The thinking atheist
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J4ZuHEY ... r_embedded
I'm not interested in 'bible bashing' I just thought this was good video that makes some decent points. It must be difficult for people who grew up in a devout religious household when you yourself don't believe.
I'm not interested in 'bible bashing' I just thought this was good video that makes some decent points. It must be difficult for people who grew up in a devout religious household when you yourself don't believe.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religions
don't throw out so much wisdom from old ages based on bad experience with one. just explore and see where life leads you. follow your own convictions and keep an open mind and heart in this life.
नमस्ते
I don't believe in a "personal" god, dressed in a white robe, with a resplendent flowing mane, and a wooden staff in his hand ... but i'm not prepared to throw the baby jesus out with the holy water yet, either.
There are lots of reasons to think and suspect that there is cosmic intelligence at play in the universe, and I'm keen on the notion that "consciousness" is something that "lives" outside of the human form, just as much as in it. That deity is something that is present at all levels of creation as a form of consciousness, and that it exists in the macrocosm as an overriding force that "guides" all.
Yeah. I know there is no proof.
If I opened it now would you not understand?
I think athiest = large ego.
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
How so?
"With our thoughts we make the world"
FTFY
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Personally, I'm not big on religion. Belief in mystery makes more sense to me. My own faith is based on the idea that there is something mysterious about life and the universe and everything but as soon as you try to define God, your god is too small (there is actually a book about that called Your God is Too Small by J B Phillips). Religions have been responsible for too many wars, too much suffering. Simple faith kept humble and personal is much more sensible.
Best of all is Ilona Ann Coggswater's entreaty: "Be kind".
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
Odd. I've always felt that anyone who believes in any religion must have a huge ego to think they're so special that God created them and this world for them and that they're not just some biological accident that put us here via evolution.
To me, an atheist would be more of a humble person.
And it always seems to be the ones who bash people over the heads with their bibles who think a bit too much of themselves.
God made me in His image, just like you. In that sense you and I are special.
He knew you would deny Him, but He loves you anyway, and will forgive you... All you have to do is ask.
No matter what happens to me in this life- its gonna be all good in the end... and the end comes to us all.
Peace, friend.
That is a awful god you're talking about, if him/her/it can see the future and knows my answer even before I make it and still choose to create me to go to a place of eternal suffering is nothing less than a monster.
Christian = large ego
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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No. Biology made you in your present image via evolution. You share about 99% of the same genes with other primates. We're all from that same line.
We made God in OUR image. Mind you, we did that way back when we wore white robes and long beards.
But you know... styles change.
And is quite awful! :twisted:
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Religion is just pure fail, especially christianity and islam.
Richard Dawkins is the man!!
Charles Darwin had the balls to ask!
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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God gave us free will. So it would be your choice were you want to go.
There's no free will in god's logic if he knows past present and future.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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He gave you free will. It's up to you. If you don't believe, that's fine, but then why take the time to post- other than to put down someone's religion. You should go to Iran and try that. You'd get stoned. And not in a good way!
I agree w/ the rational part, not the weird part- (I'm a chick, not an old man w/ a beard).
I do believe in evolution, I just think it's devine.
What an amazing, intricate plan!
God rocks!
"The physiologist Benjamin Libet famously demonstrated that activity in the brain's motor regions can be detected some 300 milliseconds before a person feels that he has decided to move. Another lab recently used fMRI data to show that some "conscious" decisions can be predicted up to 10 seconds before they enter awareness (long before the preparatory motor activity detected by Libet). Clearly, findings of this kind are difficult to reconcile with the sense that one is the conscious source of one's actions. "
Article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sam-harri ... 69726.html
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Godfather.
— David Searls
Live and let live and love
I like this saying a lot. thanks for sharing.
Well religious people need to read their sacred text more often, and you should go with me to Iran, xtians are not too appreciated over there either
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Hm... you don't actually see the Irony in this sentence at ALL, do you?
You just put down the beliefs of me and an entire country.
(and for the record, you'd probably get stoned. I'm gay. I'd get beheaded or hanged.)
I'm talking about the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. I'm talking about how God looks like we feel comfortable with him looking.. white skin, dressed like they dressed back then.. facial hair how old men wore it back then. Just like how we made Jesus white with medium brown hair and blue eyes. Which is absurd.
And I think Divine is a fat drag queen from the John Waters movies.
Um. Ugh, Alright. Believe what you want. Just don't teach it in my kid's schools or I'll make sure they also teach my Neo-Paganism and the naked Spring Solstice dance is a night you're NOT going to enjoy.
the scope of our very lives goes back 13.5+ billion years
the probability that there are hundreds of billions of other universes each in various stages of their own evolution blows even my universe is god notion
this makes the whole space/time continuum of our own universe a blip in the whole multiverse scheme
who/what/where would be the deity of all this
not yahweh
not god the father
not allah
such a deity would have reign over far more souls that we could ever imagine
but then, at what point of our physical evolution was the soul developed?
i believe we evolved our own souls and created the deities that we seek to keep these souls
in the end should it not be the same for every soul that ever existed
or nothing
at all
?
"what a long, strange trip it's been"
Most humans feel empty with out a belief, I get that. I understand the need for religion, but it often makes irrelevant issues an issue, like focusing on gay people vs. figuring out how to fix this countries educational system and save our economy.
I have an idea. Either we make it legal for anyone to get married or erase marriage all together. I'm tired of getting fucked over with taxes and insurance rates because I'm not married anyhow.
Let's all agree that nobody really knows the explanation for life and our consiousness. Can't we?
For the record, I'm agnostic. I don't believe, but would like to believe in something. Whatever happens, happens. Just go with the flow of life and deal the cards that are dealt to you.
Abe said, "Man, you must be puttin' me on."
That's my religion... for today.
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
yeah thats me... Getting dumber every year.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say