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 Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 5:11 pm
1) Do you believe in an after life? If yes, what kind, if not and you believe in nothing after you die then why?
2) Do you believe in spirits? If not, why? If yes, where do you think they came from?
1) As an agnostic, I can't really say. However, I hope there isn't an afterlife. If there was "life" would get pretty boring after a couple millenia.
2) I hope there aren't spirits too.
3) If you don't believe in God, do you believe in Satan?
3) Actually, I'm doubtful of God, I don't not believe in him. That aside though, I'm doubtful that satan exists too.
4)If you don't believe in God, is there something else you believe firmly in?
Even if its a logical reasoning?
Nope.
5)what do you believe regarding how we came into existence?
Evolution for how human life came.
As for the universe, I have no idea.
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Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 11:15 pm
1) Do you believe in an after life? If yes, what kind, if not and you believe in nothing after you die then why?
Hrm... I don't know. I can say that I don't believe in the afterlife described by any major organized religions that are prevalent today. Although it's a nice thought that they want to explain the world around them, the fact that their mythos stories don't match up with history, let alone science, makes me pretty sure that the afterlife those religions portray isn't true either.
Perhaps it's nothing after we die. However, your energy, trapped and non-trapped must be released as it cannot be created or destroyed as far as we know, so as far as the "after-life" goes it may be something as simple as your atoms being recycled in the universe.
2) Do you believe in spirits? If not, why? If yes, where do you think they came from?
I guess one would have to have a definition of "spirits" or go by their own idea of spirits. I don't know if spirits come from living people, but I wouldn't be surprised, honestly. We use science as much as we can, but we haven't begun to scrape the surface of every knowledge that's out there.
I do feel the presence of the supernatural. I'm not surprised by this either. Natural science aims to study the natural world through observation and empirical examination; However, science cannot prove or disprove things of the supernatural world. Just because we cannot explain it or always observe it empirically does not mean it cannot exist. Perhaps we can come up with ways to observe it and work with it in the future even if we can't now. To shut out possibilities because they don't conform to your narrow "modern science" view can lead to just as much of a fallacy as doing the same for religious views. After all, a hundred years ago, people were laughed at for believing that germs could infect and kill people. Obstetricians and midwives who washed their hands with lye solution after each delivery were scoffed at.
I have reason to believe, through experience, and through the multitudes of people claiming to experience the supernatural, that it could very well exist. Furthermore, it could use many of the same energy and wave principals that we study today in the natural world. As I said before, there's always more we can learn.
3) If you don't believe in God, do you believe in Satan?
No. I guess unless you're speaking of concepts or archetypes... and then still not really. This dichotomy of "good" and "evil" stem from Zoroastrian ethic and belief system that existed before the formulation of major organized religions like Judeo-Christian religions, Islam, Hinduism, etc. I find it humorous that in countries nowhere near early Iran where Zoroastrianism developed, the ancient belief system doesn't include an idea that humans are naturally evil and must fight to be good. From my experience of traveling to China and interacting with multiple cultures, they don't believe you're good or evil. You're a person, perhaps inherently "good" (whatever that means) and you slip up from time to time. We all make mistakes. (This is why early mission trips for Xtianity had such problems taking hold in the oriental areas.)
These later organized religions picked, borrowed, and integrated ideas from the current belief systems surrounding them at the time. In its beginning, Christianity was actually one of the most liberal, hippie-esque religions of its time. (I'm also amused by this)
Again, knowing what I know historically, why should I believe in either entity when I know that it's just an evolution of ideas and values that ultimately helped the people develop societies with which to control their masses and explain their lifestyles?
4)If you don't believe in God, is there something else you believe firmly in?
Even if its a logical reasoning?
I do rather enjoy logical reasoning, but am not so close-minded as to think that I must have it down pat. I don't and I can't. What I "believe" is merely the result of my experiences and my perception of the world. (Let's face it, that can be influenced by genetics, my up bringing, my culture, and my environment.)
I worked at a library for a while, and during the summers we would reshelve and relabel so much media for each coming fiscal year. After learning the sheer volume of media at the library, I did some math and found that even if I read one medium every day for the rest of my life (assuming an average life span) I could never even finish every book in that library. That means everywhere you go, there is something you don't know. Every person you meet has something that you can learn. We laugh at those "scientists" from 100 years ago, and 100 years from now, perhaps they will be laughing at us.
Probably the only thing I can say I firmly believe in is that this universe is full of wonder and things that we haven't even figured out yet, so there is always more to learn. (So keep your mind open and your gears turning, is the moral of my story.)
5)what do you believe regarding how came into existence?
How WE came into existence? I could give you a long drawn out answer involving primatology, tectonic plate movement, desertification, changing wind patterns, dynamic ocean current patterns... and that might scratch the surface.
I could make the answer even longer by considering the process of supernovas, fusion, and astronomical occurances.
I could make it even excruciatingly long by describing the physics behind the expansion of matter and phase changes of that energy. But it's all explanations that you've heard before and read before. What was before our big bang? Perhaps another universe, brought on by another big bang, etc. But avoiding a chicken and egg line of reasoning, how did we ultimately come into existence: I don't know.
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