@theAndi, I simply want to know if you believe there is a heaven and hell only on the primitive fact that your parents told you there was a heaven and hell? I made this thread to get convinced into believing There is this really great line in the movie 23, (not so funny even with Jim) a man tells him that he is going crazy over this number and that it isn't the fact that the number is everywhere around him, it's the fact that he is seeking the number that he sees it all around him. I feel like when you are down and in the dumps, talking thing out in your head and truly thinking them over clarifies a lot for you and you notice signs more often because they pertain to your current quarrels. So is speaking with a god who doesn't talk back just an easier way of looking at your thoughts clearly and believing that they posses answers that will guide you to better choice because your belief in a god who can't be wrong or evil?
Santa is saint Nicholas... He was a real person who became a saint by helping others... The image we now have of Santa Claus comes from coke
Yap... The long white beard, the red suit, the oh oh oh comes from coke... Coke was inspired by saint Nicholas a real person that really existed
I don't know about the whole coke thing.. I think adopting "religious" figures into liking your product is a huge marketing strategy but to say that they changed the presence of Santa Claus doesn't sound correct to me... It seems more likely that its like an example of watching Gandhi take a crisp drink of coca-cola, then seeing recycled green environment coke bottles at every peace convention. They simply put their product behind a large media figure.
I believe and practice my religion because it helps me see dangers ahead of my life... When I was 10 I saw a dream that some1 shot some1 around the area where I live, I couldn't see who the people were but I saw some1 shooting another person.. The ironic abt my dream was that the person who got shot was my dad and my driver came in my room woke me up and took me to hospital to see my dad
Idc abt whats the history of the religion, I just see what it tells us abt our life... Not life after death but the life that u r living right now, my religion tells everything about how to life a good life and I wish I could live that way but it's not possible because to live a perfect life u need a perfect society which we don't have.. Even the country is democratic or communist u will find life difficult because of nature of ppl and this world... Like U have to find something bad for good / something good for bad, we only find good for bad, we can't find peace until we eliminate lines between countries and religion... I m not saying that ppl should kill each other because that's what religion says but try to understand ethics behind it
That same night?! Im so sorry to hear about your father being shot... That's a horrible thing someone could do.. Did he make it through it?
If u think there is no god because there are bad stuff in the world it is because he gave us free will
I mainly don't believe that there is a god who watches everyone's actions and judges them in an after life. I believe that we were created somehow or someway but that the universe is such a large and expanding thing that the creator/s has no time for us other then the occasionsal check up on society in a whole. They are too busy creating other things throughout the universe.
Actually it is a fact that the image we have of Santa comes from coke... It's not a probability... It's a fact...
Doesnt Germany celebrate the holiday but with a guy with a really long tongue that hits kids that were naughty.
Actually they have santa Claus and Santa Claus is with 2 bad people dress in black that spank the bad kids