Quote (Skinned @ Mar 24 2022 12:56pm)

Socialization. Religion is primarily a regional thing. You're taught as a kid to believe certain things.

Why in general do human hang one to this? We have always had our mythology and creation myths, Gods of the Gaps, etc.

For a lot of people is a meaning of life thing. Religion just works for some people to fight off nihilism. Others use art, music, and literature. Some use philosophy. Some are so concrete mentally than can just focus on careers and families and not worry about stupid abstract things like metaphysical concerns.

I certainly don't believe in god. People are born and they die and that is their experience. We experience the world through our mind which is emergent from physical processes within a body, and that is the obvious truth, because your entire experience of the world can change if your organs starts to fail and the thing your mind is emergent from starts to fail.....

We call brain death dementia. There are several types of ways the brain can become diseased and physically atrophy to the point of death in the dementia umbrella. The thing that the mind emerges from is broke and therefore the mind doesn't work. You're still alive but you don't have a mind and anything resembling you is gone at this point. When you bear witness to this you intuitively know its happening and that is why people grieve them while they're alive and have relief when they finally die.

What we call the human soul is actually the human mind....the aggregate of all love, tastes, experience, tendencies, fears, drives, spirituality, all is in the mind. It has created the Bible, the Koran, the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path, the Ramayana, and many other things that express our universal desires and truths, mixed with a little mythology.

I never thought Aesop's Fables were meant to be taken literally personally, and I've considered every holy book to be a version of Aesop's Fables. But the lessons are good lessons.

My old friend Widowmaker would hate me for saying this, but I approach religion like a buffet.

Quote (Mondain @ Mar 24 2022 01:18pm)

so say "Oh my Dragons"

Quote (Diablos_Uber @ Mar 24 2022 01:23pm)

The answer should be obvious then. People believe in God because they believe that God has revealed himself through scripture.

Quote (Modulok2405 @ Mar 24 2022 08:28am)

Why would I?

Dont you realize how stupid this "argument" is?

Quote (Mondain @ Mar 24 2022 07:05am)

If you don't believe in God, why use the word God.

e- The excuse "it's just a phrase or expression" is avoiding the question. Every non-believer I've asked this of has quickly used this to avoid answering the question.

Quote (Skinned @ Mar 24 2022 04:56am)

Socialization. Religion is primarily a regional thing. You're taught as a kid to believe certain things.

Why in general do human hang one to this? We have always had our mythology and creation myths, Gods of the Gaps, etc.

For a lot of people is a meaning of life thing. Religion just works for some people to fight off nihilism. Others use art, music, and literature. Some use philosophy. Some are so concrete mentally than can just focus on careers and families and not worry about stupid abstract things like metaphysical concerns.

I certainly don't believe in god. People are born and they die and that is their experience. We experience the world through our mind which is emergent from physical processes within a body, and that is the obvious truth, because your entire experience of the world can change if your organs starts to fail and the thing your mind is emergent from starts to fail.....

We call brain death dementia. There are several types of ways the brain can become diseased and physically atrophy to the point of death in the dementia umbrella. The thing that the mind emerges from is broke and therefore the mind doesn't work. You're still alive but you don't have a mind and anything resembling you is gone at this point. When you bear witness to this you intuitively know its happening and that is why people grieve them while they're alive and have relief when they finally die.

What we call the human soul is actually the human mind....the aggregate of all love, tastes, experience, tendencies, fears, drives, spirituality, all is in the mind. It has created the Bible, the Koran, the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path, the Ramayana, and many other things that express our universal desires and truths, mixed with a little mythology.

I never thought Aesop's Fables were meant to be taken literally personally, and I've considered every holy book to be a version of Aesop's Fables. But the lessons are good lessons.

My old friend Widowmaker would hate me for saying this, but I approach religion like a buffet.

Quote (Modulok2405 @ Mar 24 2022 04:46am)

Serious Question....why?

I cant wrap my head around that nonsense, enlighten me please.

I'll appreciate it.

Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ Mar 24 2022 08:33am)

If you don't believe in the norse gods why do you say Thursday?

Quote (Mondain @ Mar 24 2022 01:32pm)

I believe that you internally believe in god and thus use the term "my god" "jesus christ" & "hell"

you may try everything you can to externally deny your true internal belief but this slip proves that you believe.

This is where you roll your eyes and call this "stupid" and continue to ignore what you believe subconsciously.

Otherwise there would be no use of God, Jesus or hell. Because as you claim they don't exists and thus you would not use those terms which don't correlate to anything.