what is your personal worldview or belief of reality and religion?
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My name in Kim, and I am an unemployed part-time community college student. I am Wiccan, in case you'd like to know that, too. If you would like any further detail on anything, please feel free to contact me via my bio page.\n\n1. I worship a Father God and a Mother Goddess, but all deities of all religions exist.\n2. Nature is both spiritual and reality, and at the moment is stable, but if an imbalance were to occur, however, it could become chaotic.\n3. Humanity is biology in the physical sense, but the spirit, or soul, is what actually "lives."\n4. Whatever you believe comes after death is what will come after death for you. If Mary believes that she will go to Heaven when she dies, she will go to Heaven when she dies; if Joe believes in reincarnation, he will be reincarnated; if Lucy does not believe in an afterlife, than her body will decompose and she will cease to exist. Ghosts are the souls of people who have died and were/are unsure of what happens after death, and ghosts they will remain until they figure it out. Someone may also become a ghost if he/she dies before his/her ultimate goal (predetermined by fate) is completed, and a ghost he/she will remain until it is completed. Someone might also become a ghost if someone they leave behind is unable to let go, and ultimately holds him/her back from moving on to the afterlife. Personally, I believe I will be reincarnated, and have been before.\n5. Sometimes we THINK we know things that we really don't. Anything supernatural, including religion, cannot be proved nor disproved. No one can really KNOW whether any deity exists or not, or what happens to someone after they die, or how we all got here in the first place, etc. All that is determined by one’s faith.\n6. We decide for ourselves what is right and wrong; many take guidance from law or religion to help them decide; some are incapable of deciding for themselves and live directly under someone else's idea of morals.\n7. Everyone has a predetermined ultimate goal. Everyone is here to learn, and we do not have a set path, but set milestones. There are certain lessons that need to be learned, and certain goals that need to be fulfilled, which are different for every person. HOW we learn them or fulfill them is not set for us, because we create our own paths.\n\nI hope this helps you. :)
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I believe in God, but religion is to binding. There are good values in every religion. Everyone beleves differently, but when any religion is broken down, God is the basis. So to me religion is not important, and does not limit me to my worship in the lord.
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I believe in live and let live.Just don`t tell me i am going to hell or i am a sinner.\nI am a human being.I don`t need religion to make me feel GOOD about myself. I don`t need religion to make me feel guilty or BAD either.\nI think people waste too much time fighting about religion rather than fixing the world`s problems.\nWe need real solutions to todays threats to society.\nDisease,Hunger ,Global Warming and energy sources..\nThe above are all worth getting together as a people to solve for the betterment of all.Fighting over anything that can`t be proven is trivial in my book.
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I don't just believe, I "know" from deep within. I can't look at all of the good around me, all of the gifts I've been given, the lessons I've learned, and the "coincidences" that appear right as I need them and not believe. But, I also don't push my beliefs on others. I consider myself an "independent spiritual" as I do not lock in to one religion but take wisdom from numerous religions. God loves everyone whether they believe or not. I find that things go best when I remind myself to relax and trust in God's plan.
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It takes what one would call 'faith'. I personally consider myself to have no religion, therefore I don't entirely understand why someone, rather most people in this world, would believe in a 'higher power', an 'intelligent creator', or 'GOD'.
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Here's the issue: Some worldviews are clearly out of step with reality. This includes, most notably, schizophrenia and fundamentalist faith. \n\nThe schizophrenic hears voices. He is unable to accept that he is mentally ill and searches for an explanation for what he hears. He lives near a radio tower. Obviously this is the source of the voices. The radio-station is broadcasting into his head. He has effectively kept his worldview, but he has required the world itself to change shape to conform with what he thinks. The other option, acceptance of his mental illness, is too much to bear.\n\nDitto fundamentalists. Rather than adapt their worldviews to fit our rapidly growing knowledge base and understanding of the universe, they need to deny, deny, deny what we know, so as to keep reality from creeping in and disturbing their tightly held beliefs.\n\nObviously not all of the faithful do this to the same degree. Even the Catholic church has accepted evolution, as per Pope John Paul II's statments that it is likely the truth and certainly the best theory we have yet heard. So, it is possible to bring certain segments of the faithful around to reason, but it will happen very, very slowly. The fact is (and I believe that the Catholics realize this) that if they do not start to accept reasonable explanations for things people will leave their churches in droves, searching for places that will combine faith and rationality in better ways.\n\nYou can only ignore the facts for so long.
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I am a human being seeking the truth of life. I am open to truth. I see all human beings as my fellow beings. I am willing to listen to anybody. What do you call my religion?
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I believe in God. I practice religion.
