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ChemGirl
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don't/haunt/this/place
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kingofcarrotflowers
Athieism isn't a religion, Its the lack of religious belief. I know it sounds petty but it annoys me when people define athieism as a religion
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I_got_a_cupcake
I kind of have my own little religion going on, that only I knew about: but now you know about it. If there is a God out there, I like to think I have a connection between Him/Her? I also have a guardian angel. Her name is Claire, actually. know a lot of people say that angels cannot have genders, but in my eyes they can if they want to I guess. I do not go to church, and I ask god if it is ok if I do not, and I think it is ok with him because I constantly feel love every day. My angel follows with me anywhere, she can also take forms of animals and each animal changes depending on how I feel that day. I also enjoy meditation and yoga to connect to a higher power. Meditation music also calms my anxiety, stress and depression disorders, and I am playing some right now actually :)
P.s: This post was NOT meant to insult anyones religion. I am very open minded and have friends from many religions. This post is just a little something I wanted to share. People may also think of my angel as an "imaginary friend" but at least she helps me get through life. I went through a depressive period when I just wanted to die and go to heaven forever, and that's kind of how I found my angel. I have a piece of heaven everyday <3 I still go through my moods sometimes, but she helps me in the end.
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CheyChey
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Steve2.0
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i.eat.rainbows
i voted atheist, but i'm actually an anti-theist. on the belief scale i just invented. agnosticism > atheism > anti-theism, for clarity
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Ghost-of-the-Marlboro-Man
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don't/haunt/this/place
I'm an agnostic. I'm leaning more to athiesm than a religion but I haven't ruled anything out
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NeuroNeptunian
I'm an Atheist Rastafarian environmentalist, now could you please just tell me where I can park my SUV?
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KingTermite
I am the deity in my religion, it's called Termitism, you're all welcome to join. There are no rules except you must let all "bugs" live.
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Itsnotnormal1
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th33INSAN33
I'm an Atheist. Why is Atheism shown as a religion? We don't believe in any gods or goddesses. :/
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1000yrVampireKing
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sograceful
Has it ever occurred to you that diversity can be absolutely beautiful? If everyone did the same things, looked the same way, believed in the same higher power... Life would be boring, stagnant, and science would be halted.
There would be no creativity like music and other art.
There would be no exploration like science, sexuality, and curiosity.
There would be no philosophy or enjoyable activities or freedom for that matter.
And for those reasons, I think it's a blessing to meet people with different beliefs. Try as you might, you can't delete differences from the people of the world; people are created differently. The option you have is to hate it or embrace it.
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suckonthis9
This so-called "diversity" of yours, has caused thousands of years of hate, greed, war, acts of terror, mistrust / distrust, fights, seemingly endless and pointless arguments and has in many cases led to stagnation of thought and progress in some societies, among other things. In fact, I can't think of one single ultimately positive benefit this has brought us, although some people make a pretense that it is 'good'.
I am not saying that we can't do different things or have opposing views, but what we don't need, are these divisions in society. We don't need these divisions in society to have scientific thought and reasoning.
Life is boring and stagnant for many, because certain people have consistently imposed their mistaken beliefs on others. Now I have proof and evidence of their existence, and these same people refuse to believe the truth.
Please do not refer to them as a "higher power", as this is false and misleading.We don't need these divisions in society for arts and music. We have been making art and music since long, long before the advent of these religions.
We are sexual creatures. Often, some religions interfere in our understanding and expression of our sexual behaviour.
We are curious, and that is why we developed the sciences. Why do we need religious divisions to do this?
Yes, we will need to rethink philosophy, but we should have more freedom and freedom of thought, not less.
Why do you think it should be a 'bloodied affair' to meet people with other beliefs? (Look up the etymology for 'bless').
Incorrect. I neither hate it, nor embrace it. There are other options. Try reality.
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sograceful
I'm going to attempt to reply paragraph by paragraph. Bear with me.
Yes, we do need divisions "in society" to have scientific thought and reasoning. How do you think that someone came to the conclusion that Earth revolves around the sun and not vice versa? By standing alone in their beliefs/hypothesis.
So you are saying we need only certain divisions in society for art an music? Or that we should not have any divisions for art and music at all?
Each person can make their own decision with regards to sexuality and their religion. You can't discredit every single one just because you disagree with the views of a few.
My point is not that we need /religious/ divisions in society, but that it is healthy and wonderful to be able to see and experience different perspectives. Paganism has a great deal to do with science however, as I'm sure Judaism, Christianity, and Islam do to.
I never said anything about blood or an affair and to be honest I don't understand what you're trying to get at with that point.
Anyways.... Welcome to 1984.
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suckonthis9
How humans came to the conclusion that the Planet Earth orbits the Sun:
Heraclides of Pontus (4th century BCE), a philosopher and astronomer, had said that the rotation of the Earth explained the apparent daily motion of the celestial sphere.
Aristarchus of Samos
Aristarchus (Ἀρίσταρχος, Aristarkhos, 310 BCE – ca. 230 BCE) of Samos was an ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician who presented the first known model that placed the Sun at the center of the known universe with the Earth revolving around it. He was influenced by Philolaus of Croton, but he identified the "central fire" with the Sun, and put the other planets in their correct order of distance around the Sun.
Aristarchus calculated the size of the Earth, and measured the size and distance of the Moon and Sun, in a treatise which has survived. (Not all of his calculations were accurate, but a good step forward).Seleucus of Seleucia
Seleucus (or Seleukos) of Seleucia (born c. 190 BC, fl. 150s BC) was a Hellenistic astronomer and philosopher. He is best known as a proponent of a heliocentric model and for his theory of the origin of tides.
Teaching around 150 BC, he is known to have been a follower of the heliocentric theory of Aristarchus of Samos, which stated that the Earth rotated around its own axis which in turn revolved around the Sun. According to Plutarch, Seleucus was the first to demonstrate the heliocentric system through reasoning, but it is not known what arguments he used. According to Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, Seleucus may have constructed his heliocentric theory by determining the constants of a geometric model and by developing methods to compute planetary positions using this model, as Nicolaus Copernicus later did in the 16th century. He may have used trigonometric methods that were available in his time, as he was a contemporary of Hipparchus.It seems to me, that these people were employing scientific thought and reasoning, long before some of these divisions were created.
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sograceful
Thank you for your cheerful and accurate copy-and-paste explaination. It is extremely enlightening to know your intellectual sources include Wikipedia and Answers.com
Anyways, I do not have the time to continue this debate with you. Point shally noted an have a nice day.
PS: Checkmate.
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suckonthis9
Then along came some backwards people, from a dusty corner of Civilisation, who started 'teaching' people from already antiquated belief systems, and who knew little to nothing about nature or the actual nature of the known Universe.
These backwards people, later caused people like Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei and Johannes Kepler, much difficulty in Enlightening the world, as to the actual nature of the Universe.
In fact, after hundreds of years since the rediscovery of a heliocentric model, they are still 'teaching' people that the Planet Earth is flat and everything revolves around us!Why are you stubbornly clinging on to these ARCHAIC BELIEFS?
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