Why do they both think they have the universe all figured out?. Isnt it best to keep an open mind. I dont think anyone knows real truth. I kno there is meaning tho...I have felt it thru entheogens and meditation. Alot of people only think of god as in Abrahamic religions. I see the concept of 'god' very abstract. I dont see god as a creator or anything. I might start listening to science when it explains why the universe one day...somehow....just deciced to appear from 'nothingness. So isnt time to realize that neither of you have truth...so you can stop fighting?
2007-03-06 18:21:28 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes, Ringo, keep an open mind. I have said many times that there is no 'truth', only conjecture. After all - what is Life without a mystery? I feel sorry for the people who think that their way is the only way, and who never wonder about anything. What a bleak life!
2007-03-06 18:28:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well said. I get your point but if some people didn't argue, they would cease to exist. Some people live to annoy others. I believe both could very well be wrong. I always say, a big tomato could be running the universe for all we know so why say you KNOW what is real or right. You can have a certain idea all day long but, that doesn't make it so.
The fighting won't stop. Too many people on both sides are too eager to call each other names and demand that they're right. If you've ever made a mistake in your life, you can bet that you'll make another one in your lifetime and the idea of God could be the one you're wrong about.
2007-03-06 18:26:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm a Christian and I openly and honestly admit I definitely don't have it all figured out. That's why I believe what I believe. If I had it all figured out, I wouldn't need God, at least in my life. But I don't condem Atheists, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, or whoever and whatever. Everyone is entitled to their own beliefs and should be free to make their own choices. I agree though, there is no point of fighting about it. Let people believe what they want. I'd rather hear why someone else of another belief believes what they believe just so I could understand them better. The way I see it, if someone's beliefs are truly that attractive to someone else then I think it would be by their actions and how they live life, not words.
2007-03-06 18:33:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a Christian so I wouldn't expect you to read any more from me. I feel the same way, the militant Christians expecting people to feel the way they do, or the atheists attacking and attacking.....
I believe in God, and in Jesus Christ the Son, and in the Holy Spirit that enables. I am also a premed major of biology, and when my studies were interrupted, I stopped experiencing the worldly side of science. I always encouraged hearing it, though, it gave me the sense that God knew what He was doing with the delicate brain functions that we take for granted, and how dibilitating they are when people lose that sense.
I never saw how people could discredit God through Atheism but never once did I take it upon myself to attack their rights as free thinkers and decide for themselves. More power to them. I didn't believe my Christian parents when I went to school, it was only when they tried pushing evolution down my throat through texts and documents in school that I was so much more attracted to God. Evolution didn't make sense to me, how a linear type of thought could somehow make all the life that there is and still disregard the other classes I was taking, IE, physics, which says that all things are attracted to less energetic states.
In other words, evolution can't happen without the physics behind it, and physics says that evolution can't happen, physically.
I believe in the sciences of today and also the Bible. I don't have it all figured out, I just love what I get out of hearing from men and women of God that say what they are hearing from Him through Sunday services.....or if I miss a service, I can hear it on the radio or through friends.
If you are like me, then experience the Holy Spirt.....it will change your life......for a good thing.
2007-03-06 18:37:21 · answer #4 · answered by kaliroadrager 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's a hypocritical assumption to make about atheists and christians, when you're sitting here spouting everything that you believe. We all believe in something different, no matter what religion we are. We all have different personal morals that we each live by. Just because we share the same overall belief as a particular group, does not mean that we are all alike. As soon as people (like you especially), would stop grouping others together....is when the fighting will stop. Its only when ignorant and close-minded trolls see one bad apple, and they have to blame the whole bunch.....is when the fighting starts.
2007-03-06 19:02:49 · answer #5 · answered by Abby C 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmm, im a Christian and i don't believe we've figured the universe out. I also believe in an open mind, and i PARTLY believe in scientific theories, such as the Big Bang theory. And yeah it scares me that the sun is a star, which will go through its complete cycle, years from now, explode and affect the Earth. Meaning we'll all die. So yeah, i am a bit scientific about that. And not all Christians literally believe what's in the Bible, such as how God created the Earth in 7 days. Where im from, i havent heard of any fighting between Atheists & Christians. One of my friends is an Atheist, and we get along fine.
2007-03-06 18:27:37 · answer #6 · answered by rainbowstylin 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think I have the universe figured out. But, I have the ability to stand up a say "I have no idea how this universe, world, or people came to be" comfortably. I don't need to know the answer to that, because it really isn't that important. It is people of religion who need a definitive answer to that question. Between that, and the need to think their "soul" will always live on is what keeps religious fired burning.
2007-03-06 18:26:11 · answer #7 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sure, we can stop fighting. I wasn't fighting in the first place.
And no, I know i haven't got the universe all figured out. If I did, I'd be about the smartest and most knowledgeable person who ever lived. I do keep an open mind.
2007-03-06 20:11:39 · answer #8 · answered by Skippy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
But you do know the truth, right? I never knew that agnostics could be so arrogant until I started coming here. I mean just look at your own hypocrisy:
"So isnt time to realize that neither of you have truth...so you can stop fighting?"
"I kno there is meaning tho...I have felt it thru entheogens and meditation."
You're sure that neither of us are right, but look at how sure you are that you are. You *know* there is meaning, why are you so upset that I *know* there isn't? Your pedestal isn't as high as you'd like to think, brother. Passive-aggressiveness isn't the aegis you'd like to think it is, sorry.
2007-03-06 18:27:57 · answer #9 · answered by The Resurrectionist 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
i ought to hate an atheists mindset(s) approximately what i think in a non secular placing, yet on the turn-area, that atheist and that i need to be ardent allies politically. As for hating a individual interior the great lot of the meaning of that element era, I have not have been given any desire to hate everyone. that style of hatred is for losers era.
2016-11-23 12:38:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