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I Am Agnostic

I Don't Care

By: NoBullshit
Written on February 20th, 2008
The title says it all... I really don't care. No, seriously, I really don't. I went to a catholic school when I was younger, and I can't ever pretend that this was a bad experience that traumatized me. It was actually mostly a very positive influence on my life. But it had nothing to do with religion, it was simply a good private school where many of the kids spent more time studying than they did messing around. We had some religion instruction, but it was nothing like the late-night Texan preaching channels I sometimes catch on TV. The whole thing was done with more respect for the minds we represented than with a true desire to make us knee bending idolaters. Being able to see from up close the foundations of the Roman Catholic church, free of the pressures of having to embrace and conform, has left me with the overwhelming impression that it is devoid of real answers.

All the religions I have looked at so far seem to me filled with the thinking equivalent of what McDonalds is to real food: an attractive to the taste-buds, minute-made sustenance that leaves you hoping for more elaborate and mature tastes [hmmm... I wonder if there is any correlation between the population that frequents McDonalds and the church attendants]. But if I am sometimes satisfied with a burger in my stomach, I have never been satisfied with the answers religions have to offer. Someone posted somewhere else in this group something said with great eloquence about the human desire for connectedness and the ability for all religions to supply that to their followers. Sheer luck or nature's twisted design, my own desire for connectedness is not as strong as that of other people I know. Or more accurately, I find that this desire is satisfied with things that do not seem to quench other people's own thirst for belonging.

Mix that with a high desire for scientific truths (the type that is demonstrated rather than dogmatically accepted), plus the realization that there are literally billions upon billions of questions that can be asked and only a limited amount of time to dedicate to answering them, and what you get is the perfect recipe for "I don't care". Don't get me wrong, I do realize that it is pretty mighty interesting to KNOW if there is something else beyond what can be sensed (this is already more than what we humans perceive of our world), and mainly if there is anything more than matter playing clever dice tricks, but I have accepted a long time ago that no religious answers will ever fit my criteria for an acceptable answer. So I have moved on and really don't care in my day to day life.

By: NoBullshit
Age: 41-45 , Male
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  • chalas
    chalas

    "Is that to say, you don't care about truth? Or that you just don't think that truth exists?



    Certainly, you have a moral and social obligation to care about people passing off their beliefs as fact. You should care if they try to pass laws based upon their beliefs and try to force their opinions on the rest of us.



    You should care about scientific freedom out from under the control of any zealots of any denomination, whether deist or athiest.



    Really, you must care. All that has to happen for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.

    ."



    I can see how his relates to "Intelligent Design." Stop "Intelligent Design"!!

    Sep 18, 2010
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  • LaydeezMan
    LaydeezMan

    I agree that you could spend lots and lots of time and still not answer the question of God's existence. If God does exist he, she, it has kept itself well concealed and left interpretation of right and wrong up to man. I think our time would be better spent by deciding what's okay and what's not okay rather than looking for something that has proven for all practical purposes to be too difficult to locate. Even if we did find God would we even recognize it, whatever it is?

    Apr 29, 2008
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  • NoBullshit
    NoBullshit

    If it's just a matter of craving attention, I really wish you'd find some other people to prince around... to tell you the truth, man or woman, I am starting to find your act boringly predictable.



    But I do respect you compulsive need for being a center of attention, as well as your childish attitude when you do not like contradiction. I just wish for the women out there who can carry themselves with more dignity and grace in a debate that you are just a cranky little man with some very short fuses...



    **kisses**

    Mar 1, 2008
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  • outofbiz
    outofbiz

    I still love you. And want you.

    Mar 1, 2008
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  • NoBullshit
    NoBullshit

    outofbiz - I wonder where these questions come from... I can't imagine they are a response to what I wrote. To what you read maybe? Or is it to what you think?! In other times I would have taken the bate started a fierce battle of words. Today I look at the contradictions between this post and your previous one.

    Feb 23, 2008
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  • outofbiz
    outofbiz

    Is that to say, you don't care about truth? Or that you just don't think that truth exists?



    Certainly, you have a moral and social obligation to care about people passing off their beliefs as fact. You should care if they try to pass laws based upon their beliefs and try to force their opinions on the rest of us.



    You should care about scientific freedom out from under the control of any zealots of any denomination, whether deist or athiest.



    Really, you must care. All that has to happen for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.



    But I support your freedom of will. Not that it needs my support. You have it. You are free to form judgements. Even free to decide to be apathetic.

    Feb 23, 2008
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