What Religion do you belong to?

[cohen avshalom]

safi sat

safi sat
from morocco-so may father and mother came from this country.
but i am israeli-and yes jewish-nice to meet on the net people from morocco.
icarus5

 

[alantin]

As for ignorant masses: im just disgusted about the "i-don't-give-a-sh1t" behavior of some people. You know, people whose lives revolve around beer, tv and making their wives watch less soaps, either with words, fists or arms.
Its just that I feel that if you let this class hold the reins, we'll be finished.

Okay. Now I'm with you.

Fortunately the type doesn't normally really "give-a-sh1t" about steering the ship either.

 

[Revenant]

In response to some of Derfel's posts....

Religion may or may not be better than the media, people are easily manipulated through both, but religions do encourage altruism and other traits that have helped people flourish and live more fulfilling lives. Media is a little more pragmatic, while religion can and certainly has been used to justify inhumane acts.

Personally, I think that science is starting to uncover it's own reasons to engage in hard work, altruism, and emotional control (as the religions would put it, 'spirituality'). Read Authentic Happiness by Martin Seligman, Flow - The Psychology Of Optimal Experience by Mihaly, and Destructive Emotions - And How We Can Overcome Them for an introduction of new belief systems that humans can take on, the science that supports them, and the hope that these systems give us when more and more people find it hard to believe in any religious belief system.

 

[safi sat]

safi sat
from morocco-so may father and mother came from this country.
but i am israeli-and yes jewish-nice to meet on the net people from morocco.
icarus5

welcome my brather
moroccain and israelian they are friend's
and alot of israelian they are in origine from moroccain

me too im so happy to meet a moroccain israelian

 

[cohen avshalom]

safi sat

safi sat
my father is from kazablanca and my mother is from ougda.
do you know those city(well kazablanca you apparently know-but do you know ougda???)
my mother last name is buganim-did you here this name???
icarus5

 

[safi sat]

safi sat
my father is from kazablanca and my mother is from ougda.
do you know those city(well kazablanca you apparently know-but do you know ougda???)
my mother last name is buganim-did you here this name???
icarus5

yes i know those city
because i was visit last year oujda it's in the east of morocco near of Algeria
and casablanca it's the capital of economy in morocco

i live in agadir but im from safi may be you know this two city

 

[cohen avshalom]

safi

i never being at morroco-but all my famelly is from there -so they know those city very well.
my grandfather had a big carpentry shop at ougda-in the 30-50.with alote of musleam worker-and electric saw-when no one had this equipment -one think that i am remmember -that he was telling me-is that-once when there were pogroms-at the time when israel was borning-all his worker were being standing in front his shop and they didnt let any one to made dameage for that shop-and that most of the time the relation between jesih and arab were being very good.

do you know the last name : Bu-ga-nim did you hard this name?



icarus5

 

[Mars Man]

Please. . . I will leave the above, for deplomatic reasons, BUT...for conversation, please do use the PM system. The purpose and theme of this thread is for the purpose given in the title.

Maybe just a few off-topic comments and posts are allowed here and there, but to go into a full conversation is not allowed, really.

I think I have said it before, but I'll say it again. I am basically non-theist, agnostic. . . although I used to be very Christian up upon a time.

 

[scorpion da black]

Muslim

great value and nice code to live your life through.
it gives my life a value.

 

[Haruspex]

Muslim

great value and nice code to live your life through.
it gives my life a value.

Doesn't every religion when practised correctly?

 

[cohen avshalom]

what is the main religion at japan?

what is the main religion at japan?
do most of the people believe in god-or not ?
icarus
:gohan::music::romance:

 

[Haruspex]

The main religion in Japan is called "Google-it-up".
Some effort please.

 

[scorpion da black]

Doesn't every religion when practised correctly?

very true and i very agree

Napoleon Bonaparte said " every faith is perfect, it is the people practicing them who are not."

and i believe that is true. . .
if every one practiced his religion correctly then we would have a brighter world free of hate and prejudice and full of justice.

but unfortunately it is in human nature to be aggressive

 

[Tsuyoiko]

As many people here know already, I'm an atheist. I came to that conclusion after searching for the right religion for me, starting off as a Methodist Christian, spent some time as a Pagan. The god I searched so hard for never spoke to me, so I began to question his existence. Then I realised, there's nothing in this universe that necessitates god as an explanation. Therefore, for me, god does not exist.

but unfortunately it is in human nature to be aggressive

People seem to use the term 'human nature' as some justification for bad things in the world. But what is human nature? I came to the conclusion that it doesn't really exist. People are so diverse I don't think you can really invoke a thing called 'human nature' and apply it to everyone. I'd rather say "it's in 'many people's nature' to be aggressive".

