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He found me and I cant shake him off

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The one were something bad happened to me and instead of dealing with it like a normal person I turned to my magic sky daddy for strength.

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@pure_temper Educate the nonbelievers.

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I was told to by like 2 years old and pressured by family.
I stopped around 16 once I read on the origination of species

When he believed in me

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Not sure but maybe when I prayed for my sick cat and he got better
I was raised with God though but I wasnt extremely religious until later

When i decided i wanted there to be an afterlife

Life is logically pointless and random. But if it's everything is all meaningless in the end, then why not believe in something to give you meaning? If there's nothing, then you believe in something. And I do hope there's truly something.

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When I looked back and saw two sets of footprints

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I've seen enough people die that I need God to be real just to cope. It's shallow, but it does help.

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DarkRoast posted...

I've seen enough people die that I need God to be real just to cope. It's shallow, but it does help.

Props to people like you that can at least admit it. If believing in something makes them a better person, I'm all for it.

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DarkRoast posted...

I've seen enough people die that I need God to be real just to cope. It's shallow, but it does help.

Damn that sucks
I've been blessed most of my life but I was too stupid to realize it

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God is real insofar as the concept exists and is believed by billions; God is phenomenologically "real."

As an actual objective deity? The jury is out, but I doubt it.

Strange dreams, hunches, sightings, happenings, and physiological reactions which developed over time.

Life isnt what you think it is.

I was once so bored, so bored in class in third grade, that it cleared most top layer Ongoing Things in my mind, and I just admitted to myself I only believed in a god because I was afraid of death, not because it made any sense. I couldn't keep on believing after I admitted it to myself, and I've been atheist ever since.

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Im not sure God loves everybody equally.

God isn't human. It doesn't care about you and It doesn't know you. As well it won't save you.

Does God exists? maybe, maybe not. I mean it created what we see above the clouds or was it something else?.

It's fun being agnostic, over an atheist and most definitely over believers. Question them hard to the point of making them think hard.

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If we start applying the pantheon mentality, there would a God of the Earth, a God of the Solar System, a God of the Galaxy, and so on and so forth.

I lost my keys and then somehow I found them again. It was a miracle.

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5 dollar foot longs.

God is. I have always known.

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He started to talk to me.

gods are not. i have always known.

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Is life here arbitrary? On earth I mean. Was it by chance?

Then it could have emerged by chance shortly after the universe formed. And made it beyond the great filters. And consequently it would be some 13 or 14 billion years old, or even older if this universe is one of many (infinite?) universes.

Consider the Kardashev scale:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale

Humans are about to hit level 1 on that scale, within our lifetime I think. And that's with barely any time spent trying to move up the scale.

Imagine beings billions of years old, that have been doing this for billions of years. They'd be gods.

I believe God as a person is definitely real, and is just the first being(s) that got to the type of the scale. There's no real difference between aliens at that level and what Christians, Muslims, Hindus, etc, would consider to be God.

It's just a matter of considering the probability of us being here by chance. I think in either case, it being chance or us being engineered, the path one can take to "there is a God" is pretty straightforward and clear and doesn't collide with any known science or with logic.

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The more I read about the universe and quantum mechanics, and the more I live and experience, the more I realize that there may or may not be a God (Sounds weird I know). If there is, it's definitely not what we think it is. God could very well just be us. We willed ourselves into existence. How? I don't know.

^interesting

I've had way too many statistical impossibilities occur in my life to not believe. Like, we're talking the equivalent of winning the mega millions lottery many times in a row.

Obviously that could happen, but let's be real; it's close enough to call it impossible at those odds.

If it were impossible, it wouldnt have happened.

Nothing. My beliefs aren't based on or swayed by emotional events. It's either proof or nothing.

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Crescente posted...

