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How many of u believe in God or a higher being that created us and/or is watching over us?



                 


 

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I believe.. That this thread has been done a few times.



These threads never end well, but here's my take:

I have no beliefs in any higher beings or gods. You're on your own and when you die you die. End of.

My opinion is open to change upon presentation of scientific proof that it's wrong.



I think we are our own God. If you believe in yourself, than no one around you can bring you down.



Random game thought :
Why is Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 getting so much hate? We finally get a real game and they're not even satisfied... I'm starting to hate the gaming community so f****** much...

Watch my insane gameplay videos on my YouTube page!

SHMUPGurus said:
I think we are our own God. If you believe in yourself, than no one around you can bring you down.

 

 Unless they have a big stick.



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Mistershine said:
SHMUPGurus said:
I think we are our own God. If you believe in yourself, than no one around you can bring you down.

 

 Unless they have a big stick.

Or a bottle rocket:

 



Random game thought :
Why is Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 getting so much hate? We finally get a real game and they're not even satisfied... I'm starting to hate the gaming community so f****** much...

Watch my insane gameplay videos on my YouTube page!

I think there is an equally convincing amount of evidence on both sides that the universe was created by some external force or that it has simply always existed.

I myself believe in God, and I do not think that conflicts with the Big Bang Theory or the relatively random expansion of the universe afterwards, or even the creation of the Earth or humans. Most people get stuck on the details when trying to argue for creationism, but it is really quite simple to get around them. If a some deity creates the natural laws that govern the universe, he is responsible (either directly or indirectly, but that is another philosophical debate) for anything that results from the interactions of those laws.

I am very against it when people try to argue that God actively intervenes in nature such as in the development of the universe and the evolutionary development of humans, as there is no definite way to prove or disprove this since it is supernatural. It is pretty much a pointless debate.

And I hate to break it to some people, but our behavior is uncannily similar to animals in so many ways that is almost scary. We may be "special" animals, but we are still animals.



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

I believe we are being watched over by a sentient form of bacteria whose excrement materializes itself in the form of falling stars that wash upon our atmosphere and occasionally survive the intense heat and manage to find their way into small children's lego collections.

I made many of it's creations as a child and still keep shrines of the most miraculous constructions. The most important being a dog that can transform into the millenium falcon. That could only have been possible by guidance from a higher power.





I believe in God. My views on Him may be different than most other Christians, but I still believe in him, nonetheless.



akuma587 said:
I think there is an equally convincing amount of evidence on both sides that the universe was created by some external force or that it has simply always existed.

I myself believe in God, and I do not think that conflicts with the Big Bang Theory or the relatively random expansion of the universe afterwards, or even the creation of the Earth or humans. Most people get stuck on the details when trying to argue for creationism, but it is really quite simple to get around them. If a some deity creates the natural laws that govern the universe, he is responsible (either directly or indirectly, but that is another philosophical debate) for anything that results from the interactions of those laws.

I am very against it when people try to argue that God actively intervenes in nature such as in the development of the universe and the evolutionary development of humans, as there is no definite way to prove or disprove this since it is supernatural. It is pretty much a pointless debate.

And I hate to break it to some people, but our behavior is uncannily similar to animals in so many ways that is almost scary. We may be "special" animals, but we are still animals.

 

I think humanity means that we are between animals and God. Some people can become pretty depraved, but ultimatly everyone retains some qualities of being human. Only the other end, its impossible to become divine, but if one makes it their life mission they can get pretty close in terms of behavior/discipline/kindness ect.