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  • 26-11-2010 1:36am
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    gfgfgf14
    Registered Users Posts: 95 ✭✭


    I consider myself to be against religion...but im totally for spirituality.I believe that life is too complex just to end or is it???.....I am not afraid of death cause theremay bean afterlife...if there is none....you still win....you wont be able to think anymore,feek the fear of death or what happens next?.....Anyone feel like me?


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    Galvasean
    Registered Users Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    An agnostic? A deist?

    Do you believe in a sort of god?


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    mikhail
    Registered Users Posts: 3,863 ✭✭✭mikhail


    Deist is probably the term you'll be given here. In public, "spiritual" will probably suffice.


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    gfgfgf14
    Registered Users Posts: 95 ✭✭gfgfgf14


    I believe in something i just dontknow what....i want to believe in life after death


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    ColmDawson
    Registered Users Posts: 1,001 ✭✭✭ColmDawson


    gfgfgf14 wrote: »
    I believe in something i just dontknow what....i want to believe in life after death
    You know that wanting to believe in something doesn't make it true, right?


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    gfgfgf14
    Registered Users Posts: 95 ✭✭gfgfgf14


    yeah,i do.there is no proof that it is true nor proof that it isn't.what do you believe?


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    Improbable
    Registered Users Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭Improbable


    If you don't need organised religion, then you sound like a deist. If you think organised religion is a bad thing, you might be an antitheist (depending on how you define it).

    But the most likely answer is that you're just not sure what you believe.


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    Zillah
    Registered Users Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    You're ambiguously confused.


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    bnt
    Registered Users Posts: 12,957 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    You don't have to accept a label if you don't want to, of course, but they're important as shorthand when talking to other people. I think it's more important to be clear and consistent about your beliefs (or lack thereof) before you worry about what to call it. Whatever you believe: what's the evidence for that?

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



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    hiorta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 457 ✭✭hiorta


    You just are.
    Do you need any wee label?


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    [Deleted User]
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    You don't sound like a deist to me; belief in an afterlife doesn't necessitate belief that a deity had a hand in the origin of the universe.

    I suppose you should settle for the term 'spiritual' if you really want to label yourself.

    I hate that word. :(

    Remember that if you don't believe in any god (even if you don't assert that there is no god) then you are also an atheist.


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    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    You're an optimistic agnostic, in my book. :)


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    ChocolateSauce
    Registered Users Posts: 2,892 ✭✭✭ChocolateSauce


    It sounds to me that you just don't like organised religion and what it does/what people do in its name, which is an eminently reasonable position to take IMO.

    It is impossible to know for sure "the answer", as it were, and it is also true that wishing something to be real doesn't make it so. I say just keep a healthy dose of scepticism and go through life wondering.


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