Being an atheist in your teens and 20s is a sign of healthy skepticism.
Continuing to be an atheist in your 30s and beyond is a sign of spiritual immaturity.
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Anything other than agnosticism is a sign of pretentiousness.
Nobody knows the secrets of the universe.
Well said ser. Followed.
This is directionally true but we all become more conscious on different time scales. Some people will find this path later and some people stroll this path for longer. The only thing that matters is if you’re moving in the right direction.
🤔🤔🤔 why?
So ridiculous. In your 20s you should think and question the adults. When you're an adult, ensure you're conforming to their social and religious thought.
No- you should always question why you believe a certain thing and you can either change that belief or stay consistent with it. Age has nothing to do with it.
I was a raging atheist in my 20s because I didn't believe in fairytales. I haven't started believing in fairytales cause now I'm in my 30s..I have though toned done the the level of belief I had in no God. I think being agnostic is more rational.
I don't care about spirits or fairytails.
God is verifiable. Look within.
Faith or religion?
Don't buy into a new age spirituality BS, it's just mental states we don't understand yet.
Sam Harris lol. The man doesn’t believe we have free will. So why do anything at all?
Also, the spirituality I endorse is not new age, but the most ancient kind there is.
Being ancient doesn't make something better, more accurate, or true.
All we have is the illusion of free will.
The universe is deterministic at the most fundamental levels that would make any difference.
So you might say we have no choice but to have free will.
You needn’t think of God as an external, visual man in the sky. God lives within each of us. Look within your self, not out there in the sky.
people who have a problem with "visual man in the sky" are shallow rebellious fucking retards. who cares what they do...
Of course "god" can mean incredibly varying concepts to each person.
You and I probably have perfectly overlapping definitions for "dog", "hand", "cloud", "bitcoin" even.
God is something wholly different.
What is your definition of god?
There's a whole lot of stuff that I cannot touch, see or feel but I am sure it's there, just outside the reach of my own senses. I am talking about weird mystical stuff like hartmann nodes, the real meaning of the pyramids, rhabdomancy, probably even "ghosts" and the the thing that the anime Evangelion called LCL.
I do not worry myself with those things though because they do not come to me naturally, and the implications are huge for a human to understand. And I already have plenty of things I can personally intervene on, yet to explore.
I don't call the aforementioned things "god". They are just on a dimension of reality that I cannot perceive.
Tillich defines God as “the ground of all being.” This is my favorite definition, though “the supreme self,” “the self of the world,” “the consciousness collective,” and “the void” all resonate as well.
God is all that is and is not. I am that I am sums it up so elliptically!
Exo 3:14 KJV And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
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Childish take
I agree, that is such.
I wanted to ease the tone.
It all depends on what your definition of "god" is, otherwise we're arguing about wildly different things, especially when the concept is one that people cannot look at nor touch.
Love, Energy and Consciousness, vibrations, the word, logic, the logos
You define god as all those things, at the same time, I reckon?
I would then translate it, in my own terms, as just "consciousness" alone, in its most wide meaning, including the consciousness of being conscious and whatever comes from it. But then why going the extra mile to involve such a complex and controversial concept as "god"?
Also see my other reply:
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No certainties, only faith 🫡
says who? The world would be better if people wouldn't push their beliefs towards others.
Gen 2:7 KJV And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
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I was thinking about this quite deeply yesterday.
Someone I know has been going through a rough patch in their marriage for a few years, and she mentioned that her husband is an atheist.
I came to the conclusion he is either not an atheist at all and just spiritually retarded, or he is a selfish cowardly POS.
I've know quite a few atheists, and they live every day to the full because the clock is ticking. They don't get married often, and they certainly don't waste the time they have in relationships that are hard (which why they rarely get married).
And they would also find it abhorrent to not only waste time like that, but also waste someone else's time like that even if that person believes there is an afterlife. Because that would be incredible selfish and really quite fucked up when you see it from their perspective.
yes, and a intellectual mid-wittery
If you’re not a democrat when you’re younger, you don’t have a heart.
If you’re not a republican when you’re older, you don’t have a head.
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Being an atheist is only a sign of spiritual and intellectual immaturity, at all ages. It's like believing Bitcoin came from nothing, and created itself.
Assuming you mean spiritual strictly in the religeous sense, in that you are guided by god, then this is self evident ( again, assuming you mean immature to refer to underdeveloped ) 🤷♂️
If you mean spirituality in a broader context, you would be wrong.
In that sense someone can be spiritual and not religeous, surely?
shower thoughts but bad