Weee... gonna quote myself! =p
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Originally Posted by xddga
So a lot of my view points tend to take the side of those and have more of an anti-god aproach...
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Originally Posted by Seeker
I find this interesting as I have found the opposite. I see the information I have compiled as an interpretation of an ultimate intelligence or energy that I assume is given the lable 'God'.
Another reason I do not discount the idea of God is that throughout the ages, man has always appeared to aspire to something 'higher'... it is something I see as inherent within us, something that seems to nag at people, the reason we question and philosophise.
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I should of clarified that a lot when I wrote it. I didn't mean "anti-god" as in there's nothing out there but us; but "anti-God" as more like the biblicial defination of God. sorry about that, bad terminology I guess.
I do believe in a higher power, but calling it a god, diety, or anything like that is not really correct. I don't think it has a will of it's own, thought, or anything else we as humans expirence such as emotion. To me, it's more of like an underlining current. It's there, it flows through everything, it makes up everything, but it has no (or gives any) direction. I seriously wish I could describe it better...
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Originally Posted by bernadette
and maybe this is straying off topic...? but i can't help but to believe there's 2 forces in the universe. one is good. one is not. maybe that thinking stems from my catholic upbringing, learning about god & satan. but god & satan are just names afterall, right? and maybe they're simply names for two opposing universal forces? like magnetics...
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I actually don't believe in "good" and "evil". right and wrong I do though. and Ustwo mentioned "Ying and Yang" in his response. *sorry if this comes off like I'm an ass, I don't mean it* but Ying and Yang aren't exactly opposing forces. Basicly means "there's a little bit of good and every evil, and a little bit of evil and every good". In the buddhistic (btw, is that even a word?) view of kharma, every action has an oppisite and equal reaction (the value of each effect is equal to that of the cause. i.e., if you do something really bad, you'll get some really bad return on your kharma). In other words, every cause will have two effects (basicly): a good and a bad one. if the cause is good you get an near immediate bad effect, and somewhere down the road you'll get the good effect. if the cause is bad, you'll get a near immediate good effect, and in the future you get a bad effect. as far as the time frame goes of seeing these effects, it's kind of hard to say. Considering sometimes you don't see an effect from your kharma until the next life or even the one after that, but they always go in that order and the first is always soon after.
k, yeah, that was off subject a bit...