What "religion" are you?

[quixote]

Okay ... is everyone here just really cynical about religion completely or does anyone actually attend a church or any form of organised philosophy?

Okay ... I am a member of the Quakers. I feel confident about my choice there because it is totally right for me and I can separate what feels right for me and what doesn't in David's work.

What about anyone else?

[cruise4]

I hate the word religion because it seems to mean all things to all men. As soon as it's used, the context becomes lost. In your case you used a defining example so I can ascertain you mean religion as in 'group'?

Yes, I'm an Aston Villa supporter!

I urge anyone who asks any question involving the word 'religion' to please define YOUR meaning of 'religion' before you start. I swear this is a word introduced by tptb to obscurificate all discussion. An aim it manages superbly.

[marpat]

None because I believe truth is not contained within any particular group but that they may all hold elements of the total picture.

[marpat]

I hate the word religion because it seems to mean all things to all men. As soon as it's used, the context becomes lost. In your case you used a defining example so I can ascertain you mean religion as in 'group'?

Yes, I'm an Aston Villa supporter!

I urge anyone who asks any question involving the word 'religion' to please define YOUR meaning of 'religion' before you start. I swear this is a word introduced by tptb to obscurificate all discussion. An aim it manages superbly.

Religion means to join together or to unite, usually taken in the context of uniting to a deity. Check out the latin roots.

[cruise4]

You are a past master at misunderstanding what is in front of you! It's becoming quite comical. I cannot decide whether it's on purpose or you are this inane :D

[marpat]

You are a past master at misunderstanding what is in front of you! It's becoming quite comical. I cannot decide whether it's on purpose or you are this inane :D


Must be both of us then because I don't know what your on about. You ask about the definition of the word religion so I say check the Latin roots of the word. How is that a problem for you? if we are using the same definition then does that not make it easier to discuss?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion#Definitions_of_religion

[pilgrim]

http://www.gaudiya.com/index.php?topic=introduction

[empyblessing]

I really like all of the religious and spiritual texts, but I don't like religion, ritual, and religious followers. I try and gain as wide an education as I can, not denying any potential to gain wisdom.

[marpat]

I really like all of the religious and spiritual texts, but I don't like religion, ritual, and religious followers. I try and gain as wide an education as I can, not denying any potential to gain wisdom.

Pretty much the same for me. I have studied a few systems, some dead some still around. I don't mind ritual though because to me it is just using physical acts to stimulate subconsious forces in a similar way to concentrating upon symbols would do.

[amercury]

Okay ... is everyone here just really cynical about religion completely or does anyone actually attend a church or any form of organised philosophy?

Okay ... I am a member of the Quakers. I feel confident about my choice there because it is totally right for me and I can separate what feels right for me and what doesn't in David's work.

What about anyone else?

I don't associate myself with any religion.
But the Quakers are probably the most open minded and tolerant religious group I know of....I can respect that. :)

[nimlyn]

I consider myself agnostic however I do experience dreams about Christian themes…Mainly just Christian although there have been a few Egyptian oddities too.

These dreams puzzle the heck out of me as I know very little about the Christian texts and therefore I do not understand why my unconscious brain should conjure up a God figure as well as Jesus Christ, Angel Gabriel, a holy grail, a holy sepulchre and numerous end time themes?

It’s so bizarre! :confused:

[carnalzen]

I was raised catholic in one home, lutheran in another and native american in a 3rd. I guess that makes me a mutt though I own none of them - I'm part of them all.

[thelucifer]

None, lest I belong to them all !

Because I cant find one that even comes close to explaining the real world, so to join one is to join all, in a bad way.

[element]

I see some truth in all of them, but I don't belong to one and I don't want to either.

[cmdr_sabbathius]

Evanescified Erisian :)

[sheartemis]

Born:D and raised catholic. I guess I officially still am.:rolleyes:

In reality (whatever this is), I like to think of myself as a gnostic.
Somehow, I feel I have always been that.:)

[coshh]

Want to become a Christian. Not one yet.

[popeye11]

I am a spiritual, alien, new-age, agnostic who is considering The Field now. I change my opinions religiously.:)

[belfast atheist]

I hate the word religion because it seems to mean all things to all men. As soon as it's used, the context becomes lost. In your case you used a defining example so I can ascertain you mean religion as in 'group'?

Yes, I'm an Aston Villa supporter!I urge anyone who asks any question involving the word 'religion' to please define YOUR meaning of 'religion' before you start. I swear this is a word introduced by tptb to obscurificate all discussion. An aim it manages superbly.

poor bastard...only kidding, saint martin (o'neill) will lead you to glory

[morrighan]

Since waking up recently I am proud to say I belong to no religion, organised or disorganised.

I was christianed at 6 months old but never embraced the faith in my growing years. I thought I was more a pagan than anything as I believed in nature and it cycles. But now I am just me and content to be so.:)

[razed1]

worship of the serpent

[weisseedelweiss]

I am undecided or simply off on my own because I feel it is unstable to identify god's characteristics specifically or to say there is no god.

[meave]

i was brought up catholic bloody parents but i would consider my self free :)

[ekx_dissillusioned]

I'm a Raelien

[serpentoffire]

worship of the serpent

ehehe Thanks

(an ORFIST at glance :))


http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff118/serpentoffire/draco.jpg

[drael]

Mystic, and also a student of magick.

