<p>My belief is that some people try to find logic in everything, and my belief at least isn't about logic. And some people just can't let that go. It's all about reason, reason, reason, for them, but I have faith in my beliefs, and faith isn't something you can see, or else it's not faith. :p</p>
<p>All I have to say about that is: 橹声悠扬荡江南kd 泪水无声 (I have no idea what that means, I was just curious if cut and paste worked with whatever language that is)</p>
<p>I just can't wrap my mind around that... you recognize that you have no reason to beleive what you do, but gladly and willingly beleive it anyway? </p>
<p>I just don't get it. Why not concern yourself with all things based in reality, rather than a la-la land of some ilk?</p>
<p>Because you'll never know what will happen to you after you die.</p>
<p>Exactly my point. If you never know what will happen to you after you die, why concern yourself with it? Why not concern yourself with living the life you know exists?</p>
<p>different strokes for different folks
it's something that you should accept for yourself once you're given the choice if you want to, i hate anyone forcing anything on me so i'll shush up
and this is why i believe non believers exist. cuz they just do. its a fact of life. there's no need to argue because we know no side will win lol.</p>
<p>because according to my beliefs, your physical life on earth is super short compared to the rest of forever that happens after you die.:)</p>
<p>joev, that looks like mandarin chinese with the letters "kd" randomly inserted in the middle.</p>
<p>And I don't see how anyone can say they don't believe that non-believers "exist". That's like saying you can't believe that squirrels or pencils or white people exist.</p>
<p>Belief in a higher Being isn't necessarily guided by interest in what will happen after death. It can also be guided by life itself and what one's purpose is.</p>
<p>"I just can't wrap my mind around that... you recognize that you have no reason to beleive what you do, but gladly and willingly beleive it anyway?"</p>
<p>I'm not a religious person, but it seems to me that one can have faith in reason too. One cannot truly know anything; our senses could be deceiving us, and tomorrow gravity may cease to operate. It's different from typical religion, of course, but we shouldn't elevate reason or science beyond the scope of doubt.</p>
<p>oh god.......i thought this thread was about being higher.....</p>
<p>Jerzak,</p>
<p>If there is no higher being and you have been right this whole time then it wouldn't matter but if there is a higher being and a heaven and a hell and a God and a devil and we who are belivers in Christ have been right then doesn't it make all the difference?</p>
<p>Pascal's wager...there's one big reason why it doesn't work: how do you know which (g)God(s) to choose? Is it the Christian God? Or perhaps the gods of the Egyptians? Most religions are mutually exclusive. Therefore, it is pointless to believe based on the likelihood of praising the right deity.</p>
<p>well most of the world religions believe in one supreme Being- Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Zorastarian</p>
<p>collegefreak, your post was unresponsive to what nomir_dva said. The fact that some religions are monotheistic doesn't mean that their one god is the same across every religion. </p>
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we who are belivers in Christ have been right then doesn't it make all the difference?
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Ecclesiastes 9:2</p>
<p>All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.</p>
<p>I don't really believe in the higher power..
But I belive in reincarnation and karma
I dunno i'm agnostic.</p>
<p>For me, it's almost as if there's no WAY I can be anything other than a believer. I don't know....It's just that there have been way too many "coincidences" for them to be coincidences any more. So many people have stories to tell of divine intervention, and even the one's that don't have magnificent stories can see instances in their own lives where something "strange," happened, something that defied all odds, something that really didn't seem like a coincidence.</p>
<p>For all of those who have seen the movie "Signs" (Great movie, BTW), you'll remember that scene where Mel is telling his brother about signs and coincidences. That scene really brought tears to my eyes, become it always makes me remember all of the good that has happened to my family and I. </p>
<p>The way I see it, it's all very good and well if you don't believe. But you'd better be sure. Because this is eternity you're playing with, and that's an awfully long time.</p>
<p>Sometimes humans think they have total control over their lives and that they live only by following the "truth". </p>
<p>Sometimes the world doesn't revolve around factual truths. Not everything that works in your lives that you accept have to be proven right in front of you to work. </p>
<p>The human mind is programmed so that we cannot comprehend certain things. It is also programmed so that we think of a higher being. For somebody to reject blantantly the existence of a higher being because it cannot be proven by the human mind itself(which is limited) is being foolish.</p>
<p>Have you conisdered that some human minds may not be programmed to believe in a higher being?</p>
<p>There has to me a higher being. No way science can explain the creation of LIFE and the UNIVERSE!</p>