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This may sound odd, but although neither atheist or agnostic, I do not have an established religion. I am what our guildmaster calls an "omnitheist". That is to say that I definately beleive in a creator deity, accept the existance of a soul, and certain other essential concepts beleived pretty much universally. However, I (like Kefke) hold that in assigning details to these central concepts, we have allowed them to become distorted and so lost the truth of them. Kefke says it's an omnitheist's duty to understand as many different faiths and doctrines as possible so that we can better understand the "Essential Divine Truth". As for me, I just think people fight over some amazingly trivial things. I mean, "My kind and loving creator said to kick your [explitive omitted] because you got His name/gender/geneology/features wrong." Seriously?

Not to be critical, but those seem to be merely religious philosophies. What I really want to get at are philosophies that you yourself have come up with and believe in. Although I do not mind the religious philosophy, I just want everyone to know that this is not to become a religious debate topic. Feel free to post what you believe in. Ask questions, offer insight, but please avoid arguements in here.

All things are defiantly connected, and it's explained on a scientific basis, because all things in the world evolved around each other, the revolve around each other. Even so I tend to believe there is a spiritual glue that holds it all together, so to speak.
I can share philosophy i have lots of it biggrin , but i need specific topic. I don't know how to philosophize on philosophy alone, if that makes sense.

I believe that there is no fundamental difference between science and magic. If you look for it, you can find evidence that what we call magic is simply a poorly understood scientific principle. Skeptics are simply those highly skilled and professional in their self delusion.

On the contrary, I believe that science is a primarily useful, but essentially flawed, system for understanding and influencing the way our world works. I believe that the basic premise of classifying things into set unyielding rules is doomed to failure, as there are elements in our world that cannot be reliably classified in this way. "Science" should be approached as an art, not an absolute.

It would be difficult to quantify exactly what is missing from science, particularly as by definition such things are quantifiable. As they say, "There is an exception to every rule." A bit tongue in cheek, as it is commonly understood that the rule is meant to be its own exception...which in turn means it isn't. However, the point is valid. Science relies on rules, "natural laws", to define what will and must always be. Yet there are times when the rules don't work. Which cannot be, if they are to be "rules".

One prominent example comes in the form of accounts of so called "mythical creatures". Famous these ancient accounts may be, but if one examines them logically, and with an open mind, it quickly becomes apparent that the scientific view is completely absurd. We are expected to believe that all of these creatures were purely imaginary. Yet archeologists have more than once been known to find the ruins of supposedly fictitious cities. "Extinct" animals have been known to be found alive and thriving. Most important of all, however, is the fact that in a time when mass communication was nonexistent, many of these creatures were being described by peoples that had no contact whatsoever. These tales were told worldwide...yet otherwise intelligent experts tell us that our ancestors must have all been on a collective acid trip. It's simply ridiculous!