Lounge Survey: Do you believe in God?

[DARKSEID]

The most beautiful and spiritual thing I have ever experienced was during this one mushroom trip. When the trip climaxed I tilted my head back and I felt all perception and sensation, feeling, sight and sound everything being washed away, as if everything I have ever known and experienced and perceived was just an illusion.

I entered this space of eternal white stillness. When you think of death you think of black nothingness. This felt like the opposite, it was pure endless white light. I was no longer myself. My identity and individuality was gone, I was dead. Everything was white, everything was still, everything was eternal. There was no judgement there was no pain there was no noise there was no weight. There were no boundaries to anything. I was endless and I was nothing at the same time.

It was so profoundly beautiful that I could cry thinking about it. I remember my conceptualizing of the experience at the time was "so this is what death is, all the pain and darkness and sorrow didn't mean anything, it's all over now, there is only peace"

[BrometheusBob.]

i acknowledge dem ******* (the real ones).

seriously, a person should assume theres a life after death.....just in case.

the need to have all the answers or be too prideful to believe in something greater than man will cost a person dearly.

us humans will never learn, pride is the enemy.

I don't know, for me it's not that easy. I couldn't create genuine faith in something I don't believe in just by sheer force of will.

[Elroy The Great]

My parents are extremely religious as Catholics and they tell me that people who dont believe in God will go to hell. Lol

Answer this.. i know two kinds of people in this world.

The first ones are the types that go to church every sunday and preach about jesus every chance they get but once they are out of church, they do the most scandelous things to other people, take away from other people, they do the opposite of what they Are supposed to do as god fearing people.

Another type are the ones who dont go to church, they dont believe in God yet they live righteously and have the kindest heart.

Which group goes to heaven?

the honest heart i suppose.

however, according to the good book, god doesnt turn anyone away if they ask for forgiveness. meaning, if hitler truly repented, he could be up there having a good ol time.

[GGG Gloveking]

I just find it very hard to believe that all of this is random, that there is no intelligent design to the universe.

[Elroy The Great]

I don't know, for me it's not that easy. I couldn't create genuine faith in something I don't believe in just by sheer force of will.

then the 1st question is, why dont you believe and go from there ?

its a tricky situation but i cant imagine anything more important. we cant see it now because we think we have so much time. that poor 19 y/o girl thought she had all the time in the world.

doesnt even have to be that drastic. just think how fast the 00's went by. its almost 2020. before we know it, we will be at that crucial moment when we tell out pride to fnck off and start asking ''someone'' for forgiveness. to seriously contemplate whether or not there is a hell.

what would it take for you to believe ?

[Last Roman]

I believe God is a five and a half foot Ukrainian man.

[Shaolin Sword]

I just find it very hard to believe that all of this is random, that there is no intelligent design to the universe.

Who designed the intelligent designer?

[JAB5239]

Who designed the intelligent designer?

That is beyond our comprehension. We are just ants in an ant farm. The question of who or how everything was created will never be fully explained through religion or science. We MAY find answers in the after life. If we we don't there is no harm nor foul either way. It is what it is.

[GGG Gloveking]

Who designed the intelligent designer?

Good question. I don't have an answer, but that doesn't mean I'll discount my belief that the world, universe, etc was intelligently designed. It doesn't make sense to me for everything, with the way everything works together in harmony, to be just a sequence of random occurances.

[GhostofDempsey]

I believe that somewhere in the universe there is likely something more highly advanced, intelligent (just read through this thread for proof) and for the most part benign, that is clearly taking a hands-off approach to this whole God concept. Too much pain, suffering and misery in the world to believe there is a God who is all forgiving yet you can still go to hell. Too many contradictions for me to buy into it. The notion that you can pray to God and somehow you will be shown favoritism over that starving child in Africa or bludgeoned **** victim in Afghanistan seems not only delusional but arrogant.

It's just like Karma. People who believe in Karma only believe it works when someone is a bad person. So you do enough bad in the world and something eventually bad happens to you as punishment? How about all the good some people do and never receive the reward? Shouldn't Karma work both ways? It's all nonsense to me.