I believe there's something like that but I don't know what it is. I was a computer programmer for 40+ years and came to believe in only a little of what you see and none of what you couldn't confirm. The computer field is so filled with virtual this and pseudo that that you'd go crazy trying to deal with it unless you could take a few things as given. So I became a confirmed skeptic or agnostic. If I can't see it for myself it doesn't exist.
Now, I have a son whose 33 now but when he was a teenager he attempted to take his own life by drinking antifreeze. The doctors had to put him in a coma to administer drugs and breathe for him (he's also a chronic asthmatic). After 3 days they took us aside and began preparing us for the bad news that his health was failing and at the least would require a kidney transplant and that he wasn't responding to treatment (in other words he was gonna die). My wife, who is as religious as I am not, contacted prayer groups and churches to ask them to pray for my son and intercede on his behalf. After a week my son was out of the coma and his main doctor took us aside and said my son was doing very well and would likely survive. Then he said a peculiar thing. He asked if we were religious people or did we pray? My wife told him that yes, she was and I didn't reveal that I also had. He nodded and said that must be it then. He said they did nothing that would account for his recovery, that the drugs they had given him weren't producing the expected results and there was no reason they could see that would account for his recovery. One other thing was that his asthma, which was so bad he required a breathing machine at home and for years had to be home-schooled because of it, was gone. The doctor told us in the medical field it isn't generally known but that sometimes a person spontaneously responds to treatment or recovers when there is no known reason. That's why he asked if we prayed because he could see no other reason for it.
That's why I say I can't prove it but there is something there.
... so the body never goes into remission without drugs or doctor interference? Not trying to be rude, but even if we assume the drugs the doctors were giving him were doing absolutely nothing, there are answers other than religion. To give you my own story, when I was 13, my grandfather had a really bad heart attack and ended being put into a coma by the doctors, they thought he wouldn't make it, yet when they pulled the plug, he came back on his own. The human body does astounding and surprising things sometimes.
As for the doctor commenting on it, he is probably religious too. Christianity is one of the largest religions currently, so the statistical chances of such a thing are quite high.
Finally, I'd like to point out that it is fallacious to believe something because you can't see any other reason for it. Just as it would be fallacious for a detective to label the butler as guilty of murdering his employer, simply because he doesn't see any other explanation. The fact that you don't have any other suspects does not make the butler guilty, likewise, having no good explanation for how your son recovered does not mean God did it (God, or whatever supernatural explanation you prefer, like fairies, or spirits, or a special healing energy that flows through the world causing seemingly inexplicable recoveries, etc.).
I do believe in a god and follow a religion partially. A lot of the suffering on this world is caused by humans. Animals becoming extinct is thanks to humans destroying habitats and hunting them for their body parts. Children starving and dying in parts of the world is thanks to wars, corrupt politicians and the world's wealth being held by the top 1%.
I don't. I have several reasons why I don't, but most notably, I can't understand what God would allow people to suffer in such gruesome ways. Babies dying in microwaves or being left in cars to die from heat, children being raped by countless of priests, people being raped in general, innocent people being tortured, people dying from starvation, etc.
We generally say we are part of God's greater plan, so what does this mean? Did the others serve their purpose and no longer necessary to God's plan? Was their entire purpose to be raped? Why allow deaths to be carried out in horrific fashion? Why does God have a plan to begin with when he was powerful enough to create the universe? Couldn't he create the world in the image of the end goal of his plan? Why allow us to suffer along the way? To grow stronger? Is that the excuse we'll settle with for why innocent people die and suffer every day? What did they do to deserve this? Do they not matter? If God is all-powerful and takes care of us, why can't He care for them?
I just can't :/ I'm not even scratching the surface for my reasons of not believing in God, but as of yet, no one has offered any form of rational answer to these basic questions.
Yes, people say there is no god. I think they are fools, there is something. It wouldn't be a being, it would be something beyond our weak language of the word "being". We couldn't understand it, like ants can't understand humans, no more like they can't understand our universe. I don't know why people try to question such things, it is beyond us. But there is design in nature, can't be a coincidence right? Like we got 1 sun for the day, a moon at night, clear liquid that keeps us alive, its weird and our planet is way too lucky.