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I believe no matter what religion one is or is not, it is God that matters now and in the end. I "respect" all faiths and beliefs.\nGod Bless
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I believe God is the sum totality of the multiverse and we are all just parts of God living our lives as the individual cells in our bodies do.\n\nI believe God connects everything and everyone and is internal and external.  I also believe to even ascribe human characteristics to God is kinda vain so I call God an it since I don't presume to understand if it is male/female/both/neither.
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I've been doing a little reading on it, too. Just out of curiousity and some more to answer a couple of questions here.  I'm not sure what the actual main belief is, if it has one.\n\nHere's my post for one of those questions (I know it's long, sometimes I just can't help myself), http://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=1006032806764\n\nIt's interesting to note that the official Scientology FAQ's are at odds with some of the statements made as answers here. It has been stated here that Scientology is "not a belief or system of beliefs" and "there is no belief in Scientology", and yet, the church's official website seems to state the exact opposite by listing its beliefs and talking about believers. It is no wonder that there is a bit of confusion as to what Scientology is and isn't, if the followers cannot agree with the information publicly posted by the church itself.\n\n\nFrom the official Scientology site mentioned a few times here, http://www.scientology.org \n\nWhy is Scientology called a religion? \n\nScientology certainly meets all three criteria generally used by religious scholars around the world to determine religiosity: (1) a belief in some Ultimate Reality, such as the Supreme or eternal truth that transcends the here and now of the secular world; (2) religious practices directed toward understanding, attaining or communing with this Ultimate Reality; and (3) a community of believers who join together in pursuing this Ultimate Reality.\n\nScientology’s beliefs in an Ultimate Reality that transcends the material world include its concepts of the thetan, the spiritual world (the seventh dynamic) and the Supreme Being (the eighth dynamic). The second element can be found in Scientology’s life-rite ceremonies such as naming, marriage and funeral services, but predominantly in the religious services of auditing and training, through which Scientologists increase their spiritual awareness of themselves and attain an understanding of the spiritual world and, ultimately, their relationship with the Supreme Being. As to the third element, a very vital community of believers can be found at any Church of Scientology at almost any time of the day.\n\nScientology is thus a religion in the most traditional sense of the term.\n\n\nDoes Scientology have a scripture? \n\nYes. The writings and recorded spoken words of L. Ron Hubbard on the subject of Scientology collectively constitute the scripture of the religion. He set forth the Scientology theology and technologies in more than 500,000 pages of writings, including dozens of books and over 2,000 tape-recorded public lectures.\n===============\n\nSome interesting reading from an opposing view is found here,\n\nhttp://www.spaink.net/fishman/home.html\n"When Fishman was then brought to court, he used parts of Scientology-documents to prove he had been brainwashed by the Church. These Scientology documents thereby became public material: anybody could go to the court library and read them. The Church, fearing that its sacred secrets would be revealed, had some of their people going to the library every day to borrow these documents, thereby preventing other people (read: non-Scientologists) from reading them. Nevertheless, the Fishman Affidavit got copied (it was also available through the clerk of the court, for a mere $36.50). Somebody retrieved the affidavit via the clerk, scanned it, and posted it to the net. The Fishman Affidavit has been travelling on the Internet ever since."\n\nand here,\nhttp://www.spaink.net/fishman/ot3.html\n"In OT III, ("OPERATING THETAN, Section Three") Hubbard explains his cosmology and the ins & outs of 'body thetans'."\n\n"The head of the Galactic Federation (76 planets around larger stars visible from here) (founded 5,000,000 years ago, very space opera) solved overpopulation (250 billion or so per planet, 178 billion on average) by mass implanti
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I don't know for certain but for me he/she/it is a force that created the universe and resides in us as part of us that shows through in profound moments of humanity, love, forgiveness, curiosity and hope like I said its how I view "God". I also believe no religion can know all the truths of God nor any individual live or dead.
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i prefer mine, which also happens to be the truth. god is a person i know that exists in storybooks and in the minds of gullable people who have been brainwashed into emptying their wallets so they can purchase an empty promise.\n\nah reality...its cold! its hard! its heartless! but its the best reality we have!
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I am going to be completely serious with you\n\nPros: Truly believing in something is comforting, a built in support system of people who will be willing to help you, and the feeling that you are only living in a harsh and unfair world for a short period of time before you get to go to "heaven"\n\nCons: Limitations on what you can do of your own free will, Guilt, and of course people like Jerry Falwell
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God gave you a brain and free will. Being a realist means using those two gifts to analyze the world. After doing that, live according to your conscience.\n\nA sin would be NOT using your brain and will to decide. This is what is wrong with most organized religions.
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I would and do believe in God.  \n\nIf in the end I was wrong, who cares?  \n\nIf someone does not believe and then finds God is real, whoops!
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I don't have any religious beliefs.\nI'm just an all-around believer in the spiritual.\nI have these beliefs because of my personal experiences with religion.