But I wasn't talking about just following religion. I was referring to people who are deeply immersed in their religion and know the history and terms quite well.

That's called being analytical or wise. They aren't the same thing.

I can agree. There is more than what meets the eye. ~

The only reason why you probably had one in the first place was because you were thinking fearful things. Just wanted to point that out.

You could be considered a hippy of the '70s, but modern hippies are new-agers, usually. The terms are interchangeable now.

intelligence, we can all agree is book knowledge. If I have spent years studying anything concerned with religion, I could be considered intelligent in those regards.

That only depends on which God you're talking about. ~

That is exactly why spiritualists like myself only find "God" (if you really want to call it that) a manifestation of unity consciousness. Nothing more, nothing less. Sometimes people make things harder than they're supposed to be.

I just think our whole expectation and concept of God is out of whack, causing us to believe or disbelieve in something out of our comprehension. If God does exist, the facts of it's existence is altered by man anyway. There's no definite way to know. Materialism is like a form of faith...people put every ounce of belief in it without questioning a thing.

Money is like vegan products...it's a substitute that just can't add up to the real thing. You can't buy love, or happiness. Money is unnecessary,yet we lose sight of what it really is -- paper, and only blind ourselves because we know in this world, and in this "system" we have, it is very difficult to live without money, but not impossible -- hell, we did it at the beginning of time, didn't we?

It's not that I agree with beauty pageants at a young age, reason is the child could develop a reliance on makeup. On the other hand, it can boost self esteem, so it's kind of an opinion thing

I do get what you mean, I just don't agree. Life is full of many lessons, not just one.

I refuse to even confront mine, so if you'd like to call that "snuggling" so be it.

Saying it will never happen is like saying we'll never be able to time travel. With this coming age, I still carry hope for humanity

Pride. ~

An intent. Intents rarely follow through exactly as planned, because other lifeforms have their own agenda, and would collide with yours, in some way, shape or form. You could say intents are freely thought through, but not necessarily acted out physically as you would have thought. The answer to your question is yes and no. Some people allow themselves to be manipulated by influences that make it seem like it was determined beforehand, like religious people, while some take advantage of their superiority (parents) and decide to engage their child in an arranged marriage. Circumstances change all the time, so intents can, but assuming we are talking in past tense, I cannot claim anything that has happened or will happen is predetermined but I guess with using merely logic, I will say my intents and your intents coexistent and change constantly.

Ask me to clarify if my analogies are confusing

Best creepy womanizer in the existence of mankind. Oh and his death was epic.

Surely you would run into the argument in which the origin of life is taught if you wanted to know the origin of species. However, I do see where you come from

I don't think we have complete free will, or at least what we would call "free will." Some things happen because they were determined beforehand and some things go as we will it. This does not have to be a spiritual statement

A virus or mother nature. And I find that amusing personally

I wish there was a choice where I could say it just "is" because I feel describing something as heaven or hell only causes you to label something that is much more complex than "heaven" or "hell" just like no one would like to be called a good person, or a bad person. We simply "are"

Jesus, according to Christianity is the flesh version of God, "the son" though I would say "the sun" seeing how his "birthday" correlates with the winter solstice, and the sun rising.

It's supposed to, actually, otherwise the other choice would be creationism. Is there a theory of creation? No.

There is proof for evolution, I will not deny that. But evolution only tells HOW humanity and other creatures evolve, not ORIGIN or anything else on that matter. That's what bothers about this theory.

If the person feels heroic in doing that, then the aftermath would be guilt. However, if something like that is done out of love, feelings of peace should overpower the guilt

I believe in neither, but if I'm living my entire life kissing Jesus' ass, there is no point in hoping I will go to either, especially when it's possible they're not real

I would probably slap some sense into everyone that thinks I favor certain humans over others, and the ones that don't follow my "rules" die and rot in hell.

Ultimately, yes. One can gather the will to be happy, but it's hard. Nothing is responsible for your happiness, only you are.

