Non-debating religious thread...let's learn!! :)

[JenBKR]

Being a different religion, I can give you my view. I don't think it's wrong to ask for financial assistance. I have asked God, and He has certainly helped. I would never ask for money to buy a mansion or anything like that, but day-to-day expenses and bills. Does that make sense? You can go overboard asking for that, so keep it to a minimum.

edit: I should add that I know a lot of christians would argue with me on that, and while I agree that this life should not be based on material things, it is a fact that you need money to live and eat. I would never ask to win the lottery (I actually know someone who has prayed for that ) but I just ask for a little help here and there.

[Suki Wingy]

Everyone need some type of beliveing to give them comfort and reasurance. I belive science, straight science. Once your energy running throughout your body dies, all of your memories, thoughts, knowlege, almost exhistance does too. Other people can sertainly keep your exhistance true by remembering you. Kind of like in The Forgotten. When someone dies instantly and painlessley, if they had a great life then it is no loss.
Energy is literally everywhere. It is neither lost created or destroyed. I think this whole livable atmoshphere, all evolution came to be this way by chance, sparks of energy. This is why I love storms, when all the energy is shaken up. I saw an interview about a man in Scotland that slipped on the ice and fell on a stake. It went through his head, but missed everything by fractions of inches everywhere. What were the chances of that? I think something like more than winning the lottery and getting striked by lightning in the same day. If this could happen, then I see no way the universe and all things could have formed to be so perfect if these chances and sparks didn't happen to happen whenever they did.

[Iilo]

I believe in love.


I do believe there's a higher power up there. A few years ago, I would regularily pray to Whosoever, but I was going through a huge phobia/fear stage where I was convinced that our house was going to burn down while I was sleeping.

Last night, I prayed for the first time in years.

I have had very spiritual moments in my life. I'm very Thoreau-ian in my religion, I guess. Minus the "Oh, right, um, about that year in the woods? Yeah, I was like a mile away from Emerson and we partied it up a lot." All my huge spiritual revalations/talks with God have happened in the thick of nature, alone. So, why should I identify myself as a sect or become part of a group when my spirituality is currently singular.