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I always thought and for a short while practiced Roman Catholicism butwhen i was getting married i found out I was never baptized i just assumed i was cause my family being all religious and all so i called my mother to get the papers for Father bob to Marry us. and she was all like you don't have any so i asked where do i need to pick them up from and she was quiet for a second then said "your just not baptized" so i was confused a bit but she said there is to much with the church and bible that she does not agree with and i started to think about it myself and in a very short time i have lost all faith i have to many questions and there is just to much science to back up "life" in general so I'm agnostic and within a few years I'm sure ill just be atheist.
I'm an Agnostic/Athiest mix. I want emprical data to prove god or any other "Higher Power". That's why I stopped attending a support group with my sister. They talked about having a higher power, but considering there was not objective data to back them up, I stopped going. Right now, you could say I worship at the altar of science. And hopeful.
I had a very powerful mystical experience when I was just about 21, i'm 33 now. Long story short, I connect with both atheists and theists and deists and whatever. My mystical experience and my weak exposure to Christianity up to 8 years old allows me a great deal of subjective objectivity about such things as I think about them or experience life. It's tough seeing all the different beliefs around the world as being valid in many ways, though I do consider somethings as partial or full on mistakes (prayer, raindances, magic). I have come to feel that God is really two things. Our understanding of the PRINCIPLES OF NATURE and the MORAL BINDING POST that naturally grows in the collective unconscious of any one people. We generally (in the west) focus on the later aspect of God and make the mistake that it's not US! The previous aspect (in the East) I think we make the mistake of thinking that we ARE IT when we are only a part of it (although at the fundemental, not organizational level we're all atoms and space).
I'm still workin on my interpretation and theories about all this but I think I'm an atheist in the sense that I know that God is actually the collective unconscious as Jung said. I'm also thinking right now that since no one has ever seen or correctly intuited that anything has EVER been created, rather just transformations of energy, then the creation of the universe idea may be a false premise. I'm hoping the extreme vacuum of that belief being thrown out can open my mind to obvious other possibilities as often happens when you let go of something subconsciously held to be irreproachable. I somehow feel strong enough to live without it for the time being.
I had a very powerful mystical experience when I was just about 21, i'm 33 now. Long story short, I connect with both atheists and theists and deists and whatever. My mystical experience and my weak exposure to Christianity up to 8 years old allows me a great deal of subjective objectivity about such things as I think about them or experience life. It's tough seeing all the different beliefs around the world as being valid in many ways, though I do consider somethings as partial or full on mistakes (prayer, raindances, magic). I have come to feel that God is really two things. Our understanding of the PRINCIPLES OF NATURE and the MORAL BINDING POST that naturally grows in the collective unconscious of any one people. We generally (in the west) focus on the later aspect of God and make the mistake that it's not US! The previous aspect (in the East) I think we make the mistake of thinking that we ARE IT when we are only a part of it (although at the fundemental, not organizational level we're all atoms and space).
I'm still workin on my interpretation and theories about all this but I think I'm an atheist in the sense that I know that God is actually the collective unconscious as Jung said. I'm also thinking right now that since no one has ever seen or correctly intuited that anything has EVER been created, rather just transformations of energy, then the creation of the universe idea may be a false premise. I'm hoping the extreme vacuum of that belief being thrown out can open my mind to obvious other possibilities as often happens when you let go of something subconsciously held to be irreproachable. I somehow feel strong enough to live without it for the time being.
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