What DO you believe in?? I mean, dont just say atheism or anything like that. I guess the better question is, what do you put your faith in?? Like when someone dies or you have a breakup or a fire. I mean, really put into this answer please, because i know science cant be the thing that gets you through EVERYTHING...
2007-04-04 06:43:04 · 39 answers · asked by atlazdrama 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
So then according to what i just read, most of these atheists get by by getting by... isnt that kind of cyclical?? I mean, what is it inside you that helps you get by. Ill accept "just me" as an answer because to me that acknowledges the fact that you believe you have something inside of you that is greater than you physical being.
2007-04-04 06:52:38 · update #1
once again, acid comes through for the kid, good one from heretic too...
2007-04-04 07:24:06 · update #2
once again, acid comes through for the kid, good one from heretic too...
2007-04-04 07:24:10 · update #3
Thank yall and anyone else in adavnced for some truly ADULT and MATURE answers without God-bashing. I dont believe in atheism, but i do believe in the people who practice it. You guys are the greatest and thank you for some intelligent discussion
2007-04-04 07:27:49 · update #4
Thank yall and anyone else in adavnced for some truly ADULT and MATURE answers without God-bashing. I dont believe in atheism, but i do believe in the people who practice it. You guys are the greatest and thank you for some intelligent discussion
2007-04-04 07:27:58 · update #5
Thank yall and anyone else in adavnced for some truly ADULT and MATURE answers without God-bashing. I dont believe in atheism, but i do believe in the people who practice it. You guys are the greatest and thank you for some intelligent discussion
2007-04-04 07:28:05 · update #6
Thank yall and anyone else in adavnced for some truly ADULT and MATURE answers without God-bashing. I dont believe in atheism, but i do believe in the people who practice it. You guys are the greatest and thank you for some intelligent discussion
2007-04-04 07:28:06 · update #7
Belief in nature and that events in your life always run in cycles. If something bad happens, I mourn but am fully aware that something good will happen. I've had enough break-ups to know that, yes, it's sad that I'm losing a relationship with someone I care about but it would be idiotic of me to think that is the only person I'm ever going to meet that I get along with. If someone dies, I'll be sad but people have died for thousands of years-it's a natural course. You have to remember, the pro-Abrahamic religions to preach an eternal place of torment-that punishment often does not fit the 'crime'. I don't find that religions' after-life 'promises' very reliable or comforting. If we do not cease to exist, it seems much more reasonable that we'd have reincarnation. There are so many things to experience in life and one life-time doesn't seem to be enough!
2007-04-04 06:57:32 · answer #1 · answered by strpenta 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"what do you put your faith in"
the question doesn't really work for me.
When someone dies I grieve, with family and friends. In a breakup I hurt, and talk to friends or go for long walks. In a fire, I would say "well there goes my stuff" and file a preposterous insurance claim.
I do have some faith I suppose, I have faith that human beings will eventually get it right and stop killing each other for stupid things like imaginary gods, slips of paper known as money and resources. I also believe it will take an unimaginably long time. I believe that humans, in general, are better off now than ever before in history and we have only just started as a species. I believe humans, atheists and theists alike are bound by a web of love and trust between parents, siblings, children, friends, peers, and it is this web, this glue of society that evolves with us and could be called our morals in a way. For instance, not too long ago you would have thought slavery was swell. In biblical times you would have thought stoning people was a jolly good idea. And so on.
2007-04-04 06:56:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I can't make myself believe in the supernatural just so I can "get through something" It just doesn't work that way. I know some people do need it. I'm not saying everyone with faith absolutely must have faith, but I know some people that are complete losers without it to put it mildly. My brother is one of those people.
To address the specifics in your question, break ups never affected me. If two people are not compatible it is best to break up. if that is what was meant by breakups. As a side note I have always thought premarital counseling was the most absurd thing I have ever heard of, but now I'm going off topic.
I have insurance for fires. Lot's of it.
2007-04-04 10:30:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is the exact reason why I believe that it is harder to be an atheist than a believer. When there is some tragedy, people are always saying that it is part of God's greater plan for them and humanity. Atheists don't have that luxury. When something bad happens I have to look within myself for the strength to move forward. I am often tempted to look for someone or something to blame. It's really hard to say to yourself,"there is no reason why this happened to me and not another person, it just happened." Science can't help me through a hard time but my inner strength and support from friends and family can. I put my faith in myself that I am much stronger than I think I am, instead of putting my faith in God.
