I have come to the conclusion that I am a spiritual atheist

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There are things science has yet to explain. It's incredibly arrogant to assume that after 116 years since we discovered flight that humanity can say what does and doesn't exist. Does this mean I believe in a god? No. But the idea that there are beings that exist beyond our current senses? I do believe that. I think our sentience means we do jave a noncorporal form. That some part of us transcends death. What part and how far we trancend is very much in question. But something does separate humanity from the other life forms on this world. Some of us do hone the will to achieve what should be impossible. Some are sensitive to forces that defy science. There is a shared arrogance in theists and atheists alike. That they hold the ultimate truth of the human spirit. Both sides claim to know the answer absolutely. I reject both and say that an answer is impossible at this time and that I choose my own beliefs.

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Hmm...
Well I mean...

If you consider that we have no memories before being born then you can assume we have none after death. IMO (and I've thought a lot about this) your sense of time, space, and self only exists within your life's scope. This would mean, from each person's individual perspective, they, themselves, will never, ever die.

Also, God's not real.


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That's called Agnosticism.


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That's called Agnosticism.

No. Agnostics are unsure if there is a god or not. They play the middle. I'm saying there isn't a god, not in the sense of religions anyway. I'm absolutely an atheist in that. But there are energies and forces  that atheists say don't exist, that I think may


 
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My mother's began getting in to some crazy wicca type shit lately.
I straight up told her she's fucking nuts and that burning some candles and reciting some bullshit doesn't make things happen.


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My mother's began getting in to some crazy wicca type shit lately.
I straight up told her she's fucking nuts and that burning some candles and reciting some bullshit doesn't make things happen.

Don't be shocked when some of it does work. It's about focusing mind and will on a goal. Like the placebo effect. Tell yourself there's an external reason you can do something and suddenly you can.


 
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This is not the greatest sig in the world, no. This is just a tribute.
My mother's began getting in to some crazy wicca type shit lately.
I straight up told her she's fucking nuts and that burning some candles and reciting some bullshit doesn't make things happen.

Don't be shocked when some of it does work. It's about focusing mind and will on a goal. Like the placebo effect. Tell yourself there's an external reason you can do something and suddenly you can.
That's kind of what I've been telling her.
Like, yeah some of it's gonna look like it works, and coincidences are a thing, but stuff like crediting a new job offer to a spell you cast last week is bonkers.


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Ya fuckin' ganderneck.
Well I mean...

If you consider that we have no memories before being born then you can assume we have none after death. IMO (and I've thought a lot about this) your sense of time, space, and self only exists within your life's scope. This would mean, from each person's individual perspective, they, themselves, will never, ever die.

Also, God's not real.
That is if you consider the 'the self' to be the ego.

I believe the self supersedes the senses, perception, cognition, all of relativity. For all of that to arise, exist, and cease it has to have some being present to observe it. Nothing essentially relative to any perspective can be conditioned without the observer present to condition it. If the observer is not present then there is no perspective, and all relativity that may have been conditioned would not have been.

I have to 'be' before I can be something.


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Well I mean...

If you consider that we have no memories before being born then you can assume we have none after death. IMO (and I've thought a lot about this) your sense of time, space, and self only exists within your life's scope. This would mean, from each person's individual perspective, they, themselves, will never, ever die.

Also, God's not real.
Did you literally just say that nobody will die within their lifetime?


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Well I mean...

If you consider that we have no memories before being born then you can assume we have none after death. IMO (and I've thought a lot about this) your sense of time, space, and self only exists within your life's scope. This would mean, from each person's individual perspective, they, themselves, will never, ever die.

Also, God's not real.
That is if you consider the 'the self' to be the ego.

I believe the self supersedes the senses, perception, cognition, all of relativity. For all of that to arise, exist, and cease it has to have some being present to observe it. Nothing essentially relative to any perspective can be conditioned without the observer present to condition it. If the observer is not present then there is no perspective, and all relativity that may have been conditioned would not have been.

I have to 'be' before I can be something.
Ah and yet we can never be certain that there is something else observing us.

Today I learned that I'm not real, and I will never die.

Those two qualifications make me God.


 
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Hmm...
Well I mean...

If you consider that we have no memories before being born then you can assume we have none after death. IMO (and I've thought a lot about this) your sense of time, space, and self only exists within your life's scope. This would mean, from each person's individual perspective, they, themselves, will never, ever die.

Also, God's not real.
Did you literally just say that nobody will die within their lifetime?
I'm saying that from your perspective, you will always be alive because the scope of your awareness is limited by your body.


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Long live NoNolesNeckin.

Ya fuckin' ganderneck.
Well I mean...

If you consider that we have no memories before being born then you can assume we have none after death. IMO (and I've thought a lot about this) your sense of time, space, and self only exists within your life's scope. This would mean, from each person's individual perspective, they, themselves, will never, ever die.

Also, God's not real.
That is if you consider the 'the self' to be the ego.

I believe the self supersedes the senses, perception, cognition, all of relativity. For all of that to arise, exist, and cease it has to have some being present to observe it. Nothing essentially relative to any perspective can be conditioned without the observer present to condition it. If the observer is not present then there is no perspective, and all relativity that may have been conditioned would not have been.

I have to 'be' before I can be something.
Ah and yet we can never be certain that there is something else observing us.

Today I learned that I'm not real, and I will never die.

Those two qualifications make me God.
God is a subjective concept that wouldn't exist without some sentience to conceive it.

The way I see it, you are and that's that. Who, what, where, when, and how you are is the result of some relative conditioning.


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My mother's began getting in to some crazy wicca type shit lately.
I straight up told her she's fucking nuts and that burning some candles and reciting some bullshit doesn't make things happen.

Don't be shocked when some of it does work. It's about focusing mind and will on a goal. Like the placebo effect. Tell yourself there's an external reason you can do something and suddenly you can.
That's kind of what I've been telling her.
Like, yeah some of it's gonna look like it works, and coincidences are a thing, but stuff like crediting a new job offer to a spell you cast last week is bonkers.

spells work though


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