Discussion Do you believe there is a god?

[my endless blue]

So, with my SN arriving at any time, i'm thinking about a lot of my beliefs. One, of course, is the "what if there is a god". Will I suffer? Will everything be better? Will it be merciful with a suicidal?
What about you? Do you believe there is a god? A merciful one?

 

[ma0]

I was raised jewish and have been taught to believe in god but I really don't anymore.

I just think that when you die there's an eternal nothing, no afterlife or judgement.

 

[kitia973]

Personally, no. I believe that there is no continuation of consciousness in any form after death. I do not believe in the afterlife, any god, or reincarnation. When a person dies, they just cease to exist.

 

[Hollowman]

No, if there was a god I wouldn't have died inside decades ago

 

[SomewhereAlongThe]

No. "God" is not the type of being I'd ever want to be around.

 

[ijustwishtodie]

No. I used to be a muslim due to childhood indoctrination but I quickly left it due to realising how bullshit this concept of a god is. It's so obvious to me that god is just a human construct and that the rules that religion has got made by humans that agreed on a certain set of cultural norms at that time rather than a god making them. Religion is clearly too anthropogenic for me to take it seriously. I follow the evidence and, as of right now, the evidence states that death is just permanent non existence.

 

[FuneralCry]

No I just believe existence to be pointless, meaningless suffering with no deeper purpose behind it, it's all just senseless and just leads to nothingness anyway, to me existence really does just feel like a terrible tragic mistake. I find it a tragedy how this existence was even imposed, I wish I was never forced into this existence that just causes suffering all for the sake of it and problems there was never a need for at all, I see existing as just waiting to die, I see it as something so dreadful to be conscious burdened with this existence capable of suffering to unlimited extents just to be tortured by old age and die anyway.

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

there is no god , afterlife , reincarnation, multiverses, computer simulation , no soul, no spirit , no ghosts , no other dimensions.

there are millions of novels , worlds created by humans they admit are fiction which are a million times more detailed and realistic than any of the theories i mentioned above for example lord of the Rings, star wars, harry potter . 1. there is no evidence for any of that. #2 there are no details for any of that . for example for a soul what is it what is the power source for a soul? so everything needs a power source in this entropic universe but a soul doesn't , 10 of billions of souls are where and what's powering them ? see there are no answers , no details the more you think about these things the more ridiculous they seem. why hasn't the energy fields or any evidence ever been recorded for any of these things ever with all the tech , instruments , video cameras on every phone nothing.

3, there is no rational mechanism for how or why any of these things work .

4. there is no rational for why anyone would create these things like "a god created humans and souls" yeah sure for what to suffer unending constant unbearable pain why is that so important to do ?

what god or programmer would create a brain that can suffer unending constant unbearable pain? for what reason? there is none. plus there is no evidence for any programmer , god , soul etc. why are they hiding? most animals died by being eaten alive by other animals , parasites or bacteria : why create all this torture and suffering and pain for what reason? there is none . only an accident of chemistry and evolution created this torture chamber

only evolution would create constant suffering and excruciating pain. this to force the animal to take massive action to stop the pain or prevent it. each sucessive generation the animals and humans who could suffer the worst pain avoided injury , starvation etc which helped them survive longer and so had more offspring . every generation the animals and humans that could feel pain and suffering worse and worse . for example 2 animals . one feels mild pain of hunger but tired and it's very cold in the wjnd so just sits there relaxing . another animal or human feels bad pain of hunger then even though tired walks miles in cold wind and over rocks with no shoes to find and hunt food . animal / human with mild pain dies of malnutrition or starvation and has no children . animal who can feel the worst pain eats a lot , hunts constantly etc to eat and survives longer to reproduce and have offspring. our ancestors where the ones who could suffer the worst pain.

 

[maniac116]

I personally do believe in a higher being. A creator. A higher purpose & think we are here to learn something that maybe we won't realize til we die.
I believe this higher being loves us & doesn't punish. I don't really believe in the Jesus as a savior thing but am open to it.
I'm spiritual but not religious

 

[-nobodyknows-]

I do.

 

[my endless blue]

I do.

care to elaborate?

 

[slinkey10]

I do too... Its a hard concept when the world is so shit and so much suffering. Its called blind faith and part of the religious experience is believing in something i.e. God but not seeing although, I am a believer and have multiple experiences of divine intervention, dreams, direct messages from the bible where I randomly open it & it referenced the persons name I was praying about & my own name on teh next page, which is only mentioned twice in the bible - etc etc. Its a hard one to discuss in words.
See the film contact for a good explanation of having faith.

Contact (1997 American film) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[divinemistress36]

I believe there is some sort of God as energy not in religious sense. If there is it doesnt interfere with human life

 

[L'absent]

Believing in God? No, thanks. I already have enough things I can't see, like meaning and purpose in this life. If God exists, he's a terrible comedian who still hasn't figured out that life is his failed joke.

 

[yukiovos]

Even if some entity created this universe and let it be, which is not denied by evolution, it clearly doesnt matter so

brain dead = no you
Simple as that

 

[Coal54321]

Not really. I think religion is just indoctrination, but I also accept the possibility of a higher power that is currently beyond our understanding. I am open-minded but I consider myself an atheist and I think there is nothing after you die.

 

[cali22♡]

One god
Different names

 

[ShatteredSerenity]

I'm agnostic. I studied math and science for 8 years at university and I believe in logic and observation, not religion. God is a plausible hypothesis, but currently lacks convincing evidence.

If God exists, I highly doubt it's the personal God of Abrahamic religions. God may be more of a force that has brought the universe into existence and given it certain parameters to create and sustain life. It may be a form of emergent property that arises at the extremely large scale, like consciousness is an emergent property of brains. We have no way to know whether such a God "thinks" or "cares" about things like people.

