What's your belief system?

Tosho · Post by **Tosho** » 2002-10-26 01:13pm

Just wanted to know.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2002-10-26 01:33pm

Atheism is not a religion per-say but for our purposes if that offends you change it to "What do you follow"

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2002-10-26 01:51pm

Well, atheism could be regarded as a religious belief, given that it is a belief regarding religion, but not based on faith. However, atheism is more or less the most obvious explanation.

Cpt. Marko Ramius · Post by **Cpt. Marko Ramius** » 2002-10-26 03:12pm

Everyone believes in something... it's just that some people choose that something to be nothing. All the better for them. I think it would be harder to believe that there's nothing there than to believe that there is. Do athiests actually have stiffer religious fiber than the rest of us?

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2002-10-26 04:41pm

No, atheism is just the most obvious conclusion. We can't observe anything other than this universe, so as far as we're concerned, there's nothing there until someone can objectively demonstrate that there is.

And, don't get started with the "something can be nothing" word games. Those are mutually exclusive terms, and it's fallacious to use them the way you did.

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-10-26 09:08pm

Pagan.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2002-10-26 09:12pm

Cpt. Marko Ramius wrote:Everyone believes in something... it's just that some people choose that something to be nothing. All the better for them. I think it would be harder to believe that there's nothing there than to believe that there is. Do athiests actually have stiffer religious fiber than the rest of us?

Atheists have no religious fibre at all. Atheism is not based on faith; it is based on logic. Do you consider it a "religion" not to believe in Santa Claus?

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2002-10-26 09:13pm

Verilon, DEATH SPELL HADOKEN! NOW!

j/k

Just ribbing ya.

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-10-26 09:14pm

Darth Wong wrote:
Cpt. Marko Ramius wrote:Everyone believes in something... it's just that some people choose that something to be nothing. All the better for them. I think it would be harder to believe that there's nothing there than to believe that there is. Do athiests actually have stiffer religious fiber than the rest of us?
Atheists have no religious fibre at all. Atheism is not based on faith; it is based on logic. Do you consider it a "religion" not to believe in Santa Claus?

Do you consider it a religion to believe in Santa Claus (waits for Wong to make me look small). Viably, tho, we COULD base a religion entirely off of the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, ne?

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2002-10-26 09:16pm

verilon wrote:
Darth Wong wrote:Atheists have no religious fibre at all. Atheism is not based on faith; it is based on logic. Do you consider it a "religion" not to believe in Santa Claus?
Do you consider it a religion to believe in Santa Claus (waits for Wong to make me look small). Viably, tho, we COULD base a religion entirely off of the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, ne?

Of course. If you can gather a lot of people who believe that Santa Claus is real, that is a religion. If it's just you alone, that's a delusion. The difference between religion and delusion lies solely in the number of followers.

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-10-26 09:17pm

Darth Wong wrote:
verilon wrote:
Darth Wong wrote:Atheists have no religious fibre at all. Atheism is not based on faith; it is based on logic. Do you consider it a "religion" not to believe in Santa Claus?
Do you consider it a religion to believe in Santa Claus (waits for Wong to make me look small). Viably, tho, we COULD base a religion entirely off of the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, ne?
Of course. If you can gather a lot of people who believe that Santa Claus is real, that is a religion. If it's just you alone, that's a delusion. The difference between religion and delusion lies solely in the number of followers.

So we could argue that Catholicism is actually a mass hysteria, then?

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2002-10-26 09:25pm

verilon wrote:So we could argue that Catholicism is actually a mass hysteria, then?

Most religions are forms of mass hysteria (although some are more philosophical than theological).

Seriously, you have millions of people regularly getting on their knees to worship an invisible man in the sky who will put them in a happy place when they die. If that isn't mass hysteria, what else do you call it?

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2002-10-26 09:28pm

Jedi.

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-10-26 09:28pm

Darth Wong wrote:
verilon wrote:So we could argue that Catholicism is actually a mass hysteria, then?
Most religions are forms of mass hysteria (although some are more philosophical than theological).

Seriously, you have millions of people regularly getting on their knees to worship an invisible man in the sky who will put them in a happy place when they die. If that isn't mass hysteria, what else do you call it?

First, stand, sit, stand, sit, kneel, sit, stand, kneel, sit, kneel, stand, sit, stand, leave. I used to be Catholic.

Second, we apparently call it 'religion.'

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2002-10-26 09:31pm

verilon wrote:First, stand, sit, stand, sit, kneel, sit, stand, kneel, sit, kneel, stand, sit, stand, leave. I used to be Catholic.

I'm afraid I haven't studied up on the proper procedure

Second, we apparently call it 'religion.'

Theistic "religion" is just a euphemism for mass hysteria.

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-10-26 09:31pm

Darth Wong wrote:
verilon wrote:First, stand, sit, stand, sit, kneel, sit, stand, kneel, sit, kneel, stand, sit, stand, leave. I used to be Catholic.
I'm afraid I haven't studied up on the proper procedure

That's okay....at least you weren't required to as a kid...

Second, we apparently call it 'religion.'
Theistic "religion" is just a euphemism for mass hysteria.

Heh heh.

Bug-Eyed Earl · Post by **Bug-Eyed Earl** » 2002-10-26 09:39pm

deist.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 2002-10-27 04:53pm

I consider myself a Headonist. I'm all for doing what feels right. Don't get me wrong i'm not gonna bash someone in the head coz i like seeing the red blood running down his face, i do have a consience. But for the most part if it seems like fun, and i don't hurt anyone doing it, i will do it and fuck what society thinks.

Post by **Kuja** » 2002-10-27 06:53pm

Chistian, but hanging by a thread.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2002-10-27 06:56pm

Muad'Dib wrote:I consider myself a Headonist. I'm all for doing what feels right. Don't get me wrong i'm not gonna bash someone in the head coz i like seeing the red blood running down his face, i do have a consience. But for the most part if it seems like fun, and i don't hurt anyone doing it, i will do it and fuck what society thinks.

Hedonism is not a religion. It is a lifestyle. For that matter, atheism is not a religion either, but most religionists like to classify it as one.

Darth Servo · Post by **Darth Servo** » 2002-10-27 08:10pm

Here's my religion

http://mob.rice.edu

And here's our patron saints

TheDarkOne · Post by **TheDarkOne** » 2002-10-28 12:37am

I put deist because thats what I think I'm closest to, basiclly I really, really don't like the idea nothing happens after death, so I choose to beleive(or perhaps 'hope' would be a better word), that there is some sort of "higher being" ext. ext.

Lord of the Farce · Post by **Lord of the Farce** » 2002-10-28 07:09am

IG-88E wrote:Chistian, but hanging by a thread.

*Sneaks up behind IG-88E, holding a pair of giant scissors*

Lord of the Farce · Post by **Lord of the Farce** » 2002-10-28 07:14am

Seriously, I used to be sort of a non-practicing Buddhist (this was years and years ago), then something of a non-practicing Christian (I've only ever managed to read through Genesis once without falling asleep, nevermind the rest of the bible), then finally an agnostic.

Post by **Lagmonster** » 2002-10-28 08:56am

verilon wrote:Stand, sit, stand, sit, kneel, sit, stand, kneel, sit, kneel, stand, sit, stand, leave. I used to be Catholic.

That's not religion! That's aerobics class!

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