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December 2, 2007 at
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you dont get the right to feel insulted, u have been warned...
so, peeps, if you dont believe in god, do you feel that ones that do are delusional?
a lot of people will sight karma or other things as 'he got what he had coming' but i argue that it's all a mathematical randomness that on a small scale might seem like karma
perfect example is: when you play poker and u push with the best hand, a LOT of times, you can predict/be so sure that the card will come that will beat you even if the chance of it coming is less than 1:6. when the card comes, some might argue it as karma, but i argue that its all random, just on a small scale randomness doesn't work
discuss....
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you dont get the right to feel insulted, u have been warned...
so, peeps, if you dont believe in god, do you feel that ones that do are delusional?
a lot of people will sight karma or other things as 'he got what he had coming' but i argue that it's all a mathematical randomness that on a small scale might seem like karma
perfect example is: when you play poker and u push with the best hand, a LOT of times, you can predict/be so sure that the card will come that will beat you even if the chance of it coming is less than 1:6. when the card comes, some might argue it as karma, but i argue that its all random, just on a small scale randomness doesn't work
discuss....
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Perhaps a better way to ask is, when was religion "invented?"
By your example, you come off implying one of two things:
1. All people believe in god, and even if they say they don't they're lying. Otherwise there would be mass chaos among the ones who don't.
2. Most criminals don't believe in god -- since they comitted the crimes.
Both of these don't hold true.
BUT there are those few lunatics, who take their religion to a new level (example the ones who fly the airplanes into the twin towers) -- both of them did it for their religions.
belief is god is IDENTICAL to believe in extraterrestrial life, except for one thing
it could be the same thing
so yoy dont see me or others trying to mass convert into believrs or asking tithing for my alien domicile of whorshipping
OK, so we've moved on and put all believers into the same box as UFO and Conspiracy theorists.
But that really doesn't answer your question about why people believe, does it?
http://en.wikipedia.or
Aside from biblical sources (e.g. Old/New Testament) and etc, the existence of someone named Jesus in the same timeframe and with similar circumstances is referenced in Jewish texts, the very people who would seek to prove he never existed (then, of course).
If we cannot rely on others' testimony as "proof" of something, then anything that happened before photography was invented is also suspect. (ahem, and in this day and age, even photography is suspect!)
So instead of worrying about it, they think that "o if I believe in god, and be a good person, and tithe; I can go to heaven. And in the extreme case that there is no heaven, I was just a better person on earth" But the churches scare you into believing there is a god, and that you have to be a good Christian, or else you're going to suffer in hell*.
*Sorry for picking on Christianity, same applies to most religions.
Just believing in God isn't enough to get you locked up with a psych label.
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Just believing in God isn't enough to get you locked up with a psych label.
1. Depends on when you believe the earth was created, and when people were created. I don't have an idea, nor am I going to guess. I believe in a mixture of things, and non of them are religion.
2. Depends on who the first people were, and how they lived. Again no one will ever know for sure. Yes there is a nice story floating around about Adam and Eve and the apple and the snake with legs, but can anyone PROVE it in fact happened?
3. I don't know history of that time period well enough to even make an educated guess
others believe to change their life or to explain stuff in their life. remember believing that something explains your life might be ok even if its a faulty belief
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when i say believe in extraterrestrial, i dont count conspiracy theorists, they are in the area of fanatics. i meant general question to the public
such as" do you think there is another life work anywhere in space"
to answer no on this question, in my view is impossible because space is so vast, is that u cant compare it to anything but itself
That's fine, so long as the point does get across.
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*Sorry for picking on Christianity, same applies to most religions.