I Know There Is No God
"God is a concept, by which we measure our pain."
J. Lennon
Man, some people say the coolest things.
J. Lennon
Man, some people say the coolest things.
46-50, M
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couchpotato 路 M
sleepyhead 路 46-50, M
I feel sorry for people indoctrinated in to believing their is a God who loves them, they also miss out on so much as well... :-(
Ynotjenn 路 F
@sleepyhead: How is believing God loves us missing out on anything?馃
sleepyhead 路 46-50, M
@Ynotjenn: The feeling of freedom from not believing in something like a God who loves us, or a religion that tells us what to do is a feeling that people who do those things will never be able to quite understand or experience.
One of the main reasons people don't want to denounce their faith or religion is fear. Fear of the potential consequences of doing so. So many religious people end up being trapped without realising it. Part of the problem is they're told they're the ones who are free, making it difficult to make them see what they're missing out on. I say difficult, I mean near on impossible. Which is why I tend not to bother trying :-)
One of the main reasons people don't want to denounce their faith or religion is fear. Fear of the potential consequences of doing so. So many religious people end up being trapped without realising it. Part of the problem is they're told they're the ones who are free, making it difficult to make them see what they're missing out on. I say difficult, I mean near on impossible. Which is why I tend not to bother trying :-)
Ynotjenn 路 F
@sleepyhead: Oh I just 100% disagree. Imagine for a minute if you have that backwards...the feeling of freedom and peace I experience (with no fear btw) isn't anything you could possibly wrap your brain around.
But that's ok. 馃槉 Each to their own
But that's ok. 馃槉 Each to their own
sleepyhead 路 46-50, M
@Ynotjenn: I rest my case.
:-)
:-)
Ynotjenn 路 F
@sleepyhead: 馃檮
sleepyhead 路 46-50, M
@Ynotjenn: It is entirely possible of course that my belief system is wrong and others are right. I absolutely agree with that and am completely open to being shown how that may be the case. Which is of course a wildly different stance to that of most religious people's, and that I find very sad.
It would be nice if a religious person (of any faith) said "Yeah me too, I could be totally wrong and am open to be being shown how I might be." but in 38 years I haven't heard anyone say that and mean it. I like to think I'm on the side of the open minded group of people. :-)
It would be nice if a religious person (of any faith) said "Yeah me too, I could be totally wrong and am open to be being shown how I might be." but in 38 years I haven't heard anyone say that and mean it. I like to think I'm on the side of the open minded group of people. :-)
Ynotjenn 路 F
@sleepyhead: I'm open minded and I've lived both ways. I'm not only content now with my life, but actually happy. So each to their own. As little no as you're happy dude ;)
sleepyhead 路 46-50, M
@Ynotjenn: I've lived both ways too. Definitely each to their own. Because "their own" doesn't really mean anything at all anyway. One person saying the words "I believe this, that or the other" and another person saying "Well I don't believe in any of that, I believe something entirely different" all means nothing. Nothing anyone has ever said or done, or ever will do for that matter, on planet earth will ever have any meaning whatsoever. And I mean that in the most positive way possible! Depending on how someone is wired they will either read that as a positive or a negative statement.
Without getting too philosophical, "I think, therefore I am" kinda sums it up. We're looking for meaning because we can think, and we want meaning because we emote, the two things are an intellectually paradoxical disaster! To make it even worse we're all genetically programmed to want to survive, so it's little wonder that many people choose to believe there's some sort of afterlife or extension of their own life or soul or spirit.
So, there's an awful lot of people waiting for something that doesn't look like it's ever going to happen. A miracle, some sort of prophesised return, something that will give us all meaning and the answers we're searching for.
And it's funny because when I started looking at the world that way, when I was a lot younger this is, I realised that looking at my life that way made me feel so happy. Happy and free to enjoy my life and my time here on planet earth, however long that may be and live it the best way I can and be the best version of myself I can be as well.
But that's just my take on it, I'm open to other views. As you say it's whatever makes someone happy. :-)
Without getting too philosophical, "I think, therefore I am" kinda sums it up. We're looking for meaning because we can think, and we want meaning because we emote, the two things are an intellectually paradoxical disaster! To make it even worse we're all genetically programmed to want to survive, so it's little wonder that many people choose to believe there's some sort of afterlife or extension of their own life or soul or spirit.
So, there's an awful lot of people waiting for something that doesn't look like it's ever going to happen. A miracle, some sort of prophesised return, something that will give us all meaning and the answers we're searching for.
And it's funny because when I started looking at the world that way, when I was a lot younger this is, I realised that looking at my life that way made me feel so happy. Happy and free to enjoy my life and my time here on planet earth, however long that may be and live it the best way I can and be the best version of myself I can be as well.
But that's just my take on it, I'm open to other views. As you say it's whatever makes someone happy. :-)