Religious beliefs sound like something an idiotic pothead would say

[Tokerface]

"Yeahhhh duude. So there's like, this like big scary and powerful God in the sky and he like.. knows everything. If you're bad and don't follow all of his rules, then you're like.. going to hell man, where there's like, fuckin' flames and pitchforks everywhere, maaan".

[helliotion]

The difference between cults and religions are popularity.

[Pee Vee Proots, M.D.]

Originally Posted by helliotion

The difference between cults and religions are popularity.

HOLY SHIT YOU GUYS HE FIGURED IT OUT. WE BETTER SUPPRESS THIS INFORMATION BEFORE THE REST OF THE WORLD FIGURES IT OUT TOO. GOOD GOLLY!

Jeepers, Blunder... I think you may be onto something as well!

[Retard Synrdome]

Pretty much everything ate says

[Rust]

To be fair, anything sound likes hippy bullshit if you add a bunch of "like..." and "maaaaan" and "duuudee" to it.

[TheSexyBeast821]

"Duuudeeee, there's like... no evidence for God so why should I believe in Him maaaaaaaann?"

Is way more accurate.

[p6867]

No shit.

[Obbe]

Religious beliefs sound like something that a person with a skewed perspective on life would say. Which is what it is. All of the oldest religions developed out of twisted thinking, which isn't necessarily a bad thing - for instance, civilization might never have developed without people who saw the world differently.

[Zanick]

Why would a pothead want to dream up yet another authority figure to rule their life? I'd think they smoke pot at least partially to be rid of that presence.

[Pee Vee Proots, M.D.]

Originally Posted by zanick

Why would a pothead want to dream up yet another authority figure to rule their life? I'd think they smoke pot at least partially to be rid of that presence.

>Rastafarians

[Obbe]

Don't rastafarians smoke pot to sit around and talk about stuff that people don't usually care about?

[p6867]

Don't Rastafarians believe that Haile Selassie, the former emperor of Ethiopia who sold slaves and killed many, many people, was the second coming of Christ?

[kroz]

bob marley was a nazi

[p6867]

Bob Marley doesn't care about black people.

[The real slim spud]

Bob marley done be rapin the white girl mun

*smokes reefer*

[---Beany---]

I've never heard a stoner say anything like that. ....... not even the maaaan part.

[LSDaamn]

Obama is right

[TheRascalKing]

Originally Posted by p6867

Don't Rastafarians believe that Haile Selassie, the former emperor of Ethiopia who sold slaves and killed many, many people, was the second coming of Christ?

Many people like the Italians? Ethiopians kick ass, they were the only country in Africa to resist colonialism. Greedy bastards reached their hands in, they pulled back a nub.

[DiStOrTiOn]

religion sounds more like something primitive and ignorant humans would invent to describe geo and cosmological events and to understand thoughts generated from their recently-evolved ability to think abstractly

[Dionysus]

Originally Posted by DiStOrTiOn

religion sounds more like something primitive and ignorant humans would invent to describe geo and cosmological events and to understand thoughts generated from their recently-evolved ability to think abstractly

It basically boils down to; "Do this or that and avoid this or that". Some asshole subjectively did that or this and connected it to the avoidance of something that happened after, and in his total narcissism assumed this was cosmic law. Religion is just a confusion of cause and effect, at least when it isn't a form of naked control.

[Haiti's Space Agency]

Originally Posted by TheRascalKing

Many people like the Italians? Ethiopians kick ass, they were the only country in Africa to resist colonialism. Greedy bastards reached their hands in, they pulled back a nub.

didn't they sell slaves

[TheSexyBeast821]

Religion is basically like school. You can graduate and move on to the next level of theology or you can flunk out and become an atheist.

[Gun Lover]

Originally Posted by TheSexyBeast821

Religion is basically like school. You can graduate and move on to the next level of theology or you can flunk out and become an atheist.

And the lord doth sayeth "Don't bring up that scientific evidence thing, for that is shadow knowledge"

Every one of your posts, that's about all I see.

[TheSexyBeast821]

Originally Posted by Gun Lover

And the lord doth sayeth "Don't bring up that scientific evidence thing, for that is shadow knowledge"

Every one of your posts, that's about all I see.

Science takes a purely materialistic stance on the universe, and all atheists believe that the God they disbelieve in must be a material being. Their thought process hasn't allowed for anything immaterial to exist in the universe, despite the evidence for such phenomenon that can be found in their own minds.

[Haiti's Space Agency]

Originally Posted by Gun Lover

And the lord doth sayeth "Don't bring up that scientific evidence thing, for that is shadow knowledge"

Every one of your posts, that's about all I see.

is there scientific evidence that god doesn't exist

[benny vader]

Originally Posted by TheSexyBeast821

Science takes a purely materialistic stance on the universe, .....

so tell me my wise mane .... what does science says about our universe in terms of its size, make up, whether its an finite or an infinite one ....

or is it a random or a predetermined one ?????

what materialistic stance does your science holds in regard to these ??????

and dare i mention .... dimension and quantum ???????

[TheSexyBeast821]

Originally Posted by benny vader

so tell me my wise mane .... what does science says about our universe in terms of its size, make up, whether its an finite or an infinite one ....

or is it a random or a predetermined one ?????

what materialistic stance does your science holds in regard to these ??????

and dare i mention .... dimension and quantum ???????

Tell me, what does science have to say about mystical experience besides "this or that part of your brain lights up"?

