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[envious]

Cause i'm curious and this idea has been sparked by a conversation over easter:

Should anyone be paying attention to this journal;

I want to know what you believe in.Do you believe in god

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[peke]

Do you believe in god?
- To be honest, the answer to that would have to be both yes and no. For other people? Yes. Personally? No.

Why or why not?
- I don't class myself as belonging to any one religion, so can see all religions and what they believe through neutral eyes. A lot of people say that no matter who you are and what God you believe in, it is the same person. I don't believe that. Many religions believe in more than one God, many people pray to multiple Gods at the same time. Therefore I can't believe that there is one singular God.

However, while I do respect the right for people to believe in whatever God they choose to believe in, and I do believe that that said person exists for them, I personally don't believe in any one God, nor for that matter any multiple Gods.

Do you believe in some higher power?
- It depends on what you would class as a higher power.

What is it you do believe?
- While I don't believe in one God, I do believe that someone, somewhere knows the basics of how your life is going to pan out. When you're going to be born, when you are supposed to die, what lessons you are supposed to learn during your life time and other things like that. However, I don't believe that this person has any control over your life or the events that are going to happen in it.

Why do you believe that?
- My mother is a Christian, I think privately she's a little sad that myself and my siblings don't share the same beliefs as her. They might suit her, but they don't suit me. I am not a fan of organized religion, I think it has a lot to answer for as far as problems in the world go, hence I don't class myself as falling into the category of any religion. From reading, researching and forming my own opinions on what I do and don't think is true, I've been able to understand a little more just what it is I do believe. I've never found a religion I can believe in and support one hundred percent, reading has taught me a lot about a lot of different religions and I suppose I've borrowed a little of what I believe from most of the religions I've read up on. I just haven't borrowed enough to make myself think that maybe I do fit in that one religion.

Life after death?
Yes. I'd normally leave that answer at just that, but I feel the need to expand on it a little.

I believe that from birth everyone has a set number of lessons to learn during that life time and also a set time to die, from the moment we are born our date of death is known (not to us personally, but to someone) if we die on that date and have learned all the lessons we were supposed to learn I believe you're reincarnated and go straight from one life to another. If you die before that date either due to illness or an accident, or didn't learn all the lessons you should have learned I believe you spend some time in limbo, learning the lessons you should have learned during you're life time but didn't because you died before your time (I believe that these people in limbo are the ghosts that people still see long after they've died.)

I should probably make it clear that while I do believe in reincarnation I also believe you can only be reincarnated a certain number of times, and that after you've lived every life you were supposed to live then you go to some sort of 'heaven'

Heaven and hell?
- I believe in heaven to a degree, I don't believe that there is just one heaven though. What you believe heaven to be is personal, I don't see how one heaven could adapt to suit the needs of everyone.

I don't however believe in hell. While there are evil people in the world, I believe that over the span of your life times you get what you give. Everything you give out, both good or evil is at some point in time given back to you. They cancel each other out. I don't however believe such people can make it into their personal heaven, I believe they spent the rest of their existence in limbo.

Creation or evolution?
- Evolution.

Fate?
- I believe things happen for a reason, so yes I do believe in fate. However, I also think that we have the ability to change our fate, by what we do, who we know, how we react to events and circumstances in our lives.