Humans are blinded by our brains which can only process certain types of information, and we tend to force everything we observe to fit patterns that match our prior experience. You can see this mental breakdown happen in quantum physics, where at the extreme microscopic scale physical phenomena have properties that appear to be completely non-intuitive. We have to use advanced abstract mathematics to develop theories of quantum mechanics (and physics in general), so I would only expect that the same would be true of God.

 

[iji]

After too much suffering, I've come to realize that there's something at least spiritual about this universe. Well, there's not really an objective/empiric scientific explanation for this universe, and much of the current consensus on lambda cold dark matter will be eventually invalidated with new data etc... In the end, it's not like we can really understand reality. Science is not reality, because the scientific model requires scientific invalidation, but reality can't be invalidated. Science came from philosophy. And the saying: all models are wrong, but some are useful. I believe science (be it empirical or rational, etc) and what we think is real but as by-product/output of human existence, it didn't exist before us.

Now let's talk with God in mind... why would God create such an imperfect reality from my perspective as a human? Because he wanted to achieve something and it was possible like this. Think about it, if the laws that enable suffering etc was not here, we wouldn't be here as well as the humans we are (because suffering is part of the human experience and many other living beings on this planet). But even if you remove God from this equation, this reasoning is also valid.

I understand why people came to think about paradise, because I've come to intuitively (after living enough) that I want that, I'd like to create paradise if I could.

Not only is this universe a mystery, but also consciousness. Well, we came from something, I can't remember what it was, and what makes us will still continue to exist.

 

[avalonisburning]

If there is a god, I don't know it and I don't care to know it. It can stay over there, keep its hands to itself, and mind its own business after I'm dead. I won't pray to or worship it, and I definitely won't go to its heaven.

 

[Fire&Ash]

So, with my SN arriving at any time, i'm thinking about a lot of my beliefs. One, of course, is the "what if there is a god". Will I suffer? Will everything be better? Will it be merciful with a suicidal?
What about you? Do you believe there is a god? A merciful one?

I was raised in a conservative community that spans states and countries. I used to love God and felt good. As I got older I became angry at how I am made and neurodivergent I don't fit. I became super depressed. Everytime I prayed, I don't feel like I was answered. I feel like God is for other people now and I'm just not there. So tho I feel like there is God, I don't think God sees me. I also don't care about the afterlife anymore. I give up

 

[Shadows From Hell]

Many reasons why I don't believe in god...

Why did he give Bob a successful and happy life, and not others?

Why did he give one baby perfect health, and the other one cancer?

If he supposedly "loves all his children" why are we on this site, instead of living the dream?

The questions go on and on, and what I don't want to hear, is someone say that god works in mysterious ways. That is a crock of shit, just like his existence.

 

[Darkover]

god is an explanation for things existing we can't comprehend how something so vast and complex comes out of nothing so we say god did it
but that doesn't explain where god came from, in the end it's obvious there is no god because nothing this terrible gets created

 

[MatrixPrisoner]

God, if you are real...all I would like to say to you is...great work....really great work.

 

[brokeandbroken]

So, with my SN arriving at any time, i'm thinking about a lot of my beliefs. One, of course, is the "what if there is a god". Will I suffer? Will everything be better? Will it be merciful with a suicidal?
What about you? Do you believe there is a god? A merciful one?

I wish I could not believe in God. Whether or not he will show mercy. My guess is it depends. My assumption is some will be judged and punished harsher than others. I assume if I CTB I will be punished more than most. That said being alive without help, without really anything just on life support basically isn't exactly a reward either. So yeah i believe in God. I also believe he approaches everyone differently and treats them differently. God's infinite. He's infinitely merciful and infinitely punishing and infinitely disciplining.

 

[shrizoid]

So, with my SN arriving at any time, i'm thinking about a lot of my beliefs. One, of course, is the "what if there is a god". Will I suffer? Will everything be better? Will it be merciful with a suicidal?
What about you? Do you believe there is a god? A merciful one?

I believe that a God exists, I don't have a specific one in mind that I have total faith in however. Sometimes I'd like to think that maybe they would be merciful to somebody ctb, but the reality is probably the opposite which scares me and brings me sadness

 

[Kyotospade]

No , because no God would make such a horrible place and allow such horrible things to happen.
No , because no God would make such a horrible place and allow such horrible things to happen.
No , because no God would make such a horrible place and allow such horrible things to happen.

 

[latersaligators.]

No. You know if you look at a flock of seagulls on the beach, they all look the same right. Of course if you get up close, each one may have distinct markings etc, each individual may even have 'personality' traits the others do not. Same with humans really, we really do think we are the tits don't we, but in reality we are all the same, just like the seagulls you see. Ok, seagulls doesnt work here as a comparison but you get my point.
We might think we are special or humans are individual but you we ain't. Think of all the people that have come and gone, then think of all the people currently here and then all the people that will come after you. You are life. No different to pond scum, just life. That's all we are. We are here to reproduce, that's all. I refuse to reproduce. I will never want children. Life is just life, it wants to duplicate and keep going, it doesnt care about you and how you feel. There is no God. That's just something man made up. That's the way I see it. :)

 

[bananaolympus]

I was a hardcore atheist when i tried to kill myself i believed there was nothing just like before you were born and had no fear, i was at peace even after my survival and in my worst moments still i was an atheist, but with time i questioned my beliefs and became agnostic right now i do believe in a greater power, if is a personal god or not i don't know, i choose to believe that it is a benevolent loving being

 

[Roadrunner]

Nope, not one tiny bit.