Ok here is an idea.Post in basic all of your belifs.Divde them up into catagorys like so God: Reality: After Death: Morals and Ethics: Suffering: Salvation: ect. So we all can read each others thoughs and grow form reading them. Make sure you tell why belive the things you do.If your bliefs change find your post and edit it.
God: I believe in no god, but a higher power. Reality: It's kind of hard to determine wether there is anything such as reality. I've seen and experienced things that some people say are just fantasy. After Death: I believe that there might be some kind of reincarnation after death...just not as complicated as in Indian beliefs. Morals and Ethics: I base my life on peace and love, man. I know it sounds dated, but I think that that's what life's all about. Suffering: I don't really think that humans should have to suffer. But, I guess that it goes with the karmic circle Salvation: I have been saved. By music, that is. I was a little un-social retard before rock music opened my mind. It changed my life, and i'm forever greatful to it.
God: An impersonal "force" that composes everything in existance. Everything is god; even though it might appear seperated, it's not, everything is connected and essentially ONE. Reality: There is no objective reality, at least none that we humans can ever understand. All that we call "the real world" is a common idea that we have agreed upon, such as Christianity or a scientific worldview. Not that we've all agreed, either, but at some level, everyone of a culture has points in common. Starting with just basic human nature, due to us all having a similar brain, but then also, everyone in Western Culture has things in common such that we can understand the world similarly, even if we differ on some things (like how it was all created/came about). At any rate, we all live in subjective worlds, which is both obvious and good, because this means we are truly connected and part of the world, and aren't just spectators. After Death: Hard to say, and I'd almost rather not, because I don't know. I'd be cool if my consciousness "lived" on, merging with (or really, realizing I'm already one with) the cosmic consciousness that is god...but really, no one knows. I'd like to think that we come to a final understanding (not infinite knowledge so much as just understanding how things are, the nature of existance). But maybe we're just worm food. Morals and Ethics: Beginning to think these are more just signs of an enlightened person than they are rules to live by. True morals come from within, they aren't imposed from without. Suffering: The result of our ego-hallucination, the idea of being seperate and alone. The duality creates conflict, and conflict is suffering. Salvation: We save ourselves, through inner learning, such as meditation. We must learn to look within and be what we are. No more running away from anger, or sorrow, or whatever. Follow the anger all the way through to understand it. (I don't mean do whatever pops into your head; I mean, ask yourself why you feel this way, follow it to the end). Denial of such things as anger or sorrow, by telling yourself "I shouldn't be angry" or justification of it like "well, he took my money" just leads to seperation (duality of him vs me, or self vs "ideal self" (which is just a thought image)) so it only causes more suffering. Ultimately, the Self is our seperation, and must be discarded as we realize our connection to all that is. Others can show the way but can't do it for you. Central Focus: inner peace through introspection/meditation. All else will follow. Philosophizing about it all, while still ignorant, might be fun but is pointless, and might even be detrimental to your hopeful enlightenment. Influences: Christianity, Taoism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Richard Bach's "illusions", Krishnamurti, Alan Watts, environmentalism, quantum physics (in no particular order).
God: I don't believe in God on a rational level, but I davven, I pray, with all my heart and soul, and I don't believe in soul on a rational, objective level either. I guess belief in God is irrational anyway, but I section off said belief from my rational mind and don't let the two get mixed up with each other, or at least to the best of my abilities. I love God in all of God's beautiful archetypes, and I won't deny myself those beautiful interfaces just because I can't rationally accept anything more than a vague abstraction at best. I don't think there's much meaning in the word God. If we define God as everything, then God is everything because that's how we've defined God. If we define God as love, then God is love because that's how we've defined God. If we define God as a googly-eyed plush tarantula who wears a sombrero and speaks with a French accent, then God is a googly-eyed plush tarantula who wears a sombrero and speaks with a French accent. That is not to say that any of these things equate with each other, or that God is any of these things. But in a person's subjective reality any of the above may be true, and this is the only reality by which we come to know God. Reality: I don't worry about reality much. Whatever I'm experiencing at any given moment, that is my subjective reality. If everyone's acting like they're in on it, they're probably experiencing something similar. That's as far as I will take it. I'm not interested in the objective when it comes to most things. I don't think we have much access to that. We've just got larger concentric circles of subjectivity and maybe a few possibly very uninformed and ignorant glimpes at the nature of the cosmos. After death: I don't know. I'll find out after I die. Or maybe I won't. That's up to Hashem I guess. However the world works, providentially or not. I like the concept of providence. I play with it on a gut level. But that's another one of those things I don't accept rationally and leave for the experiencing. But after death... I guess I'm more interested in the present moment, the present world. Morals and ethics: Nature or nurture. I don't know. Probably a little of both. My own personal morals and ethics, I guess, I tend to want to have more and more moments of righteousness both in speech and actions. I knew someone who must have been one of the hidden tzaddikim and when something had to be done, he was already doing it, smiling the whole time, giving everyone hugs. My goal is to continue to grow in that direction. I can't resolve just to be a good person. I want to go out of my way. But I also want to be mindful of my own needs. Suffering: Yep. It's a part of life. I don't think it's so awful. I think it's an aquired taste, like coffee or vodka. Without suffering, where is the joy? Without joy, where is the suffering? To me it's all beautiful. I can remember times I was really suffering and it really hurt, when I wasn't so well. I grew up bipolar and I was thrown from school