What do you believe in?

[Unwyred]

I personally cannot imagine a conscious omnipotent singularity as the cause for our creation, and more pertinently, a forgiver of our sins and warden to our souls. An avowal to this mindset as an axiom is the epitome of selfishness. I choose, rather, to believe that we are all beings of energy, as is the eternity around us. Therefore, we are all parallel, complementary, and interconnected. What I could define as "God" or "Allah" would be the perpetual infinitude of existence and everything in it. We create ourselves and destroy ourselves. We control our own destinies and kismet. Serendipity and the stars are merely a reflection of this, karma a manifestation.What do you believe in?

[boozehound420]

Thats all fine and dandy i guess.
I believe we are all ape's with higher brain functions.

[Hare_Geist]

I believe a lot of things are real, just not Gods, souls, afterlives, past lives, aliens, ghouls, ghosts, psychic abilities or absolute morality (although I admit with all of these things that I could possibly be wrong and there's no way of telling for sure, which some would say makes me "agnostic").

[jackketch]

To misquote Pratchett:"Most mods don't believe in gods. They know that the gods exist, of course. They even deal with them occasionally. But they don't believe in them. They know them too well. It would be like believing in the postman."

[AngryFemme]

I believe we're all moral animals with a strong desire for more pleasure than pain, hoping against hope that we can somehow postpone death and prolong our existence.

The only thing I chose to believe is what I can best descern to be reality.

[kurdt318]

Originally Posted by jackketch

To misquote Pratchett:"Most mods don't believe in gods. They know that the gods exist, of course. They even deal with them occasionally. But they don't believe in them. They know them too well. It would be like believing in the postman."

awesome misquote

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I believe im GOD!!!

I believe in myself. I exist, in some fashion.

I believe that my senses give a mostly accurate picture of the universe, and that what they miss can be corrected using reason and its products.

I believe that there is little reason to believe in the existence of a God or Gods; I also believe that though there is more in heaven and earth than we have dreamt of in our philosophy, to (probably mis-)quote Shakespeare, on the whole the paranormal & supernatural is nonexistent.

I believe there is an absolute measure of Good and Evil, at least as applies to humanity.

I believe that I have an interesting and workable view of the universe which I should eventually write more about.

That I am just one part of this universe, intrinsically bound to all other parts simultaneously.

That I cannot separate myself from anything, any more than a single drop of water can separate itself from an ocean.

Through knowledge, enlightenment, and searching for the truth behind all things, we'll eventually overcome the ridiculous notion that we were put here with any form of purpose.

Do we really need some driving force to exist? If we fail, what's the big deal? If we succeed, what do we gain?

Regardless of what happens, we're all going to die, and we can't take anything with us when we go. All of our worth and value on this plane stays here, to be distributed amongst our greedy relatives.

That's what I believe: That we have no real impact on the universe, and we never will. All our might and power will die with us, and we as a species will die eventually.

So believe what you want, if that's what lets you sleep at night. I know what's coming for me, and that's why I'm fine with whatever happens.

[Hexadecimal]

I believe in my mind...at least I'm pretty sure that's where I do my thinking. Some have proposed throughout my life that my thinking is done by my penis...they might be right, but if that were the case, my motor functions would be severely lacking.

[nshanin]

I don't believe in karma because that implies a guiding (supernatural) force, I believe that I'm a bunch of quarks that arranged themselves enough to produce consciousness. I believe our purpose in life is what we make of it, be it helping others, helping yourself, or deluding yourself in religious fantasies. As quoted by the band We're All Gonna Die in their unloved song, I am the Messiah, "A lifetime lived for someone else, change all your ways and follow me, salvation doesn't come for free, I am the one to set you free." That's not to say, however, that if religion gives you pleasure beyond imagination in THIS life, that there's something wrong with that, it's as justifiable as sex or drugs. I don't believe in an afterlife. I don't belileve in ANY sort of higher power (except maybe aliens, as Dawkins once quoted some other dude's law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"). I also believe that what I see is reality, even though I accept the idea of such things as Sophism. I refuse to believe in anything that cannot be tested and verified via the scientific method because while fundies may argue against scientific conclusions, they have nothing on the method itself (please prove me wrong). If we accepted everything on faith, we'd have to give equal credence to ridiculous, out of this world things that have not been tested at all. I believe in things like black holes, gravitrons, string theory/loop quantum gravity, and the Big Bang because science points towards them.

This is what I believe, but above all, I believe in the scientific method and its validity in establishing tenative facts.

"Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?" --William S. Burroughs

[Winter]

Phayder92889(or whatever it is) wins the thread. He is right, and he said it very well.