Are you religious?
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Sir Lulzalot
Sergeant Knight at Arms
Archonsod 说:
It is what faith is to religion if you will.
macethump 说:
Seeing as how religion is a theory that you 'practice' then by what you've said the practices of religion are what matter and not the religion.
macethump
Sergeant Knight
I said nothing of the kind. I said that theoreticians like to think of their theories as adequately explaining how things work out in the real world. But the real world has a habit of not conforming. My comment was not directly related to religion at all, but to the discussion in recent posts.Sir Prince 说:
But in the interest of further pursuit:
In theory, all Christians would be loving, accepting, honest, pure, self-sacrificing, joyful and devoted to the truth. In practice they are not. No big news there.
Sadly yes. If most christians were like or more like they are supposed to be I wouldn't hate (most/generaly/abusesof/etcetc) christianity. I have a few christian friends, and I'm used/don't mind them being christians, but christianity has been used, abused and mislead for people's own purposes so much it's just sickening.
Eh, there's some pretty ****ed up **** in the Old Testament that people don't follow. Culture shapes religion just as religion shapes culture.
As far as religion goes, I have none. I'm still trying to decide if truth is objective. My current theory is you have to define truth to call something true, but in doing so truth is a human construct, and is therefore not objective. However, you can have truths when you define a referential frame. This is akin to how a physicist would define a coordinate plane or free-body diagram before beginning arithmetical work. His solutions he derives from his referential frame are true, but only in the sense as they relate to that referential frame. Analogously, I suppose you could say I believe in truths, given a definition for truth and a framework on which to relate that truth, but this definition and framework are variable.
I assume there's a nice name for this, but unfortunately I don't know what it is.
As far as religion goes, I have none. I'm still trying to decide if truth is objective. My current theory is you have to define truth to call something true, but in doing so truth is a human construct, and is therefore not objective. However, you can have truths when you define a referential frame. This is akin to how a physicist would define a coordinate plane or free-body diagram before beginning arithmetical work. His solutions he derives from his referential frame are true, but only in the sense as they relate to that referential frame. Analogously, I suppose you could say I believe in truths, given a definition for truth and a framework on which to relate that truth, but this definition and framework are variable.
I assume there's a nice name for this, but unfortunately I don't know what it is.
I pretty much have absolutely no belief in religion, although I have my suspicions about super natural phenomena but I do not regard those as even vaguely related to religion. IE ghosts.
Sir Lulzalot
Sergeant Knight at Arms
Weren 说:
Member of the Satanic Church?
blood of the North
Knight at Arms
Does it matter?
Kobrag 说:
In the long run, not usually. Although our actions or lack there of do add up and have an affect on the world, but few people are remembered even 100 years later, at least by not mote than half a dozen or less people.
During your life however, you do have a chance to affect other's lives both positively and negatively.
Well, we don't even know for sure if there IS life outside our Planet. And I've always really loved this planet (humans not so much).
Some think you should sometimes act for the benefit of others.