There are more opportunities to lie for, so yes. *

No one would let that happen. Cookies are valued and much appreciated everywhere

No...I don't see how talking animals could not keep them in a need of a good home...especially if they were abused by their previous owner

They shouldn't be, if the teenager consented. However, there are many cases where men can take advantage of these girls, for not even knowing what real love is and vice versa. But I must disagree. During the Victorian Era, fifteen year old girls were wed to thirty year old men, and had children by them by their early twenties. Today, teen girls run off all time with men in college, overall, I see no problem with it, as long as the relationship is not pressured or literally...rape itself

I'm not a big fan of cake anyway, but I'd like strawberry shortcake better

That is interesting. I'm sure if you referred to it as "lucid dreaming" instead of an out of body experience aka astral projection, people are more likely to believe you because lucid dreaming is proven

This is because there are various definitions for words - if they are or not similar at all

I've almost split consciousness via sleep paralysis - it was spontaneous and it scared me. However, those are just words and you have no way of knowing my truthfulness, so it's best something like that be experienced personally

The Bible is total BS imo so I support homosexuals. My cousin is gay, and I love him all the more

I am crazy about cryptozoology. My favorite is mothman. I'm tired of hearing about Bigfoot and nessie. I like the less heard about ones.

You mean like native? Sure. I hate the whole country thing. We are all natives of earth ;)

A God wouldn't be loving if it existed, because I highly doubt a God would have any feelings at all

I wouldn't call it exactly pleasurable but yes. They still stimulate one another's sexual organs, which I believe how sex is defined

And look how that turned out. We ended up killing half the Natives and forced them into reservations. We hardly treat fellow humans well, so how do you think we would react to an extraterrestrial race? I think they see this, and keep themselves concealed enough to where we cannot verify the Earth has been visited by aliens. It would turn out on the news rather "Earth is being invaded by aliens" rather than "A nice alien species wants to meet humanity"

That wouldn't be fair if they went to Heaven either, considering they did nothing to praise God, or follow the Bible in any way. Of course they might praise THEIR God, (Brahma, Allah, Buddha, the Creator) but it wouldn't be your Christian God. So tell me, if a Tibetan Buddhist was raised a Tibetan Buddhist, and died a Tibetan Buddhist, how would it be fair if they went to Heaven or Hell? Or who's to say their God isn't correct?

Judging by what you just put, I can assume you know little about reincarnation or how it works. "Reincarnation" is to incarnate again, meaning being reborn in a different body - and from my knowledge, the incarnation comes with no recollection of previous incarnations

In America, we have 6, sometimes 7 courses, that include 5 or six mandatory, and 1 or 2 electives. Wow.

I'm to agree, since a great example is my family. Mother believes atheists have no morality rolls eyes. When I was religious and now, I have and had no problem with atheists besides the fact they group me with Christians

Sure, why not. A visit won't hurt. *

Only for religious schools. ~

I don't believe a "loving" God would damn his children to Hell for all eternity just because they messed up in life. We are all imperfect creatures, and deserve to learn from our mistakes.

That's why I believe in reincarnation, (not that I wouldn't mind an eternal darkness, it just doesn't quite make sense to me) because I strongly believe some part of us does live on after death. I think that once we die, our souls pass through into the "otherworld" or an afterlife, to go through karmic debts paid, and new debt to go. The afterlife is like a paradise, a vacation if you will. And once you are ready to incarnate into your next life, all "wrongdoings" in your previous life will result in issues in your next life. Lessons that you need to learn from in order to grow spiritually

Wonder who's taking over as next president. ~

We live in a thing called timespace, or 3rd/4th dimensional reality. Time doesn't really exist, in a sense that we must use numbers to measure. Time is just something that is constantly moving forward, without start or without end, and space gives time a platform to measure out how long something has been

Despite the talk about new-age stuff, it's still important for children to learn to open up their minds and be creative as well as relaxed and stress free. I feel in school often, children are taught to grow up too fast, just to keep up with the world around them. Learning techniques as to how to stay positive in life, and to manifest your reality will make a big difference.

In some schools they already teach yoga and Tai Chi. When I was in 8th grade, in home economics, we would drink tea and do Tai Chi every Tuesday. It was great, and everyone enjoyed it. Its not religion, it doesn't have to be, since there are proven scientific ways to release stress and open up your mind with your body

My reason for believing we have been visited once before is similar to the theory many "ancient alien theorists" come up with. We were always a interdependent world, but since in history we hadn't developed faster ways to import goods, being "interdependent" was not a reliable option, and we came up with different ways to survive. Assuming that alien civilizations have much more advanced technology than we do, they could have easily come here to guide us as a new species until they thought we didn't need help anymore. Or they were curious, just as we are about other life out there. Asking why "they would want to come here" is a self-explanatory question, since I'm sure we would do the same if we could.

