Is There a God? - Lol

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I don't like the question, it sets monotheism to default but I believe that there are many Gods, many pantheons, many spirits from many cultures and lands throughout time. There is a great multiplicity of the Divine in our universe that people in the West have stopped appreciating in the last couple millennia and we're worse off for it.

As for "God", I believe the Abrahamic God is a false and corrupt distortion of a Semitic God which would have existed within a pantheon. Perhaps the God got selfish and wanted all the worship to Himself, hence Abrahamic religion obsession with muh one gawd.
 
Daughter of Pomona dijo:
As for "God", I believe the Abrahamic God is a false and corrupt distortion of a Semitic God which would have existed within a pantheon. Perhaps the God got selfish and wanted all the worship to Himself, hence Abrahamic religion obsession with muh one gawd.
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The Old Testament certainly has vestiges of polytheism in it, even naming some of the particularly detested rival gods, such as Moloch. And never mind the Song of Solomon, by the crafty devil who got his pagan love song right in the Bible.
 
Back in my fedora tipping teens, I would say things like "Fuck God lol" but as times have changed, especially with this ultra-leftist SJW crap in the last decade, I've found myself favoring a more conservative mindset. I don't side with either extreme, but the "alt-right" I feel are closer to sane human beings than anything the left is about these days.

Now I feel if religion works for someone, cool. I have some good friends actually, and have known some great people, who are that way because they were way religious. Do I think you need to be religious to be a cool person? Not exactly, but if I chose between either of the extremes today, it would be the right every time. The people I couldn't stand when I was a teen, ironically enough.

So to answer the thread, no I don't believe in a God, but I'd rather people believe in that than all the PC shit that's catching momentum online.
 
Laughs_Under_Lucricities dijo:
Sorry, I don't buy it.

I think my biggest beef is "God" taking credit for everything that happens. By that definition, we're God.
Since only we control our lives.
I know I do.
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Laughs_Under_Lucricities dijo:
Never applied to the ones I've known. They give "God" (or whoever) credit for literally everything. Even one time I merely left the house a little earlier and ran into them, who said, "Oh, thank Jesus he brought you here."
Clearly annoyed, but not wanting to be rude, I say, "No... it was me. I just got up early."
"Well, he made it so."

And other such things really left a negative impression on me.
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Laughs_Under_Lucricities dijo:
Yeeeah... we're going to have to agree to disagree. I do not share that notion at all.
I don't go around forcing my Atheism on anyone like they do with theirs, even when no one asks for it.
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KickyerArsene dijo:
Back in my fedora tipping teens, I would say things like "Fuck God lol" but as times have changed, especially with this ultra-leftist SJW crap in the last decade, I've found myself favoring a more conservative mindset. I don't side with either extreme, but the "alt-right" I feel are closer to sane human beings than anything the left is about these days.

Now I feel if religion works for someone, cool. I have some good friends actually, and have known some great people, who are that way because they were way religious. Do I think you need to be religious to be a cool person? Not exactly, but if I chose between either of the extremes today, it would be the right every time. The people I couldn't stand when I was a teen, ironically enough.

So to answer the thread, no I don't believe in a God, but I'd rather people believe in that than all the PC shit that's catching momentum online.
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Well, glad to see you've changed your tune on religious people just a little bit there pal. Now if only you could stop thirsting after those female kiwis and not out your own sock, you'd be set.

Not quite out of M'lady woods yet, but I think you can get there. If you come back with a 4th sock with even better behavior, I'll be sure to thank Jesus for helping you become a better person.
 
I'd consider myself an agnostic; I think that by virtue of something existing rather than nothing -- in a universe that favors nothing over something on a long enough timescale -- that there must have been a sort of prime mover. Now, that doesn't necessarily mean said mover is a God in any contemporary religious sense, or that it's even a sentient entity, but anything that heaves forth all of creation gets a lowercase g god status in my book, at least. That says nothing for features people tend to tack onto belief in a god like an afterlife or souls. I think it's a bit dishonest to deny the possibility entirely; ontology is a tricky subject and becomes difficult to hold any solid explanation to.

Either there are some real things exempt from logic or logic itself ceases to exist at a certain point, otherwise there wouldn't be a start to a finite universe. Without any causal logic to operate on prior to "the beginning", a mundane and supernatural cause are equally (un)likely.
 
I believe there is (just like there is an antithesis to it)... Unlike my family, I don't make a big deal out of it, however.
 
Is there some kind of first cause that created the universe in the first place? Sure, and I guess you can call that God, but that's really stretching the definition of God to the point where you're basically just personifying the Big Bang. Is there anything that a religious person would recognize as "God"? lol no
 
TBH, I just wish people would stop making stories about the Book of Revelation - it's all scare - mongering BS that's more of a turnoff than anything...
Also, these people's obsession with the world ending because God said so? Both annoying and embarrassing. Even better, it shows how little they care about reality, society, and in worse cases, themselves, their friends/family, as well as maintaining common sense.
 
Gods exist as memes.
You can interact with them, talk to them, they bend and change over time, grow as people, they can influence your life and decisions.
They are as real as any other mental construct, so yes.

A similar question would be: Is math real? Is English real?
Is there such a thing as [an objective order the universe]?

Gods are archetypal structures that allow humans to communicate understanding of natural order through storytelling.
Each God is a word that acts as a representation of some literal or objective natural concept.
It plays a role in the setting, and we learn their behavior, and what to anticipate from the world from their example.

Is there a God?
There's the lameass answer of simply the fact that you can conceive of a being that represents the totality of existence, being yes.
And the vacuous, it really doesn't matter either way.
There's no functional distinction between the supernatural understanding of the Christian YHWH, and the interpretation of it as a fictional being.
You can still pray to it, and have your prayers answered.

Atheism's great hurdle in the coming century will be in whether it can come to terms with the memetic structure of religion and its undeniability.
There is inherent value in have fantastical and optimistic models of the world in that they can explain much more profound associations with less time and effort.
It's easier and more efficient to explain the generalized relationship of the Sun and Moon and the Earth through romantic stories, than it is to elaborate on scientific notions of gravity and mass.
These two means of communication can coexist simultaneously, and both have their own value.
Beyond that we're naturally designed to learn and communicate in this way.
We don't have bits and bytes, we have backpropagated networks of classifying neurons that can only appreciate within certain confidences.
We have no ultimate objective understanding of reality.
Even something as simple as having confidence or hope in the face of future rather than cold objective indifference can profoundly influence the behavior and outcomes that we achieve.

God I'm such a huge fucking faggot.
 
I don't believe there is a God but I believe everything comes from Chaos.

It's pantheism but with some distinct differences

Pantheism is the idea God is in everything and that all it is expression of The Source.

With Chaos it same except it allows for the idea that there can be multiple sources, we can exist and not exist as same time and so on.
 
It depends on your definition of god. There's people in Vanuatu who worship Prince Philip, and I'm pretty damn sure Prince Philip is real.
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