i think people who claim they are 'unreligious' because they dont believe a higher intelligence was involved with the origins of the universe are amusing. Particularly the modern pop culture demoninations of 19th century western Darwinism, the Saganists, and the Roganists. The Saganists mix western Darwinism with Startrek episodes, 1980s academia tradition, and Science Fiction paperbacks to form their world view, and like to talk about space alot. The Roganists are similar, but they add layers of fringe archeology, history channel documentaries, Sumerian clay tablets, psychadelic mushrooms, ufos, and they like to talk about kettlebells and brazilian jujitsu. Their belief systems (another name for religion) are just as strange as those of the Greeks, the Babylonians, or any other culture in history. They just think because we have microscopes and iPhones we are the most advanced and therefore correct people in history. I love them, but they do make me laugh.
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God loves all of his children
It’s surprising what any of us believe. From my view, the idea of religion or any formal belief system has been belittled and destroyed without much to replace it. Then we attach ourselves to some ideology we didn’t know we were being preached.
Sometimes I feel more aware that what I believe isn’t well understood or I don’t know how to communicate it.
I’m having a tough time building a belief system. It takes care and consistency that I’m only still learning to give.
Oh more to what you were saying. I am somewhat tuned into Rogan or the content people might associate with the Rogan sphere. Some of what I hear makes sense, or offers an alternative explanation for things that is intriguing because it goes against popular beliefs. Many of those popular beliefs are held by systems I’ve learned not to hold confidence in.
But then I think well that’s interesting but I’m not sure I can fully attach myself to that belief for whatever reason (lack of my own research, conflicting information, conflicting beliefs, etc.) Then that happens several times a day. Then I think oh this is too much information and I am increasingly detached from feeling like I understand much of anything.
These are my tangentially related thoughts from the toilet tonight as I am trying to figure life out. I hope I laugh at them later but for now I am proud to have spoken my mind.