Another thing I would like to note is the Roswell incident and the amount of UFO sightings that have seemingly occurred since ancient time. Columbus, in one of his journals, described a bright moving light over the night sky, and something that could be interpreted as a "UFO" or alien spacecraft could also be read in the bible. This phenomenon isn't new, yet any conclusive evidence was probably hidden or kept secret (go figure) so we would be totally unaware of what is really happening around us. I'd like someone to give me a good reason why, we should trust the government, if that's any more of a reason to believe that if something modern and unexplained occurred in Roswell or any place else, it was covered up.

I was talking to a therapist for a few months, but that didn't help much. It was in fact, probably making it worse for me.

They're okay. But I prefer one pieces because I'm modest. :x

Some people can take their knowledge on something and turn it into truth. I'd like somebody to descriptively define "truth" and then tell me in essence, truth is only our perception of reality which we process through our consciousness (or brains) individually

I don't really want to live to be honest. Without going into my whole life story I am prone to severe depression, and only a feeling that I'm "here" with some purpose, big or small, drives me. Hopefully, one day with that, it will get better.

Old because it comes in a glass bottle. Glass has an elegant quality to it, that makes me feel like my drink was handled with care. Aluminum looks cheap

Keep your eyes open, then. ;)

Fair enough ;)

Nope he isn't. That's why our world is like it is today. But I guess if it were all rainbows and unicorns it would be boring

"In England we have a higher average IQ than in America."

Where's that statistic.

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"That accounts for the most obese country in the world."

Actually, I'll have you know the American Samoa is. 95% of their population is obese.

"That's not really an achievement."

And black pudding, jellied eel, and pork pie are?!?!?! Lol. Nobody knows what those things are, let alone eat it. You eat potato chips or CRISPS do you not? Stop pretending you don't.

"But the discrimination posed by slavery indicates less intelligence."

HUMANS discriminate, not just us. I don't know any country that doesn't hold a certain amount or racism as a whole.

I'm not going to comment on the "clever" argument since that depends entirely on the person. Both places offer good education. And Americans and the English (used instead of British by the ignorant although they're entirely different --->"British" irks me) both have their charm. But since I'm American, of course I'm going to defend us in regards of what makes us so amazing as a nation.

1. We have a vast amount of culture. Our past of slavery and hypocrisy isn't something we should be proud of but the diversity of our nation through immigration and whatnot! Wow!

2. We invented blues, and rock n roll

3. We invented refrigerators

4. We invented potato chips

5. We invented the radio.

6. We invented the flashlight

7. We invented video games

8. We invented sunglasses

9. We invented the microwave

10. We invented internet

11. We invented cable television

12. We invented toilet paper

13. We invented frozen dinners

14. We invented ipods and apple

15. We invented BBQ

16. Delivery Pizza

You were saying?

How do you know that junk DNA is completely useless? ?

"All laws in mathematics are made the same way scientific laws are made."

True and not true.

Little is ever proposed in math as a theory, and that is why we follow these laws because they are proposed to be true.

"Science technically always includes math."

Advanced sciences require some use of math.

Rap is more like poetry with a tuneless beat behind it. ,

That extraterrestrials came to interbred with the less evolved humans. It was sort of an experiment to see if we could find ourselves on our own again without relying on outside forces to carry us all the way. That's why most of our human DNA code is unknown, but we call it "junk DNA"

I think I love you. .

Well I guess she's a prostitute........................................................................

I hate math. It teaches you to interpret nearly everything through numbers, which is man-made and fundamentally unnecessary. Science is man-made too, and does sometimes include math, but its less restricted and not given laws just because someone thought that's what's best suitable

Yes. Even if something happens, like an asteroid crashing, we still would have had it coming

No. What's wrong with being healthy?

Of course, you need to make sure the child gets all the nutrients he or she needs. I don't see how that would be a problem. Do you know drugged up how highly processed meats and dairy products are. No thank you.

