I'm an atheist

Belief, if self absorbed, is a distortion of the Now. Belief can only point, never touch.

I am not what I believe.

Worth and meaning come from me, not to me.

In my point of view, there is no such thing as right and wrong belief. Belief is simply a chooser of attitude and controller of emotion.

There is no real question or answer, only impression and expression, and they are aspects of the same.

A tree is not a tree, it´s just called a tree. A thought is not a thought, it´s just called a thought. An emotion is not an emotion, it´s just called an emotion. Suffering is not suffering, it´s just called suffering. *embracing the essence that permeates all*

Independently of what I presently believe, I aim to remain open and inspired by reality.

Thought is a mirror byproduct that can help to give us perspective, but not as real as what is.

What is true, stills the mind and opens the heart.

Unknown interaction and observation, eventually leads to stages of awakening.

Universal Awesomeness Theory.

Not sure at this point if it's a religion, a science or a technology at this point. But it struck me hard a couple months ago and I totally believe in it, whatever it is.


I'm not feeling evengelical about it (Currently) and I doubt that it matters whether or not you believe in it or not. You will probably do something awesome anyway.

I am a buddhist, its a very useful system for living life morally, ethically, peacefully etc. But after certain personal exoeriences, some with dmt, others working as a medic in emergency medicine, I can say with complete sincerity that there is definitely something higher and divine at work. We are all faced with "heaven" and "hell" right here on earth at sokme point, you just have to try to find the wisdom to see it.

All belief systems bother me, including my own. I could never put myself into a particular "ism" because I feel that no matter what my beliefs are, one religion or belief system couldn't do a good job of summing up how I feel about the universe. I used to be an atheist but then I realized there are just as many things that bother me about Atheism as there are things that bother me about Christianity so I stopped trying to compartmentalize my beliefs after that. As Bill Hicks said "The reason our institutions and religions are now failing us, is because they're no longer relevant". If I had to choose a religion to follow though it would probably be Taoism. I like the whole energy balance of the universe shpeel quite a bit

Hmmm

Let me quote a reply that came from a while back, some otherwhere on the internet




Experience of any kind, through the endless myriad folds and reflections and hues, is never far from psychotic and never so strange to illusion that one experience should be any closer to 'reality' than any other. With the exception.. of those moments from which we've drunk the most joy and laughter, merry in the tide of simple human stupidity.

"life's not light, but the refracted color"

It is a very hard question to answer since there is many responses.

I am a nihilist, for I believe that at the very beginning was the Abyss.
I am a pantheist, for I believe that out of this Emptiness emerged Consciousness.
I value buddhism and mysticism as systems that can give you true peace and direct experience of Consciousness through trenscendance.
I value hermetism, shamanism and magic as systems that can give you tools to perfect the soul through the use of symbols.
I value science as the best system to navigate conscensus reality and learn how to have power over your environment.

I find absolutely no contradiction between these various belief systems. The contradictions arise when you try to pass one of these systems as an absolute truth while they are clearly designed to work with different dimensions or reality...
Examples of what is foolish would be to negate spirituality because it is outside of the scientific reach, or to try to modify conscenscus reality with divine powers...

I guess the best way to describe myself is as an "agnostic atheist", one who knows you can't be positive one way or the other but leaning towards the godless side. But it also depends completely on one's definition of a god, which makes things difficult because most peoples' definitions are different (especially on the nexus I'm assuming). When it comes to gods I choose Occam's Razor. In the end I value rationalism and imagination... but humanity, in my opinion, needs to draw a fine line between the two.

For me there has always been this intangible sense of something greater than myself, I don’t know whether this is just a throwback to the times before we had ego’s or if there is something all powerful “watching” us.

I mean it may just be our collective consciousness as humans that I feel, but there is definitely “something” there. I feel it all the time, and I’m sure you all know that feeling of “ONENESS” that you get with certain psychedelic experiences, well I’ve always felt a little like that. Like my soul is tethered to something I can feel, It’s massive, super-powerful and seems to link all of existence with a fine thread that flows though everything.
I often joke during acid trips that by the end of the evening someone tripping with me will see this thread being pulled tight and all the events of the evening will be succinctly tied together with a few wrods. It’s happened more times than I can remember and at least one person tripping with me seems to be awestruck by it.

I see my whole life that, and often wonder if I’d be able to put my entire experience here on this plane into a few well chosen words, that aptly describe everything that happened during my life.
Lately I see events/things linking up more easily, synchronicities fill my day, strange coincidences that leave me a bit confused and often questioning if they are done on purpose, just to make me remember that there is something to blame for this amazing coincidence we call existence.

Anyway I rambled a bit, but I am a wee bit stoned so forgive me if I didn’t make much sense. It’s incredibly hard to put into words the things that make me believe what I do. But basically I believe something/one made all of the Universe, and occasionally they/it drop hints to remind us that it didn’t all just happen because it could.

Happy travels fellow Nexians

PW

Today I feel Nuwaubian.

nice to see all the replies here, sorry if the title was misleading "beliefs", i meant to ask where people are religiously/spiritually. it's good to see such variety even within the nexus, even though our beliefs are a lot more connected IMO

I believe I can fly,
I believe I can touch the skyahigh!
I think about it every night and day,
Spread my wings and fly away,
I believe I can fly!

Agnostic Mystic?

Subject to change. I was indocrinated with christian faith until around age 14, then during the next decade became a hardcore atheist.

I've always thought it was equally arrogant to assume the existence or non-existence of a god. Both are beliefs.



Beautiful post. Pretty much describes by point of view too.

Actively seeking to experience ecstatic states, exploring ones intentions, and expanding ones own skills at conceptualizing are more important than "belief" in my opinion. Beliefs or ideas better serve as fulcrums for the testing of theories than for the implementation of some sort of institution (i.e. religion, industry). A multitude of methods and ideas usually tend to culminate into the some new paradigm in which again, they are multiplied and improvised into another multitude.

I may use a number of egregores, archetypes, or personify any number of things in my daily life but I never stop to rationalize their concrete existence or lack-there-of. Even ideas and beliefs are real I suppose if only superimposed into the minds of those who act based of their inspiration.

Not sure if that all sounds like total BS or not, but maybe that's what I'm getting at. The object (belief) is it's observer.

i like to believe that i'm chemically-inclined....and i believe i can back that belief up.

i'm not sure what category my beliefs fall under, but i believe the whole universe is consciousness, manifesting in form in order to experience. And i believe its underlying energy is LOVE. I believe we are all intimately connected to everything around us but only if we allow ourselves to be.

I believe in something, rather than nothing. I believe the universe has a purpose. That it makes sense. I believe that consciousness is eternal as well as life as an form of energy. I believe in Love, like my foreposter said so beautiful. I believe that imagination is creating. If there is something resembling the devine/god, we are a big part of it. I believe everything is connected. I was an agnostic atheist until i took an heroic dose of an mexican mushroom. It changed EVERYTHING i believed. I still despise the 3 monoethic desert religions. I believe the human form is developing into something unimaginable, but we are still toddlers.

Gnostic Christian who embraces Old World Eastern Religion close to her heart.