The No-No Topic.

[Viceroy]

Am I the only one that thinks Religion is like gambling? You could believe in one thing faithfully, and then some other god that's in a different religion condemns you for not believing in them? There's so many religions it's so confusing!

 

[Lady Sabine]

Am I the only one that thinks Religion is like gambling? You could believe in one thing faithfully, and then some other god that's in a different religion condemns you for not believing in them? There's so many religions it's so confusing!

There are literally thousands of gods. Giving each of them an equal chance of existing, being an atheist only gives you .05% or something worse chance of being right than monotheism. XD

 

[N0VA]

1. Every way of politics is good you just need to find the right team to lead that regime. That's my opinion, but there never will be a good politician or a better one... when you vote your choosing for the lesser of two evils.

2. I am Orthodox Christian, at least I was raised that way. I believe in keeping traditions and going to church on important dates... but I don't believe there is anyone "up" there to be exact. The man climbed the moon and they tell me you are going to go to hell if you don't believe in god. Religion is in my mind the cause of many things in this world... many bad things.

Solution for the above: Controlled Chaos​

3. I listen to pretty much anything from Techno to Classic, but I find not everything by my taste. I have a open mind to most music but there is some genres that I don't like at all.

 

[LunaValentine]

1. Every way of politics is good you just need to find the right team to lead that regime. That's my opinion, but there never will be a good politician or a better one... when you vote your choosing for the lesser of two evils.

2. I am Orthodox Christian, at least I was raised that way. I believe in keeping traditions and going to church on important dates... but I don't believe there is anyone "up" there to be exact. The man climbed the moon and they tell me you are going to go to hell if you don't believe in god. Religion is in my mind the cause of many things in this world... many bad things.

Solution for the above: Controlled Chaos​

3. I listen to pretty much anything from Techno to Classic, but I find not everything by my taste. I have a open mind to most music but there is some genres that I don't like at all.

Since I can only give you one rating....have a cookie! *hands a cookie* I gotta agree with you, always the lesser of two evils.

 

[C92cool]

Music- very open book on it, if I like it then I like it and if I don't then I don't.

Politics- Being in the U.S., I am registered as a Republican, but that's it. I believe in what I what, Republican is just a title and not my full faith in politics.

Religion- I was raised as a Baptist/Christian, but recently I've begin to question it. Just question everything really. I'm very open minded when it comes to religion, and sometimes some things from other religions and beliefs just make more sense to me then what it says from the Bible. One thing I have come to believe on my own is this, well two things actually...one...this world we live in is just fucked up and corrupt to be right, I propose it to be the true hell and we must either survive it and not give into temptation to transcend to heaven, or give in and fall with will then descend you to hell. My second belief is that there is one entity out there, but it goes by many names. It allows us to believe in what we want to believe in and call them by what we want to ans worship them on how we wish to worship them. In the end, when you die you'll go wherever you believe in, it's simply and entity that just wants everyone to be happy. I'm highly into mythology and study many of the older beliefs and agree with some of them as well. If some of the things I say sound confusing or contradicting them I apologize, my brain is a huge mess so it's hard to keep everything in order and all. So yeah...that might be about it...all I can think of for now at least.

 

[Lady Sabine]

''The "Flying Spaghetti Monster" was first described in a satirical open letter written by Bobby Henderson in 2005 to protest the Kansas State Board of Educationdecision to permit teaching intelligent design as an alternative to evolution in public school science classes.[6] In that letter, Henderson satirized creationism by professing his belief that whenever a scientist carbon-dates an object, a supernatural creator that closely resembles spaghetti and meatballs is there "changing the results with His Noodly Appendage".''

A little wikipedia quote, yes @Ocha the religion was created in satire.

