept of sin and validity of beliefs... In many of the major religions of the world acts of wrong and/or evil are Rating: 5