Thread: Convince me.

Whatever your beliefs are, convince me.
I'm agnostic, used to be Baptist Christian.

Whether you are Islamic, Christian, atheist, Buddhist, etc. Convince me. Give facts, straight answers, and keep the flaming to the minimum.

I wanna hear ever person's side as much as possible and get to know them all. Could read but em all, but that's not the same as learning it from someone.

SO have at me.

I am an atheo-nihilist with bits of philosophical Buddhism and Taoism tossed in.

Religion bases itself on unfounded premises. There are an infinite number of concievable deities and pantheons, only a subset of which have been worshipped in human history. Many of these concievable gods are mutually contradictory to each other. Why should we favor one over all others when the chances for that god being the "true" one is infinitismally above 0?

God is dead, democracy is dead, humanism is dead, justice is dead and the dollar is dying. I refuse to buy into any belief system which works upon presuppositions without addressing them.

Ultimately we all choose our own cultural narcotics.

Convince you of what?

Originally Posted by Pyrofan1

Convince you of what?

Whatever your beliefs are

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So tell you about my beliefs? Convince was an incorrect word to use if that's what you meant because convince means to make someone believe.

I'm an Eclectic Wiccan. I believe that nature (i.e. the universe) is a being, but because worshiping a large hunk of matter and energy is difficult. It is broken down into male and female aspects. Everything has a soul in it and contains a "Spark of the divine" a part of it that gives it power over the natural world. Because of this people can manipulate the world as long as you don't hurt anyone (that's not a rule, more of a guideline). When you die you are reincarnated to a new body that is always of the same species and you continue to reincarnate until you learn everything that you want to learn. Whatever you do either good or bad returns to you with three times the force.

I saw the Virgin Mary in a McDonald's french fry today.

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Therefore, God exists. Convinced yet?