Tell me about your faith.

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Have you found what you're looking for? Is it God or Buddha or Satan or Krishna? Have you looked and found nothing?

What do you believe in

-- Anonymous, September 27, 2000

Answers

I can't honestly say, "Yes... I've found what I'm looking for"... I know that I have a set of beliefs, ever changing, expanding, dialating... It doesn't matter what you say... Doesn't matter what you do... You can never honestly say in all certainty that you know exactly what does await you and thus what you need to find, or that what you've found is essentially right... Here's what I've found that's right for me:

God, Satan, The Angelic Host, Daemonic Servants... They're all a part of the same... Buddha is not a god, merely a man with a philosophy drawn from the truth innate within the whole. Each of us summons the best and worst parts of ourselves from the energy of the whole... I believe all the crap about one religion being right and all others being wrong is just that -- crap... If one looks at things rationally, all religions are essentially the same... A belief in some power beyond total human comprehension (be it singular or multiple) and some faith in a code of ethics, which is essentially agreed upon throughout the world anyhow... I just believe that yes, there's something greater than me out there... It would be irrational to believe otherwise... I can't say there's a definite afterlife yet - - some wonderful place that we go when we die... I just don't know... For now, I simply content myself with knowing what is contained within each religion's texts...

Hope this answers it... It's the best I could do. _All_ my love, Flabio

-- Anonymous, September 27, 2000


Mrf. I don't believe in very much. I don't disbelieve in very much either. I have taken a decided position of definite fence-sitting on all positions metaphysical. However, if I were to make an educated guess, it would be that there is, in fact, nothing metaphysical out there. Just regular old decaf physo-physical.
But that would just be an educated guess.

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2000

Mrf. I don't believe in very much. I don't disbelieve in very much either. I have taken a decided position of definite fence-sitting on all positions metaphysical. However, if I were to make an educated guess, it would be that there is, in fact, nothing metaphysical out there. Just regular old decaf physo-physical.

But that would just be an educated guess.

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2000

Faust, you say?

http://www.sinfest.net/d/20000117.html

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2000


I don't have much in the way of beliefs. An ex of mine once said I'm the least spiritual person she's ever met.

I'm basically a scientist: I believe that things exist for no particular reason that we've been able to find out, and while I'm open to some actual explanation, I'm not going to believe it without some fairly concrete proof. I've never felt a need to have a god or gods in my life, I'm perfectly happy and comfortable with the notion (to me, the fact) that we/I don't have a higher purpose, and that everything is as it is because... it just is.

People should make their own purposes and meanings for themselves. We're awfully good at it.

Oh, and I've also been to a church service (not counting weddings and funerals) about once in my life.

mhr

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2000



Hmm.

I was raised Pentecostal by an insane collection of muddled humans.

Then I came out of the closet.

That ended my association with fundamental Christianity.

I've toyed with lots of Hindu variants (Hare Krishna. Krishna Krishna.)...New Age variants, Scientology, you name it.

I went through a period where I joked that I was a smorgasboard of beliefs. Some of this, a little of that.

...for years and years now I've identified as more-or-less Pagan/Wiccan/Blah blah blah.

These days, I'm reading lots of the Dhammapada.

What I'm finding more attractive in Buddhism is an approach that doesn't give a *flamingo* about the metaphysics of religion.

The Buddha doesn't say that there is or isn't God/dess/etc.

The Buddha doesn't say that there is or isn't a spiritual existance after this walk through the meatspace.

The Buddha strips it all down to its component parts and says, "here's the Path. Don't pay attention to what anybody says about the *end* of the Path; *walk* the Path for yourself. See what's there. I'm not any more or less than you are. Here's how I did this: go do it."

I can get into that.

- Babbs.

-- Anonymous, September 29, 2000


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