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[R-Gray 1]

I'm from Peru

where is? in southamerica, between Brazil and the Pacific Ocean.

[xbl0x180]

I've often wondered what the religious makeup of this page is. I am an atheist, and don't like many religions, so it's probably best I don't know.

Animist, but I tell people "atheist" to simplify things


This guy here comes pretty close to a God at Tetris:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwC544Z37qo

[Zeron]

Atheism is predominate on the internet id say


another atheist here btw

[BPzeBanshee]

Atheism is predominate on the internet id say


another atheist here btw

Me too.

I do know one here who I believe is a devout follower though, and he's great, so conflicts in religion doesn't necessarily translate to conflicts in personality.

[stryc9]

Wow. It's 2011 and you guys haven't realised that there's a spirit plane yet?

The first thing you guys need to do is to separate your definitions of religion and spiritulism. They are superficially connected, but are not one and the same.

I don't 'like' a lot of religions either (most obviously, or maybe not so obviously, have it twisted).
But that is not to say that the spirit beings that they idolize are not real, much less suggest God does not exist.

Those beings are real alright and have existed for a very long time. As has the spirit world.
I guess I thought that this sought of meat and potatoes materialism would have died in the ass by now given the reawakening of arcane practice in the 1900's, what happened in the 60's, (no small thing), the whole obsession with witchcraft and the supernatural that has exploded into the realm of popular entertainment recently, the popularization of eastern mystical practices such as Yoga in the west etc.

Hate to sound like a cliche here but as the saying goes just because you can't see something doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

PS if your waiting for an answer from the realm of science you will be waiting a very long time.
As a person with an interest in theoretical physics, its easy to see Man coming up against a brick wall trying his damnedest to bridge that void between the physical and the metaphysical, using only the tools of process science.

The witchdoctor was better equipped, though no less deceived.

Stairway to Heaven indeed

[evil_ash_xero]

You lost me real early in that paragraph.

[stryc9]

You lost me real early in that paragraph.

it's not an easy thing to explain.

[dcharlie]

I guess I thought that this sought of meat and potatoes materialism would have died in the ass by now given the reawakening of arcane practice in the 1900's, what happened in the 60's,

this thread is about to take a turn for the AMAZING!

[incognoscente]

Hate to sound like a cliche here but as the saying goes just because you can't see something doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

The witchdoctor was better equipped, though no less deceived.

There are also the sayings just because you say something, that doesn't make it true; the apostolic palace is a sham and man is the practitioner of himself; and i am an oscar meyer wiener, but then there is also the saying ich bin ein Berliner so I think we can safely discredit the latter without having to provide any epistemological arguments for our claims.

Of course, this is not to say that the efforts of Trismegistus go unappreciated. Merely that what was found in Nag Hammadi has had far-reaching consequences for any practitioner of a lay religion such as one that relies on sacerdotal methods of divine communion. For the divine is not to be found in cassocks, vestments, and yarmulkes but in how we cathect feelings of metaphysic spirituality. One might say that during our transient existence, we have no higher aim than to forge intimate relations with the godhead (which you erroneously call the spirit plane but this, as with everything, will be forgiven in time). This is simply because the teleological purpose of man is transmigration to the aforementioned godhead, where everything is awesome all the time but it smells like an overused restroom. But then again, no one ever said that entry level divinity was glamorous. I'll have my pamphlet call your pamphlet. We'll do lunch.

[stryc9]

Look out. I should have put a disclaimer on the bottom of my post

[xbl0x180]

Hate to sound like a cliche here but as the saying goes just because you can't see something doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

I can't prove unicorns and dragons don't exist, so they exist...

[RNGmaster]

Myster Telestar? Did you move to Adelaide?

[Sumez]

Wow. It's 2011 and you guys haven't realised that there's a spirit plane yet?

The first thing you guys need to do is to separate your definitions of religion and spiritulism. They are superficially connected, but are not one and the same.

I don't 'like' a lot of religions either (most obviously, or maybe not so obviously, have it twisted).
But that is not to say that the spirit beings that they idolize are not real, much less suggest God does not exist.

Those beings are real alright and have existed for a very long time. As has the spirit world.
I guess I thought that this sought of meat and potatoes materialism would have died in the ass by now given the reawakening of arcane practice in the 1900's, what happened in the 60's, (no small thing), the whole obsession with witchcraft and the supernatural that has exploded into the realm of popular entertainment recently, the popularization of eastern mystical practices such as Yoga in the west etc.

Hate to sound like a cliche here but as the saying goes just because you can't see something doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

PS if your waiting for an answer from the realm of science you will be waiting a very long time.
As a person with an interest in theoretical physics, its easy to see Man coming up against a brick wall trying his damnedest to bridge that void between the physical and the metaphysical, using only the tools of process science.

The witchdoctor was better equipped, though no less deceived.

Stairway to Heaven indeed

[geotrig]

Ireland calling, Ireland calling!
I think I'm probably the only person from the Republic of Ireland on here.
Diabollokus is from the North of Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom.

Keep the Jaded Isle flag flying!

-johnl

far from mate ! quite a few irish around !