The more I read about the universe and quantum mechanics, and the more I live and experience, the more I realize that there may or may not be a God (Sounds weird I know). If there is, it's definitely not what we think it is. God could very well just be us. We willed ourselves into existence. How? I don't know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU0PYcCsL6o

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pure_temper posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU0PYcCsL6o

I cried.

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Energy is forever.

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Crescente posted...

I cried.

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As long as I can remember. I don't remeber a time when I didn't know GOD. He has been with me and guiding me my entire life.

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1371111
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pure_temper posted...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1371111
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486655
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0770828

Interstellar
Stardust
Cloud Atlas
Man of Steel

my parents told me there's a god when I was a toddler and so I believed them.

Later I realized there wasn't any reason to believe it. My parents are also atheist now.

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Xethuminra posted...

Interstellar
Stardust
Cloud Atlas
Man of Steel

thanks for that, for some reason I thought it automatically renders the thumbnail like in Discord or if you paste a youtube link

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armendez thank you for the 100 bits

pure_temper posted...

thanks for that, for some reason I thought it automatically renders the thumbnail like in Discord or if you paste a youtube link

2001: A Space Odyssey
Nausicaa
Metropolis
Dawn of the Dead

One in particular, one where I was climbing this mountain during the winter - it was the most empty I've ever been in my life and I had no understanding of what I was really looking at. I didn't know how I got to the top, in fact I hardly remember that morning with my friends or the grueling climb.

It felt like I had just 'appeared' and what I witnessed.. more so what I felt, I just felt the 'unnatural' sensations of thinking about how I was treating myself at the time, how the things I was confused about melted away, how assured I was of the fact that I was supposed to be there that day. This rumbling wave of anxiety had come over me and into my stomach and I felt like I could exhale the longest exhale known to man.

Tears welled up in my eyes while everything just emptied out of me -- my strength, myself, everything I had ever known

..there was this other time too, but I was much closer to home, I witnessed what was water falling over the edge of the Earth because of this golden fog from a sunset after heavy rain and fog ingested my entire city

the fog just melted down like snow over this ocean and it looked like the water perfectly blended into the fog in such a way that it made two mirrors with a fiery, golden crease in the middle

I don't know how to make much sense of the shit in my life, nor do I care to - people have explanations for one and everything but at the time those words would've been absolutely useless and rendered useless by the things I was feeling

Philosophy, logic, time - it was all destroyed in a matter of seconds

...who knows with these kinds of things >_>


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The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus reminds me a lot of Cloud Atlas

well, other way around

I was introduced to the concept of god by a childhood friend who characterized god as the creator of everything. I remember my response was to ask if god has a wife.

I held on to some form of theistic belief, from Christianity to deism, to panendeism and others, until somewhere during early college I decided that there's no good reason to believe in god. I think it's unlikely that god exists, and consider myself an atheist. In the event that I'm wrong and god does exist, there's no reason to think any religion past or present has any insight into it, nor is there any reason why there should be an afterlife.

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There's got to be more, cause this life is insane.
I got to turn this around, and find the purpose for pain.

Edit: all Scott Stapp lyrics aside... a dream, in particular

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The belief in God actually gives me answers for why we are here that nothing else can really fill. The belief that the universe came to be because a cosmic deity wanted there to be life, is a lot more satisfying answer, than the atheist belief the universe came to be out of an event no one witnessed and just happened, just because.

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MushroomMuncher posted...

The belief in God actually gives me answers for why we are here that nothing else can really fill. The belief that the universe came to be because a cosmic deity wanted there to be life, is a lot more satisfying answer, than the atheist belief the universe came to be out of an event no one witnessed and just happened, just because.

If one can accept the idea that something (God) had no cause, one can accept the idea that something else (the universe) had no cause. You just have a hard time doing that because a deity with intentions is more comforting than a cold universe. It's not more sensible. It's just easier.

Probably that time he let his chosen people get mass-murdered by Hitler

R1masher posted...

When I looked back and saw two sets of footprints

https://youtu.be/nSeS7vTEkHE
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