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[hotmuffincake]

today christine and anna asked me if i wanted to go to church with them because they hadn't gone in weeks, and without thinking i said no thanks i don't believe in god. thats the first time i think i have ever said that. it came out so natural and without hesitation. every other time i have been asked what i believe in or whatnot, i always said

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[moloch_loveless]

religion is just another idea to fill the gaps. like in history, historians fill the empty spaces with hypothesis's. These ideas are eventually accepted as fact because we have no other explanation. which i think is how religion came about. people hate the unknown. we hate it so much that we feel the need to believe that we understand enough to piece together a pretty story; to believe that life is like a book, it has a beginning, an ending, and a purpose. we, as human beings, are quite silly. i personally believe there is no real reason to fill these gaps. But, I guess my belief that to do so is pointless is actually filling the gaps...

and i think if religion didn't exist, we wouldn't be alive today.
Let's say the absence of religion is to believe that life is pointless. If everyone believed that life was pointless, then why live? It takes a lot of energy to live. Life is quite painful most of the time. So if everyone believed that life had absolutely no point, then they would probably just kill themselves. Maybe that would be a good thing though, the stronger will survive (or at least the ones that thought there was nothing better to do that live), and we wouldn't have such a huge population problem.

Though on the other hand, atheism is a form of religion. So the absence of religion would probably be complete ignorance. I think our desire to understand (and our ability to do so, to an extent) is what separates us from other species. If we had no desire to understand all that there is to know, then we would probably be living in caves eating our own children.

philosophy is so fun.

[hotmuffincake]

it really is, because there is no right or wrong answer.

i disagree when you say if there is no religion people would kill themselves because life is pointless. i dont think most people live this life just to get to the next life. i think people live this life because they enjoy living. if there was no religion, that means nobody thinks there is life after death, so killing themselves would be pointless as well.

however, there really are infinite ways to look at it
and the "what if" outcome really is interesting to me
being able to see where you would be if you had done 1 thing different

i view life as a series of vectors coming off like branches. life is like climbing a tree but without the ability to look up.
you can always see what you have climbed up, but you cant see where your going.
and at each offshoot you have an option of which way to go without knowing which way will take you to where you want to go. most branches lead you to the same place, but some lead you in a direction you wish you hadn't gone. some branches end soon, like life, and some go on to the top of the tree, which takes you longer to climb, which gives you more time to live.