VoyForums
[ Show ]
Support VoyForums
[ Shrink ]
VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: [1] ]

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 21:55:31 01/15/02 Tue
Author: Cats
Author Host/IP: pm3-A-42.ecpi.com / 216.141.25.118
Subject: Re: Getting things started... (contd.)
In reply to: QUITTNER 's message, "Getting things started... (contd.)" on 08:42:28 01/15/02 Tue

>"1) You are a student - what are you studying and at
>which grade/year/degree/level are you? What kind of
>school?"

I'm undeclared currently, as I'm poor. I'm jsut going to community college right now (poor) so I don't have the option of declaring the major I want to. when I do it'll be in the vein of religion/philosophy, etc...I've lost track of how many hours I've taken...but I'm probably still first or second year.

>"2) What are your views about the philosophy of
>religion so far (subject to revision as you learn more
>about it)?"

My personal beliefs are based in christianity. I'm extrememly openminded, but when it all boils down to it, the one thing that I hold to be an absolute truth is salvation through christ. Other than that...I have opinions and ideas, but I know that there's always the possibility that I'm wrong. In fact, I don't dismiss that I could be wrong about salvation...what leads me to believe it is faith, personal experience, and emotion. I don't mind discussing why I believ in christ, but as my opinion is that you can't *PROVE* anything, I'm never going to be able to prove it. I'd much prefer to discuss philosophies rooted in history and rational, but I really enjoy any sort of discussion.

other things i hold to be true;
1)God created the world, (no big bang, in my opinion) but who knows what happened after that. I dont' discount the idea of evolution.
2)My concept of god is that it's a rational and logical being...therefore science and religion go hand in hand. christians who dismiss science are doing the powers that be a discredit. scientists who discredit religion are severely limiting their view of the universe.
3)the bible was not written by god. it was written by men. it can therefore be iterpreted poorly. our current version of the bible has been heavily influenced by politics and history...and even just mistranslations. it's still a damn interesting book, and we can learn from it...but I've also had moments of divine inspiration from nature...and hell...even from star trek...so...
4)I could be wrong. about everything.
there's a heck of a lot more to me...but that's as far as I can go until specific discussions crop up.

>"3) In view of the fact that there are VERY MANY
>religions/belief systems, my guess is that the various
>founders/starters/initiators of each of them had a
>specific reason, and that this reason depended on
>geography and date as only two of the (many other?)
>conditions at the time. Whether a particular religion
>"catches on" would, probably, depend on many factors.
>Which?"

You're question is a bit vague...I could probably answer intelligently if you could specify a certain religion or time period...for now I have to be vague as well...Contrbuting factors 9in my opinion) are politics of the time, natural environmental occurences, the nature of the ideas being expressed, and the influence of other philosophies around the group in question.

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Replies:

[ Contact Forum Admin ]

Forum timezone: GMT-8
VF Version: 3.00b, ConfDB:
Before posting please read our privacy policy.
VoyForums(tm) is a Free Service from Voyager Info-Systems.
Copyright © 1998-2019 Voyager Info-Systems. All Rights Reserved.