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What are you?

Poll: What are you? (193 member(s) have cast votes)

What are you?

  1. Atheist (128 votes [37.87%])

    Percentage of vote: 37.87%

  2. Agnostic (53 votes [15.68%])

    Percentage of vote: 15.68%

  3. Christian (77 votes [22.78%])

    Percentage of vote: 22.78%

  4. Muslim (12 votes [3.55%])

    Percentage of vote: 3.55%

  5. Buddhist (1 votes [0.30%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.30%

  6. Jewish (2 votes [0.59%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.59%

  7. Hindu (2 votes [0.59%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.59%

  8. Pagan/Wiccan (10 votes [2.96%])

    Percentage of vote: 2.96%

  9. Fusion of Several Religions (10 votes [2.96%])

    Percentage of vote: 2.96%

  10. Other (43 votes [12.72%])

    Percentage of vote: 12.72%

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#401 User is offline   ThinkingMalaz 

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Posted 10 February 2011 - 03:47 PM

View PostOrlion, on 10 February 2011 - 02:55 PM, said:

View PostThinkingMalaz, on 10 February 2011 - 01:21 PM, said:

actually that would make you an atheist :thumbup:

By your definition :p


indeeed, by my definition :D
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#402 User is offline   Shadow of Shadowthrone 

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Posted 05 April 2011 - 07:18 AM

I am what I am, and I guess by other people's definition that would be dangerously close to "angry atheist" and/or "the Antichrist". Though I find "spiritual succor" in the enjoyment of fantasy literature, roleplaying games, movies etc.

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Posted 17 December 2011 - 01:44 AM

I'm a Dualist Pantheist who believes that you are reincarnated by someone else, but they are just the original template that drastically changes every life and that after you die you dont go to heaven or hell but you join a collective conciousness thing where your mind is still alive, but you have no physical form and you can watch people close to you, but cannot influence anything else. Also I believe that humans are not "Superior Beings" or anything like that but that we are just as subject to the laws of the world as any squirrel or bear but we just have ambitions
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#404 User is offline   Azathmaster 

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Posted 17 December 2011 - 01:44 AM

I'm a Dualist Pantheist who believes that you are reincarnated by someone else, but they are just the original template that drastically changes every life and that after you die you dont go to heaven or hell but you join a collective conciousness thing where your mind is still alive, but you have no physical form and you can watch people close to you, but cannot influence anything else. Also I believe that humans are not "Superior Beings" or anything like that but that we are just as subject to the laws of the world as any squirrel or bear but we just have ambitions.
I'm not sure if that makes sense.
I also want to hear from other people on their thoughts on my beliefs especially other pantheists.
I also believe in some nonreligious version of Karma so that everything balances, like if you help someone across the street, a bad feeling with let you escape getting hit by a car, etc.
I have no problem with other religions I just question why if a commandment was that "Thou shalt not kill" then christians, (who I officially am, cuz i was baptized communionized etc) killed tens of thousands to make them convert

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Posted 17 December 2011 - 04:01 AM

Hehe, I love how this thread just keeps going. :p

Anyway, my thoughts aren't really different in regards to your religion than in regards to any other, pantheistic or monotheistic - it's a belief, predicated on no real evidence, and it sounds to me like one that you've picked because it appeals, and for little other reason (forgive me if that assumption is incorrect, but that is what it sounds like to me). *shrug*

Your example of karma, while I take it as just an example, also seems to be a bit...disproportionate? :p Is that intentional (as in not so much balance, but reward/punish by some arbitrary scale, in which case how is it determined as it is nonreligious?) or was the example just accidentally a bit...extreme? XD

And your last point really comes down to something I think is well-covered in debates the world over - religion =/= the religious. I.e. as with anything involving people, it can be shaped and used in many different ways, regardless of original intent or even intent of the people in question. Your concern there is more with the Christians than with Christianity, in other words. And it's a problem every religion, though especially those which have teachings or 'rules', has to face and will never overcome. :p
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<Vote Silencer> For not garnering any heat or any love for that matter. And I'm being serious here, it's like a mental block that is there, and you just keep forgetting it.

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Posted 17 December 2011 - 04:51 AM

I am an egg. When I hatch, the world will pay.

edit: Fuck me, I made a post in Path-Shaper. Woops

-JLV

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#407 User is offline   Shinrei 

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Posted 17 December 2011 - 06:07 AM

And thereby ruined Path-Shapers 666 post count. :p
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Posted 17 December 2011 - 06:29 AM

It's OK, I'll fix that. :p
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<Vote Silencer> For not garnering any heat or any love for that matter. And I'm being serious here, it's like a mental block that is there, and you just keep forgetting it.

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#409 User is offline   Shinrei 

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Posted 17 December 2011 - 11:38 AM

Mod priorities. Interesting. :p
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Posted 17 December 2011 - 11:41 AM

:p

'S OK, it's a lot easier than changing passwords or, God forbid, actually *moderating* you lot. :p
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Shinrei said:

<Vote Silencer> For not garnering any heat or any love for that matter. And I'm being serious here, it's like a mental block that is there, and you just keep forgetting it.

