What do you believe in?

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Originally Posted by JGS

Almost each time someone brings this type of discussion into a public forum or community things seem to go badly.

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Absolutely right, I've voted but I won't state my beliefs here. When I expressed my position on another thread I was the subject of a personal attack.

Fun to read through the thoughts here. As a person with appreciation for Buddhist, Christian and Humanist philosophy, it can be tough to decide. I guess that can best be descibed as agnostic.

This is indeed v interesting. One small point about the poll, though, is that it's possible to fall under more than one of the options. In particular, Buddhists can be atheists or agnostics - gods are there seen as, at the most, special types of mortal beings. (So if atheism is meant to involve belief in a being with the features of the traditional monotheistic God, I guess Buddhists will come out as atheists.)

I believe and think (just an idea, because I also think beliefs can and do change) that god or the universe as I call it has the ability to be whatever you desire it to be. I don't agree with organized or disorganized religion. I think we get exactly what we ask for no matter what, and it is just a matter of how we ask for it. I see god in all things and nothing. I think we are god, just like our mind or our foot is also us. I can't explain what happens after death, because I have yet to experience it, or at least as far as I can remember. I know that I can focus and make clouds disappear. I see sparkles in the air which I think are god in motion.

I just love my life.

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Originally Posted by SheffieldShaver

This is indeed v interesting. One small point about the poll, though, is that it's possible to fall under more than one of the options. In particular, Buddhists can be atheists or agnostics - gods are there seen as, at the most, special types of mortal beings. (So if atheism is meant to involve belief in a being with the features of the traditional monotheistic God, I guess Buddhists will come out as atheists.)

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Actually it is not against Buddhism - though not taught - to believe in other gods; though it may be against your other religion to "worship" (show too much respect for) the Buddha.

"Actually it is not against Buddhism - though not taught - to believe in other gods; though it may be against your other religion to "worship" (show too much respect for) the Buddha."

Tbh, I was probably overgeneralising; a belief in a omnipotent, immortal etc. God (although not a belief in less exalted gods) is certainly incompatible with Theravadan Buddhism (the oldest type that's spread out across SE Asia), but Buddhism is such a broad church (ho ho) that there may well be other varieties for which that doesn't hold. :)

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Originally Posted by DSailing

I believe and think (just an idea, because I also think beliefs can and do change) that god or the universe as I call it has the ability to be whatever you desire it to be. I don't agree with organized or disorganized religion. I think we get exactly what we ask for no matter what, and it is just a matter of how we ask for it. I see god in all things and nothing. I think we are god, just like our mind or our foot is also us. I can't explain what happens after death, because I have yet to experience it, or at least as far as I can remember. I know that I can focus and make clouds disappear. I see sparkles in the air which I think are god in motion.

I just love my life.

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You should read "Small Gods" by Terry Pratchett, you'd love that.

Perhaps this is a dead thread, but I just stumbled across it. Fascinating, and, I am happy to see, congenial as always.

this thread has been buried for a while it seems

too bad it wasnt multiple choise

i like to identify as a hedonist.. however.. that's just me being silly.. in all actually i tend to believe that you should just be a good person and do what is right by everyone..

i'm ashamed to admit that my bible can usually be found right next to my umbrella.