What Made You An Atheist?

[Deep_Black_Conscious]

that last sentence scares so many people. I think this is why people believe in a higher power. Death is so permanent and unknowing many people can't handle the thought that there may be no reason for life. There's no grand scheme of our existence.

god doesn't have to exist for there to be a reality more complex than this one
that's the problem
people remove God and therefore remove all possibilities of realities beyond this one
My own personal experience in college along with peoples' out of body experiences (a real but understudied phenomenon) tells me consciousness is fundamental to reality and it may exist independently from life
more research needs to be done (and has been done) in these areas

 

[Freedman]

So you don't believe a bug's life = a human's since you can arbitrarily decide that they need to die..... would you do the same to a human if you were inconvenienced.... this aint got shyt to with whether you believe there is an after life...... but everything to do with that statement.....

I logically feel all carbon based earth life should have an equal opporunity to exist but I am a human so ofcourse I value human life more than it's "actually" worth but don't act like some people don't

 

[SirReginald]

I don't consider myself an "atheist" but basically would be by common religious standards. It'll take too much typing amd reading to explain how I got here. The better question is, what made YOU (presumably) a Christian @SirReginald? A Baptist? A Pentecostal? A Catholic? Etc.


Those are the questions that plagued my mind after taking a class in college and it was basically like a tiny crack in a glass panel splintering off until it all shatters. That's why, in a nutshell.

I'm not Christian. However, what made me pick Judaism is I just felt a connection with it. I feel that G-d is one and we should fulfill the laws that G-d sent down to us. For me, I started to question when I was 17. I went through a stage of Agnosticism. Then, when I was 21 I feel in love with Judaism. Researched it and felt I was close with that the most. This was back in 2015. I was supposed to meet with a rabbi, but backed out. Now, five years later I had a spiritual connection with g-d. So, I want to repay by dedicating my life to Hashem. I feel Jewish in my heart. Hopefully, by the end of 2020 I can convert to Orthodox Judaism.

By the way, I grew up Baptist.

 

[Child_Of_God]

Atheism is European cac shyt.

nikkas really think we all came from animals and that the entire universe just came into existence by itself without a Intelligent being creating it.

 

[010101]

god doesn't have to exist for there to be a reality more complex than this one
that's the problem
people remove God and therefore remove all possibilities of realities beyond this one
My own personal experience in college along with people's out of body experiences (a real but understudied phemenon) tells me consciousness is fundamental to reality and it may exist independently from life
more research needs to be done (and has been done) in these areas

i see that working more like a deep dive into your own brains imagination*

 

[Deep_Black_Conscious]

i see that working more like a deep dive into your own brains imagination*

it's different than that
you literally experience "awareness" outside of your body
you can see your body and anyone interacting with
you can travel to different parts of the world, listen to people's conversations, etc. travel through walls, etc.
or try to travel somewhere in whatever plane you exist in when this happens

 

[010101]

it's different than that
you literally experience "awareness" outside of your body
you can see your body and anyone interacting with
you can travel to different parts of the world, listen to people's conversations, etc. travel through walls, etc.
or try to travel somewhere in whatever plane you exist in when this happens

i've heard those claims

have they proven that consistently¿

*

 

[ba'al]

Now you back sliding into your "going atheist phase". You never stick to one thing reggie. You go back and forth between being into witchcraft, agnosticism, pansexuality,Orthodox Judaism, and lying about being employed. Bruh you eventually got to figure out who you are my nikka. You lukewarm in everything you do and the only reason you made this thread was to look for validation in other folks answer.

Out of 20 years in life I never thought I would lose faith shyt started four years ago when I stopped going to church. I went once in 2011 for a funeral honoring my deceased cousin in her 50's. Anyway, my last two years of highschool I was in a religious group. We would stay back after school. Then, Senior year came all bad shyt started happening. Well I say the week after I graduated my mother had a stroke This was two years ago. Yeah I got a job, but I still fill emptiness. NO I'm not suicidal However, I never thought I would lose faith. I was a skeptic at first, then I turned Agnostic. Now, I just don't know. I wanna believe in a God, but I don't no. It gets to a point when you get tired of asking, "why me". I've never done anything to anyone. I was always the smart/intelligent guy. Right now I guess I'm at a crossroads. Sorry about making a religion thread. Just had to get this off my chest. I just feel like I haven't fulfilled the things I should have done. Plus, I feel others are passing me by. Plus, how am I gonna worship a god when I don't even love myself?

 

[Jim Cornette]

Cos religion is a tool of war.

And they all have their flaws.

Especially hate christianity tho... just cos cacs fukked up so many countries and cultures with it

 

[Drip Bayless]

The Abrahamic religions are nothing but a testament to human arrogance
Same as the idea that the solar system revolves around the Earth

 

[SirReginald]

Now you back sliding into you "going atheist phase". You never stick to one thing reggie. You go back and forth between being into witchcraft, agnosticism, pansexuality,Orthodox Judaism, and lying about being employed. Bruh you eventually got to figure out who you are my nikka. You lukewarm in everything you do and the only reason you made this thread was to look for validation in other folks answer.

I never lied about employment.

 

[Sex Luthor]

god doesn't have to exist for there to be a reality more complex than this one
that's the problem
people remove God and therefore remove all possibilities of realities beyond this one
My own personal experience in college along with peoples' out of body experiences (a real but understudied phenomenon) tells me consciousness is fundamental to reality and it may exist independently from life
more research needs to be done (and has been done) in these areas

I was saying why I think people believe in a god.

People don't know what happens when we die. The only way to know is to die. I think outer body experiences are the brains way of fighting to understand things. The brain pretty much functions on its own by the way it retains memories, puts together thoughts and functions. That's why it's hard for me to believe testimonials about outer body experiences or people that claim to die and come back. We have no idea how the brain works or why it does what it does.

 

[Deep_Black_Conscious]

i've heard those claims

have they proven that consistently¿

*

there has been research conducted by physicists, biologists, etc. real scientists but it's not covered in the news or mainstream science all that much
what they try to do is they try to see what people observe during these episodes, that would only be possible if they were physically present
like I said more research needs to be done so it can become more rigorous and a larger field of study

 

[Deep_Black_Conscious]

I was saying why I think people believe in a god.

People don't know what happens when we die. The only way to know is to die. I think outer body experiences are the brains way of fighting to understand things. The brain pretty much functions on its own by the way it retains memories, puts together thoughts and functions. That's why it's hard for me to believe testimonials about outer body experiences or people that claim to die and come back. We have no idea how the brain works or why it does what it does.

someone being able to travel through walls and travel to another part of the world outside your body is not our brains way of fighting to understand things
we should instead research more into it
that's what science should be about anyway
I'm curious that's all
To me, us simply ceasing to exist is incomplete but that's just my opinion

 

[ba'al]

I never lied about employment.

You got potential but you in your own way bsing.