View Full Version : Ism's - What religion are you?
shottie
09-04-2007, 09:57 PM
Christianity ism (which i think is a word, check google), Judaism, Muslimism (so is this one), Buddhism, Sikhism, Gnosticism etc.
What are you called if you don't follow any of the above?
Atheist (or atheism).
It's like there trying to create the so called 'non religion' system for those who want to break out/wake up or whatever...
Perhaps a type of religion is good but i dont like the term 'religon' as it implies that i/you am governed by a god and at the end of my/your so called life made to face consequences dependent upon the actions made by oneself in that lifetime etc, etc.
Maybe a belief system created by oneself for oneself based on one's beliefs..
So what do i believe?
I believe i wake up every morning, i believe i need food and water to exist, I believe i need air/oxygen to breath, i believe i need all the things the ego requires to make me happy. I could probably go on for days (so i believe) but that would be silly.
Deep down what do i believe?
I believe that a lot of people are in need of support, including myself.
I believe i that i have the power (for what im not sure) but it is something that will be beautiful and beneficial to humanity and nature.
Any opinions and views welcome!
tinmenace
10-04-2007, 12:45 AM
If it feels right to you and it gives you peace, then you must go with it. :)
For me, I don't sit and think about what I believe in, and I don't try to categorize it and bundle it neatly into a recognizable parcel. That would just fry my brain! :D
I just don't think about it anymore. I spent the first 36 years of my life thinking about it, and analyzing it to death, and searching searching searching. Now I just am and I'm at peace with it.
Sorry if that's a lame answer :o
shottie
10-04-2007, 12:56 PM
If it feels right to you and it gives you peace, then you must go with it. :)
For me, I don't sit and think about what I believe in, and I don't try to categorize it and bundle it neatly into a recognizable parcel. That would just fry my brain! :D
I just don't think about it anymore. I spent the first 36 years of my life thinking about it, and analyzing it to death, and searching searching searching. Now I just am and I'm at peace with it.
Sorry if that's a lame answer :o
No thats a great answer, plain and simple. Thanks!
armitage_vi
10-04-2007, 03:52 PM
I'm fine being a Pagan, I believe that the universe IS GOD I believe in the infinite consciousness theory, I believe that if we are going to worship anything as holy it should be the Earth, the sun and the moon and the seasons because it is these things that sustain life for us all to enjoy this experience......
However I also believe in the Theory of Everything where EVERYTHING is interconnect at some level or another....
I believe that Infinite Love is the only truth and everything else is illussion :D
eyedontbelieveu
12-04-2007, 06:00 AM
Why would you want to believe a reflected illusion? That's what all isms was, were, and will be.
KNOW "SELF", KNOW "GOD"/ NO "SELF", NO "GOD"
P.E.A.C.E.
auron
12-04-2007, 06:21 PM
I was debating with myself the other day weather i'm Infinite Consciousnessism or Infinite Loveism. I just can't decide.
informationx
12-04-2007, 07:52 PM
I dont subscribe to any religion, but if there is wisdom to be gathered in any of them which I think will be useful to me, ill try and integrate it into my daily life.
Also Ill reject information which I think is useless in relation to myself, and the world I experience. I think you can find nuggets of good stuff from most religions.
As Bruce Lee said -: "Absorb what is useful, reject that which is useless, and add what specifically is your own"
Something like that. I think bruce lee got his main thinking from Jiddu Krishnamurti.
I think if you sign up to a specific religion, by definition you are ruling out many other possibility's, and you end up defending your "label" all the time, and not growing and learning.
eyedontbelieveu
13-04-2007, 05:21 AM
"No amount of intellectual information about this or that, particularly about structure, function, and order constitutes Wisdom or Understanding. Information must not be identified with Knowledge. One could be a walking encyclopedia of information and be devoid of Knowledge. Information pertains to the mental level, mostly cortical functions in relation to the 'objective world' and has no basis in fundamental Life-facts; it rests upon a system of concepts abstracted from the effects (phenomena) produced or caused by fundamental Life-facts. Therefore, do not hold on for one second to any preconceived and emotionally held concept or idea. If you can get the Truth from any source, by all means get it; but you will discover that you cannot get it mentally or retain it on a mental level if you do get it. Truth, Knowledge, Understanding is attained by Mind on the Mind-level - not mental or intellectual on or in the psychic-nature, which pertains to the reflection not to that shining mountain rising above the waters. Before you had a cortex with which to think and with which you develop your private world, there were no abstractions, you never abstracted anything, you didn't have the faculty with which to abstract, consciously or unconsciously; relative to the aeons you have been in existence, the times that you have had a cortex are approximately one second to one hundred thousand years."
informationx
13-04-2007, 05:00 PM
"No amount of intellectual information about this or that, particularly about structure, function, and order constitutes Wisdom or Understanding. Information must not be identified with Knowledge. One could be a walking encyclopedia of information and be devoid of Knowledge. Information pertains to the mental level, mostly cortical functions in relation to the 'objective world' and has no basis in fundamental Life-facts; it rests upon a system of concepts abstracted from the effects (phenomena) produced or caused by fundamental Life-facts. Therefore, do not hold on for one second to any preconceived and emotionally held concept or idea. If you can get the Truth from any source, by all means get it; but you will discover that you cannot get it mentally or retain it on a mental level if you do get it. Truth, Knowledge, Understanding is attained by Mind on the Mind-level - not mental or intellectual on or in the psychic-nature, which pertains to the reflection not to that shining mountain rising above the waters. Before you had a cortex with which to think and with which you develop your private world, there were no abstractions, you never abstracted anything, you didn't have the faculty with which to abstract, consciously or unconsciously; relative to the aeons you have been in existence, the times that you have had a cortex are approximately one second to one hundred thousand years."
I am beginning to see my subtle mind
oceanwave
13-04-2007, 05:13 PM
Christianity ism (which i think is a word, check google), Judaism, Muslimism (so is this one), Buddhism, Sikhism, Gnosticism etc.
What are you called if you don't follow any of the above?
Atheist (or atheism).
...what about agnosticism (http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=agnosticism&gwp=13)?...
;)
eyedontbelieveu
13-04-2007, 06:16 PM
I am beginning to see my subtle mind
To clarify, my post was not a reply to yours. It was a follow-up to my previous one.
P.E.A.C.E.
informationx
14-04-2007, 11:57 AM
To clarify, my post was not a reply to yours. It was a follow-up to my previous one.
P.E.A.C.E.
Hey no problem,
Although not directed at me, it still had a resonance I understood:)
The closest would be a mix of Meataphysical Sillypsism (sp?) Discordian Chaos Magick, and Some of the manifestation ideas in "Infinite Love."