 

[scorpion da black]

As many people here know already, I'm an atheist. I came to that conclusion after searching for the right religion for me, starting off as a Methodist Christian, spent some time as a Pagan. The god I searched so hard for never spoke to me, so I began to question his existence. Then I realised, there's nothing in this universe that necessitates god as an explanation. Therefore, for me, god does not exist.
People seem to use the term 'human nature' as some justification for bad things in the world. But what is human nature? I came to the conclusion that it doesn't really exist. People are so diverse I don't think you can really invoke a thing called 'human nature' and apply it to everyone. I'd rather say "it's in 'many people's nature' to be aggressive".

hormones, DNA structure , mammal primitivety ....all make up humans' aggressive nature

 

[bakaKanadajin]

People seem to use the term 'human nature' as some justification for bad things in the world. But what is human nature? I came to the conclusion that it doesn't really exist. People are so diverse I don't think you can really invoke a thing called 'human nature' and apply it to everyone. I'd rather say "it's in 'many people's nature' to be aggressive".

I think when people say human nature they refer to the primal and instinctual elements of our psyche. Layers upon layers of social conditoning exist through which we channel these urges and ultimately play-out our lives, but at times the raw elements themselves surface. Actually there are many elements which are not very heavily cloaked at all, such as hunger, the battle of the sexes, violence, etc.


A wise man once asked (in a movie) what is man's greatest motivator, fear or laziness?

 

[Skullcrushergurl]

I was brought up in the Christian religion. My beliefs are firm too. But I'm not a psycho christian. I don't go insane about the bible.

 

[made of stone]

I now wish there was an option 'all of them, and none of them' - because that's exactly where the truth lies I do believe.

made of short posts

 

[bebopdobop]

I was raised seventh day Adventist, a Christian denomination. But I haven't been to church in a while. The people in my community are just to hypocritical to be any good. Mexico is so corrupt, in every aspect. No joke.

 

[Revenant]

I was raised seventh day Adventist, a Christian denomination.

That's the denomination I was raised in, too. Healthy bunch of people they are! Quite fundamental Christianity, a denomination that I hear is growing as the baby boomers get older.

 

[centrajapan]

I am Agnostic. Anyone seen the movie Zeitgeist? Excellent quote here.

You would think that a guy who rose from the dead and ascended into Heaven for all eyes to see and performed the wealth of miracles acclaimed to him would have made it into the historical record. It didn't because once the evidence is weighed, there are very high odds that the figure known as Jesus, did not even exist.

The reality is, Jesus was the Solar Deity of the Gnostic Christian sect, and like all other Pagan gods, he was a mythical figure. It was the political establishment that sought to historize the Jesus figure for social control. By 325 a.d. in Rome, emperor Constantine convened the Council of Nicea. It was during this meeting that the politically motivated Christian Doctrines were established and thus began a long history of Christian bloodshed and spiritual fraud. And for the next 1600 years, the Vatican maintained a political stranglehold on all of Europe, leading to such joyous periods as the Dark Ages, along with enlightening events such as the Crusades, and the Inquisition.

Christianity, along with all other theistic belief systems, is the fraud of the age. It served to detach the species from the natural world, and likewise, each other. It supports blind submission to authority. It reduces human responsibility to the effect that "God" controls everything, and in turn awful crimes can be justified in the name of Divine Pursuit. And most importantly, it empowers those who know the truth but use the myth to manipulate and control societies. The religious myth is the most powerful device ever created, and serves as the psychological soil upon which other myths can flourish

http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/transcript.htm

 

[Dakota]

Baptised as a Roman Catholic although i'm very strongly Athiest.
Religion is bad but good at the same time...
good for giving people something to believe in, community and hope...
bad for the wars that come out of these petty squabbles.

I for one am a great believer in science i'd love to have a religion but i just cant buy into any of it.. hmm

 

[Annubis]

The Book

I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints.
I believe in it all. I think it's awesome.
The book was found in America under a stone. It is the records of the Incas, Mayans and Aztecs... So called Nephites and Lamanites in the book of Mormon.
Mormon was a Nephite who's lineage goes back to East of Israel in the time of Moses. The Serians were taking over and killing all who believed in God. Two families who had the teachings of Isaiah fled to the Indian Ocean. They fled in the same way that Noah had fled the flood. They stayed at sea and lost many family members. They passed many great lands and islands, until they landed in Peru. The ones remaining were the children who were taught by their elders as they traveled.
They had the skills to write. And they wrote small notes, some of which were recorded on metal plates, since the other mediums perished.
As time went by, they would write the events which they experienced. These plates are now the book of Mormon. They were believers in God. They were visited by Christ after his resurrection. They experienced the birth and death of Christ in the same way as the rest of the world, only they were not in his presence.
The book was translated by a man named Joseph Smith, who found the plates at the age of 15. He didn't have a religion he agreed with. He had the special ability of language acquisition and translation. He also found the urim and thumim berried with the book, which are an ancient technology used to look at things more closely. Like lenses.
These items are now kept at the Salt Lake Temple in Utah.

 

[myusan-go]

I am a Christian, and I frequently attend church surrounding my area.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

I'm not really a religious person, however i am interested in the philosophy of buddhism and i agree with a lot of what it teaches (tolerance, compassion, inner peace etc), so i clicked on Buddhism .