Question:
Do you believe in:

Choices:
God (monotheist)
gods(polytheist)
Don't believe in God(s) (atheist)
Undecided (agnostic)
Other

 

Religion is a very confusing and sensitive subject, and while people may argue about which religion is correct and who is right....it could very well be that no one is right and that no one understands as well as they think. I for one do believe in God and i do pray and talk to God, but the Bible still baffles me, and no matter how hard i try i still don't fully understand, but i go with what i believe and what i do know.

Actually, someone asked me the other day whether my religion has "dogma" or not, saying that if it doesn't, it's actually only "spirituality" or something like that. Which is stupid. Dogma doesn't make religion, and the lack of it doesn't make spirituality. It's not about what you do, it's about what you feel. Religion AND spirituality should be intuitive, emotional, from your core.

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hey thanks for calling me lazy...

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I always call people lazy. It's a fact of life.

hey thanks for calling me lazy...

i would call that monotheism. one god = monotheism

deists=monotheism for me too

It's called Hegel: The Essential Writings, Edited and with introductions by Frederick G. Weiss, Foreword by J.N. Findlay. I didn't realize that his work was so difficult to understand. This is what I get for impulse buying. I grabbed it a Barnes and Noble without researching translations online like I normally do-I have no idea if it's decent or not. I'll definitely have to order the Cambridge Companion. By the way, it contains excerpts from the Phenomenology, Encyclopaedia, Science of Logic, Philosophy of Nature, and Philosophy of Right. Fortunately, it looks like I've read a few of the books listed in the bibliography, so maybe I'll have a fairly decent grasp on some of it, or at least be able to relate it to something I've read before. Love, Jen.

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I just bought a book of writings by Hegel...haven't read it yet, though.

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Get ready for some hard reading, almost every translation I have seen has been less then good. This is partly because even somebody who understands German would have hard time understanding some of his work. I highly suggest you get the Cambridge companion book to read along side the book you got, it makes the process of reading Hegel a lot easier.
Just out curiosity what writings does the book contain? If it contains excerpts from Phenomenology of Spirit get ready for arguably the hardest philosophical work to understand.
But also be ready for a truly controversial philosopher, some people love him and some people hate him, mainly due to Marx and then particularly Lenin’s manipulation of his philosophy. But in my personal opinion he was brilliant and gave one of the greatest contributions to philosophy, even though I disagree with some of his thoughts.

"Hegel's idea of absolute spirit"

I just bought a book of writings by Hegel...haven't read it yet, though.

Well, I believe that there is some Gd out there. I'm Jewish and I like maby of the ideas in Judaism, but i don't really think I believe that all of the stuff in the bible happened...some of it though...it's all very confusing.

The reason (well, part of the reason) that I believe that there's got to be some...someone....out there is that, even if the big bang did happen, that compacted bit of atoms or whatever(I'm not very clear on my science fact here) had to come from somewhere. And whatever created that had to come from somewhere. According to the Jewish Kabbalists(they learn and discuss about the rules behind the bible...it's like they're learning the actual story, and the bible is just the footnotes), Gd is sort of a source of light, and in the beginnning it just went on and on and on, there was nothing to stop it or recieve it...I sort of like that idea. but i definately don't think that we are the only planet that Gd created, and I'm sure that there is life on other planets.

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The people who chose "other"... what is your stance on god then?

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Here's my answer. Since you were too lazy to flip back a couple pages, I did it for you.

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this is a complicated question for me. more complicated than you know. i belive in one god, but i am not monotheistic. i believe in many gods, but i am not polytheistic. i have my own religon, really. there's no name for what i am save the broad one of pagan.

i belive there is one god, spirit, the source, the creator, that is neither male nor female. i belive that this diety takes many forms, and appears in many cultures as different yet same dieties. ones you may be familiar with, zeus, hecetate, artemis, others you may not be, kali, cerridwyn, silvanus. god takes many forms and is in many places at once. god is not perfect, and god is created in our likeness, not the other way around. we created god, and god created us. this goes along with my belief of time being a multi layered spiral, spirals within spirals.

sorry, im in a very deep mood right now, so if any of this made sense, congratulations... get out of my head.

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I'm curious. The people who chose "other"... what is your stance on god then? I can't think of any other options. Whether you worship satan or yourself... when it comes to god you really have to be one of those four things don't you? There's probably some explanation i'm over looking. Clock-winders?

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The reason I put other is because as a deist, yes I could be classified as a monotheist, but I don't view “god” as most of the standard religions do and I don't believe deism should be classified as theism. I do not believe “god” is watching over us, nor do I believe in Divine intervention, I don't even believe “god” is even sentient. The best why to describe my belief would be similar to Hegel’s idea of absolute spirit, or as Richard Dawkins put it, the Blind watchmaker.

I'm curious. The people who chose "other"... what is your stance on god then? I can't think of any other options. Whether you worship satan or yourself... when it comes to god you really have to be one of those four things don't you? There's probably some explanation i'm over looking. Clock-winders?

I'm agnostic. I try to keep an open mind and be skeptical about all views. It's just my way of being honest with myself. I undertand that for others, beleiving in one god is the only honest choice. I doubt that I could ever be convinced of the existance of god in the traditional sense... but anything's possible.

I would never forget about you. I missed yaz.

Nm is happening here. Mom's being crazy tho, it's all good. But I'm surviving.

Where have u and all your sexiness been mr.billy?

you just noticed me now? I've seen our posts under a few of the same topics...just figured you forgot about me

So what's up Foxy?

BILLY!!! *hugs neck tightly, jumps into arms* where have you been?!

I believe in SATAN!!!!!! lmao. I bet you're scared now.

No I believe in myself, and in a higher being who doesn't kill everyone.

much luv

~*FOXY*~

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BillBarrio ever try and recruit you for his website

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Recruit is a strong word, there were people on here who were interested, I figured I'd give em' a place to go. All I did is ask...and well I was more well recieved from others outside this site...

Anyway...life has thrown me a curve ball...I'll get back to that site soon

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How is christianity an "evil institution"?

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The internet is a wonderland of information. Use it at your expense.

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I just think the idea of a compassionate protector who saves us in the afterlife is a very strong and appealing idea, too powerful and purely good for people to abandon easily, like as long as there is a shred of evidence he might be there, people will believe because the alternative is that there is nothing, that there is no heaven after death.

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You're a very smart person, ice. This is so very true. More true than many people would believe. But of course I would like to believe that there is nothing after death, cause that's what I want, really. It's nice being alone, and that, to me, would be paradise. You've described almost every person on the face of this world right there.

Here's what I believe: I have a feeling that God exists, way back in the corner of my mind, though I don't know if that is there solely because of me growing up and being taught to believe that or not. It doesn't make much sense to me, I can't rationalize god enough to make me believe in him, though I am a very spiritual person.

I just think the idea of a compassionate protector who saves us in the afterlife is a very strong and appealing idea, too powerful and purely good for people to abandon easily, like as long as there is a shred of evidence he might be there, people will believe because the alternative is that there is nothing, that there is no heaven after death.

How is christianity an "evil institution"?