Posted by:
koriwhore
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Date: January 12, 2015 12:57AM
#1. I don't like the idea of trading one religious identity for an identity that depends upon my former identity. IOW, I don't like the idea of identifying myself in terms I reject, like theist or atheist.
I'm not a gnostic nor an agnostic.
I'm not a stamp collector or a Non-stamp collector.
#2. Why identify myself in terms that are meaningless to me?
#3. If I had to identify myself as anything in religious terms, it'd probably be some combination of Epicureanism, Stoicism and Taoism, but those are really more philosophies than any kind of a religion. At least I don't know of any Epicurean or Stoic schools or schools that even teach about either one of those schools of thought that were competing schools of thought with Christianity at the time Constantine adopted Christianity as the State Religion and it's been effective at controlling the masses ever since.
#4. I really agree with about 99.5% of what Einstein had to say. He had no use for Atheists and said their struggle from the toils of having been enslaved by religion made them deaf to the music of the spheres, which I could see happening to me when I was a Nihlist, after 9-11.
#5. I really agree with about 99.9% of what Sam Harris has to say, especially what he had to say in his speech, "The Problem With Atheism" where he gives my reasons #10-#20 for not identifying myself as an Atheist, which I've never seen an Atheist respond to.
#6. Even though Darwin's Pitbull, Richard Dawkins is the biggest advocate of mocking religion, with contempt, in public, and coming out of the closet as Atheists, he himself admits in, "A Deeply Religious Non-Believer", his first chapter of "The God Delusion" that he believes in the "God of Einstein". Einstein worshiped the God of Spinoza, which was Nature, making them all pantheists, not Atheists.
#7. I agree with Stephen Hawking who said, "Yes I believe in God, if by the word, 'God' you mean the embodiment of Nature."
#8. I agree with Carl Sagan who said, "Some people think God is an outsized, light-skinned male with a long white beard, sitting on a throne somewhere up there in the sky, busily tallying the fall of every sparrow. Others—for example Baruch Spinoza and Albert Einstein—considered God to be essentially the sum total of the physical laws which describe the universe. I do not know of any compelling evidence for anthropomorphic patriarchs controlling human destiny from some hidden celestial vantage point, but it would be madness to deny the existence of physical laws."
#9. It's all I can do to live up to the name we call our species, Homo Sapiens Sapiens, wise wise human, when we all have so far to go to get to the point where we can truly be considered wise, wise humans.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/12/2015 01:05AM by koriwhore.