Do you believe in some sort of God(s)?

CallMeIshmael · #1 02-01-2007, 03:35 AM

Its been talked about so much in SMP that I can tell you what they're gonna say before they say it...but Im curious to hear the thoughts from a different group

Golden_Rhino · #2 02-01-2007, 03:42 AM

Yes, I believe in God, but unfortunately I cannot get into any kind of a discussion about it because I have no idea how to go about proving it. I suppose it is just a leap of faith on my part, and my intellectual side hates me for it.

lippy · #3 02-01-2007, 03:46 AM

No, I don't. The more I ponder it, the more impossible the idea of a deity becomes. It causes knots in my stomach, but I just don't see it as a possibility.

Which is awesome, because I've came to the conclusion that when I die I won't exist in any fashion. All my thoughts, everything; gone. Ugh, I wish I could be more of an idiot (or less of an idiot?) and blindly believe in something more.

I'm also one of those lost souls that desperately wishes for a sign. I want to see something that conclusively shows me I'm wrong. However, I highly, highly doubt this will never happen.

suzzer99 · #4 02-01-2007, 03:56 AM

I believe in great mystery around the origin of the big bang and why there's something instead of nothing. I mean as a physics major, it just makes no sense. EVERYTHING in the universe should be a zero-sum game. Why is there energy? How can SOMETHING come from NOTHING? Even if there's some equal and opposite parallel universe, it still takes positive energy to split the two and create these states of flux that we live in.

I believe there is an infinite amount of stuff to the universe (which really isn't even the right term as it's too confining) that we cannot possibly ever comprehend. I have no problem calling any of this stuff god.

I just don't believe in heaven or hell or any sort of diety involved in our lives or the creation of the earth on a direct basis.

private joker · #5 02-01-2007, 04:00 AM

Of course not. What do you think I am, some nutjob?

nath · #6 02-01-2007, 04:01 AM

I believe in the validity of my own experience.

edit: I also really like the Tao Te Ching.

registrar · #7 02-03-2007, 01:07 PM

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shermanash · #8 02-01-2007, 04:04 AM

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I believe in great mystery around the origin of the big bang and why there's something instead of nothing. I mean as a physics major, it just makes no sense. EVERYTHING in the universe should be a zero-sum game. Why is there energy? How can SOMETHING come from NOTHING? Even if there's some equal and opposite parallel universe, it still takes positive energy to split the two and create these states of flux that we live in.

I believe there is an infinite amount of stuff to the universe (which really isn't even the right term as it's too confining) that we cannot possibly ever comprehend. I have no problem calling any of this stuff god.

I just don't believe in heaven or hell or any sort of diety involved in our lives or the creation of the earth on a direct basis.

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this makes the most sense to me- i don't believe in 'god' in the commons sense.. but there is so much that remains to be solved, and if the unkown source behind the start of earth could be called "god", I could accept that.

gumpzilla · #9 02-01-2007, 12:32 PM

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I believe in great mystery around the origin of the big bang and why there's something instead of nothing. I mean as a physics major, it just makes no sense. EVERYTHING in the universe should be a zero-sum game. Why is there energy? How can SOMETHING come from NOTHING? Even if there's some equal and opposite parallel universe, it still takes positive energy to split the two and create these states of flux that we live in.

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You could, of course, apply the same reasoning to God. While I think attempts at logically disproving the existence of god(s) are gauche, they are convincing enough to me that I don't really believe in one. (EDIT: This isn't quite right; a better way to put it is that the arguments for god(s) seem obviously silly to me, and absent a strong argument for I don't feel the need to believe.) It is certainly possible that one exists, but I behave as if one doesn't.

For those of you who believe in higher powers with no religious implications: what would you say is the point of this belief? Does it have one?

Zeno · #10 02-01-2007, 04:01 AM

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Zeno is God.

The rest is just footnotes.

Le Misanthrope