For me its pro wrestling. I love it, watch it. Its my pipe dream career to be involved in some capacity.
What about you all?
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What Is The Closest Thing You Have To A Religion If Your Not Religious?
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This is just pure curiosity.
For me its pro wrestling. I love it, watch it. Its my pipe dream career to be involved in some capacity.
What about you all?
For me its pro wrestling. I love it, watch it. Its my pipe dream career to be involved in some capacity.
What about you all?
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Posted 28 June 2012 - 03:13 PM
I worship at the alter of learning lol.
When I was a christian, there was an answer for everything, even if that answer was just "god works in mysterious ways". That type of mindset effectively cripples all curiosity. When you get an immediate, pat answer for every question, it takes away from the joy of having a question and pursuing it, and all the things you learn along the way in pursuit of finding that answer, even if, at the end, there is no concrete answer.
Since I left christianity and became an atheist, my curiosity and desire to learn has exponentially increased. It's a brand new world
When I was a christian, there was an answer for everything, even if that answer was just "god works in mysterious ways". That type of mindset effectively cripples all curiosity. When you get an immediate, pat answer for every question, it takes away from the joy of having a question and pursuing it, and all the things you learn along the way in pursuit of finding that answer, even if, at the end, there is no concrete answer.
Since I left christianity and became an atheist, my curiosity and desire to learn has exponentially increased. It's a brand new world
"He believed to the end exactly the same things he started with. It seems to me that a man who can think straight along for forty-seven years without changing a single idea ought to be kept in a cabinet as a curiosity."- Jean Webster
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Posted 28 June 2012 - 03:15 PM
I worship at the alter of learning lol.
When I was a christian, there was an answer for everything, even if that answer was just "god works in mysterious ways". That type of mindset effectively cripples all curiosity. When you get an immediate, pat answer for every question, it takes away from the joy of having a question and pursuing it, and all the things you learn along the way in pursuit of finding that answer, even if, at the end, there is no concrete answer.
Since I left christianity and became an atheist, my curiosity and desire to learn has exponentially increased. It's a brand new world
This is me 100%!!!!
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.
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Posted 28 June 2012 - 03:36 PM
I worship at the alter of learning lol.
When I was a christian, there was an answer for everything, even if that answer was just "god works in mysterious ways". That type of mindset effectively cripples all curiosity. When you get an immediate, pat answer for every question, it takes away from the joy of having a question and pursuing it, and all the things you learn along the way in pursuit of finding that answer, even if, at the end, there is no concrete answer.
Since I left christianity and became an atheist, my curiosity and desire to learn has exponentially increased. It's a brand new world
This is me 100%!!!!
Fist bump!!
"He believed to the end exactly the same things he started with. It seems to me that a man who can think straight along for forty-seven years without changing a single idea ought to be kept in a cabinet as a curiosity."- Jean Webster
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Posted 28 June 2012 - 03:38 PM
"It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs."
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Faith is Silly. It is blind acceptance in things you have every right to question. -Michael
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Faith is Silly. It is blind acceptance in things you have every right to question. -Michael
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Posted 28 June 2012 - 03:55 PM
This is just pure curiosity.
For me its pro wrestling. I love it, watch it. Its my pipe dream career to be involved in some capacity.
What about you all?
I'm still a neo-pagan and follow the sabbats, though I no longer believe in magic or gods of any kind.
I also worship at the alter of pro-wrestling! I miss Edge SO MUCH.
“Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.” ~ Christopher Hitchens
"It is such a beautiful thought that we are the heirs of 4 billion years of evolution and we are cousins of all living things. When you put that against the measly, piddling ideas that are in Genesis, there is just no comparison." ~ Richard Dawkins
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Posted 28 June 2012 - 04:45 PM
Like McD and Pudd, I also love learning.
My new "religion" however is simply to live out my beliefs. As a Christian I often felt like a misfit--having to be either theocentric or pseudo-anthropocentric, but now I can really be me and live out my ecocentric beliefs. I feel like I'm breathing fresh air for the first time in my life!
My new "religion" however is simply to live out my beliefs. As a Christian I often felt like a misfit--having to be either theocentric or pseudo-anthropocentric, but now I can really be me and live out my ecocentric beliefs. I feel like I'm breathing fresh air for the first time in my life!
POSITIVISM
A belief system or philosophical orientation that is realist in its ontology, objectivist in its epistemology, and empirical in its methodology.
FOLLOW THE EVIDENCE
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Posted 28 June 2012 - 04:48 PM
That is the one competing one. I am trying to deconvert from politics however. I am bored of it.I worship at the alter of learning lol.
When I was a christian, there was an answer for everything, even if that answer was just "god works in mysterious ways". That type of mindset effectively cripples all curiosity. When you get an immediate, pat answer for every question, it takes away from the joy of having a question and pursuing it, and all the things you learn along the way in pursuit of finding that answer, even if, at the end, there is no concrete answer.
Since I left christianity and became an atheist, my curiosity and desire to learn has exponentially increased. It's a brand new world
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Posted 28 June 2012 - 04:50 PM
That is the one competing one. I am trying to deconvert from politics however. I am bored of it.
