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I think "Dogma" expresses my view on beliefs the best:
"Humanity took a good idea and, like always, built a belief structure on it... I think it's better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life should malleable and progressive; working from idea to idea permits that. Beliefs anchor you to certain points and limit growth; new ideas can't generate. Life becomes stagnant." I enjoy learning about other religions and their beliefs, but I don't embrace any single one. I do like to think their is a God out there though, and an afterlife. It makes me happier to think so.
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exactly... and pretty much impossible to follow 100% i think it's possible to be interested in buddhism and strive to follow some of what it attempts to teach .. but i laugh when people say they are buddhists ...
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So would the Buddha, who basically stated himself that he was not to be worshipped and that Buddhism was only a means of philosophical conveyance.
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but like any form of belief ...people got involved, made rules for it and fucked it up - just like anything else that was started with good intentions.
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I believe in God.
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10-14-2008, 06:55 AM
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I mean, performing atrocities to get into heaven is pretty stupid, but doing it for inner peace? What?!
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10-14-2008, 08:12 AM
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God, huh?
Which one?
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10-14-2008, 08:16 AM
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Its funny calling your Deity "God" is like calling Earth "Planet" or the US as "Country", its ridiculously exclusionary.
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