Do You Believe In: God? (3) • Page 2

what do you think happens after death? could be an interesting thread topic
too morbid?

 

big ol orgy

 

What if God was one of us?
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Tryin' to make his way home?

 

Short answer: no
Long answer: also no

 

the anthropomorphic god is a joke and probably a huge mental block for discussing it reasonably because it's so engrained. I believe in God as much as I believe that I and everything else exists though. That belief took a huge reframing of my understanding of God, which originally as a child came from modern catholicism (I don't believe in that god, nor do I think I ever really did).

 

that's kind of where I'm at too. I think something had to have created all of this. even with the big bang, I believe something came before that. I just don't know what it is or what to call it really. but I think maybe that's okay because who says we're supposed to know anyway

 

I should note that this isn't a belief in the commonly used sense in this discussion. it's not "ah yes my faith is strong" or something like that. It's more that it's part and parcel of existence - why I framed it the way I did.

 

I think this implies that there's something separate from the experience of creation itself though. it's an idea pushed by (or at least a side effect of) modern religions, an idea that's very incongruent with modern science.

 

I see what you're saying and I could probably pick holes too but I respect your views so I'll just leave it at that

 

if ever there's an explanation of something that requires some vague notion of a separate entity as an initial actor, or some etherial sentient being, run.

 

these aren't core beliefs of mine that'll be offended by if challenged by btw, I think these are good conversations in general if they happen in good faith, which i think is the case here.

 

I've never been a religious person and I don't believe a god is real. I also really hope I'm right, because if a god was real, they're just sitting there doing nothing when so many children in the world are starving. The only God that is possible to me is a bad person.

 

that the universe is ‘infinite and always‘ is almost damn near equally unbelievable as the concept of creation.

in the beginning there was space gas. in the beginning there was god.

 

its kind of a fascinating philosophy

Problem of evil - Wikipedia

 

I was God once.

 

Most of the time I’d say no but deep down I feel like all of this had to be designed somehow. Doesn’t mean I think there’s an afterlife or anything, just something greater that we don’t understand

 

I'm not religious but I am spiritual

sips coffee

 

I'm not religious. I'm not spiritual. There's no God. There's no ghosts. It is what it is. Smoke weed everyday.

 

This thread gives me hardcore flashbacks to debates on MySpace & Facebook between atheists & evangelicals in the mid to late 00s. Which... weren’t great, lol. Do not miss ‘em.

I’ll never get over how online dweebs from both sides have since ended up on the same side in opposition to feminism & socialism, lol.

 

wat

 

Yes, you did very well until everyone died.

 

Being God isn't easy. If you do too much, people get dependent on you. And if you do nothing, they lose hope. You have to use a light touch, like a safe-cracker or a pickpocket.

 

Life is absurd, maybe there's something all powerful idk

It's harder to believe that we're the most powerful beings we interact with than it is to believe that god could exist IMO. So I'm a maybe

I don't believe in the afterlife though