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 Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 1:18 pm
I just had this odd theory. What do you think?
Ok, so what if there is NO higher power, and we as humans are the deciders of fate? But only our fate, when we are alone. However, working together we could change more and more. We ourselves create our world, our afterlife. We only take karma if we choose to beleive in it.
I think I'll call it... Peopleism.
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Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 11:04 pm
I'm often more of a middle ground person when it comes to religious questions. Who says there is just one higher power? And who is to say that power is "higher?" Isn't that just a matter of personal perspective?
There are many systems out there that support the idea that people decide their fate and also believe in some concept of the divine. Much of modern magic for instance is geared towards using abilities to drive your fate and wishes.
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Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 5:18 pm
Do you say that because you believe it? If you don't believe it, be careful. Don't start a new religion on a tangent. However, do you really?
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Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 9:51 am
Mercution Do you say that because you believe it? If you don't believe it, be careful. Don't start a new religion on a tangent. However, do you really? well even if it was a tangent, i don't think it's that easy to start a religion, and even if it is and people want to believe that even when the person with the original thought doesn't, that would be their choice. smile
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 4:30 pm
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boy would you be surprised, and even things that aren't religion can have faithful and obsessive followers. Like Johnny Depp. Or Star Wars.
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Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 8:02 pm
People (I'm making a generalization so beware, I don't necessarily mean you.) can't stand not to know something. If someone asks the question, "How was the world created?" someone is going to come up with an answer. Not trying to offend anyone, but a divine power could just be a theory to explain the universe's creation.
It's happened before, such as the question, "What makes the seasons?" Then came along the myth of Persephone and Pluto and the pomegranite seed, you know.
So there is a very good chance (in my mind, don't kill me) that there is no divine being at that it is just an attempt by humanity to understand incomprehensible concepts. People's actions do affect what happens in the future. Maybe fate is just a way to avoid second guessing.
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Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:45 pm
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Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 7:58 pm
One could say those started as ideas that someone had and people began to follow it. same for Christianity. Wouldn't it be better for us to stop this from happening at the beginning. How do we know if those in the past were divinely inspired? We don't. But nowadays, we pretty much know. The Dalai Lama? Yeah. A random person and random tangent? ... But people have a tendency to follow whatever, like Hillary clinton. burning_eyes But seriously, I guess Crazy Banana might be divinely inspired. Wow that was a weird sentence. anyway...
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Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 5:55 pm
Mercution Do you say that because you believe it? If you don't believe it, be careful. Don't start a new religion on a tangent. However, do you really? I beleive it, but I have no desire to purposefully create a religion. I specialize in comedic speeches and therefore would fail miserably at communicating the message by word of mouth. Anyways, I beleive that people should find the truth -or their truth- on their own.
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Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 6:39 pm
I believe there is no higher power. We ARE the divine. All religion is is an attempt to explain what people do not know about the world. People need an answer to everything.
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Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:14 pm
Dumna I believe there is no higher power. We ARE the divine. All religion is is an attempt to explain what people do not know about the world. People need an answer to everything. That is indeed one of the primary functions of religion, but I'm not sure I'd say that is its sole function. Different systems offer a wide array of different potential functions and while many of them can be distilled down to 'explaining the world around us' a few functions, like providing a community, are something else. wink
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Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 6:16 pm
To me there are gods out there, but the creation stories have it backwards. I believe that the only reason they exist, is because the human race, at whatever time period it was, believed in them with all of their hearts and souls, that they were able to create them on their own. Humans are capable of amazing things (ie, a mother who can lift a semi if her child is stuck beneath it, how twins can grow up to be similair even if they were seperated at birth, etc.), who's to say that they didn't create the gods/GOD so many years ago?
I have my own theory on it, that is more descriptive. For more info, just pm me.
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Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 10:10 pm
Kalisym To me there are gods out there, but the creation stories have it backwards. I believe that the only reason they exist, is because the human race, at whatever time period it was, believed in them with all of their hearts and souls, that they were able to create them on their own. Humans are capable of amazing things (ie, a mother who can lift a semi if her child is stuck beneath it, how twins can grow up to be similair even if they were seperated at birth, etc.), who's to say that they didn't create the gods/GOD so many years ago? I have my own theory on it, that is more descriptive. For more info, just pm me.
What if we're gods of another world...that would be something else...
But we don't know, and people will believe in whatever works for them. So if not believing in karma works for you, karma doesn't effect you in a bad way.
Just like if somebody gave you a pill and told you it would make you smarter (and it was actually a suger pill) and you believed it would, and you got higher grades in school or something, then it was totally in your mind. But you saw the results from it. Or if you tell yourself you're depressed, then you're more likely to be depressed.
So if somebody believed that we're all inside a giant fish bowl, their belief is valid in some sense.
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 1:10 pm
[quote="Astarze"I don't think any of us are sure, but that's something I've thought about too. What if everything imaginary is real, somewhere in some place? What if after we die we go to this place we created?
Heh. Welcome to this one's crazy world. But I won't discuss personal tenants here...
Beleifs are often very personal things, as Astarze points out and the mind's ability to convince itself of truths is very powerful. Anything repeated enough times becomes to the individual mind, a truth. There are many, many ways of seeing the world and everyone in a sense lives in their own little 'universe' of reality. From that comes some conflicts of ideaologies, but also a fascinating multiplicity of perception. Answers to all these big questions... so varied, they are. Find one's own truths and be amazed at the truths others come to. whee
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