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May 23, 2006 at 12:57 pm

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funny cat

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i’ve never felt like i needed religion, i’ve decided to live my life the way i think is morally right, i don’t need to be told what is moral and good. I’ve always had a feeling that there isn’t anything after this life. Religion gets rid of this fear and gives a meaning to life where perhaps i don’t think there is any. why does there have to be a meaning to life? I’m a bit of an existentialist myself…….:idea:
May 24, 2006 at 11:33 am

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stax

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IT EXPLAINED THE WORLD AROUND US BEFORE SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE HELPED EXPLAIN. ALTHOUGH I MIGHT ADD I DONT BELIEVE IN ALL SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE – NOTHING IS FOR SURE – ASK EINSTEIN, BUT ITS MORE CREDIBAL THAN THE ACCOUNTS OF PEOPLE WHO WERE AROUND THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO.. BUT AGAIN THIS IS MY OWN OPINION OF WHICH EVERY ONE IS ENTILTED TO.
May 24, 2006 at 9:35 pm

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suffolkravas

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Linz wrote:

Hey. Im not religous but theres gotta be something after we die.

init mate, i couldnt agree more, but i often fear that i suffer from paranoia when i think about this when im :crazy_fre , it just gets me too scared mate, thats why it sort of comforts me to put my full belief into not exactly an afterlife, but some form of re-birth. not religious at all though mate, just a concept which always makes me think…
May 24, 2006 at 10:00 pm

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Raj

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sort of a tangent but has anyone had experiences [seen ghosts, precognition, etc] which have caused them to question their religion or lack of?

:alien_abd
May 25, 2006 at 9:49 am

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I was christened which i think is bang out of order because when your that age how are you supposed to know what you believe in it don’t seem very fair. Its all a way of making money out of people. CONTROL

I believe in mother earth!!
May 25, 2006 at 10:17 am

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General Lighting

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Morning Glory wrote:

I was christened which i think is bang out of order because when your that age how are you supposed to know what you believe in it don’t seem very fair. Its all a way of making money out of people. CONTROL

I believe in mother earth!!

Having moved to Ipswich recently and researched the history of the area it appears that hundreds of years ago the place was somewhat like Iraq is today; stacks of wars between various religions, places of worship being trashed, people getting and burned etc – and you get told that church is all about “peace”…
May 25, 2006 at 2:04 pm

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Angel

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:crazy_fre [ATTACH]88614[/ATTACH] WHAT CAN I SAY..:crazy_fre
May 25, 2006 at 5:29 pm

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missMushed

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when i was younger i was part of this club called the J-team…J standing for jeasus, it was fun for a while then on one camp these teenage christians tried to get me speaking in tounges, they all surrounded me and were chanting this weired language, i was 8 and pretty scared! so i just started repeating whatthey said and they were all like ‘she is speaking gods language he has touched her blah blah” and i just freaked and decided that god was bullshit. Since then i have had a fasinbation with religion, why people beleive in it and the relation between different religions. Personally, i believe it doesnt matter what you believe in as 90% of religions all point towards the same thing, all have just different interpretations of it. Years ago when people didnt travel or even know the other side of the world existed, people wouldnt have thought the same thing, but all came up with their own idea of a “god” and a “heaven” and all set morals of how to live your life by. I think that it doesnt matter what u believe, if you beleive in God or allah, its true to you and thats what matters. Religion gives alot of people a reason to live, and if it helps some people gwt through their lives then it cant be all bad. Each religion is just a metaphor for the same thing anyway.

Personally i dont follow a set religion, but i do believe in the power of the mind and the earths energy. for example if you really want something and focus enough on it, you will get it if you are meant to have it Which isnt too dissimilar to praying. i think you can focus your energy to help your self and help others. examples of this are reikki, although i have never had rekki, or given it, i do beleive that you can take someones pain away just by willing it, taking into yourself and then grounding the negative energy to make sure yoiu dont get sick yourself. my friend beleives that this can only be done if your attuned to reikki, i disagree.

the problem with religions are that if you follow one, your are confined to that particular relions boundaries and dont see the wider picture.

I am a beleiver…….a believer of faith.
May 25, 2006 at 9:13 pm

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andy ridgeway

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interesting points, miss mushed.

it does amuse me when people say that religion is entirely worthless, as they choose to live their lives by their own morals, they can understand the difference between right and wrong etc etc

with no appreciation or respect for where the modern concepts of “right and wrong” even come from.

it should be by no means taken for granted that “thou shalt not kill” for example, is a natural human instinct…
May 26, 2006 at 10:08 am

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funny cat

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andy ridgeway wrote:

interesting points, miss mushed.

it does amuse me when people say that religion is entirely worthless, as they choose to live their lives by their own morals, they can understand the difference between right and wrong etc etc

with no appreciation or respect for where the modern concepts of “right and wrong” even come from.

it should be by no means taken for granted that “thou shalt not kill” for example, is a natural human instinct…

hmmmm…..who says morality has to have come from religion, morals are a useful evolutionary tool naturally. and religion has spawned a lot of negative things…..i never said it was worthless if you read it properly, it’s just that i personally don’t believe as i’ve never felt it was right for me to do so. if others do, i don’t have a problem. it’s just when religion starts promoting prejudice or i’m made to feel like a ‘sinner’ by religious people i then have a problem.
November 7, 2006 at 3:13 pm

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jakatak

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the is no god
you have no soul
there is absolutely nothin but oblivion beyond death

these are the facts that give me the greatest comfort
surely anything else would just be upsetting?
November 7, 2006 at 4:05 pm

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globalloon

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Raj wrote:

sort of a tangent but has anyone had experiences [seen ghosts, precognition, etc] which have caused them to question their religion or lack of?

:alien_abd

i used to have a lot of telepathic experiences, which was pretty disconcerting at times, useful at others

although it didn’t make me question my lack of religion; i have my own set of beliefs that don’t involve any of the set religions
November 7, 2006 at 6:16 pm

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B.EA.R

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i don’t believe in anything, just through choice, i believe there might be something after we die. maybe, to be honest i really havn’t thought about it.

but respect everyones beliefs.
March 3, 2007 at 10:04 am

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priv8green

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most of them think they have something to earn from this
they abuse the kindness of the “all mighty”

nobody says “take this!” but “give me!”,they pray without doing nothing

could god be something that u can find support when u feel down?!
i think so
March 3, 2007 at 4:53 pm

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BabyGirlMiza

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I was born a christian.. and used to go to sunday school n scrpture at school.. but as I got older and witnessed more of life.. my opinion began to change. Im still christian and will never change that, I do believe in god but I dont believe everything the christians say is true, I believe in god watching over us and our loved ones keeping an our over us, I dnt believe theres a thing called the devil, satan what ever you want to call it. I dont believe in hell.. If there was a hell.. or is a hell.. I believe we are living in it and our society has created it. But yea.. basically I just believe in God but thats about it.
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