to school, hospitalized often, and always hurting the people I loved. I think about that now and I still get mad at God. But there's something beautiful about it, about the drama. Heaven would suck. If all I did was sit on my cloud. That would suck. Baruch Hashem! Blessed is Yah! We have suffering. Salvation: Salvation, now this concept isn't a part of my religion in the Christian sense. There is no need to be saved from anything. And the word's never really entered my vocabulary. But I'm gonna work with it. I guess I could say that that to me we each have the opportunity to save ourselves, because at any given moment we each have the opportunity to improve our lives, our quality of living, how far we're living out our full potential, in little ways that really add up. So in that sense sure. Reincarnation: My response is the same as with the afterlife, or similar at least. One gilgul to the next I don't think it's worth worrying about. There's no way we can know and living for the sake of reward isn't my cup of coffee. Karma: If I smack a strange dog on the nose, it will possibly bite me. In that sense, karma is very real. Beyond that, I don't put any more faith in this than I do in divine providence. moshiach: I don't have any beliefs about the moshiach. But I do think it's nice to dream about a better future, at the very least a temporary one, maybe in a communal sense. Dauer
God:I worship Jehovah god.He is all and all is one with him.How ever he has a personality that is perfect and therefore we should do what he comands us.There is no Trinity. I was raised with this and I know it to be ture. Reality: All reality is illusion excpet for God who is the one thing that has allways exsited. He is the Ultimate Reality. We all see the world the same to an excent.But each of our illusions differ because we are all different.So we all have our pirvate reality that links togehter to form a collective reality.Then the collective is connected to God who is Ultimate Reality.Humans have their own collective reality while dogs for example have their's each sees God's creation or the ultimate reality. I found this after much resurch and logical thinking. After Death: Nothing after Death. Because that is a part of my religon.Also Sicence can support it better than reincartion and MUCH better than heaven and hell. Morals and Ethics: We should all love one another.Violence should not be done at all by humans because only god has the right to kill. I do what the bible says.I know in the long run it will pay off. suffering: sin because of adam and eve.sin may also casue the fact that human nature is now selfish and form childhood our very way of thinking is "Mine". Salvation: Comes form obeying God and having faith in him and his son Jesus. I think it is ture.I am in a questioning fase but I pertty sure it's ture and I dont want god to think bad of me. My Infuences: Jehovah's Witteness, Carl Jung, John C Lilly, Hinduism and Buhhdism, Existentalism, the Tao teh Ching, Timothy Leary
God: i find "god" to be that universal life force energy that creates and connects us all. "god" is this infinate realm of possibilities..."god" is the nothing through which everything flows. Reality: impossible to define, as reality is so subjective and confined to an individuals immediate expirience. After Death: this one i try not to form too solid of beliefs on, as iv never expirienced death. but i tend to think of spirtual evolution much like a ladder, after this life i think my next realm of expirience will either be closer or farther from the source, depending on the things learned/path walked in this lifetime. Morals and Ethics: certin thought patterns/intentions/actions create the emotional reality in which we live....karma if you will, cause and effect. but ultimatly i believe all actions are equal....no path is greater than another, because each path offers immediate expirience, and that is all we were ever meant to percive. Suffering: i believe it to be a nessesary part of life. pain can be a great teacher. Salvation: webster defines salvation as preservation or deliverance from destruction, difficulty, or evil. that being said, i think only you can "save" yourself from the things you yourself have deemed evil. freedom is more than anything a state of mind. it is our choice to live with or without the chains.
God: a word. That's about it. Reality: what exists. After Death: nothing. Morals and Ethics: don't unnecessarily increase human suffering (try to care). Easier said than done. Suffering: unavoidable but can be decreased with effort. Salvation: none.
God: N/A Reality: What exists, exists objectively. What exists is observed subjectively by those capable. After Death: I will be cryogenically frozen, barring technological advancement making that unnecessary, or barring financial constraints. I see no reason to think my consciousness will continue on in a supernatural fashion. Morals and Ethics: Survival of the fittest until civilization (mutually agreed peace). When peace is broken, any ethically (subjective, individualistic) warranted means to bring stabilty (peace) back. Suffering: Suffering is to be expected in a world of hostility and competing beings. But also minimized in a world of Love, consideration, and compassion. Human life is finite, accept it. Salvation: Autheniticity. Love, relationships, fun, marijuana.
God: I'm cumming for you. Reality: Pretty neat slightly ficiticious story. After Death: More hair of the dog that bit yah. Morals and Ethics: Don't have any. Suffering: If it helps. Salvation: Save me from my self!
God:i don't know Reality:i don't know After Death:ditto Morals and Ethics:what i adopt from society, other than that, no idea. Suffering:comes from being confused. Salvation:lol, salvation from what? have i done something wrong? i don't even know where i am, how i got here, the only salvation i need is understanding-salvation. i'm trying to see if i can figure the shit out and save myself.
God: The divine force of creation, neither positive nor negative, from which all begins and to which all returns upon free choice, that unequivocally gives no matter what, nor to whom, or for what purpose. Otherwise known as unconditionally pure "Love." Reality: The state of all existence known and unknown, perceptible and imperceptible. After Death: Departure from the physical = entry into metaphysical (spiritual) existence for those who so choose. Those connected to physicality are re-born into another body in another physical world, possibly this one, no option. Morals and Ethics: Behaviour models by which one transcends basic physical being and attachment so as to raise one's level of consciousness, awareness, and being by considering the effects of one's actions or presence. Suffering: The cause of the rejection of physicality and subsequent release into metaphysicality at 'death'. Salvation: An explanation of "karma" gone horribly wrong.
