Are you a believer?

[ThomasSoerensen]

This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in - an interesting hole I find myself in - fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it's still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. - Douglas Adams

WHS

[shaunbhoy]

I can understand wanting to believe in "something" but how anyone can give credence to teachings that were made or selected by men is beyond me.

I apply much the same rationale to Political Party Manifestos.

[Ignis Fatuus]

What if you're not a believer, atheist or agnostic?

You will get hammered into one mould or another. Religious people will always see you as having some religion or other, and will stubbornly maintain that whatever you believe is some kind of "ism". Atheists will demand to know which side you're really on. People who call themselves agnotics will always wonder whether you are just a half-hearted believer or a half-hearted atheist (because they are one or the other - or both).

A real agnostic, IMHO, is someone who believes that he doesn't know about god, and can't know about god, and that you don't know either. That may be what you are?

What is usually called an atheist, I'd call an antitheist: one who believes that there is no god.

I'd then call myself an atheist: it is not true that I believe that there is no god, but it is true that I don't believe that there is a god.

[Zippy]

I don't believe in atheism or religion.

Amen brother!

[Mich the Tester]

Ramen brother!

ftfy

arrrrr!

Praise be to His Noodly Appendage.

[Pogle]

May the Great Guinea Pig forgive you all

[Ignis Fatuus]

Did you have to?

Now I'll be whistling that on the way home.

Makes a change from Comfortably Numb I suppose.

That was what was amazing about the 60s - even a band that didn't exist could make a great record.

[Zippy]

May the Great Guinea Pig forgive you all

With much noodliness and godly root vegetables.

I'm going to hell aren't I?

[shaunbhoy]

With much noodliness and godly root vegetables.

I'm going to hell aren't I?

I'm afraid so. Your only hope for clemency would be to +ve rep me and I'll put in a good word for you.

HTH

[Pogle]

With much noodliness and godly root vegetables.

I'm going to hell aren't I?

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