Do you believe in a god?

Do you believe in some sort of god?

  • Yes

    Votes: 82 45.1%

  • No

    Votes: 100 54.9%
  • Total voters
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burnzie said:
No.

If there really was a god, do you think he'd own up to this shit.

If there is I'll kick his omnipotent ass.
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^^ Ultimate internet tough guy.



Anyway:
I do believe in God, Jesus, and intelligent design.
 
I believe in a superior being, though organised religion ain't my kinda thing.








Evolution ftw!
 
I believe in myself so.....

Being serious i think it is unlikley there is a god.
 
Currently that would be a no.

I used to be a hardcore christian in my teens, but what i realized later was that i'd never experienced proof of gods existence, i would attribute things to god to feed my faith, but they were just good things. good things that happen even to heathens.

and thats how god is 'real' to people, people can attribute any small thing to him and theres no one that can say that its not. but a tribe in south africa that teaches their children about some other god, they probably do the same thing. attributing blessings to that god, when the truth is, they are all dead gods.

according to the bible, god wanted companions right? now how much suffering has gone on at the expense of that? how much rape, murder, and ultimately people going to hell to suffer eternally(assuming the bible is true for a moment)? too much suffering. i think the god in the bible is selfish and doesn't care what bad things have to happen in order for him to have a few friends. so then that contradicts many things said about him in the bible. if i was god and i saw how much suffering would happen at the expense of my pleasure, id simply not create humans. but no, for god it was worth it.

christianity is man-made. it was created to give people peace of mind over thousands of years. the way it was created was very clever, not able to be disproved, leaving so many unanswered questions, that christians can just fill in the blanks with whatever suits their mood. every challenge can be answered with, god is beyond morals, or god is sovereign, or humans can't understand. of course it isn't without its faults by any means. some people cling to their faith so earnestly with hope, that they overlook any faults.

one last thing. why does hell have to be a place of suffering? now if god gives humans a choice to either go to heaven or hell, and hell is such a bad place that it instills fear into people. people will choose to 'love' god simply because of that fear. but if hell was just an OK place, maybe similar to earth. there'd still be an incentive to go to heaven, but that fear wouldn't be there so you'd have more honest people. people who love god because they want to, not because they afraid of what will happen if they dont
 
SimonomiS said:
Where Is Your God Now?
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Whenever I hear that, I think of The Burger King looming over some defenceless guy in bed, saying the line in a creepy, booming voice. The King then proceeds to rape the guy.

-Angry Lawyer
 
Angry Lawyer said:
Whenever I hear that, I think of The Burger King looming over some defenceless guy in bed, saying the line in a creepy, booming voice. The King then proceeds to rape the guy.

-Angry Lawyer
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Repressed memories, of the King?
 
Nein. I do not. and ID is just another name for the bible.
 
Some things we will probably never be able to possibly comprehend because they are simply beyond us. Something had to create the universe, time, energy, all those forces. I don't believe it was a being of any sort but something had to have done it. Since we will probably be incapable of comprehending what it could have been we might as well describe it as a "Higher power". It doesn't have to be intelligent, it doesn't have to have any sort of plan, heck it doesn't even have to be something we would even call alive. It also certainly doesn't have to be something that even knows we exist.

That to me is my "god".
 
The Mullinator said:
Some things we will probably never be able to possibly comprehend because they are simply beyond us. Something had to create the universe, time, energy, all those forces. I don't believe it was a being of any sort but something had to have done it. Since we will probably be incapable of comprehending what it could have been we might as well describe it as a "Higher power". It doesn't have to be intelligent, it doesn't have to have any sort of plan, heck it doesn't even have to be something we would even call alive. It also certainly doesn't have to be something that even knows we exist.

That to me is my "god".
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The only way the universe could exist (above god n all) is for there to be an infinite paradox.

I.e everything cancels itself out.
What you experience in this "universe" (or whatever) is merely an off balanced side to everything else, infinite realities, infinite non realities....infinite of everything.

With infinity probability becomes useless, we WOULD exist.
Therefore i believe this. (and so does steven hawking, i came up with my theory independantly however)
 
I have no disbelief or belief, merely puzzlement to where there is a God or not.

AKA, I'm agnostic. So I can't vote. Woot.
 
short recoil said:
Therefore i believe this. (and so does steven hawking, i came up with my theory independantly however)
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Of course you did.
 
Axyon said:
Of course you did.
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yes i did, i remember posting it here a while ago and someone pointed out it was almost exactly the same as his theory.

