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[woose1]

No seriously, I got a fucking headache talking with Yanlin about the parallels of culture to genetic evolution, and where morals stem from. I had to go out and get some asprin, for crying out loud.

Anyway, sometime in-between the time I blacked out and the time I stopped paying attention I accidentally revealed my personal beliefs to him, thus breaking my code of conduct about not talking about personal beliefs "Because they cause migraine inducing discussions." I can't even start to tell what this entails.

Moreover, Yanlin seems to think that I may be unintentionally following the teachings of 'Deism'. look it up here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deism

I'd like to see what personal beliefs some of our Bay 12vers (intentionally or unintentionally) crop up to align with wikipedia articles about obscure beliefs. Mainly because I love profiling people, but I am honestly curious as to how obscure we can really get. Perhaps an entire belief based around the idea that the people that work at McDonald's are gods? I dunno.

Bring on the links!

EDIT: Since the wikipedia article is a bit hard to read, I'd like to make it known that I do NOT believe in fate as do alot of classical Deists. Although that is parodoxically wrong with my so called 'religion', because I also believe talking about what I believe is silly and we should be busy out building black-hole machines, or something. SCIENCE!

[Dragooble]

Ronald 1:1

And the holy priest did approach the counter and thus spoke "I want a Big Mac with extra pickles and no onions, a medium coke and a large order of fries." And the cashier did give exact change. And it was good.

[woose1]

Most excellent, bro.

[MrWiggles]

I am a secular humanist determinist, with a scientific skeptical outlook.
Also with discussing beliefs how do you finds in them?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_humanism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determinism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_skepticism

[HideousBeing]

I used to think about religious beliefs a lot, but I've settled on the idea that religion is silly as a concept (but very interesting culturally) and I feel much better about my place in the universe. People usually interperet this as a form of atheism, but I disagree. Atheists believe in no god; I believe that religion is worthless for it's intended purpose whether there exists a god, multiple gods, general spiritualism or no god. That said, creating a community of people with similar morals seems beneficial overall (usually) and religions excel at it -- I just can't get agree with the whole religion part, which is usually pretty important.

My personal beliefs on life in general are pretty flexible, but I like to ask myself, "What was whoever thinking when they did X" and try to recognize when I'm being stubborn without a good basis for being stubborn. I also try harder than most people to avoid conflict even if it isn't particularly beneficial.

Kinda related; my life has a certain sense of dramatic irony that I'm starting to think is kind of funny. Recently, some personal stuff was looking pretty grim. I opened a fortune cookie and inside was... nothing!