Do you believe in God?

[iwanttodie019]

1)Yes
2)No

 

[uzl lover]

2

 

[LastNite]

Theres an option to put up a poll instead of just text when you post.

2

 

[darksouls]

no

 

[gunmetalblue11]

2.
I word for word agree with Stephen Frey in that interview he made about the Meaning of Life.

 

[Praestat_Mori]

2) No

 

[NormallyNeurotic]

1. Not the Christian one, though.

 

[TwistedNightmares]

2 - No.

 

[Jadeith]

Do you believe in God?

Define God.

 

[grandmotherboxing]

2
No, but I do think there's a possibility of something beyond the observable, simply that it hasn't been discovered yet. Like if an afterlife could be presented plausibly to me it would be through a continuation of consciousness through existing matter yadda yadda, the question then would be if whatever that is could be at all similar to perceive as consciousness at the present

 

[asaṅkhata]

I mean I exist, so naturally God must exist aswell. It's mot a matter of faith for me. Faith appears at the time when knowledge of God declines.

God is an imporsnal force that imposes it's will on inert matter. Personifying that force makes sense because man is the only animal that can establish a connection with god, and is therefore the pinnacle of god's creation and his representative on earth, but it can also lead to confusions ("The Tao that can be named is not the eternal Tao") such as are seen in christianiry and esprcially in modern-day protestantism.



Pantheism is also flawed because it doesn't properly seperate between matter and spirit and sees God as equally in everything, which is very dangerous and misguided.

I don't belive in the avant-garde theory that everything was created by atoms bumping into each other in the void. If you believe there is anything meaningful in life, and it's almost inpossible not to believe that, then that meankng must have already been implicit in the creation of the cosmos. It could not have randomly "spawned" with time, as some scientists would have it, because all the principles that gave rise to and sustain human life have already been there at the start and have never undergone any change or transformation.

I know not everyone agress with this, but to me it's as natural as 2+2=4.

 

[itsgone2]

Yes.

 

[Macedonian1987]

Yes I do believe in God but not in the way the churches teach us. My belief in God is based upon reading thousands of near death experiences I have read in the past decade.

 

[LakeMungoGirl]

1)Yes
2)No

2

 

[annointed_towers]

Yes.

 

[Black_Knight]

yes
but I think it's obscured under some incalculable number of layers of abstraction/insanity, and its definition is always distorted by how we have a relational perspective of it
or maybe just a couple and I'm being dramatic

I see god as something between azathoth and the childlike empress from the neverending story, but both too strongly personify it
ultimately a tragic and sympathetic figure who has infinite vulnerability to accompany its infinite power

Faith appears at the time when knowledge of God declines.

I like this line a lot.

 

[Shadows From Hell]

No

 

[Grog]

No. But I suppose it could be possible there's some force beyond our comprehension that put us all here. I'm agnostic.

 

[OzymandiAsh]

yes
but I think it's obscured under some incalculable number of layers of abstraction/insanity, and its definition is always distorted by how we have a relational perspective of it
or maybe just a couple and I'm being dramatic

I see god as something between azathoth and the childlike empress from the neverending story, but both too strongly personify it
ultimately a tragic and sympathetic figure who has infinite vulnerability to accompany its infinite power



I like this line a lot.

Interesting post.

Yes, I believe in God (and his fundamental goodness, greatness and glory); even if I also believe that it is perfectly natural to feel angry, abandoned, and in exile from him.

 

[FuneralCry]

No, anything to do with religion is fictional to me, I see existing as completely futile, existence just feels like a terrible, tragic mistake to me, it's just suffering all for the sake of it with no limit as to how much one can be tortured that just leads to decay and death anyway and I could never see any point to any of this.

 

[KenDuh]

2.
No, but I've been looking for one, I need someone to tell me if what am doing is right or what

 

[Forever Sleep]

I'm a 1.5- I'm really not sure one way or the other. I don't believe but then, I'm not 100% sure there isn't one either. I hope there isn't though.

 

[BrainSplatter]

1)Yes
2)No

3) I'm agnostic. It's not that I don't believe but or that I completely believe either. I just think there's something higher out there some kind of power or being. Whatever it is, some people might call it a god others might call it something else, but there has to be more to existence than what we currently know.

After taking so many psychedelics, I've become more open minded to the idea. There's so much we still don't understand about ourselves, life and what's beyond it. I don't see what's so scary about believing in a god. I think it scares people because if a god exists there has to be balance so there could also be something much darker… an opposite force so evil or death‑bringing energy

 

[Pale_Rider]

1.

 

[TheHolySword]

Yes and no is just too black and white. I lost my faith somewhere along the way. My family never did, though. I hope He shepherds them into greener pastures after my death.

 

[Quantum_Marten0302]

I dont know

 

[OOUUneverover]

2.
If there was a god then he would've had the rationality to kill me at this point

 

[leloyon]

That's a complicated question, it depends on what you mean by god. You see, it helps no one to be reductive. I believe that, that we are here implies to some degree that there are forces larger than us. Now we can get into the semanticalities. The very notion of belief itself can rhetorical whittled to the bare novel of its meaning.

 

[Xi-Xi]

1

 

[mjolnir]

2. Probably not, but it's possible that Jesus lived as an ordinary, kind man, without great divine powers. I don't see much logic in a God who is omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent and yet allows evil.