Hyper-religiosity — OZONE Asylum, home of the Mad Scientists

Philosophy and other Silliness

Hyper-religiosity

This page's ID: 29497

Edit Post

Who can edit a post?	The poster and administrators may edit a post. The poster can only edit it for a short while after the initial post.

Your User Name:
Your Password:
Login Options:	Remember Me On This Computer

Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	First a little bit of OT about myself and how I define human nature for myself. I'm not a religious person. If you want you can call my belief in myself and my judgment a religion of egoism. I believe that every persons main and only motivator is the inner wish to do good to himself. However in no way is this bad or unethical because we live in a limited environment and a society of endless diversity. It's the pressure of better or stronger ideas and the limits of the environment that suppress lesser ideas. It's how we work, how our brains work and how the society works. We learn to make the right choices by having the positive outcomes of situations add weight to the actions leading to (and that we associate with) that outcome. Positive outcome is always personal because it produces an emotion or a feeling. Whenever we perform an action we hope to eventually receive a positive reaction from the environment. The complexity of the environment depends on our perception of it and the positivity of the reaction or outcome depends partly on our experience with previous similar or linked situations. So to say that on a basic level everyone is an egoist and this is what drives us. I also believe in peoples inability to accept a vision of reality that differs from their own so to say a conflict between perceptions of reality which is one reason behind why I'm writing this and even wars over religion. So my answers to your questions. 1) I believe that religion is a way of finding comfort and peace just as I try to find my peace through my belief in myself. Religion is also a way of control and a way to power but not for everyone. Religion means different things to different people. Words that could be associated with religion do not necessarily describe it however they may shed light on aspects of it: submission, faith, repression, war, peace, forgiveness, revenge, power, belief, money... the list goes on forever. These same words could be used to describe humanity and life in general. 2) In some point in my life I realized that there is no 'hope' but it is alright. There is no afterlife and there is no god. But there is a powerful way of communicating ones vision of happiness and peace to others and that is religion. 3) If by revelation you mean something like 'Eureka! I've found god!' then I assume the person to be inferior in mental abilities which is obviously arrogant and just a stupid way of thinking but if you want an honest answer then this is it. I'm not really good at writing in general and I'm even worse at doing it in English so forgive me but this is also my style to expect the reader to really think with me to really understand the meaning behind my words. Loading...
Options:	Enable Slimies Enable Linkwords

« Backwards — Onwards »

Show Forum Drop Down Menu