What Are You Doing Right Now? (197 Viewers)

[IliveForJuve]

Sheikster, check out this page: http://godisimaginary.com/

 

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[Enron]

When did all desis become punjabis, foren boy?



With or without pants?



I remember going out with this hot chick once and how she floored me on our first date when she suddenly starts talking about "Him". And at first I'm naive. Like your brother? Your dad? Your old boyfriend?

That woman was gorgeous but she was one stepladder away from her flying saucer to God.

I had a really hot chick I was interested in, until she gave credit for a high grade to "the grace of god".

 

[Lilith]

How would you feel if you were dating a hardcore Christian and she told you that god doesn't want her to be in a relationship at the moment and then she tells you they need a break? Fucking schizophrenia, man.

Is that why you became an atheist or were you an atheist before this?

 

[IliveForJuve]

Is that why you became an atheist or were you an atheist before this?

I was an atheist before this. This shit just happened a few hours ago.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Sheikster, check out this page: http://godisimaginary.com/

Too much Christianity in there. Need to balance the scales a bit. I need to study Hinduism in detail to put some points forward.

I declare this my new purpose in life.

 

[swag]

Mister Greg doesn't believe in god?

Whether I believe in god didn't matter. What I knew is that if I wanted to get into her pants, I'd have to carry a bible and openly pray for the souls of all my gay friends. It just wasn't worth it.

 

[IliveForJuve]

Too much Christianity in there. Need to balance the scales a bit. I need to study Hinduism in detail to put some points forward.

I declare this my new purpose in life.

Well since everybody here is Christian, it is quite useful for me

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Whether I believe in god didn't matter. What I knew is that if I wanted to get into her pants, I'd have to carry a bible and openly pray for the souls of all my gay friends. It just wasn't worth it.

 

[IliveForJuve]

Whether I believe in god didn't matter. What I knew is that if I wanted to get into her pants, I'd have to carry a bible and openly pray for the souls of all my gay friends. It just wasn't worth it.

I know I know but I was just curious to know if you believed in God.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Well since everybody here is Christian, it is quite useful for me

Oh I know. It's just I'm yet to come across debunkings of Hindu scriptures which are similar to how people like Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens do with the Bible. Perhaps the Hindu scriptures are perfect, and have no holes that critics can target. Perhaps Hinduism is real. Perhaps we do reincarnate, and play this game of life again and again.

 

[Kasaki]

She even got rid of her facebook because god told her...

God ain't tell her shit

Is that why you became an atheist or were you an atheist before this?

If this is wy then u did it for the wrong reason

 

[IliveForJuve]

I didn't do it because of that!

 

[Kasaki]

Just sayin!

I believe in a God, now do i spend my life trying to answer the details? nop Whatever happens,happens imo. God didn't put me on this earth to stress over a couple laws or do his bidding

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Just sayin!

I believe in a God, now do i spend my life trying to answer the details? nop Whatever happens,happens imo. God didn't put me on this earth to stress over a couple laws or do his bidding

God didn't put you on this earth. You parents did.

 

[Kasaki]

God didn't put you on this earth. You parents did.

Well i've always defined "God" as some type of natural force. Either way something created this whole universe. Without that there would be no parents..so yes your parents birthed you but what caused it all.

 

[swag]

I know I know but I was just curious to know if you believed in God.

That's an immensely complicated answer for me. On the one hand, I don't subscribe to any religion per se and you might call me an athiest by some of those measures. On the other hand, in a way I subscribe to all religions because I believe they give you a window in time, culture, and geography for how humans experience the divine. Not necessarily the divine in terms of an old dude with a beard who farts planets. But the divine in a sense of being part of something larger than yourself.

When I was in Mysore a few weeks ago, I got a massive kick out of being inside the Shri Chamundeshwari Hindu temple in the middle of Pongal where all sorts of crazy shit was going on. People inscribing swastikas on a back "wailing" wall with colored bindi dot powders, the odd crush of people to make offerings to the Hindu god statues inside, etc. But the most sublime part for me was when they carried out one of their Hindu idols from the temple out in front on the plaza as a rare thing they do on special occasions, and the worshippers go a little looney over seeing it publicly for the first time in a long while.

Five years ago in Fatima, Portugal, I pretty much witnessed the exact same pageantry in a Catholic ceremony where a statue of the virgin Mary is carried out in the basilica plaza for a rare occasion and all the worshippers go nuts at the rare chance of seeing it, etc. The fact that here you had two totally different religious cultures in two different parts of the world following almost identical practices ties something together about the human experience that can be a bit magical for me.

So while I'm no more athiestic than an agnostic, calling me agnostic isn't quite right either. In Facebook-ese, it's complicated.

 

[Kasaki]

I like greg's take on things

 

[Enron]

Mary Jane Rottencrotch ain't worth all that. Religion is fine. I don't whip my dick out within the first 5 minutes of meeting you, I don't expect you to break out Jesus.

 

[Kasaki]

Well i've always defined "God" as some type of natural force. Either way something created this whole universe. Without that there would be no parents..so yes your parents birthed you but what caused it all.

And i hate getting into discussions like these cause my philosophy on life has always been to just live it. No need to question shit just enjoy it

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Well i've always defined "God" as some type of natural force. Either way something created this whole universe. Without that there would be no parents..so yes your parents birthed you but what caused it all.

Then why not just call it nature? The standard usage of the term "god" implies a conscious being who monitors and cares about humans and their actions. But nature is uncaring and indifferent. Mixing them up or considering them to be one and the same is something we should not do.

That's an immensely complicated answer for me. On the one hand, I don't subscribe to any religion per se and you might call me an athiest by some of those measures. On the other hand, in a way I subscribe to all religions because I believe they give you a window in time, culture, and geography for how humans experience the divine. Not necessarily the divine in terms of an old dude with a beard who farts planets. But the divine in a sense of being part of something larger than yourself.

When I was in Mysore a few weeks ago, I got a massive kick out of being inside the Shri Chamundeshwari Hindu temple in the middle of Pongal where all sorts of crazy shit was going on. People inscribing swastikas on a back "wailing" wall with colored bindi dot powders, the odd crush of people to make offerings to the Hindu god statues inside, etc. But the most sublime part for me was when they carried out one of their Hindu idols from the temple out in front on the plaza as a rare thing they do on special occasions, and the worshippers go a little looney over seeing it publicly for the first time in a long while.

Five years ago in Fatima, Portugal, I pretty much witnessed the exact same pageantry in a Catholic ceremony where a statue of the virgin Mary is carried out in the basilica plaza for a rare occasion and all the worshippers go nuts at the rare chance of seeing it, etc. The fact that here you had two totally different religious cultures in two different parts of the world following almost identical practices ties something together about the human experience that can be a bit magical for me.

So while I'm no more athiestic than an agnostic, calling me agnostic isn't quite right either. In Facebook-ese, it's complicated.

Indeed. I think everyone feels the need to be part of something bigger than themselves. But all it takes is the proper understanding of nature to see the grandeur in all of it. Such moments give me immense happiness and satisfaction and fills that need.