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What do you believe in?
What stuff do you believe in even though you dont have evidence and are atheist? I believe in aliens and some sort of afterlife. I also believe theres a 4th density that has different laws of physics. The 4th density im talking about is not about time. I believe theres alot of stuff the universe can do that would seem supernatural. I believe in magic and supernatural like powers that humans arent capable of.
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Permalink Reply by D R Hosie on -
We already have a number of "powers," if you will, that we, as individuals and as a species, fail to adequately employ in our daily lives.
Love is one. And not just love in the sense of infatuation, but love as a visceral feeling of closeness and connectedness with another human being, other human beings - all of humanity.
Because we alienate and isolate ourselves from other people, many people can only feel this 'burning comfort' and pleasure, in communion with their imagined god. Never realizing that the source of this 'power' is actually within themselves - and that they are performing a kind of spiritual masturbation.
And society has conditioned many of us to cling so tightly to an imagined 'role,' that most women can tell you, that most men seem to almost recoil at the barest touch of this kind of emotional intimacy.
If you don't know what it is, get a cat or a dog to help open up your emotional awareness. Because, out of all the animals, it's mainly us humans that have lost touch with the ability to communicate through the use of this powerful ability.
And read my article, An Ontological Basis for the Denial of God, to help settle the question in your own mind and heart, concerning the myth that is god.
http://www.atheistnexus.org/profiles/blogs/an-ontological-argument-for
or here: http://modernatheist.org/2010/06/06/an-ontological-basis-for-the-de...
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Permalink Reply by morrison on -
meh. I am not an atheist I am an meh-ist xD, anyway I like the concept of the force nevertheless as in "It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together. "
Did I mention that I like to play around with ampere/Volt meters? It takes a while for me to do metal arithmetics so I can see the energy that my brain is using for that on the meter ^^
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Permalink Reply by Patricia Plunkett on -
I do not believe that Lee Harvey Oswald was the only shooter.
I do not believe that vaccines are good for you especially the flu vaccine.
I do believe that your government should provide health care.
On the question of supernatural I am not so sure, you have to keep an open mind.
Magic nope
Aliens yes whether they have come here or are walking among us is interesting but not factual.
I also know that animals have a kind of sixth sense, which we humans are lacking.
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Permalink Reply by Fabio on -
Considering we live in a physical universe, the notion of "supernatural" is a self-contradicting one. If a phenomenon can be perceived by us, either directly or indirectly, in this universe, then it is physical by definition. That also makes it natural by definition. There's nothing beyond nature. I believe a better label would be that of "paranormal." There are loads of paranormal phenomena in the universe, but that's simply because our notion of normality is deficient. We consider normal what we have an understanding of, which is really what makes acquiring knowledge so important.
We know life to exist on this planet, and that makes its existence a natural phenomenon. As a result, alien life is natural and possible - if not even statistically probable. Whether they have actually visited us or not, that falls within the realm of speculation. As things stand, however, we do not have the knowledge necessary to declare it an impossibility.
Afterlife is a murky notion. Do you mean a state of existence in which awareness and memories are preserved after death? Well, no, I don't believe in anything like it. The closest I can get to accepting the notion of afterlife is the acceptance that procreation means lingering on in the new generations in the form of genetic information subject to inheritance patterns. Life also consistently continues after death at an atomic level, but consciousness doesn't live to tell the tale.
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Permalink Reply by Fabio on
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I try not to elevate dictionary entries to the level of carved-in-stone dogma. The nifty thing about natural languages is that they constantly evolve and do so through use. That's why I try to push for the use of "paranormal" as a better term to describe all those phenomena that seem to deviate from our range of normal experiences.
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Permalink Reply by Fabio on
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That's certainly what most theists do when they use terms such as "religion" or "god" without bothering to give you a consistent definition. I don't think I'm doing that, however. I don't give "paranormal" a meaning it has never had just because I think it might serve the point I'm trying to make.
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Permalink Reply by Alex Catgirl on -
Aliens either exist or have existed somewhere in the universe, to believe otherwise requires an incredible amount of faith and arrogance, that we earthlings, that reside on the fringe of an unremarkable galaxy orbiting an unremarkable star, are the only form of life that exists.
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Permalink Reply by D R Hosie on
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If you include in the definition of 'alien life' to mean bacterial and other possible 'lower life forms,' yeah. To presume sentient beings also exist or have existed, not necessarily so. At the same time - even less chance. We may still present as (having been) a self-limiting / self extinguishing species.
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Permalink Reply by John Ferrigo on -
"What stuff do you believe in even though you dont have evidence and are atheist? I believe in aliens and some sort of afterlife. I also believe theres a 4th density that has different laws of physics."
A 4th what? Wow if you're trying to give ammunition to theists that atheists are ultra stupid and the opposite of scientific or just barely when they can be, you're helping take the cake big time. What the hell is a 4th density? And you believe in magic? MAGIC IS SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS FOR NO LOGICAL REASON. Ugh.
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Permalink Reply by MB on -
I believe that there is things science cannot explain.
I believe that this means our understanding of things is flawed.
I believe however that you can only make sound decisions based on what science can tell you right now.
Most of all.. I believe I'll have another beer.
MB
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Permalink Reply by Robert P on -
Ghosts and supernatural beings - There's no proof that these exist and attempts to prove them either fail or turn out to be hoaxes.
Aliens - Maybe. I don't believe that they come here and make crop circles or mutilate livestock but there may be a race of beings out there who wonder if they're alone.
Magic - No. I did back in the day when I believed in ghosts and stuff but when I stopped believing in that stuff, magic went along with it. Magic is way too random and pseudo-complicated.
Psychic powers and telekinesis - I believe that perhaps we could have natural abilities that we are unaware of or don't know how to use but only in terms of telekinesis or clairvoyance. That other stuff like seeing spirits and reading minds in crazy.
Crytozoology - I believe that some animals may be hard to find because they're new and rare but not that mainstream junk like Big Foot, Lock Ness, Yeti and Chupacabra.
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