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ORIGINAL: knees2you

Not much on satan
 

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ORIGINAL: knees2you

but I was wondering why do you believe in
what will happen to you when you leave this planet?
 

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ORIGINAL: MzMia


As a Believer I totally believe in what my fate will be.

Here are a few questions I hope someone will answer for me.
 
If you do NOT believe in GOD, who do you pray to?
Seriously, WHO are you praying to?
I mean if you are serious, who do you expect help from?
the air? the grass? satan? a rock? the man in the mirror? the man in the moon?
seriously now?

Also, why do soooooooooooooooo many people that claim NOT to believe in GOD/a higher power/etc.
when in deep sh*t or are in bad shape, say things like "Please GOD, Help me GOD, and other similar things?
 
I especially want to know who people are praying to when they do not believe in a higher power.
 
I have seen/heard people especially on HERE, that go on and on and on about saying they are not believers, there is no such thing as GOD, ad naseum...
Then I see them telling others they are praying for them.
That always floors me, I am like what?

I really, really want to know who/or what they are praying to.
Thank you.

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I know people have been talking about God, Jesus and other beliefs etc. Not much on satan,
but I was wondering why do you believe in
what will happen to you when you leave this planet?

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One person on here once told me he was going in the ground as fertilizer.
I asked him how he got here in the first place
and his response was an organism?
Not sure what that meant, but am curious your what feelings are.

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ORIGINAL: kdsub

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They could do this over and over with new experiences with each existence. So the bottom-line perhaps heaven is where we are…not where we wish to go.

Butch

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ORIGINAL: kdsub

Belief and hope are interchangeable in your context. What could be more depressing then an uncaring universe and oblivion? If that is the case then what is the use in our basic tenets? Love...honesty...self-sacrifice…charity…all that is good about us would be for not. All our good deeds would be for nothing on the universal scale. Our existence would be but a flicker of time… meaningless.

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ORIGINAL: Ialdabaoth

I believe, in the deepest parts of my heart, that I'm going to Hell. I believe the Hell is an eternity of infinite torment. I believe that "infinite torment" means just that - torment so horrendous and indescribable that nothing can possibly compare to it, that there is no way to block it out, and that every moment will feel so indescribably horrific that you will be incapable of doing anything but wishing you had never been created.

I believe this, because I was raised to believe that the Bible was the purely literal word of God.

As I continued to develop, I was taught that dinosaur bones were put in the earth to trap those who think too much. I was taught that the Earth was made to "appear" spherical, so that those who think too much would be deceived and stop placing all their faith in the holiness of God, and try to think for themselves.

I think too much.

I was told at a very early age that I think too much, and that I need to stop if I want to stay right with Jesus.

I've never been able to stop.

I hate how much I think. I hate how often I'll realize something that people don't want to admit to themselves, and I'll know that I've given away that I see it. Understandably, this doesn't make me very many friends.

I came to realize, later in life, that multiple different accounts each say they are the one true way to believe, and each of them will send you to Hell for believing the wrong one - including believing other conflicting versions of the same account. Since it's impossible for a limited being such as myself to know which one to believe, I can't simply accept that a fallible being such as myself has guessed right.

See that right there? That's called "lack of faith", and I was taught that damns you to Hell quicker than anything else.

So, no matter which way is true, I'm fucked.

I stay up late at night worrying about this.

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ORIGINAL: LotusSong

I'd rather live my life beliving in God, Heaven and Hell and die to find out they do not exist than to not believe and find out they do.

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ORIGINAL: Ialdabaoth

I believe, in the deepest parts of my heart, that I'm going to Hell. I believe the Hell is an eternity of infinite torment. I believe that "infinite torment" means just that - torment so horrendous and indescribable that nothing can possibly compare to it, that there is no way to block it out, and that every moment will feel so indescribably horrific that you will be incapable of doing anything but wishing you had never been created.

I believe this, because I was raised to believe that the Bible was the purely literal word of God.

As I continued to develop, I was taught that dinosaur bones were put in the earth to trap those who think too much. I was taught that the Earth was made to "appear" spherical, so that those who think too much would be deceived and stop placing all their faith in the holiness of God, and try to think for themselves.

I think too much.

I was told at a very early age that I think too much, and that I need to stop if I want to stay right with Jesus.

I've never been able to stop.

I hate how much I think. I hate how often I'll realize something that people don't want to admit to themselves, and I'll know that I've given away that I see it. Understandably, this doesn't make me very many friends.

I came to realize, later in life, that multiple different accounts each say they are the one true way to believe, and each of them will send you to Hell for believing the wrong one - including believing other conflicting versions of the same account. Since it's impossible for a limited being such as myself to know which one to believe, I can't simply accept that a fallible being such as myself has guessed right.

See that right there? That's called "lack of faith", and I was taught that damns you to Hell quicker than anything else.

So, no matter which way is true, I'm fucked.

I stay up late at night worrying about this.

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ORIGINAL: igor2003

Personally, I'm agnostic, and I don't pray. However, whether or not there is a God or diety of any kind I do still believe there is a certain power to prayer. How can that be? Whether created or evolved I think the human mind has many abilities that we are barely aware of or that we don't recognize or understand. Prayer, as in meditation, is simply a focusing of those mental powers and/or abilities.

When a church group gathers to pray for someone that is deathly sick, and that person experiences a "miracle" and gets well...was the prayer answered by God, or could it be that the combined mental force generated by a number of minds focused on a single thought or idea might have triggered whatever was needed for the sick individual to make a recovery?

I'm sure I don't know...but that is why I do think there is power in prayer even if I may not exactly believe in God.

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ORIGINAL: susie

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ORIGINAL: MzMia


As a Believer I totally believe in what my fate will be.

Here are a few questions I hope someone will answer for me.
 
If you do NOT believe in GOD, who do you pray to?
Seriously, WHO are you praying to?
I mean if you are serious, who do you expect help from?
the air? the grass? satan? a rock? the man in the mirror? the man in the moon?
seriously now?

Also, why do soooooooooooooooo many people that claim NOT to believe in GOD/a higher power/etc.
when in deep sh*t or are in bad shape, say things like "Please GOD, Help me GOD, and other similar things?
 
I especially want to know who people are praying to when they do not believe in a higher power.
 
I have seen/heard people especially on HERE, that go on and on and on about saying they are not believers, there is no such thing as GOD, ad naseum...
Then I see them telling others they are praying for them.
That always floors me, I am like what?

I really, really want to know who/or what they are praying to.
Thank you.

I don't pray at all. I don't believe in god or any other religious nonsense as I see it.  For me there is this life and you should make the most of it while you are alive. No afterlife just this one. I feel sorry for some of the people I have spoken to who spend much of thier time focused on what they perceive as the "next life". Make the most of this one. You never know how long you have.

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ORIGINAL: Brain
Finally, this brief video explains the beginning of the universe and it’s based on facts. By facts I mean pictures from telescopes and satellites so it’s real.
The Birth of the Universe Big Bang and Beyond
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSZqhqR5XKMhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSZqhqR5XKM

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ORIGINAL: intenze

We don't leave the universe, at least the physical part of us. All matter and energy are finite and are not created or destroyed.  When I go, the atoms that make up me will just go do something else.  In that way, we are all immortal.