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Old 03-16-2005, 09:54 AM   #16
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Silly tests. I don't need a quiz to tell me religion is overlapping and contradictory. I don't believe in anything, just what I can see. What else is there?
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Old 03-16-2005, 10:05 AM   #17
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I don't believe in anything, just what I can see. What else is there?
I know this sounds funny coming from me, but I believe that there is stuff that we can't see. For instance, Dark Matter.

Not that I can really do anything with what we can't see or anything, but there is evidence that there is stuff that we can't see in addition to all of the things that we have learned of as time went by. Were there radio waves before the invention of the antenna?
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Old 03-16-2005, 10:23 AM   #18
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Silly tests. I don't need a quiz to tell me religion is overlapping and contradictory. I don't believe in anything, just what I can see. What else is there?
Don't believe in gravity? physics? atoms?
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Old 03-16-2005, 11:03 AM   #19
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I used the word 'believe' for a reason.

If I didn't believe in water would that mean it didn't exist? If I believed in ghosts would that mean they existed?

Belief is not knowledge nor can it be substantiated. What you or I believe is irrelevent. It's what there is that matters. And while I may not be able to see it, it exists beyond my own limited conception.

Hence 'all I know is what I see'. I can only know what I see. If you 'believe' in something, you can't see it.
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Old 03-16-2005, 01:37 PM   #20
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You scored as agnosticism.



You are an agnostic. Though it is generally taken that agnostics neither believe nor disbelieve in God, it is possible to be a theist or atheist in addition to an agnostic. Agnostics don't believe it is possible to prove the existence of God (nor lack thereof). Agnosticism is a philosophy that God's existence cannot be proven. Some say it is possible to be agnostic and follow a religion; however, one cannot be a devout believer if he or she does not truly believe.

agnosticism 71%
Islam 63%
Buddhism 63%
Satanism 58%
atheism 54%
Judaism 50%
Hinduism 46%
Christianity 38%
Paganism 38%
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Old 03-16-2005, 06:28 PM   #21
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Christianity 83%
Buddhism 67%
agnosticism 42%
Islam 38%
Paganism 33%
Satanism 25%
Hinduism 13%
atheism 4%
Judaism 0%
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Old 03-17-2005, 10:31 AM   #22
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You scored as agnosticism.



You are an agnostic. Though it is generally taken that agnostics neither believe nor disbelieve in God, it is possible to be a theist or atheist in addition to an agnostic. Agnostics don't believe it is possible to prove the existence of God (nor lack thereof). Agnosticism is a philosophy that God's existence cannot be proven. Some say it is possible to be agnostic and follow a religion; however, one cannot be a devout believer if he or she does not truly believe.

agnosticism

96%

Buddhism

71%

Satanism

71%

atheism

67%

Islam

63%

Paganism

63%

Judaism

54%

Hinduism

54%

Christianity

25%
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Old 03-17-2005, 10:38 AM   #23
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You are a person.

Though it is generally taken that people are alive, it is possible to be half-alive or dead. People are scared of death, and life. Some say it is possible to be half-alive and dead; however, one cannot be truly alive if one is dead.

person 100%

cat 0%

mouse 0%

philosopher 0%

great deity 0%

god's image 0%

unique 0%

relevant 0%

self-obsessed 0%

lost 0%
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Old 03-17-2005, 06:07 PM   #24
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What an interesting quiz, I liked it, I never thought I would be that close to Buddhism, but not there, I new I was close, but not that close, I already knew that I was agnostic, but not near that close to satanism, I don't like satanists, they're creepy. I didn't see wiccan on there, if anything I would be close to that.

Agnosticism 92%
Buddhism 79%
Satanism 75%
Paganism 71%
Atheism 67%
Judaism 63%
Islam 58%
Christianity 54%
Hinduism 38%

Oh, by the way, does anyone know what Paganism is?
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Old 03-18-2005, 07:25 AM   #25
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I used the word 'believe' for a reason.

If I didn't believe in water would that mean it didn't exist? If I believed in ghosts would that mean they existed?

Belief is not knowledge nor can it be substantiated. What you or I believe is irrelevent. It's what there is that matters. And while I may not be able to see it, it exists beyond my own limited conception.

Hence 'all I know is what I see'. I can only know what I see. If you 'believe' in something, you can't see it.
There are lines of thought related to quantum physics that disagree with these statements. The fact that we exist and are able to sense anything at all could influence what there is to perceive.

I think it would be kind of cool if belief in deity (or gravity, or atoms) actually did bring deity into existence...
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Old 03-18-2005, 08:27 AM   #26
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Well, belief is a form in itself, just as a thought, just as a tree. Therefore if you believe something, it is there, in a sense.
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Old 03-18-2005, 07:13 PM   #27
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I wouldn't rely on a parachute you "believe" is there.
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Old 03-19-2005, 01:23 PM   #28
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Evidently I am a Buddhist.
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Old 03-19-2005, 05:28 PM   #29
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Old 03-20-2005, 01:22 AM   #30
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I think it would be kind of cool if belief in deity (or gravity, or atoms) actually did bring deity into existence...

on a side note of that.. since we are 'bio-electric' entities.. and the law is that energy cannot be destroyed.. where does that energy go? I've been grappling with that one for a decade or so.. I have a theory or two... the main one being that it is returned to a central pool of energy to be re-distributed (randomly) to the next 'wave' of life... although the downside to that I have seen ghosts and the accounted for Joplin Ghost lights.. and have had a number of odd experiences to make me (want) to believe in the soul as an existing object... I have a couple of stories and I have witnesess (sp?... long f*cking day) to what happened and the bulk of them are more objective/less idealistic than I... oh I could ramble on but I don't think I can articulate it in the right way.. damn non-crystalyn thinking!
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