Currently no, but I’m open to any ideas that sound plausible and have good reason/evidence attached them. I think there might be some higher being somewhere within the cosmos, but I’m not sure if this higher being is a they, it, he, she, etc. Maybe it’s not human, but something else? Maybe it’s something inanimate and lifeless and we spawned from it. Somewhere along the line, inanimate/lifeless chemistry became organic chemistry. So, in other words, we as humans could’ve come from something lifeless.
Yes there might be someone at least if not gods then people like us but more advanced who helped us in ancient times to understand the basic knowledge and science , because the progress we have made being an animal is impressive , yea meanwhile in hinduism we have many gods and their proofs are all around india , so you can call them advance species or something similar to it which came to earth from time to time in different names and looks
I dont believe in a god but i believe that mother nature created us and sustains us. She is the higher power, but she doesn't control. She lets people live life the way they please, but they will suffer karma if they wrong others.
If a higher being was taking care of us then things like innocent children being kidnapped and raped wouldn’t happen.
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Yes, the proof is all around us and inside us. The “world” wants us to believe only in what we can see, hear, touch, feel, taste, smell, or can conceive through reason. Look beyond the “world” and man’s religions and you will find all the proof you need.
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"higher" being as in a god, no. "higher" as in some civilization that is more advanced than us and maybe even monitoring us, yeah that's possible to me.
I've been debating this with myself for awhile and honestly I don't know how to answer this. Mainly because I don't know what I believe in. There are times where I do indeed beleive in one and there are times where I don't and I'm stuck...
Not in particular. But I started to find interest in slavic Paganism, Religion of my people before Christians converted the weak and killed the strong pagans.
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I don't believe in a higher being. I simply know that He exists and should be recognised as the Creator of the universe. Life would be impossible without Him and, even if possible, purposeless.
Exept "healthy" logic would also require an answer to where this briliant brain came from and evidence supporting such a thing exist, you lack both. All you have is an empty claim, and you thinking it makes sense. But the truth does not nessesarely make sense.
@Arne123123: God can't have a creator since He is the creator. And don't ask me to understand the mind of a God because God isn't human nor can anyone human possibly understand a deity.
He is the creator, is an empty claim. And we can't understand is a cheap cop out, another claim with no evidence. Try providing proof or anything even indicating the things you believe are true instead of making up more unsuported claims, as if that does anything.
It doesn't make me happy, but i don't just walk around believing anything that makes me happy (unlike you?). I want my understanding of reality to be as close to reality as possible, so that i can make better decisions.
Yes, I think there is, but he loves some and hates all...
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Nah too many animals get tortured so I'm on the fence right now. Higher being I guess so, but God and what the Bible and religion makes him out to be I don't know, I really really just don't know.
Nothing seems to indicate such a thing exist. All arguments for such a thing are (as far as i have found) fallacius with no supporting evidence. As such, im not convinced god claims are true.
If there is a higher being taking care of me then they are doing a banged up job and i should sue them! Better yet whats the complaint number i have a lot they need to fix. In other words no I don't.
@MrMansonsPocketPssy if you want to break it down. In my heart of hearts I dont believe in a higher power but I concede there is no way to prove it one way or the other. So I vary between calling myself an atheist or agnostic.
@Liam_Hayden Kinda funny how theists always make this argument, as if their made up god solves the problem of something creating itself or always existing.
Nope. It is of logical necessity. Unless one believes in the irrationality of either self-creation or of infinite regress, something or someone logically began it all. To call one who believes the logical "ignorant" is itself teh height of ignorance.
@Liam_Hayden That's like the exact same with a fancy word. You either belive god created himself or always existed, you're not solving the problem, you're just moving it one step back and pretending making unsupported claims explain anything. While we actually accept that we don't the information to answer this question to any certainty, if you wanna solve it by sticking a god in there, that god claim needs actual evidence indicating that's the correct answer not you simply claiming it's true and nessesary over and over while nothing indicate it's true.
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