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What's your opinion on free will?

I am religious and believe in free will
- 71 (27.7%)
I am religious and do not believe in free will
- 10 (3.9%)
I am not religious and believe in free will
- 114 (44.5%)
I am not religious and do not believe in free will
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Author Topic: Railgun and Spirituality Discussion  (Read 685281 times)

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Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: Everyone's a Coptic in Their Own Way
« Reply #4965 on: January 27, 2016, 09:58:16 pm »

Eh. I can see some ways death is important. Not good, necessarily, mind you, just important. People get set in their ways. If no one died of old age/disease, well, progress would be stifled, to put it lightly(war would probably be significantly more common). More and more the longer time goes on.

Immortality requires responsibility. Doesn't mean I don't want it, just means that everyone suddenly becoming immortal without society changing to accomodate such a change might have some rather serious ramifications.

My favorite afterlife is probably the Celtic one, or at least one variation of it, there are probably several different versions depending on what time period and tribe you look at.

When you die you get reborn in the Other World, when you die there you are reborn in this world. Back and forth, back and forth like the cycle of the seasons. Winter leads into Spring which ultimately leads back around to Winter.

Never bothered to look into the details of the concept or what the Other World was supposed to be like, but I find the idea kind of appealing.
One of the God games on this forum ended up looking like that. I'm not sure if it was on purpose or not, I just know people liked the idea of two worlds and souls on one ended up going to the other.
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Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: Everyone's a Coptic in Their Own Way
« Reply #4966 on: January 27, 2016, 10:26:34 pm »

Never bothered to look into the details of the concept or what the Other World was supposed to be like, but I find the idea kind of appealing.

I don't think that the Celts knew what the Other World was supposed to be like either. From what I remember, it's just a place where weird, mystical shit likes to live and is just a breath away from the 'real world'. So you get heroes and monsters crossing over from world to world fairly regularly. If you meet something that's striped red and white and has a fondness for the number three, then they're probably from the Other World.
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Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: Everyone's a Coptic in Their Own Way
« Reply #4967 on: January 27, 2016, 11:09:00 pm »

Then there's that time-travelling reincarnation where everyone is just one soul...  That, I'm not crazy about...  Time travel is dumb :P

How about time travel reincarnation where people are sent back to ancient times as punishment for being monstrously evil?
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Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: Everyone's a Coptic in Their Own Way
« Reply #4968 on: January 27, 2016, 11:12:55 pm »

Then there's that time-travelling reincarnation where everyone is just one soul...  That, I'm not crazy about...  Time travel is dumb :P
Sigh. that's just the kind of thing I'd say, Pathos.
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Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: Everyone's a Coptic in Their Own Way
« Reply #4969 on: January 27, 2016, 11:13:13 pm »

How about time travel reincarnation where people are sent back to ancient times as punishment for being monstrously evil?
Sounds the the plot to Terminator
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Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: Everyone's a Coptic in Their Own Way
« Reply #4970 on: January 27, 2016, 11:17:23 pm »

I mean, I desperately want to be a Roman citizen in a future life.
I just don't see that as a likely possibility.
Oh well.
Trump still might win.
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Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: Everyone's a Coptic in Their Own Way
« Reply #4971 on: January 28, 2016, 08:27:59 am »

I mean, I desperately want to be a Roman citizen in a future life.
I just don't see that as a likely possibility.
Oh well.
Trump still might win.

space Rome?
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Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: Everyone's a Coptic in Their Own Way
« Reply #4972 on: January 28, 2016, 08:28:36 am »

I mean, I desperately want to be a Roman citizen in a future life.
I just don't see that as a likely possibility.
Oh well.
Trump still might win.

Lets found new new Rome, then.

Of course, we all know that we go join the great  Pathos in the sky after death.
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Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: Everyone's a Coptic in Their Own Way
« Reply #4973 on: January 28, 2016, 08:30:22 am »

I'm all for Neo Rome as long as we adopt traditional roman behavior.
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Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: Everyone's a Coptic in Their Own Way
« Reply #4974 on: January 28, 2016, 08:37:00 am »

I hereby claim this thread as the virtual Latium on which we now found Neo Rome, by the grace of the Pathos and under sight of the citric wizard.
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Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: Everyone's a Coptic in Their Own Way
« Reply #4975 on: January 28, 2016, 10:56:38 am »

This more than slightly off topic.

Also, New Rome is already taken - See Istanbul.
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Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: Everyone's a Coptic in Their Own Way
« Reply #4976 on: January 28, 2016, 11:07:23 am »

Not Constantinople?
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Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: Everyone's a Coptic in Their Own Way
« Reply #4977 on: January 28, 2016, 11:08:22 am »

Istanbul, Constantinople, Byzantium.

Whatever goes :P
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Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: Everyone's a Coptic in Their Own Way
« Reply #4978 on: January 28, 2016, 11:09:28 am »

This more than slightly off topic.

Also, New Rome is already taken - See Istanbul.
That's why it's Neo Rome, ye pleb.
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Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: Everyone's a Coptic in Their Own Way
« Reply #4979 on: January 28, 2016, 11:14:36 am »

Nova Roma to the Romans, Neo Rome to the Greeks.

It was called Neo Rome at the time.
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