Oh, that's easily fixed. Just start identifying as an Aussie. We're apathetic about politics lol.
"He believed to the end exactly the same things he started with. It seems to me that a man who can think straight along for forty-seven years without changing a single idea ought to be kept in a cabinet as a curiosity."- Jean Webster
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I will move there if I have the money someday, and a way to get pass your rather draconian immigration laws for anybody that isn't rich and well educated.
That is the one competing one. I am trying to deconvert from politics however. I am bored of it.
Oh, that's easily fixed. Just start identifying as an Aussie. We're apathetic about politics lol.
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Posted 28 June 2012 - 09:14 PM
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Wegmans
Frank Lloyd Wright
Howard Stern
Because food is my religion, the Martin house is my church & Howard is my priest.
Wegmans
Frank Lloyd Wright
Howard Stern
Because food is my religion, the Martin house is my church & Howard is my priest.
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Posted 28 June 2012 - 09:14 PM
I worship at the alter of learning lol.
When I was a christian, there was an answer for everything, even if that answer was just "god works in mysterious ways". That type of mindset effectively cripples all curiosity. When you get an immediate, pat answer for every question, it takes away from the joy of having a question and pursuing it, and all the things you learn along the way in pursuit of finding that answer, even if, at the end, there is no concrete answer.
Since I left christianity and became an atheist, my curiosity and desire to learn has exponentially increased. It's a brand new world
I can't give a reputation point because I'm all out - but I love this.
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Posted 28 June 2012 - 09:20 PM
Like McD and Pudd, I also love learning.
My new "religion" however is simply to live out my beliefs. As a Christian I often felt like a misfit--having to be either theocentric or pseudo-anthropocentric, but now I can really be me and live out my ecocentric beliefs. I feel like I'm breathing fresh air for the first time in my life!
I would have to 'third' this girls! I have been a questioner all my life and it feels so good to be free to question anything I want now!! With NO guilt!! I love being free!!! Free to be ME!!!!
93% of the mass in our body is stardust. Just think.....long ago someone may have wished upon a star that you are made of.
God may not work.....but you could try wishing upon a star!
God may not work.....but you could try wishing upon a star!
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Posted 28 June 2012 - 09:32 PM
I have a lot of reverence for nature. 16 billion years is a lot more impressive than 6 days.
Whether it's the best of times, or the worst of times, it's the only time you've got. -Art Buchwald
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Posted 28 June 2012 - 09:44 PM
This is just pure curiosity.
For me its pro wrestling. I love it, watch it. Its my pipe dream career to be involved in some capacity.
What about you all?
Well that explains quite a bit.... oxox
oxox .... but not to appear snide in the least or diminish your genuine question...I still work with some missionary friends and we dig wells in third world hell holes. But this trip is going to be SO SO different. I will be going under my own banner....if that makes sense. The motivation is coming from a WHOLLY DIFFERENT PLACE IN MY HEART AD MIND!!!
DO. GOOD. for the SAKE of good....not for Jeebus or salvation...
It is exhilarating.
....and yeah....trying to get away from politics....there is not a damn thing anyone can do about the zeitgeist....it will persist without my opinion.,,,so fuckem...I'm off to dig wells and hunt Cape Buffalo.
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Posted 28 June 2012 - 09:55 PM
I uphold books as holy objects to be revered.
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Posted 28 June 2012 - 10:23 PM
I uphold books as holy objects to be revered.
I'm constantly checking out new books and reading to heart's content. Mental focus has to be applied to a book (or any token based on the printed word) in a way that's simply not necessary with picture-based media.
I'm quite enamored of baseball myself, though the results of the games and seasons have no real connection to my life. I ritualistically keep score if I'm watching/in attendance at a game.
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Posted 29 June 2012 - 12:19 AM
I will move there if I have the money someday, and a way to get pass your rather draconian immigration laws for anybody that isn't rich and well educated.
That is the one competing one. I am trying to deconvert from politics however. I am bored of it.
Oh, that's easily fixed. Just start identifying as an Aussie. We're apathetic about politics lol.
Marry an Australian. Though I recommend that you actually love the chick- could get awkward, otherwise
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Well you ain't into shot gun weddings so I outta luck
I will move there if I have the money someday, and a way to get pass your rather draconian immigration laws for anybody that isn't rich and well educated.
That is the one competing one. I am trying to deconvert from politics however. I am bored of it.
Oh, that's easily fixed. Just start identifying as an Aussie. We're apathetic about politics lol.
Marry an Australian. Though I recommend that you actually love the chick- could get awkward, otherwise
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Posted 29 June 2012 - 01:04 AM
Music.
There is nothing more amazing to me than music. It is a language all it's own, even when it does not contain lyrics.
It is ethereal, a tool, an emotion, a thought, a story, a motivator, a healer.
There is nothing more amazing to me than music. It is a language all it's own, even when it does not contain lyrics.
It is ethereal, a tool, an emotion, a thought, a story, a motivator, a healer.
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