klandersen
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Post by klandersen on Aug 28, 2019 13:35:08 GMT
At first I voted 1 because "organized" religion is not important to me. I don't think it ever has, even though as an infant I was baptized (Methodist) I think it was just the pastor rubbing the holy water on my forehead in the sign of the cross, not partial or total immersion. Typical just for show ceremony to satisfy parents beliefs for their children. Then later in my early 30s when I was on a "born again" evangelistic kick I did the total immersion version with a few friends. Besides getting totally soaked it didn't do anything for me. I wanted some awesome enlightenment or amazing life changing spark, but got nothing.
For most of my life I have always been seeking the spiritual side of things and reading about and exploring the various beliefs. In the 1980s I studied the New Age quasi-Christianity but never accepted it as any ultimate truth.
I changed my vote to 4 mostly to give that one a vote. Having the choice to either choose or refuse religion is important to me, but does not rule me. There are many days I don't think about religion at all. I often think about death, as almost every day there is some kind of exposure to it, a news report of someone being killed by someone else, an update on a previously reported death, or just remembering family members who are among the dead.
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Post by FilmFlaneur on Aug 28, 2019 19:35:13 GMT
I'm with Graham. In so far as I am interested in the history of ideas and philosophy, then religion is very significant. As moral inspiration and explanation for reality, far less. By reality, this poster means things that are made out of atoms. And in fact we are made out of puppy dog's tails?
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Post by goz on Aug 28, 2019 21:20:50 GMT
I'm with Graham. In so far as I am interested in the history of ideas and philosophy, then religion is very significant. As moral inspiration and explanation for reality, far less. By reality, this poster means things that are made out of atoms. 1. the Op never mentioned reality. 2. You know that how? 3. Not everything is made out of atoms. Care to rephrase your comment and answer my question?
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Post by goz on Aug 28, 2019 21:24:15 GMT
I gave this an “8” because I enjoy studying religion and anthropology as a means to understand what it is to be human. I see human as just a delusion and the form isn't permanent and if any meaning is associated with it, it really isn't about being human. Meaning is not organic nor is it absolute and only human perception of what anything can represent only creates the illusion of what is perceived as real. That's weird. Here I am at my age having experienced a life with a body and a mind that is real, no matter how impermanent. I just hit computer keys and they typed what I was thinking and they went onto the internet and now you are reading them in a real world. I am a human.
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Post by goz on Aug 28, 2019 22:04:21 GMT
Being human is no illusion. One would have to ask then who's illusion is it? My main point was about meaning though. What if through the search for meaning, there is really no meaning? "Meaning' like beauty is in the 'eye of the beholder'"!
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Post by goz on Aug 28, 2019 22:07:07 GMT
One would have to ask then who's illusion is it? My main point was about meaning though. What if through the search for meaning, there is really no meaning? What if through the search for meaning, there is really no meaning?Bingo! You are too cynical. 'Meaning, like shit... happens, if you are open to it.
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Aug 29, 2019 7:48:44 GMT
By reality, this poster means things that are made out of atoms. 1. the Op never mentioned reality. 2. You know that how? 3. Not everything is made out of atoms. Care to rephrase your comment and answer my question? I wasn't quoting from the OP, as you full well know.
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