posted September 02, 2013 09:41 AM            

So I went from all to nothing or nothing to all, any thing has its pros and cons I guess.

posted September 02, 2013 11:16 AM            

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Originally posted by somethingexcellent:
Personally, I find the chart of a staunch atheist can be the same as a die hard religious person - it's about being firm in your conviction.

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true.

the thing is that atheism does not equal being a humanist, or a critical thinker...nor it does equal being a scientist.
and unfortunately, some people fail to see that.
atheists are not necessarily less racist or misogynistic as some of their religious counterparts either. this is such a myth
there has been a nice debate on misogyny and atheism lately, esp. after rebecca watson
...im not surprised. i recall talking to some atheists...the majority being men, and it seemed that even though they had left religion (and even those who were raised as atheists) they still held racist and sexist beliefs comparable to other middle/upper class white men of other religions...it was potato/potahto.
one interpreted the bible to suit sexist and racist beliefs, the other interpreted science to suit sexist and racist beliefs

i prefer humanistic atheists....
the staunch rabid atheists remind me of the pagans who spend more time ranting and whining about the religion of their upbringing...than being pagan but i understand, it is a grief process...so, newcomers feel angry towards their past...except, there is a time when you need to move on, take charge, stop allowing the religion of your childhood to have so much power over you, and, turn the negativity into something productive, instead of behaving like a petulant tween.

interesting article

A Woman’s Place? The Dearth of Women in the Secular Movement

by: Susan Jacoby
http://thehumanist.org/september-october-2012/a-woman%E2%80% 99s-place-the-dearth-of-women-in-the-secular-movement/

posted September 02, 2013 04:39 PM              

lol I have neptune uranus and nn in the 8th house...
I believe in aliens and I absolutely love reading about conspiracy theories.
I'm step away from being a tin foil wearing hermit.
8th house ruler conjuncts mc.

posted September 02, 2013 05:01 PM            

Buddhists for example are Atheists because they do not believe in a specific "god/deity" but rather a philosophy of life.

posted September 02, 2013 05:02 PM            

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Originally posted by StarlightSmileSupreme:
I do believe humans can be scarier than any god :s

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posted September 02, 2013 05:56 PM            

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Originally posted by Dark_Sun9:
Well that's idiotic. How can anyone beleive that one of the selected religions (Christianty, jewish, sikhism) etc .. can be true when theirs 10,000 people of a different religion worshiping a different god/diety at the same time.
Spirituality is you creating your own religion based on life experienced, religion is basing it on someone elses and trusting it to be true.
The only gods i slightly have beleif in are the egyptians, who were said to be cosmic beings who came in the pyramids and told us the truth of our galactic nature and our cosmic ritualistic relations (astrology), because Aliens with Birds heads and black dogs of death connected to the Star sirius to me are much more realistical than some fat guy with a beard chillin in the sky playin his ******* ps2 with his Prayer recorder full up. Beleive in the stars and our universe and it starts from their. Honestly with us leaving the piscean(pisces pisces pisces, this is why our religions are lost) age and going into the reformed age of atlantis (age of aquarius) i beleive Astrology is gonna be brought in to society as it now stands, and the pluto in scorpio generation are whats gonna make the change, what do you think?

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nice perspective and I do agree with all of it.
in my opinions,Abrahamic religions are the most self-absorbed, arrogant and hate-filled religions ever made in the history of this planet.
They manipulate people through fear by using their trump card, Hell and Eternal Damnation.

posted September 02, 2013 06:07 PM            

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Originally posted by SilverFeather:

Buddhists for example are Atheists because they do not believe in a specific "god/deity" but rather a philosophy of life.

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posted September 02, 2013 06:13 PM            

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Originally posted by hikoro:
this is not true....
i wish that western anti-theists, some atheists, western religions/spiritual people stopped spreading this myth....alas, it continues.
aside from the fact there are different factions of buddhism, buddhism does have deities and god-like beings...and it does not state that there is no god or gods.
this myth seems to crop up because some individuals limit their definition of 'god' to the judeo-christian-islamic one...and think..."oh, buddhism is an atheistic religion" and also...because most westerners have a crappy grasp of asian religions and continue projecting their understanding of western religion onto foreign religions...not good. heck...i know.
true, you won't find the hebrew god in buddhism but, it doesn't mean that the religion denies there are no gods.
now, on a personal level, buddhists can be atheists or theists, but that is personal.
but...buddhism is not an atheist or atheistic religion.

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posted September 02, 2013 06:19 PM            

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Originally posted by Dark_Sun9:

in my opinions,Abrahamic religions are the most self-absorbed, arrogant and hate-filled religions ever made in the history of this planet.
They manipulate people through fear by using their trump card, Hell and Eternal Damnation.

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except that not all abrahamic religions have the concept of hell and damnation...and manipulating through fear is not a copyright of abrahamic religions...

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Everyone who disagrees with them becomes " the enemy". There's no such thing as tolerance and acceptance in their books, only man-made scripts of B-rated horror movies.

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mmm...that is a big generalization, but, im one of those who doesnt think that one religion is better or worse than the other, ive met people with very intolerant views, whether religious or non-religious.
from my pov, it seems that some people from both sides (religious and non-religious) suffer from holier than thou attitudes...both trying to prove how they are superior against each other

posted September 02, 2013 06:23 PM            

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Originally posted by SilverFeather:
It's not my personal assumption, a couple of Buddhists told me that themselves.

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posted September 02, 2013 06:31 PM            

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Originally posted by SilverFeather:

btw, if you look up "Pagan" in the dic, you will find it defined as " someone who does not believe in Abrahamic religions" so to Jews, Christians and Muslims, he's still regarded as an Atheist no matter what he believes in.

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