I have never read anything much of his work.
 
Therefore i believe this. (and so does steven hawking, i came up with my theory independantly however)
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Hence why you are the god of HL2.net.

You are extreme.
 
Well, currently I'd say know, but that's only as of recently. Two years ago I considered myself Catholic, then agnostic, and finally, I'm drifting towards Atheism.

I go to a Catholic school, and, as I am very interested in philosophy and theology, I am taking bioethics as an elective. This is very awkward since I try always to tell the truth. One day my teacher asked my point-blank in front of the class "Do you believe in morality?" After trying to say that I didn't know either way, and have no opinion on the subject, I was forced to admit that that means that I do not believe in it. Amoralists don't exactly fit in at my school.
Now my teacher is attempting to show logical proofs of God, which he didn't think would be necessary. While I can see what I think are holes in all of them, they are all very intriguing; however one thing I've found rather interesting is that there are no proofs that God doesnt exist.
 
holy christ, short recoil's posting! :O

im atheist, but still spiritual.
 
spookymooky said:
however one thing I've found rather interesting is that there are no proofs that God doesnt exist.
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1. There are no proof evolution is wrong, yet 40% of america still cling to creatonism.

2. Yes there is proof there is no such thing as an omnipotent and omnipresent being: "If God is all-powerfull and omnipresent, he can theoretically create a world where he has no power or presence, making him neither omnipotent nor omnipresent."
 
Yeshens, I do believe in a God, regardless of there being no real fact that one exists.
 
TheSomeone said:
1. There are no proof evolution is wrong, yet 40% of america still cling to creatonism.

2. Yes there is proof there is no such thing as an omnipotent and omnipresent being: "If God is all-powerfull and omnipresent, he can theoretically create a world where he has no power or presence, making him neither omnipotent nor omnipresent."
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I've been taught that paradoxes don't violate omnipotence. I.E., the Catholic Church teaches that God cant make a square circle, can't commit a sin, and can't microwave a burrito so hot that He Himself can't eat it.

Well, I shouldnt say "can't", it more along the lines of such a situation just isn't defined, or doesnt make sense.
 
short recoil said:
The only way the universe could exist (above god n all) is for there to be an infinite paradox.

I.e everything cancels itself out.
What you experience in this "universe" (or whatever) is merely an off balanced side to everything else, infinite realities, infinite non realities....infinite of everything.

With infinity probability becomes useless, we WOULD exist.
Therefore i believe this. (and so does steven hawking, i came up with my theory independantly however)
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Judging from the way you're talking about it, you obviously didnt' come up with it by yourself, at least not all of it.
 
MiccyNarc said:
The irony is killing me.
Ennui, how can an atheist be spiritual?
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Nowadays, religion doesn't have anything to do with spirituality anyways ;). I'm agnostic, but I'm very spiritual. I believe in karma and transcendialism and I meditate often. Its how I become one with the universe.
 
Atheism is an absence of belief in the spirit world, not an absence of belief in religion.
 
Atheism is the absence of belief in deities. Nothing more. You can still believe in magic, witches, flying penises propelled by pixie dust, etc... Not that any of those make any more sense.
 
Lookie there, I'm in the minority again. I'll never become world dictator without mass death and dismay at this rate.
 
Atheism is the belief in the absence of a deity. Not the absence of a belief. Agnostocism is the abscence of a belief.
 
MiccyNarc said:
Atheism is an absence of belief in the spirit world, not an absence of belief in religion.
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No, Atheism is the lack of belief in Gods and Deities. I know plenty of atheists who think ghosts are real.
 
spookymooky said:
Atheism is the belief in the absence of a deity. Not the absence of a belief. Agnostocism is the abscence of a belief.
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No. You're wrong. And I'm not going to explain for the bijillionth time how agnosticism isn't some alternative to atheism and theism. You either believe in a god or you don't. All other possibilities are exhausted.
 
Knowing and believing are two separate things. Again, agnosticism is not some middle ground. It's a complementary title.
 
flying penises propelled by pixie dust,
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That'd pwn.
Agnostocism is the abscence of a belief.
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Wrong. An agnostic believes that it's impossible to know if there is a god, or is skeptical about the existence of a god.
Wrong. An agnostic believes that it's impossible to know if there is a hod, or is skeptical about the existence of a god.
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I sit corrected.

HOLY CRAP SOMEONE ON TEH INTARWEB ADMITTED HE WAS WRONG!

*universe implodes*
 
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