Kira Izumi
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Post by Kira Izumi on Feb 7, 2019 18:25:01 GMT -5
like the title says, what do you believe in? i find this kinda interesting and i'm also curious i guess. my believes are... weird and complicated i guess.
i used to believe in christianity when i was younger and didn't know of anything else. i've since changed my believes due to personal reasons.
now i believe in a mixture of things. for one i believe in praying to ancestors directly and talking to them one on one instead of just praying to a god(s). also i believe that all life is equal and connected to each other, which i guess plays part in my believes on reincarnation as well.
i do think the especially good or b@d may go to a heaven or hell like place too, although it'd be personalized and the same for everyone.
so what about y'all?
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Post by Mongo the Destroyer on Feb 7, 2019 18:39:48 GMT -5
That's interesting Kira, praying to ancestors is a large component of confucionism, which heavily practiced in East Asia. Your inner otaku continues to show, lol
As for me, you guys know I'm a stong believer in the Bible as a Christian. Though anyone who's talked with me at length also hopefully have noticed that my conservative (fundamental?) approach to Scripture has actually encouraged me to be quite liberal in love and understanding of other's lives
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Post by Kira Izumi on Feb 7, 2019 18:48:13 GMT -5
is it? haha
that's cool too mongo. if i may ask do they have christian churches in korea? and do they have like baptists, catholics and... the other ones(?) also if i may ask which one are you? and i guess i have another question which could be another thread, but what's the difference between the different christian groups?
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Post by ๐๐พ๐ด๐ฎ ๐๐ธ๐ผ๐ต๐ธ๐ฏ๐ฏ on Feb 7, 2019 19:31:40 GMT -5
As many may know I am a Christian, I believe in God and I believe in the bible. but I also believe in not forcing my beliefs on others. As of the most recent events in my personal real life, I have come to believe you have to live for the hear and now not dor what may or may not happen when you die. I don't know how much time I have left but I know I need to make the most of it now and spend as much time with my family as I can, I have also come to believe that friends are those who reach out to you no matter what kind of ass you make of yourself, and they still tend to talk with you and try to help you. They don't have to be there right beside you physically to be your friend. it can be someone you write to or talk to through a computer or over the phone, a friend is someone who shows you a little bit of care and respect.
That is what life has taught me to believe in Kira, nice topic.
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Post by Kira Izumi on Feb 7, 2019 19:37:27 GMT -5
awesome stuff duke!
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Post by Mongo the Destroyer on Feb 7, 2019 20:05:06 GMT -5
is it? haha that's cool too mongo. if i may ask do they have christian churches in korea? and do they have like baptists, catholics and... the other ones(?) also if i may ask which one are you? and i guess i have another question which could be another thread, but what's the difference between the different christian groups? It absolutely is! Korean thanksgiving (Chuseok) is all about bowing to ancestors and stuff There are totes Christian churches here like almost half the population is some form of Christians (though like the US often not practicing). There are both Catholics and Protestants and just like in the US thereโs a few variants within the non-catholic churches. But I think thereโs far more openness to crossovers and working together Personally? My wifeโs family and I go to a โFull Gospelโ Church. But Iโd say Iโm more of a mainline Protestant, I follow the core beliefs and try not to get tangled in weird doctrines and whatnot. Differences between? Thatโs another topic entirely, lol. It mostly comes down to how the Bible is interpreted. Protestantism generally holds that only Scripture (the Bible) is our source for doctrine (how we believe/rules to live, etc) and that Jesus is the only way to heaven. Catholics have a few extra notes, a few extra books in their Bible (also another topic), and a more structured authority system with the Pope having the ability to make declarations of equal weight to the Bible.
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Post by Kira Izumi on Feb 7, 2019 20:26:07 GMT -5
that's pretty cool then!
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Post by ForeverKuroi on Feb 7, 2019 20:29:18 GMT -5
My believes is that I'm a pantheist with taoist influences. I believe in relative morality and that life isn't as romantic as people make it out to be.
99% of the meaningful changes in Earth's history are animals fucking or animals killing.
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Post by Dave D-Flipz on Feb 7, 2019 21:21:48 GMT -5
I was born and raised Roman Catholic (lived in the most Italian city in the most Italian state) and I taught religious education for 3 years (mostly with the first Eucharist classes) and used to read at Church. I also went to a college run by Dominican Friars. That said as a logician and scientist I found all the hypocrisy and bigotry displayed during my college career to be pretty heinous and after an argument I had with an atheist roomie he made me really think about what I believed versus what the Church believed and as I got older I drifted. So I still have all that study which is how I can keep up with Mongo in conversation, know some deep religious things, and run 2 characters whose whole gimmick was being bible thumpers. But as for what I really believe well ............ I don't know. I don't think I've fully converted to atheism as that upbringing is hard to deprogram but I don't give two twits about organized religion either so maybe I'm on that road. I think it is very possible for religion to do wonders for the right person but also be used as a horrific weapon in the wrong hands so I more say live and let live and just keep your beliefs out of my politics and we're all hunky dory
The girlfriend has a framed portrait of Jesus holding a velociraptor in his arms on her wall and is related to Ernest Hemingway if that helps you see my mind set.
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Post by La Familia Price on Feb 8, 2019 0:45:18 GMT -5
I'm a man of science, all hail Sagan.
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Post by IMMORTALS on Feb 8, 2019 1:14:08 GMT -5
Like Price I'm also a science man. Raised a Christian, become agnostic after Baghdad, Afghanistan, 9-11, most of desolate Africa, {No Means No} and so on. All the bad shit that wouldn't exist if God existed.
However I don't like to believe that once we die you just rot away. I like to think that our energy is recycled, so our life force can return to create new life, energy or whatever.
I believe in the Force I guess.
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Post by Technical Perfection on Feb 8, 2019 8:28:30 GMT -5
Like Kuroi, there's a bit of Taoism in my philosophy and like Hype I beleive in the conservation of mass/energy. I'd phrase it slightly differently. When you rot away in the ground, you're feeding bacteria and fungi. If you get cremated, you're releasing energy. So while the religious belief is that the body dies and the soul lives on, I believe that when conciousness dies, your body lives on because mass is a form of energy and energy is eternal.
Also... you can't beat the golden rule for a decent moral compass. There's a good reason that it's near universal in most belief sets.
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Post by La Familia Price on Feb 8, 2019 16:04:54 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure the lady who raised me tried to raise me Roman Catholic, but even at an early age I wasn't feeling it.
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Post by Blackstone on Feb 11, 2019 13:41:27 GMT -5
I'm a Baptist who also believes in evolutio to a point. Did we start off as smart as we are as human or did we get here via evution and free will? I believe the latter. We got to where we are because we were given free will.
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Post by Dylan on Feb 13, 2019 0:06:33 GMT -5
i believe in telling everyone who shoves shit down my throat they're wrong.
/shrug
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