Over the weekend, I was probably the highest I ever was. Smoked some no name BOMB ASS DANK and was takin bong rips from 7p.m. to bout 2 a.m. My friend and I were just chillin at his house layin on the couch. The T.V. wasn't not on, we were just laying there in dead silence and completely zoned out. I started thinking about how I was raised Catholic all my life and attended 13 years of Catholic schooling. I started to think about how there are so many religions and it is just by shere luck that we as individuals were born and taught a specific religion. If I could have been Muslim, a Buddhist, or a Jew. I've contradicted myself my whole life whether I really believed in Jesus. In my opinion, religions are just people's scapegoats when trying to answer that one question with an unreachable answer, "Why am I on Earth?" Don't get me wrong, I believe in some higher being, but I also believe it is not our purpose to search, answer, or even understand why we are here and how we got here. People sometimes just get too caught up in the mess of things and just need to sit back and take advantage of the things that have been given to you. ON THAT NOTE, this thread was not in any way,shape, or form meant to offend or insult anyone and any religion.
sounds like you got the right idea now bud, just think about this... our species has been around for 150,000-200,000 years... how old is christianity? catholicism? judaism? islam? none are anywhere near that old, tell u that much. wonder why. i think its just another way to control people whether they realize it or not.
i totally agree dude, i respect ANYONE with ANY religion, but my personal beliefs are that religion is a way for people to better themselves, or have a center focus in life and have that perserverence.
I agree with you. I think about these kinds of things often; how the universe came to be, how humans came to be, why we exist, why emotions exist, etc. It's great to search for answers and be curious about the meaning of things. My problem with religion is that it attempts to answer all the questions that we as humans just don't have the answers to. Religion is also man-made. I'm not going to spend my life following all the rules of a particular religion in fear of going to Hell. That's not going to make me the best person that I can be, or have the most fulfilling life. I'd rather find my own way, find my own answers, and have an open mind about what reality actually is.
Yeah, I'm with you. I think religion is generally practiced to avoid the very uncomfortable fact that life has no meaning.
Dude I am the same way. Born and raised a roman catholic. Church every sunday. Catholic school. My parents even made me be an alter server at my church. And i think about it like that too haha. I wonder if in say, 5000 yyears if any of this will even be talked about.
I disagree to a point. I think we should ask those questions and solve them for ourselves, not a religious consensus.
Ha Ha.. 5 years later I have my stoner epiphany to share.... So I was freshly stoned on some good White Widow from the Neatherlands and I was enjoying some marital bliss when all of the sudden... I'm like hey, the meaning of life is '42' and 4 + 2 = 6 and six ~= sex... OMG the meaning of life is sex! [completely lose wood (hate being close to 50)] At the time it made so much sense and even today it seems to still make some sense. The whole purpose of western religion is to control sex. And this may have made some sense 300+ years ago whan there was A LOT of consequences to doing the deed... Pregnancy, disease, etc. Now with condoms and antibiotics etc... There's really no reason why anybody shouldn't enjoy this act and give pleasure to another person. Well, anyway... A lot of things seem to point to sex (gay/bi/straight). When I'm high I LOVE to have sex, even just with myself. Probably why the [insent derogatory term here] hate weed and want to keep it illegal. Wish I was high now. Just drinking poison, oh beer! I'm just drinking beer! :-( I stop drinking alcohol when I get weed. </rant> oz
I also went to catholic school throughout my life & came to a realization which helped me break out of the box-like mindset I've been indoctrinated from birth with. I became atheist after this for a few then learned that i could still be spiritual without religion. I respect everyone's belief's but i honestly feel that christianity is just complete garbage. That's probably just because i've been raised my whole life with this religion and been going to school where i always had a class for it.
asking what religion is right is like asking which movie is right. Movies are not required to be 'right' in order to be emotionally and intellectually stimulating. Fiction as an art form, I suggest, has taught us more about our nature than has history.
Threads 5 years old FYI The fact that you are more likely to be a part of a certain religion because you live in a a particular part of the world goes to show the sheepism. It's ludicrous to not think outside your frame of mind.
This so much. Religion, at its heart, is trying to answer questions we all have about life. Why are we here? Where did we come from? etc. Unfortunately it was corrupted by man and turned out into a soulless mechanism for mass control and ridiculous profit. Just like Dumped said, we've been around for hundreds of thousands of years... if we were meant to discover our true purpose and meaning during our time in an Earthly body... don't you think all those billions of people over thousands and thousands of years would have found an answer by now?
For a while i argued for that point for quite a while, and for the most part it's true, it is a slight form of control due to our nature for trying to find some control in the world. It's almost similar to heavy believers of the illuminati and ulterior conspiracies. However, from reading some biblical scripture, i feel as though books like the Bible and Quran are more guidelines for living a fulfilling life. I don't agree with outlooks on gays and women from both books, but the spiritual teachings they each hold have some form of power over people, specifically people who yearn to have some understanding of control. Also, none are as old as mankind due to the fact that man was a monkey in the beginning; when cultures and civilizations began everything was a power struggle (land, goods, people, etc). If I were to throw my two cents in, I'd argue that religion wasn't meant to brainwash people (they do that to themselves, an extreme example being the Westboro Baptist Church) but rather it was meant to null our animalistic behaviors in an attempt to bring about a more intelligent and peaceful society.