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HsR's Demographics of Wowhead: Religion
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Post by
Atik
But doesn't the fact that the different individuals vary on what they will believe, in and of itself, disprove said beliefs?
Post by
Adamsm
Nope.
Post by
Atik
Or does it prove them all to be true?
Post by
Adamsm
If you want to see it that way, then sure.
Post by
Monday
Or does it prove them all to be true?
It does neither, as none can be proven true or false.
Post by
Squishalot
But doesn't the fact that the different individuals vary on what they will believe, in and of itself, disprove said beliefs?
You believe that you're right. By your argument, Adamsm's just disproved you.
Post by
Jubilee
It proves that if personal belief is the vehicle for reaching transcendent truth then no one should be faulted for following their own heart. It doesn't really say anything about what the truth actually is.
Post by
Atik
I understand my mindset is a lot different then most... but if there was no way to prove one is right and another is wrong, nor prove none/all are right or wrong...
Why bother waging wars about it? Why do Jehova's 'Witlesses" stand on my poarch for an hour hoping to convert me? Why do people like american voter's place such consideration into what religion someone is?
I would like to say 'why bother practicing the religions' but I won't.
Post by
Adamsm
Why do you put any thought into someone who believes differently from you?
Post by
Jubilee
Those are exactly the things you do when you
can't
prove your views right. You either bang them into other people be force or law or you try to speak to them on a personal level. If it was a simple logical proof you could just publish a textbook.
Post by
Monday
You either bang them into other people be force or law
Which is irritating as hell, but I digress. I understand my mindset is a lot different then most... but if there was no way to prove one is right and another is wrong, nor prove none/all are right or wrong...
Why bother waging wars about it? Why do Jehova's 'Witlesses" stand on my poarch for an hour hoping to convert me? Why do people like american voter's place such consideration into what religion someone is?
I would like to say 'why bother practicing the religions' but I won't.
There's this thing called faith, and it appears that you don't have any. I'm not trying to be condescending here, but if you don't have faith, you won't understand and probably never will.
Post by
Adamsm
I would like to say 'why bother practicing the religions' but I won't.
Since someone can come back with a certain theory based on fictional encounters with spirit entities on a scripted TV show?
Post by
240140
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Post by
Atik
Why do you put any thought into someone who believes differently from you?
It might be the part of me that still wanted to believe after Christianity began to seem... impossible, I guess.
When I was around ten or twelve my family went through a very rough financial time. My grandmother had died recently and it had set off a whole chain reaction where I began to doubt everything I had believed about christianity.
I went through a whole phase where I began to study evolution and become wrapped up in all sorts of scientific explinations for things that I had previously attributed to the religion I was born into. I found out that lightning was not 'the angels bowling' and all that.
I was shunned in school, other kids calling me insane for thinking humans came from monkies. I was shunned by my family for questioning all things christian. I began asking for proof, or an explination of any sort why they believed.
The answers would always boil down to "Because it's true!" which never made sense to me.
The part of me that asks these questions is the part of me that regrets making my family hate me. One thanksgiving, after grace, I asked why we were thanking 'god.' I mentioned he didn't kill the turky or mash the potatoes or pay for any of our meal or work for any of the money we spent on it...
When noone could offer me an explanation, and instead just yelled and screamed at me for being diffucult, I became athiest more or less.
I guess a part of me still wants there to be some fantastic explination to everything, rather than what I know. A part of me wants to be able to shout "ALIENS DID IT ALL!" Or something.
Post by
Monday
The part of me that asks these questions is the part of me that regrets making my family hate me. One thanksgiving, after grace, I asked why we were thanking 'god.' I mentioned he didn't kill the turky or mash the potatoes or pay for any of our meal or work for any of the money we spent on it...
Because He created it all?
Either way, this is why I like being Mormon. I get Christianity AND Science.
Post by
Adamsm
I still prefer Wicca; sure you have the morons who know absolutely nothing thinking they know more then you, but other then that, it's the one that works best with me.
Post by
240140
This post was from a user who has deleted their account.
Post by
Monday
/hug
And now she's going to reject me...
Post by
Jubilee
I prefer Other. We hug too.
Post by
Atik
/hug
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