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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

61 (23.8%)

Total Members Voted: 251

[TempAcc]

Railgun spaceplane drones when

[Kot]

Also sums up Slav science in a nutshell

"Oh yeah we're gonna have an awesome 6th gen space fighter with railguns. Side effects on the pilot will include death."

We have much more pilots than planes, this isin't a problem really.

[Descan]

Railgun spaceplane drones when

Can't you read? 2025.

[TempAcc]

Kind of a huge brainfart moment. After reading some books on Huberto Rohden's spirituality, specially his book "arrows to infinity" (no actual translation available, sorry, I just translated the title myself), a small 200 or so page philosophical-religious book on the nature of man, God, Christ, existence and the universe, I realized that some of his concepts are strangely very similar to... Morrowind metaphysics?

This guy in the early 1960s that never played any videogame, spoke and wrote in 5 languages, wrote 100 or so books, was a ex-jesuit priest, graduated in cience, theology and philosophy in Innsbrook, Valkenburg and Napolis, taught in Princeton and the American University of Washington, and translated the bible, the bhagavad gita and the tao te ching in order to edit and sell his translations for cheap prices so poor people could easily have access to them... Essentialy came up with ideas very similar to the concept of CHIM and the tower in the TES universe :v?

What_{I mean its not like morrowind metaphysics are exactly original, but its still pretty interesting how the ideas are so similar}

[Loud Whispers]

Once again vidya discover the secrets of the universe

*EDIT
Apologies, NWO Buddheo-Christian Pythagoreans have the answers

[BorkBorkGoesTheCode]

Kind of a huge brainfart moment. After reading some books on Huberto Rohden's spirituality, specially his book "arrows to infinity" (no actual translation available, sorry, I just translated the title myself), a small 200 or so page philosophical-religious book on the nature of man, God, Christ, existence and the universe, I realized that some of his concepts are strangely very similar to... Morrowind metaphysics?

This guy in the early 1960s that never played any videogame, spoke and wrote in 5 languages, wrote 100 or so books, was a ex-jesuit priest, graduated in cience, theology and philosophy in Innsbrook, Valkenburg and Napolis, taught in Princeton and the American University of Washington, and translated the bible, the bhagavad gita and the tao te ching in order to edit and sell his translations for cheap prices so poor people could easily have access to them... Essentialy came up with ideas very similar to the concept of CHIM and the tower in the TES universe :v?

What_{I mean its not like morrowind metaphysics are exactly original, but its still pretty interesting how the ideas are so similar}

They probably read his book. Or not.

[Orange Wizard]

*EDIT
Apologies, NWO Buddheo-Christian Pythagoreans have the answers

I'm half-tempted to buy THE HIDDEN MASTERS WHO RULE THE WORLD just for the larfs, but I also have no money

[TD1]

You need every penny you can save for the coveted hot chocolate, huh? 

[TempAcc]

Aw shit, that book is almost on "this looks so bad I might just find a pdf of it somewhere" but I'm too busy actualy reading decently interesting things atm.

Reminds me of that one african religion book thing about spirit wizards flying on undead dragon birds I saw some years ago :v

[Rolan7]

Playing CK2 again, and thus discussing Catharism with friends...

I wonder how random Christians would react to someone who believes in Jesus's sacrifice, but also believes the OT God is a sick evil is basically Satan.

Not that I'm really ready to truly accept unconditional love yet.  For reasons.  But theoretically...  I would be accepting Christ.  Heck I'd be accepting all/most of the rest of the Bible, within a bit of interpretation.

[Descan]

why not submit to allah, tho

or bow to the many aspects of krishna

or sacrifice to your ancestors in a household shrine

or work for enlightenment

or follow the tao te ching

[Rolan7]

Allah's a dick too.  You're right about polytheism/animism though.
If asked, I'd probably still consider myself an animist.  I'm just... curious about Jesus sans Jehovah.

[Descan]

my main point was that i see no reason to pick any single religion over any other, and trying to follow all of them would be... hard. a lot of them are contradictory both in dogma and in practice (i'm pretty sure the whole "thou shalt have no other gods" thing is a biggie, and i think every day of the week would be a holy day of rest in one religion or another) and there's just so many of them that trying to fulfil each ones obligations would be a full time job at best

just makes more sense to write the whole thing off, embrace the null hypothesis, and hope if there is some form of continuation after life governed by an intelligent entity, it's not a Huge Dick. tho i'm not betting on that, the world wouldn't look the way it does now if any creator deity was an actual good, uh, person, for lack of a better word (not necessarily the same as the afterlife deity, tho! most polytheistic religions have them separate!)

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I wonder if Simulationists will eventually become a religion (barring human extinction over the next two centuries or so). I think that they will, some of the more hardcore Simulationists are practically a religion now since they theorize an "after"life that is your actual life outside the simulation. Overlife? Yeah, that's cool sounding enough.

[TD1]

my main point was that i see no reason to pick any single religion over any other, and trying to follow all of them would be... hard. a lot of them are contradictory both in dogma and in practice (i'm pretty sure the whole "thou shalt have no other gods" thing is a biggie, and i think every day of the week would be a holy day of rest in one religion or another) and there's just so many of them that trying to fulfil each ones obligations would be a full time job at best

just makes more sense to write the whole thing off, embrace the null hypothesis, and hope if there is some form of continuation after life governed by an intelligent entity, it's not a Huge Dick. tho i'm not betting on that, the world wouldn't look the way it does now if any creator deity was an actual good, uh, person, for lack of a better word (not necessarily the same as the afterlife deity, tho! most polytheistic religions have them separate!)

Ah, but you forget the obvious! This one *stabs finger at random religion on list* is the one true one!