Edit: When I say that I am stronger than I think I am, I'm not saying that there is something greater than myself. It just means that I often have self doubt. When I find strength that I didn't know I had, I don't say "thank you God for that extra boost." (though some people do) Instead I realize that, like Dorothy, I always had the power to make it better, I just didn't believe it before.
2007-04-04 07:11:24 · answer #4 · answered by stay@homechef 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
People can never have true knowledge because people can always be fooled. It's just your best guess that you're alive right now, for instance. It's an atheist's best guess that science is a good way to understand things, since science requires a healthy amount of evidence before anything is asserted as "true." You could call that faith in science, but that is kind of the wrong connotation for it. As far as "getting through" things, an honest person does not mold their cosmology around their emotions. Something being true has nothing to do with how it makes you feel. Sorry, maybe try milk and cookies for that.
2007-04-04 06:50:16 · answer #5 · answered by dissolute_chemical 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe in myself. I believe in love. I do not have faith. I only have what I know. I do not call out to 'god' in times of trouble. I accept the situation and make the best of it. I look for ways to better myself and every situation in my life. I have buried a child and survived without 'god'. Time and the three gorgeous brainiac children that I have now have helped to heal the past. My husband of 18 yrs (we were married at 18) is the greatest man I have ever known. I believe in him....and in us. No matter what....life goes on.
Mostly I get up off my duff and get to work. When the going gets tough the tough get going!
and....there's always chocolate!
2007-04-04 07:43:37 · answer #6 · answered by Medusa 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One issue that seems to drive theist is the need to have a reason. Everything has to happen for a reason, and this generally gets interpreted as 'god's will'. The precipace this leaves theists on is the willingness therefore to absolve themselves of repsonsibility, and this goes even fiuther to the establishment of our current culture of blame. In the theists world, it's always someone elses fault. 'It's not my fault, satan is in my soul, if I accept geezus everyone will forgive me.' Excuse the cynical screed, but how many times have we seen acts of evil driven by greed or lust only to have the perpetrator claim to have 'found the lord' ?
Atheists know this not to be the case. We know that **** happens, purely by chance, or by massive extensions of the butterfly effect. We know that greed and lust are simple manifestations of a complete lack of self-control and empathy.
As an atheist, I have no problems with anyone seeking spiritual guidance or stability in some higher power. I just don't appreciate being denigrated for not following their path. I make my own path, because I can.
2007-04-04 07:22:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Have you ever heard the phrase "No atheists in foxholes"? The idea being that in times of extreme duress, even professed atheists turn to God. It's a sad testimony to the general idiocy of the human race that this phrase is usually invoked in defense of the validity of theism!
This "God" idea is - clearly! - a crutch for the morally weak. It's an anesthetic for the pain of hard facts. Somebody we love dies; we are naturally devastated; we would rather take refuge in the most ridiculous confections of the mythology-mongers than deal directly with the loss. "He's with Jesus now." It's perfectly clear WHY we've created our Gods, our Heaven - even our Hell, to reconcile our human notion of "justice" with the indifferent universe. But we ought as a species to have progressed beyond this primitive emotionalism by now.
2007-04-04 07:01:08 · answer #8 · answered by jonjon418 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Someone dies : I believe that perhaps their suffering is over, although I miss them and think of them often.
Breakup : I believe that the sun will still rise tomorrow, even if at the the time my life seems like it's over.
Fire : I believe in State Farm
Atheism isn't a religion of science.
2007-04-04 06:51:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Science doesn't get me through anything. I do that on my own, and with a little help from my friends of course.
I put my faith in myself. I know that I, and I alone, am responsible for whatever happens to my little family. Accidents happen-one son ruptured a spleen, cut off a finger and shot himself in the foot. Another broke his arm skateboarding, and yet another had a pen stuck in his eye.
These are scary things, but we survived and even thrived because we have each other to lean on in times of crisis and adversity. We've built up quite a reserve of inner strength, a positive aspect I might add.
2007-04-04 06:48:43 · answer #10 · answered by iamnoone 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