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Posted 17 December 2011 - 01:11 PM

Monotheistic Neopaganist.
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Posted 17 December 2011 - 04:52 PM

View PostSilencer, on 17 December 2011 - 11:41 AM, said:

:p

'S OK, it's a lot easier than changing passwords or, God forbid, actually *moderating* you lot. :p



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Posted 17 December 2011 - 05:10 PM

View PostHiddenOne, on 17 December 2011 - 04:52 PM, said:

View PostSilencer, on 17 December 2011 - 11:41 AM, said:

:p

'S OK, it's a lot easier than changing passwords or, God forbid, actually *moderating* you lot. :p



How about you come play mafia again?



Seconded!!!
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#414 User is offline   Adjutant Stormy~ 

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Posted 18 December 2011 - 11:31 AM

View PostDESTROYER OF CHAT, on 17 December 2011 - 01:11 PM, said:

Monotheistic Neopaganist.


I think at least I am going to need a clarification for what that is.

View PostGust Hubb, on 17 December 2011 - 05:10 PM, said:

View PostHiddenOne, on 17 December 2011 - 04:52 PM, said:

View PostSilencer, on 17 December 2011 - 11:41 AM, said:

:p

'S OK, it's a lot easier than changing passwords or, God forbid, actually *moderating* you lot. :p



How about you come play mafia again?



Seconded!!!




NO. NOBDOY SHOULD PLAY MAFIA. IT IS EVEN 5 TIMES MORE OF A TIMESINK THAN THE SITE ITSELF.
<!--quoteo(post=462161:date=Nov 1 2008, 06:13 PM:name=Aptorian)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Aptorian @ Nov 1 2008, 06:13 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=462161"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->God damn. Mighty drunk. Must ... what is the english movement movement movement for drunk... with out you seemimg drunk?

bla bla bla

Peopleare harrasing me... grrrrrh.

Also people with big noses aren't jews, they're just french

EDIT: We has editted so mucj that5 we're not quite sure... also, leave britney alone.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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#415 User is offline   Shinrei 

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Posted 18 December 2011 - 12:25 PM

Adjutant, you should give Mafia a chance! Here is some literature you can read, like this one titled, "What Mafia Can Do for Your Life" and "Should Mafia be Taught in Schools?". We would be happy to have you at to one of our meetings. You can even bring a friend. :p
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#416 User is offline   Adjutant Stormy~ 

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Posted 18 December 2011 - 12:40 PM

Whilst I appreciate the effort, I've yet to see any Mafia-based-media that inform me of it's fun-ness.
<!--quoteo(post=462161:date=Nov 1 2008, 06:13 PM:name=Aptorian)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Aptorian @ Nov 1 2008, 06:13 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=462161"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->God damn. Mighty drunk. Must ... what is the english movement movement movement for drunk... with out you seemimg drunk?

bla bla bla

Peopleare harrasing me... grrrrrh.

Also people with big noses aren't jews, they're just french

EDIT: We has editted so mucj that5 we're not quite sure... also, leave britney alone.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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Posted 18 December 2011 - 01:57 PM

View PostAdjutant Stormy, on 18 December 2011 - 11:31 AM, said:

I think at least I am going to need a clarification for what that is.




Neopaganism is the modernisation of traditional Pagan beliefs, with emphasis on loving nature and animals. The 'monotheistic' bit I add because I believe there is some 'higher power' kind of thing, but I don't put too much faith in that since proving it's existence is impossible.
I tried to put it across in the briefest way. I think I did a fair job of explaining it :p
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Posted 18 December 2011 - 10:59 PM

View PostHiddenOne, on 17 December 2011 - 04:52 PM, said:

View PostSilencer, on 17 December 2011 - 11:41 AM, said:

;)

'S OK, it's a lot easier than changing passwords or, God forbid, actually *moderating* you lot. :p



How about you come play mafia again?


Nah, we have a Warhammer 40k game to finish first :p



View PostAdjutant Stormy, on 18 December 2011 - 11:31 AM, said:

View PostGust Hubb, on 17 December 2011 - 05:10 PM, said:

View PostHiddenOne, on 17 December 2011 - 04:52 PM, said:

View PostSilencer, on 17 December 2011 - 11:41 AM, said:

:D

'S OK, it's a lot easier than changing passwords or, God forbid, actually *moderating* you lot. :p



How about you come play mafia again?



Seconded!!!




NO. NOBDOY SHOULD PLAY MAFIA. IT IS EVEN 5 TIMES MORE OF A TIMESINK THAN THE SITE ITSELF.


Stormy's right, no one should play that thing.
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Posted 18 December 2011 - 11:13 PM

View PostDarkwatch, on 18 December 2011 - 10:59 PM, said:

View PostHiddenOne, on 17 December 2011 - 04:52 PM, said:

View PostSilencer, on 17 December 2011 - 11:41 AM, said:

:D

'S OK, it's a lot easier than changing passwords or, God forbid, actually *moderating* you lot. :p



How about you come play mafia again?


Nah, we have a Warhammer 40k game to finish first :p





;)

Er...yeah...about that...uhhhh..>.>
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<Vote Silencer> For not garnering any heat or any love for that matter. And I'm being serious here, it's like a mental block that is there, and you just keep forgetting it.

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Posted 15 September 2012 - 01:13 PM

Which one is 'I believe god exists but I don't care'?
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