[serpentoffire]

Mystic, and also a student of magick.

"i do not like them sam-i-am (sam is another name for the demiurge, the false god of deception)"

...like YHVH, one of the names of demiurge, not the real uranic GOD but just an entity created by Moses, high priest of Egyptian mysteries school, using jews collective energy to build their jailer (just a djin or genie) using human and animal sacrifices to collect in a single entity a lot of eterical grubs.

Mysticism is the inverse of Magik, one is contemplative and passive, the other is operative and active.

[drael]

Mysticism is the inverse of Magik, one is contemplative and passive, the other is operative and active.

Absolutely they are opposite like creative and logical. For the mysticism contains the essence, the basis. Magick is more about neat rules and trends, things that allow us, a little subjectively, to understand the rules, which in mysticism, and in truth are really undefinable. I dont really practice magcik, but i find some of the rules and laws useful. Correspondance, for example, as above so below as within, so without, is useful. (Although i will spell, i generally dont for ethical reasons - the mystic; the universe knows wisdom beyond me).

[serpentoffire]

Absolutely they are opposite like creative and logical. For the mysticism contains the essence, the basis. Magick is more about neat rules and trends, things that allow us, a little subjectively, to understand the rules, which in mysticism, and in truth are really undefinable. I dont really practice magcik, but i find some of the rules and laws useful. Correspondance, for example, as above so below as within, so without, is useful. (Although i will spell, i generally dont for ethical reasons - the mystic; the universe knows wisdom beyond me).

I suggest you to read more about magic (not sorcery).



Julius EVOLA (Group of UR)
Giuliano KREMMERZ (ROSE-CROSS)
Max Hendel (ROSE-CROSS)
Heinrich AGRIPPA

[synergy777]

love/truth is my religion.

religion is in essence an evolving philosophy like science.

and yet we allow science to evolve, to change, to improve, but we refuse to let religion to evolve, well the elite refuse to let it evolve, to keep us in a medieval mindset.

[octopusrex]

My heart to Kukulkan. My soul to Krsna. My mind to Peyote...

I am Peyote Shaman religion.

[beckym]

I'm Asatru (a reconstruction of german/norse pagan).

[duckingdafta]

Blessings of Love and Light & Merry Meet to you both.. I don't have one, but hope in the future this won't matter as to acceptance and respect of all.

[onourwayto2012]

The Church of What's Happenin Now!

[onourwayto2012]

Metal Church

[mr jones]

vegetaryan

[phildee3]

Celtic Christian.

A pagan religion formed by the absorbsion of the teachings of the apostles by the druids in Britain.

It has Vedic influences and is mystical and gnostic by nature.

Sacramental and initiatory.

[eternal_spirit]

musician

[mr jones]

the old religion - occultism

[multiversal]

I get really frustrated when most people including the media seem to think that spirituality = religious. It winds me up no end.

[element]

I get really frustrated when most people including the media seem to think that spirituality = religious. It winds me up no end.

Indeed. Such people fail to investigate and just repeat the status quo.

[mr jones]

modern religion is a shallow form of spirituality though:D

[element]

Well, shallowness is everywhere. Most people don't look into any serious astrology or the ancients, they think it's all about the daily horoscope. Same with spirituality, they only think ''oh so you're all about ghosts''

Let's pray for the day western society gets crumbled! yeah take that literal lol

[jric]

I have absolutely no idea,

I certainly tend to greatly criticize the bronze age cults such as Christianity, Islam and Judaism,

So most of the time I class myself as an Atheist,

I'm very interested in Theravada (atheistic) Buddhism, and view it as much more of a freethinking inner searching philosophy,

And I suppose I'm quite New Age when it comes to the concept of what we call "God",

God may be an inter dimensional infinite life and power source of love within the universe,

Or maybe the extraterrestrial beings from who we have descended from,

I'm fairly sure what we call the "Paranormal" is simply a form of science we have yet to discover, give it a few thousand years ;)

[phildee3]

I certainly tend to greatly criticize the bronze age cults such as Christianity, Islam and Judaism,



Unless you think that Christianity had it's beginnings before c. 400 BC (which is quite possible), then it would be an Iron age cult.

[zero1]

I am a lone-practicing Zen Buddhist.

[mr jones]

I am a lone-practicing Zen Buddhist.
lol. a LOAN-practicing Zen Buddhist

[xxdinoxkarenxx]

I personaly belive in god but not religion

[phildee3]

I personaly belive in god but not religion

er, like most people who go to church. :o

[ichi wa zen]

I worship titties, Japan and Starcraft!

[octopusrex]

Shaman Peyotero.

[piskavac]

I believe in Vedas, in Hare Krishna.

[sorath]

Yes, I'm an Aston Villa supporter!

The best team in the land. Shame about the result tonight. We played poorly.



Luciferian.

[anarchocommunist666]

I guess you could say that I practice aboth wicca and Asatru

[picha]

I worship titties, Japan and Starcraft!

If tittie worship involves having your fella massaged between an oiled up pair then count me in.

[mephibosheth]

Pure Land Philosopher.

[eternal_spirit]

Musician.