Hi. ^^ Sorry it's taken so long for me to say something to you about this, but I was just re-reading the thread with a marked effort to try out someone else's POV.
I've gone ahead and taken down my negative ratings because, now that I've slept on it and looked at things through clearer eyes, I see that you weren't intentionally discrediting my faith. I'm sorry that I overreacted and I'll be happy to politely answer any questions you have about my religion, since I've read the whole Wikipedia page and it has some parts that are easy to misinterpret. Notably, while He was first described in a satirical letter, His church was not created in the same satirical sense. ^^ I responded to your post as though you were making an attack but I now believe that it was just a misunderstanding on both of our parts- a misunderstanding that I can hopefully clear up for everyone.

A heart to not holding grudges? <3

 

[PureKor]

Okay.. The question still stands for the religion aspect ?^^ ' ... Scared to ask, standing in a corner..

Basically I believe it's only One God. One True Creator. He made this world, he is omnipresent and has a power beyond our understanding.

He can create something and next second destroys it. The people who Praise him and always Remember Him in meditation are saved from the reincarnation. The circle of life and death over again.

Those who are "fools" and forget to remember him will never find peace and their souls will go into this circle of birth, death and rebirth always not finding peace.

This world is his Play/Stage and soul creation. God makes us "play" in this world by his will.

He is merciful as well, he has mercy in those who remember him in prayers and not let their minds to crave for things as - emotional attachment, s**ual desires etc. Those things will never bring good to Us.

We just have to live a simple and yet truthful life helping others as well making good deeds.

* hides under the table *

Music - my taste : I listen to pretty much anything except jazz or screamo bands ;)

Politics - I don't care about them . Simple.

 

[Malkuthe Highwind]

Music - Not too into it. I do like orchestral scores/trailer music in particular. Two Steps from Hell, anyone?

Politics - Meh. Flawed. Every single governmental system is fundamentally flawed. Perhaps not in their ideas, because even socialism sounds really good on paper, but they are flawed on the most basic premise: humans governing other humans. Part of human nature, well, part of all nature, really, is leveraging yourself above your competition. I think government will always boil down to being an effort to remain in a position of authority.

Religion - Well, to say that atheists only have a 0.05% chance to be right compared to other religions is, in my opinion, a gross misapprehension of what it means to be atheist. Atheism, "a-" from the Greek suffix meaning negation, at its core, merely necessitates a -lack- of belief. The aforementioned statement may very well be like saying "that one night you lie in bed next to each other instead of having sex has a 0.05% or less chance of getting someone pregnant compared to the thousand other ways/times you had sex." Anti-theism, the position of believing in the distinct lack of a god is what you are looking for.

As for myself, I consider myself atheist, or as people who would like to be anal about it, Agnostic Atheist. I maintain a lack of belief either way. There is simply no evidence whatsoever. However, I am very fairly convinced that the Judeo-Christian Biblical God is logically self-contradictory.

 

[Lady Sabine]

Religion - Well, to say that atheists only have a 0.05% chance to be right compared to other religions is, in my opinion, a gross misapprehension of what it means to be atheist. Atheism, "a-" from the Greek suffix meaning negation, at its core, merely necessitates a -lack- of belief. The aforementioned statement may very well be like saying "that one night you lie in bed next to each other instead of having sex has a 0.05% or less chance of getting someone pregnant compared to the thousand other ways/times you had sex." Anti-theism, the position of believing in the distinct lack of a god is what you are looking for.

Can I see your sources for those definitions? Because Wikipedia and everywhere else I can find says that anti-theism is opposition to theism, while atheism is the lack of belief in any deity... so while I think I get what you're saying, the terms don't seem to line up.
Anyway, atheism does not have .05% odds of being right. You'll notice in my post that I said, under the condition that only one god exists out of the multitude of possibilities, the odds of monotheism aren't noticeably better than atheism's perfect zero. My point wasn't actually anything about atheism, it was about how if religion was a fair gambling game, placing your money on monotheism and atheism would both have horrible odds. I would say a more applicable metaphor is that, if you're spinning a wheel and only a tiny little line is monotheism, your odds of hitting that one little line are much closer to not playing at all than they are to winning.
I think you just misread my post. ^^ No misapprehension here, as far as I can tell. I did spend almost seventeen years an atheist before I find my faith, I'm pretty decently versed in what the terms mean.