That's called Agnosticism.
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.
Quote from: 卐RIGHT WING DAS SQUAD卐 on May 29, 2016, 09:29:08 AMMy 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.
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.
Quote from: Cheat on May 29, 2016, 02:02:38 AMWell 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.
Quote from: Cheat on May 29, 2016, 02:02:38 AMWell 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?
Quote from: Aether on May 29, 2016, 10:41:40 AMQuote from: Cheat on May 29, 2016, 02:02:38 AMWell 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.
Quote from: MyNameIsCharlie on May 29, 2016, 09:36:09 AMQuote from: 卐RIGHT WING DAS SQUAD卐 on May 29, 2016, 09:29:08 AMMy 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.
I have come to the conclusion that I am a spiritual atheist