[moron]

Originally Posted by p6867

Bob Marley doesn't care about fuck all

he dead

Originally Posted by TheSexyBeast821

Tell me, what does science have to say about mystical experience besides "this or that part of your brain lights up"?

Science hasn't made definitive judgments on mystical experiences because they're incredibly complex and we don't have the tools to assess them yet. Science is based in observation, and as we are able to observe more and more the inner workings of our minds, science will have a lot more to say about mystical experiences.

I know it can be terribly unsettling to admit we don't know how some things work, but personally I find it more dependable than blind faith in a mystical father figure who apparently loves us unconditionally, but won't hesitate to punish us for eternity with infinite pain.

[moron]

*note: i don't see myself as atheist (despite my clone thread ), like you i believe we exist in a mystical universe with plenty of surprises yet to be unlocked through experimenting; science is still young and we have much to learn

i do think we're all connected, unified, in ways we cannot perceive, and that this connection is governed by a set of rules (physics is the just start of it's full description)

in that way, i almost want to say i do believe in god- god is everything

but if you say that to anyone they have too many preconcieved notions to understand my view; primarily the thought that god is an individual omnipotent being separate from one's self

i think that because we see ourselves as an isolated individual in a huge world, we imagine god as an individual, when in fact we are more connected to our surroundings than we can imagine and this entire biome we inhabit along with the entire universe comprises "god"

in summary-

[vovka351]

Pretty sure the bible was inspired by shrooms. Shrooms have existed for a long time, and they often cause hallucinations described as "spiritual".

[Obbe]

Originally Posted by vovka351

Pretty sure the bible was inspired by shrooms. Shrooms have existed for a long time, and they often cause hallucinations described as "spiritual".

Even seen the Pharmaceutic Inquisition? It is a documentary about exactly that.

[moron]

Originally Posted by vovka351

Pretty sure the bible was inspired by shrooms. Shrooms have existed for a long time, and they often cause hallucinations described as "spiritual".

also, psychedelics are important for your spiritual evolution and there's plenty of level-headed people who could gain tremendous insight from psychs....

but they don't because authorities have convinced them a sterile, comatose existence is "better" than taking chances in pursuit of a fuller perception of this reality we inhabit; the system in place plays to our fears of what could happen, so we sit around worrying doing as little as possible [read: TV] and die having never lived

[Decca]

Hm... this is will get buried in the posts, but religious beliefs are pretty broad depending on the religion. The reason they are broad is because of the different translations of the spiritual scripts.

The reason the religious beliefs may seem strange may be because of the way people represented objects or experiences in the past. A popular example is the burning bush Moses spoke with. Was Moses drugged up talking to the burning bush? We don't know. The best approach would be to take that experience figuratively rather than literally.

[TheSexyBeast821]

Originally Posted by moron

Science hasn't made definitive judgments on mystical experiences because they're incredibly complex and we don't have the tools to assess them yet. Science is based in observation, and as we are able to observe more and more the inner workings of our minds, science will have a lot more to say about mystical experiences.

I know it can be terribly unsettling to admit we don't know how some things work, but personally I find it more dependable than blind faith in a mystical father figure who apparently loves us unconditionally, but won't hesitate to punish us for eternity with infinite pain.

You are speaking of YHWH/God/Allah too literally, as if He were a humanoid father figure on some distant planet. What if He were the cosmos made conscious, and disconnecting from that idea is suffering?

[Dionysus]

Originally Posted by moron

also, psychedelics are important for your spiritual evolution and there's plenty of level-headed people who could gain tremendous insight from psychs....

but they don't because authorities have convinced them a sterile, comatose existence is "better" than taking chances in pursuit of a fuller perception of this reality we inhabit; the system in place plays to our fears of what could happen, so we sit around worrying doing as little as possible [read: TV] and die having never lived

This is a lie. Take meth and heroin for your spiritual evolution instead.

[ArmsMerchant]

Originally Posted by Tokerface

"Yeahhhh duude. So there's like, this like big scary and powerful God in the sky and he like.. knows everything. If you're bad and don't follow all of his rules, then you're like.. going to hell man, where there's like, fuckin' flames and pitchforks everywhere, maaan".

This quote is an accurate, albeit crude, exposition of fairly primitive--fundamentalistic, that is--Christian theology, such as hard-shell Baptists or maybe Evangelicals, or brain-washed Catholics.

But jeez--even Pope Paul II knew there was no such place as hell.

[Tokerface]

Originally Posted by ArmsMerchant

This quote is an accurate, albeit crude, exposition of fairly primitive--fundamentalistic, that is--Christian theology, such as hard-shell Baptists or maybe Evangelicals, or brain-washed Catholics.

But jeez--even Pope Paul II knew there was no such place as hell.

The entire idea of "hell" was created LONG after heaven, to frighten those who didn't want to follow God's word.

[Mirana]

Originally Posted by ---Beany---

I've never heard a stoner say anything like that. ....... not even the maaaan part.

You obviously haven't been brainwashed by hollywood media enough.

Get back on it like the rest of us.

[whocares]

What if God exists but just not any of the "gods" we made up?

[Mirana]

If "God" means creators.. then we're all on some reality show for an alien species. They put us all the way out here a few thousand years ago, fossils and evolution were just decoys to keep our brains busy from finding the truth after the whole religion thing stopped making sense.

To far from other habitable planets. There's a billion planets that could support life in our galaxy alone. Yet we're all the way out here....?

this is all one big fucking joke to green monsters. How do I know this? because we would do the same thing. Infact we already are.

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