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 Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 6:52 pm
I have a different way of viewing things. I am all about life experiences and trying to get the most out of life I can. This, in turn, affects what I believe.
So how about this? Not practicing one religion, but trying your best to practice them all in your lifetime? I don't believe in one religion because I want to practice them all and see what it's like to be a Christian, a Buddhist, anything.
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Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 9:57 pm
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Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 10:28 pm
You can't. Even in the bible, one of the commandments is: You shall have no other gods before me.
Also, I'm sure many other religions have this sort of stipulation.
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Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 10:43 pm
Self-defeating. Religions are different for a reason. Otherwise all the world religions would be just lumped together as one big religion. True each religion is a piece of the Truth but that's only part of the story. Each religion (well most are but...) is designed use the piece of the Truth to describe the Totality Truth. If there is one religion that catches your eye, I would suggest looking into it's mystical traditions. Christianity has various paths of mysticism, Judaism has the Kabbalah, Islam has the Sufism, Buddhism has it's mystical tradition, Hinduism has Yogis just to name a few but there are many others. It really helps searching in mystical traditions because it helps figure out why a particular piece of Truth was taken to describe the Truth.
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Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 2:42 pm
MissDemeter You can't. Even in the bible, one of the commandments is: You shall have no other gods before me. Also, I'm sure many other religions have this sort of stipulation. Yeah, but once she gives up a religionl, she is no longer bound to their laws. However, I have to agree it sounds chaotic.
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Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 2:52 pm
not that i'm really critisizing or anything, but that about sounds like you just pick and choose what you want out of every religion and discard the rest. that basically sounds like life in general (we all do it. nearly nobody follows their religion to a tee from pratcices to beliefs about things we deal with in the world like politics). I'm just saying.
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Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 12:01 am
I'm trying to do the same thing myself. lol. I started out Christian, but there were just way too many hypocrites in my church. I wanted to know "the enemy's" side, what satanists believed in. Well, the only info I could get was on LeVay Satanism, and they didn't sound bad at all. My curiosity extended to Wicca as well so far, with a glimpse into Taoism and Confucionism.
I'm just beginning, and it is a little chaotic, but there's definite spots where they all seem to touch. If they're completely opposite (such as Devil worshipping compared to..Christianity for example) then they tend to give their opposite a reason to exist, a view to contrast against. I once found a passage in the Bible where...I think it was Jesus speaking, stating a law of...well, magic use. It sounded a lot like the Wiccan..Um..Rule of Three I think it's called. It has since eluded me somehow, so I couldn't cite it.
Chaotic and challenging, yes. But I think it's because hardly anyone tries to do this that we have so many religions and conflicts. Makes an interesting hobby if nothing else. lol.
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 10:53 am
Just be a chaos magician. Loads easier, I promise.
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 11:04 am
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 12:49 pm
Yami_Ichi
I have a different way of viewing things. I am all about life experiences and trying to get the most out of life I can. This, in turn, affects what I believe.
So how about this? Not practicing one religion, but trying your best to practice them all in your lifetime? I don't believe in one religion because I want to practice them all and see what it's like to be a Christian, a Buddhist, anything.Thats a daring thought; of course I tried five or six before I settled. I'll pray for you. Make sure you have faith in GOD and make it a heavy anchor. When the meat is presented to you be sure to spit out the bones. The key is to search for GOD.
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 3:51 pm
What you a posing is interesting, but impossible. To truly be a member of a religion would require sincere belief and dedication to it's practices.
Wouldn't it be easier and more practical to study all religions? Then you can put the peices together and make your own. Or find one you really like and commit to it. 3nodding
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 4:17 pm
I know what you mean. Having created my own religion, I had to decide how I felt about the role of all those other religions in the world. This is what I came up with. All religions exist, and are true because there is someone who believes them to be true. Sounds like a loophole right? but its not. In order for a religion or god to exist, a person must believe with all that they are that the god or religion does exist. Attempting to try and "practice" them all is the same as attempting to learn about them all.
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Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 12:21 am
quietstorm 2 Yami_Ichi
I have a different way of viewing things. I am all about life experiences and trying to get the most out of life I can. This, in turn, affects what I believe.
So how about this? Not practicing one religion, but trying your best to practice them all in your lifetime? I don't believe in one religion because I want to practice them all and see what it's like to be a Christian, a Buddhist, anything.Thats a daring thought; of course I tried five or six before I settled. I'll pray for you. Make sure you have faith in GOD and make it a heavy anchor. When the meat is presented to you be sure to spit out the bones. The key is to search for GOD. Are you essentially telling her to just be a Christian? Maybe your god is not the god she's searching for.
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Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:37 am
Believe me. It's not as hard as it seems. =]
And for all of you who follow Christianity, I was a Christian for the better part of my life. I was raised in a home with a man who was basically a pastor. I just decided to leave and make my own path. It just seemed so full of disapproval to me, and that didn't work. I view all human beings as beautiful, so I hated how I had to say to a homosexual that they were wrong for something the couldn't help.
That's when I started to make my own beliefs. I have my own belief system. I believe that life is a journey to inner peace, and that reincarnation occurs until this point has been reached (summed up like this is sounds like Buddhism, I know, but it's not). But part of what I believe will help me achieve inner peace is to experience as much as I can, and try to change something in each life. My goal right now is to try to learn and try all religions, not to find one that fits me, but to see how others live and love it. My current project right now is that I am trying to start a campaign to stop Whaling, it's hella hard though, lol.
I have found God, but that part of my journey was over. I am not putting anything before anyone, no god before God. I am placing them on the same level. No religion is more important than another, no god is less important than another.
And, I'm not trying to bash anyone here, but there is no way to prove that any one religion is the one that is right. I spent 13 weeks when I was a Christian learning about Apologetics, a way to defend the bible. And while it did show that the bible is historically accurate to those times, and that Jesus and the prophets were in fact real people, it still leaves much to faith.
Yes, I am saying that I don't know if what I believe will actually come true. But that's what religion and beliefs are, right? Trusting what your heart is telling you is right, whether it be to worship God, Buddha, or many gods.
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Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:41 am
MissDemeter You can't. Even in the bible, one of the commandments is: You shall have no other gods before me. Also, I'm sure many other religions have this sort of stipulation.
I'm not putting any god before another, they are all on the same level to me. No god is more important than another god. Sure, may say it's impossible. But it's not in my eyes.
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