What religion do people here belong to?

[HoodedMonk]

Religion, to me is much more of a denial of a preconceived notion of reality. It's a straw man argument where the world is designated an evil place, full of wickedness and cruelty. Heaven is set up as a place of tranquility and the only way anyone can get to this respite is to follow others into religion and give over control of your lives to those who supposedly speak for God.

In a nutswhell you give everything to the Church and after you die and can't return to verify anything, you are given a reward for denying all the pleasures of the world. Sounds like a loose loose scenario that has played out literally 1000's of times. Those on the religious right speak badly about wealth distribution, but the church has been distributing it's parishioners wealth to itself for the last 2000 years.

This thread is not asking for your opinion on the validity of religion. It's asking what religion (or lackthereof) you belong to. Don't turn this into a debate thread.

You didn't answer the question of the thread title.

 

[oh-kay?]

Long post of assuming things about my life again just from a glance at the first few sentences. Going on ignore. Have a good time telling other people all about themselves, sir.

Number one rule in discussion. Do not take things personally, all responses come from the heart of those who utter them. It is from their experiences alone that they speak.

number two. Don't assume anything, lest you you take it personal and refuse to actually see if there could be a middle ground of understanding.

Ignore me if you will, my responses were not because of you, nor were they for your ears only.

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I don't know anyone who has ever been lonely who has never wanted to be someone else. Has this spiritual hoping and wishing ever helped anyone out other than to remove their conscientiousness away from reality, as drugs and strong drink dull the senses?

The idea of meditation is bring inner peace to yourself be blocking out all external forces. It does nothing to prepare a person to be who they need to be in an unforgiving world full of those who would prey on less influential people to make themselves look bigger.

There are literally thousands of nerds, which I am one who are well versed in critical thinking that is only important to critical thinkers, who flock to these web sites in droves because they are getting killed out in the real world by those who are dumber than a box of rocks, but have what it takes to be popular.


You want focus, let me give you my philosophy in life and lets talk about something that works for me. Not that it made me more popular, but it allowed me to look at those who are popular and see them for what they truly are, instead of what others see them as.



I read a very good book a while back called "The four agreements" It started out explaining just how domesticated human beings were and how this domestication has given us a false truth that stipulated just how the social roles of men, women and everything else was to work, so that the those people who fit into that mold could have comfort in the knowledge that they were normal and the rest of us were strange, weird and socially unacceptable. This reality put a target on all of our backs because our existence didn't support the image society so many others are familiar with.

This is why were are all here. Not because we are different, because all people are different and many find this reality very comfortable. It's just that these people who fit in are all different in the same ways. It's like people who get earrings and piercings so they can call themselves individuals, but the get the same ones, so they all look alike, yet assume that in their minds that they are, somehow rebels.

Is this not the same thing that religious people do. Do they not create an image of normality and think if that adhere to certain standards that they will get a reward and is this not the same thing that popular society does and aren't we the secular equivalent to being gay in the religious community?

Are we not ostracized, ridiculed and excluded for something that we had no choice in being?

If this tweaks your interest, I will continue with this, but far more deeply.

This is a very judgmental post.
People are what people are, as long as no one is getting hurt, there is nothing wrong with believing what they believe.

I would expand on that, but I won't get into a debate on religion, especially not here.

No it is a very real post. I am here to promote ways of dealing with life that burries those who come here in guilt for being something other than what society defines as average. If this is wrong here then have the mods delete my post and I will start it up somewhere else.

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Religion, to me is much more of a denial of a preconceived notion of reality. It's a straw man argument where the world is designated an evil place, full of wickedness and cruelty. Heaven is set up as a place of tranquility and the only way anyone can get to this respite is to follow others into religion and give over control of your lives to those who supposedly speak for God.

In a nutswhell you give everything to the Church and after you die and can't return to verify anything, you are given a reward for denying all the pleasures of the world. Sounds like a loose loose scenario that has played out literally 1000's of times. Those on the religious right speak badly about wealth distribution, but the church has been distributing it's parishioners wealth to itself for the last 2000 years.

This thread is not asking for your opinion on the validity of religion. It's asking what religion (or lackthereof) you belong to. Don't turn this into a debate thread.

You didn't answer the question of the thread title.

None is what I am, but I lean towards secular humanism

 

[VanillaCreme]

Perhaps this thread is a bit outdated, considering its original post was from 2007. I believe it has ran its course, and now must be closed.