I would leave it until their older to decide what they eat, but I think it's up to the parents to get your kid(s) in good eating habits

Not if they don't come to the realization that they were being brainwashed

Very true, that. I think a new-ager, such as myself would typically just acknowledge the existence of a source/Creator because we believe in oneness, and if we all realized that, God would have proven itself. A ridiculous notion to most, but a paradox. ^_^''

You don't have to claim to a God exists or not if you are agnostic. Its the reason why you are called agnostic is because you don't know. However, most people do carry a belief/disbelief in a deity that is, discluding infants. They do not claim for a deity to exist/not exist nor do they believe/disbelieve

The government, trying to program fear and false truths into our head with advertising (subliminal messages) and personally, people everyday try to push their religion or beliefs on me, with no way to prove their points

Cats are extremely smart, less difficult to take care of, and they are fun!

Tea is healthier, and you don't need to put a whole lot of sugar in it. Plus, there are many flavors

We are, in a sense. We aren't alien to ourselves, at least not full-heartedly. But to a different species, we could be alien to them, as they are alien to us. Primarily because we fear the unknown.

This is why I don't like the word alien because it can just be used to describe something that isn't normal to you

A simple answer is yes.

These kinds of things come from opinion, so I feel just because something like that hasn't been recognized by science does not mean it's not real.

It also depends on the way you percieve God. If I were to say "God" is simply us and our consciousness, could that be proven easier? Yes.

We always make things more complicated than they are, considering we are humans and we seek hope, truth and knowledge

"What would you call that?"

Well I would say agnostic. Last time I checked, Atheists become Atheists because of their rejection of a deity existing. Not because they have no knowledge of a deity whatsoever to make that decision. And what I meant by spiritual is the contentment with physical reality, not enough brain capacity to analyze these things. Of course, I could bring up the study that infants and toddlers naturally believe in things that aren't there to the physical eye, but I am not well informed on this. Decide for yourself whether that can be possible or not

I can "not be a theist" and be just agnostic. Not choosing religion doesn't by default make me an atheist

I could still argue that we also "lack" rejection or disbelief in God. Infants are rather spiritual beings, for that reason. Calling an infant an atheist simply because it is not a theist is a laughable query

Your sources yet again tell me nothing, and I havent seen the word "lacking" anywhere in the definition for disbelief. Please specify the objective of your argument in the first place if you cannot find an official meaning for a word?

Edit: People make up their own definitions for words all the time, whether its because they are ignorant or in denial. Who am I not to say that the definition isn't official, but accepted among a certain amount of people because it suits the circumstances?

"Lacking" is having little of something. "Little" belief is not the same as having no belief at all, and in fact makes no sense.

Also "disbelief" according to the mirriam Webster dictionary (once again) means "mental rejection of something as untrue."

Grab one if you don't believe me, otherwise hush up because you have nothing to back up your statements

You done?............................................................?

Both, actually, darling. .

Anime. The art of cartoons is atrocious. I love anime because they are spoken in beautiful Japanese, have better story lines. Plus, horror, comedy, action and romance are much better in anime! You can't get any better than that

Sex is supposed to be a deep share of affection between two people who KNOW what love is. Nowadays sex is taken lightly and humans have taken it to a disgusting extreme. Lust was always around, so I can't argue with that. But the popularization of porn - videos of other people having sex is not normal to me. Neither is child rape for obvious reasons.

Sometimes we succumb to pleasure don't we? -_-

That's a sick question.........................................................................................

I judge, much of the time, just not in way most would think.

Judge of character, not judging based on my ego.

I also judge distance, time, and events that I believe to be happening.

I hardly judge a person I hardly know, more or less ones I take the time to know, based on the circumstance. But most of the time I take the saying "it is what is" and apply it myself.

I wouldnt like to be judged by someone that hardly knows me especially negatively unless that person is trying to analyze characteristics with knowing and experiencing, not the ego.

Yes, it can. Psychology is part of science, and why people think they way they do, which morality takes a big part in

No, because sperm are alive, and as soon as they fertilize the egg, life begins

I feel mixed feelings with this. I'm not against gay marriage at all, I feel it is a beautiful thing to love whoever you want. But for the kid, it would be...weird? Think about how much they could get picked on in school. I just don't think that's a good idea

No. Most philosophy is healthy and stimulates the brain if you will. Nothing necessarily factual, but not wrong either

Apologies - however, most debates do come with a certain conclusion. As a human, I would hate to be in doubt about my own opinions constantly, even if the conclusion I have reached is not logical