Atheist/Anti-theist/Agnostic Troper Group

Yo.

Though, I don't feel as if the discussion that will take place here will be of any interest to me.

Present.

I'm an atheist. A Secular Humanist if you want to be precise. Although I used to be Catholic as part of my conservative family. I went to a Catholic school and everything.

hot nuns?

^Ask that question only if you want to traumatize anyone who went to Catholic school.

Most nuns are OLD. Really old.

so that's a no?

I wouldn't really think about nuns that way being gay and all.

And yeah, the few that were there were pretty old.

What Black Humor said.

Follower of my own faith here. Hi.

Then that isn't really agnostic/atheist/atni-theist, it's more deism, theism, or eclectic somethingism.

Aw.

But I don't want to make another thread....

Could we just make this an "other" category? Or..?

Sure just change it to "Atheist/Anti-theist/Agnostic/Other Religions"

Morven'd have to do that.

Anyway, are we here to explain our positions or what's the deal?

Talk about it, debate philosophy, the works.

Well hmm.

I've never actually tried to explain this to anyone before, umm... @_@

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:x

Ex: Hume VS Kant?

Okay, it's quite simple if I simplify it a bit (lol redundancy)

I am a firm believer in the power of the mind. Now, I didn't know this interesting little tidbit when I started practicing this "religion" of mine, but there's apparently a region of the brain that is thought to be responsible for "divine" experiences (I'm unclear on the details, tbh). This is relevant because that experience itself is sort of the focal point for my faith. I'm big on peace and things like that, and I've been doing meditation etc. for a long time. After going through a gamut of religions in a fairly short period, I decided that the feeling itself was what I was after, not any specific divinity.

As such, that feeling is more or less what I 'worship' if you want to use that term. I've also personified the feeling into a god of my own creation, who I freely admit is entirely fictional, and serves mostly as a way to help me "get into" meditation, and other things that bring those experiences about.

I hope at least some of this made sense.

Come to think of it, none of you probably care.

edited 22nd Feb '11 8:09:22 PM by SpainSun

Come to think of it, none of you probably care.

I wouldn't judge yourself too quickly. It was a very interesting read.

Hence

Anyway, what do you think?

I think it's really cool. Then again, I have a strange fascination with non-Abrahamic ideologies. Do you have a name/description of this god? On a side note, I should really take up meditation. It'd probably make me feel less fuzzy than my meds.

Well meditation makes you feel very fuzzy. 'least it does for me.

Anyway. I've gone through dozens of names. I really haven't liked any of them. Az is the one I've stuck with the longest. They can manifest as either a giant eyeball the size of the entire universe, or a glowing, blue sheet of light.

I'm sure the feeling is different. This kind of fuzzy is not a good feeling right now.

That's pretty neat. ^^ The first description reminds me of Grandia 2's Eye of Valmar for some reason. The second one seems to match that feeling you've been describing. Don't ask me how.

edited 22nd Feb '11 9:04:44 PM by snailbait

Yep.

I sometimes perform elaborate, utterly meaningless rituals, again, to help me get into things.

It works.

There is only one dieity you should worship and that's Zuul. Lol I troll

*slap*

I deserved that…knee before zo*sniped*

Present. Weird philosophy. Agnosticism leaning on Atheism.