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Post by Caitshidhe on Mar 8, 2009 13:24:00 GMT -5
I'm sure we would all get on much better with the fundies if they kept their beliefs to themselves and didn't try to convince everybody else of their 'sins' and preach at everybody. I've always thought that belief (or a lack thereof) should be a personal thing, and not something you try to force on other people. If you want to DISCUSS it with other people, that's your choice, but it's still a personal decision. That the fundies try to make it THEIR BUSINESS is really fucking annoying.
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Post by deliciousdemon on Mar 8, 2009 13:26:33 GMT -5
Doormat atheist. *curls up in a comfy chair with a book by Futuyma*
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Post by peanutfan on Mar 8, 2009 13:30:36 GMT -5
Spiritual agnostic magician. I don't claim certainty about anything and I don't believe in the supernatural as such, but I believe that there is more to the world than modern science is currently equipped to explain. I justify this with my half-assed understanding of a few points in quantum physics.
I'm weird.
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Post by caretaker on Mar 8, 2009 13:32:48 GMT -5
I have a few spiritual beliefs about non-localised consciousness, moored mostly by my perception of fringe-scientific studies that require a lot of funding that they'll never get, though the UN has recently taken an interest in the field and a new, extremely long study has been launched. I'm still trying to work out the bits involving quantum physics, which I never will, but I'm trying anyway. And there's no religion that could possibly represent said beliefs.
Besides, I'm pretty anti-organised-religion anyway.
Edited to add: Check it out, quantum physics as relating to spiritual ideas is pretty popular. If extremely hard to grasp ;3
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Mar 8, 2009 13:57:37 GMT -5
The most accurate way of describing my beliefs would be atheist agnostic secular humanist, but to save time I identify as Atheist.
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Post by schizophonic on Mar 8, 2009 14:12:30 GMT -5
I'm sure we would all get on much better with the fundies if they kept their beliefs to themselves and didn't try to convince everybody else of their 'sins' and preach at everybody. I've always thought that belief (or a lack thereof) should be a personal thing, and not something you try to force on other people. If you want to DISCUSS it with other people, that's your choice, but it's still a personal decision. That the fundies try to make it THEIR BUSINESS is really fucking annoying. Of course, then they wouldn't be fundies. But really, I agree. I'm very live and let live. Now, if they'd let me live my life, I wouldn't care how they lived.
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Post by MaybeNever on Mar 8, 2009 14:23:27 GMT -5
The most accurate way of describing my beliefs would be atheist agnostic secular humanist, but to save time I identify as Atheist. Pretty much this. One of my best friends is a devout Christian, so it's totally possible. They just have to quit acting like dicks and realize WE DON'T CARE ABOUT HELL BECAUSE IT IS MADE UP.
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Post by Jebediah on Mar 8, 2009 14:31:19 GMT -5
I'm more apathetic with athiest tendencies. I honestly couldn't care less if there is a god or not. But I personally believe there is not one.
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Post by MozMode on Mar 8, 2009 14:48:32 GMT -5
The most accurate way of describing my beliefs would be atheist agnostic secular humanist, but to save time I identify as Atheist. I too am a Secular Humanist, but to save time I just say I'm an Atheist. Most of the time I'm just too lazy to explain to people what the hell a Secular Humanist is. It's really quite an easy explanation, Humanism isn't that hard to comprehend, but you know how some Christians are...they sometimes can't understand anything having to do with not believing in a God.
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Post by gotpwnt on Mar 8, 2009 15:09:56 GMT -5
I worship the carton of milk. ;D
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Post by Angel Kaida on Mar 8, 2009 15:10:41 GMT -5
I identify as an atheist, and on my brave days as a New Atheist. "Agnostic" is an epistemological position which I also happen to hold, as do most reasonable human beings including the religious - I believe that most deities resist being proven by their nonexistence, and they resist being disproven by the qualities which humans have ascribed to them. However, my belief that there is no God is sufficiently strongly justified as to say, colloquially, that I know there is no God. I believe there is enough evidence for the how and why of the human invention and evolution (so to speak) of gods to accept the notion that humans invented all of them.
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Post by antichrist on Mar 8, 2009 16:32:52 GMT -5
I usually say atheist, because I'm tired of trying to explain Zen to people. Of course a lot of people don't understand what an atheist is either, so meh.
I think I'll just go pet a puppy.
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Post by alwimo on Mar 8, 2009 16:37:13 GMT -5
Atheist.
Simple!
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Post by Old Viking on Mar 8, 2009 17:25:02 GMT -5
Atheist who, after 12 years of Catholic education (shortly after the church was founded), knows both sides of the controversy. But I don't wear a sandwich board, and the subject never seems to come up on a day-to-day basis. My favorite response to "What do you believe?" was that of our oldest son: "I believe I'll have another beer."
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Rubyfruit
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Post by Rubyfruit on Mar 8, 2009 17:35:11 GMT -5
I was a Pentecostal (Assemblies of God, specifically) from the age of four to about a year ago. And over that time, I felt my enthusiasm wane as it became more and more apparent that it was a pretty set of lies held together by rules that made less and less sense as I got older.
As of now I identify as Agnostic, primarily because I think it fits where I am right now as far as how I feel about God and Religion. I do have a few spiritual beliefs, yes. Unless it comes up in a conversation, I don't bring it up to people offline. Online, I tend to talk of matters of spirituality in designated chat rooms and message boards.
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