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What is your religion?
moremojo:
--- Quote from: FuzzyChanny on April 26, 2006, 04:57:58 pm ---
--- Quote from: isabelle on April 26, 2006, 02:59:36 pm ---Hey, I thought this might be the right place for it.
Now BEAR with me if this is totally KNOWN and has been since the birth of the human race round your end! It is not known here (an American friend gave me this):
Religious views of life:
Taoism: Shit happens
Confucianism: Confucius says, shit happens
Buddhism: If shit happens, it isn't really shit
Zen: What is the sound of shit happening?
Hinduism: This shit happened before
Islam: If shit happens, it is the will of Allah
Protestantism: Let shit happen to someone else
Catholicism: If shit happens, you deserve it
Judaïsm: Why does this shit always happen to us?
Atheism: I don't believe this shit
Agnosticism: Is this shit for real?
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My friend has a shirt with those on, but it has a few more that I can't remember. I just remember the last one is:
Rastafarian: Let's smoke this shit!
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This all gave me a good chuckle for my Thursday morning! :laugh:
I have a humble addition to submit to the list:
Kashmir Saivism (a radically monist Hindu sect): I and the shit are One.
isabelle:
Thanks moremojo, I love it too!
iheartBBM:
Hi everybody. I'm new here. I came here from the troll-plagued IMDb forum. And I love the fact that the smileys have cowboy hats.
I checked "Protestant", as I am a happy little Episcopalian.
--- Quote from: ednbarby on April 21, 2006, 06:07:20 am --- But now I just think that with all that goes on in the world that's so hateful and ugly and tragic, if there is a God, he is not only imperfect but at best indifferent and at worst wrathful. I think it's just that I don't want to live in a world made by an indifferent or wrathful God so much that I'd rather believe there isn't one. That it really is all random. But I find peace in that - because when something extraordinarily beautiful comes out of randomness, that is the miracle. I don't need a God to make that happen.
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You know what, I do believe that "it really is all random" and I still believe in God. I mean, the only way for God to NOT "allow" crime, murder, rape, hurricane Katrina, etc to happen would mean that God would have to control us like puppets. I think we have free will, and I think nature has free will, and that's gives the world an element of chaos and randomness that is sometimes scary. Just my two cents. Then again, I'm just an ignorant kid and I have plenty of time for my opinions and beliefs to change, but that's what I think at the moment.
ednbarby:
--- Quote from: iheartBBM on April 28, 2006, 03:25:56 am ---You know what, I do believe that "it really is all random" and I still believe in God. I mean, the only way for God to NOT "allow" crime, murder, rape, hurricane Katrina, etc to happen would mean that God would have to control us like puppets. I think we have free will, and I think nature has free will, and that's gives the world an element of chaos and randomness that is sometimes scary. Just my two cents. Then again, I'm just an ignorant kid and I have plenty of time for my opinions and beliefs to change, but that's what I think at the moment.
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Honey, I don't think you're the least bit ignorant (I know that's not quite what you meant, but humor me :)). The fact that you're posting here speaks volumes for your lack of ignorance, actually. And I don't think what I believe is the only possibility and that everyone else is wrong. Actually one of my mantras is that anything is possible. So who am I to say that one thing is more probable and another isn't? No one has unequivocal proof either way, after all.
isabelle:
--- Quote from: ednbarby on April 28, 2006, 04:15:34 pm ---So who am I to say that one thing is more probable and another isn't? No one has unequivocal proof either way, after all.
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OK, try this one then (again, I hope it's not completely known and has been since the onset of humanity round your end, and I thought this was the right place for it ::)):
It's official: Jesus was Irish
* He had 12 drinking friends
* He trained as a carpenter to work on the buildings
* He was unemployed
* He lived with his mother till he was 33
* He thought his mother was a virgin
* His mother thought he was God
Found this in Ireland. So it's official: The Irish have humour.
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