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The Jesus page is too much.
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on the matter of spirits and spooky shit going bump in the night etc: i don't believe ghosts and shit actually exist. i used to be pretty superstitious, but eventually i just kind of gave up. i came to a realisation that we are literal Earthlings, when we die we decompose like everything else on this planet. think trees. if Earth was a tree, we would be the leaves growing, then dying, falling off and rotting and leaving room for more. if people started living on Mars or any other planet with no adjustments to gravity you would have people growing according to their environment and becoming physically different to Earthlings/us.
i mean, less gravity than Earth would make humans grow taller and elongate (MARTIANS), so because we seem to grow like a cross between bacteria and fungus it makes it difficult to believe some ethereal or transcendent piece of something is going to hang around the general area of where 'it happened' on some planet forever (or maybe not, maybe just for an extended length of time) waiting for organic life to stumble into it's presence so it can do the whole "wooooOOOOOOoooooo! i had my head chopped off in 1479 and i'm still pissed off about it!" spiel. why? if aliens triggered it, would they be bothered? would they just blast the apparition or haunted golf club bag or whatever with a stupidly-powerful ray gun? would they? can Jesus tell me this? is Jesus an alien? huh? but yeah, we die and rot or get incinerated or cryogenically frozen or whatever you prefer. i used to believe in a possibility of spooky shit, and i've had a lot of it happen to myself and people i know, but in the grand scheme of things? nah. life is cold, unfair and godless and also delusional if you believe everything everyone tells you, but at the same time life is what you make it. it will only be cold and godless if you allow it to be, including doing absolutely nothing. doing nothing can be a big condemnation. life is a void, you need to fill the void. we're just carbon-based lifeforms that sprouted on this lovely soft ball of moist greenery we're slowing raping. we need to spread to OTHER WORLDS including the moon. all the moons. moons are fucking cool. also: ghost aliens? great! we could go to old worlds where the original inhabitants had been wiped out and gather information from all the poltergeist shit and apparitions flying around. don't get me wrong, i still find ghost stories and shit great, but i don't generally believe them. yeah, odd shit happens, but a lot of it can be put down to 'something else more feasible'. there aren't many genuine 'ghost' stories where all other possibilities were systematically eliminated and it really was a phenomenon. plus fear is a big contributing factor to the whole experience, and fear doesn't make people think straight. it can accentuate the situation. like those Most Haunted things on TV, they make me fucking laugh. bunch of people running around a spooky castle/prison/mansion at night scaring the shit out of themselves. more emphasis on themselves. ghosts are cool, they just don't exist. that said, i still won't ever use or even touch a Ouija board. fuck that. i just have an instinctive feeling i should stay away from all that kind of shit, including voodoo magic. and i mean proper voodoo magic, where you have a crazy old shaman dancing around naked with a dead chicken and a bucket of blood who orders you to skewer a voodoo doll repeatedly with hot needles or be beheaded. you know, proper magic. you can't get the magic to work if you're not fearing for your life. i talk shit |
Christ the Redeemer reminds me of Bender's tribute.
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I keep reading that as "SportsHet". Maybe they really are devout Christians.
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Um.
Goddamn east coast, getting all the interesting blimps. |
That's one of the most cynically sacrilegious things I've ever seen.
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They tried to claim that it wasn't religious symbolism at all; it was a famous landmark of Rio. No-one's buying it.
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It came to Adelaide yesterday, but I didn't get to see it.
I don't know if that's a good thing or not. |
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Yeah I do, I have good reason to. But I don't believe in any of the main organised religions.
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I say take everything with a grain of salt. Have a little bit of belief in the crazy paranormal things. Even with religion. Religion shouldn't be taken into literal meaning, but more so as a metaphorical guideline on what's right and wrong and then from your own opinion on what you think is best
My religion is to take all the fun and good things of every religion, and put it into one. That way you win and everyone gets pancakes. As for the spooky stuff in this world, there is a lot of evidence to prove it, but equally so to disprove it. Science is definitely a good way to go for understanding the principles of things. But when you have your first paranormal experience, you tend to open up a bit. I've had days where I've wanted to see a UFO or be abducted or to desperately see something crazy like a ghost. But I've also had days where I've though "if any of those things were to happen, deep down, I really wouldn't handle it to well." As shit and anti climactic as this is going to sound, My first and only paranormal experience I've had is when my great grandmother passed away and I couldn't attend her funeral. That night I was with my girlfriend at a restaurant and (in Greek Orthodox tradition of the supernatural old lady wives tale story crap, it's apparently a good sign if this happens) my glass of water slid from one end of the table to the other without any source of force. The table was lop sided ever so slightly but fixed into the ground. This would make sense in a logical way, but it was sliding the wrong direction, up the incline of the table. It wasn't filled with ice, it was just luke warm tap water. It moved a good 30cm and the waitress even asked me how I did that. My girlfriend and I were just aw struck and how that should have not physically happened. But with that being said, I know what I saw, and tried my very best to disprove it and convince others. But once you see it, you can't help but believe the magic. Just my 2 Fenugian wooden dollars. |
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Okay. You've convinced me |
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:/ Why would I want to convince you? The OP asked if I believed in ghosts n shit, I said yeah, how is that me trying to convince you of anything? So do us all a favour and pull your tampon out. |
I think you've imputed a stronger tone on Varrok's part than he intended. I believe that he was just pointing out that simply saying you have a good reason without explaining it comes across as sortof strange.
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Yup. I meant exactly what Nate said. Sorry if anybody got it wrong
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Now just because I have good reason doesn't mean that I'm saying "I have reason to so should you!", I'm basically saying "I have reason to believe in it" and that's it. I'm not here to convince people in things that they think is BS I have no interest in making people believe in things that they themselves don't believe in. But I keep an open mind with a level of scepticism. |
Why are you talking about it if you refuse to explain it?
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She has a good reason not to.
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Maybe she has a really good reason to talk about it.
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Don't be dicks guys.
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WHAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTT?!?!
What forum did you think you were on, young lady? |
Damn it though this place is so quiet, we need new people!
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STW is right, guys. Please don't scare off the new gal.
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#girlpower
Also to stay on topic with a general spirituality theme. I actually used to dabble in atheist Buddhism now and again, it seems fairly interesting but very conflicting with any sort of modern hedonism which led me to ultimately dismiss it. |
I typically dismiss all aspects of spirituality. I'm uninterested in all of them.
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except the ones where rape is involved.
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Spiritual rape? Do you mean... mind fuck?
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LITERAL mind fuck. with a drill bit.
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Ouch
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People asked because you talked about it, genius.
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I thought the natural reaction to being asked about something is answering
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No. That's wrong. I'd tell you to ask Kiyo how to do it properly, but, well, you know.
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I'm chiefly agnostic as far as either religion or spiritual beliefs go.
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I am an atheist. I don't believe in ghosts, but I'm still scared of them if I hear a noise in the night. In the sense of a fictional concept, like being scared of Freddy Krueger or something. I don't believe in an afterlife, or a big fella in the sky watching my every move, or anything to do with any organised religion because logic. Religion seems to have no place in our society other than causing conflict, however I will never judge someone who finds solace or comfort in religion. Each to their own, but when the killing starts I have a problem with religion.
It's like Ricky Gervais says; "Suggesting I hate people with religion because I hate religion is like suggesting I hate people with cancer because I hate cancer." |