• Welcome to Religious Forums, a friendly forum to discuss all religions in a friendly surrounding.

    Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to the following site features:
    • Reply to discussions and create your own threads.
    • Our modern chat room. No add-ons or extensions required, just login and start chatting!
    • Access to private conversations with other members.

    We hope to see you as a part of our community soon!

Search results

  1. Nakosis

    The average forum member

    Yes, I was going to say something similar. There are more things than just intelligence to find value in. Like experience, wisdom, honesty. I'd rather an honest idiot than a dishonest genius. Not to say intelligence has no value but it is just one among many traits that have value.
  2. Nakosis

    Islamophobia in the Western media

    I generally find more support in the media I read for Islam than not. Obviously highly dependent on which media you choose to read. Support for Jews now feels about 50/50. It used to be higher but it seems to have declined lately. The the group which seems to have the most criticism is against...
  3. Nakosis

    What do you know about God?

    I know that if you create a concept of God or are fed a concept of God, your subconscious mind can take that information and create for you an experience of God which fulfills the expectations of the concept you harbor. IOW, spiritual experiences can be created for you by the subconscious mind...
  4. Nakosis

    Do you Think we have Free Will

    No, obviously our will is determined by us, the brain. Determinism has to be predictable by past events. In most cases this is true. However this is not necessarily true in the case of humans. Humans can imagine any past, present or future. What we imagine can be based on the real past an...
  5. Nakosis

    Do you Think we have Free Will

    Do you have a reference for this? I'm asking because I had read this before a couple of years ago but haven't been able to locate it.
  6. Nakosis

    God is Everything?

    How does the Bible know anything about God?
  7. Nakosis

    Before Life

    I suspect most likely I didn't exist. I imagine any afterlife to be much of the same. However while in Scientology during auditing I did recall some very vivid other life experiences. So I understand why a person might believe in reincarnation. I did try to verify some of these experiences...
  8. Nakosis

    Reasons for atheism

    There are a lot of things folks do to pleasure themselves. Believing in God is just one of them.
  9. Nakosis

    God is Everything?

    It's a little bit different when you've spent years auditing people and begin to realize how unreliable self assurance actually is.
  10. Nakosis

    Hypothetical: What if no one voted in a democratic election?

    I do, but I'm going to keep it to myself. :p
  11. Nakosis

    Hypothetical: What if no one voted in a democratic election?

    In that case the House elects the president and the Senate the vice president. Both are supposed to be representative of the people so democracy would be safe I guess.
  12. Nakosis

    God is Everything?

    You do think God is infinite. Couldn't there exist a finite God? :shrug:
  13. Nakosis

    Meeting with God, How is it possible?

    I can converse with someone on a phone without seeing them. Not saying God called Moses on a telephone but sometimes you got to think outside of the box.
  14. Nakosis

    Reasons for atheism

    God for the most part doesn't work. Whatever you think can be done with God is not very reliable. Therefore God isn't very useful as a belief beyond self pleasuring. Once you get beyond the need for continual self-pleasuring, you find there is very little need for God. So here's a God belief...
  15. Nakosis

    Police Arrest Teen Said to Be Linked to Hundreds of Swatting Attacks

    According to some, since this is a deterministic universe, he had no free will to do otherwise. Certainly those folks should understand his actions were determined at the beginning of the universe long before he was even born. :oops:
  16. Nakosis

    Hebronian Imam opens fire at Jewish community of Hebron

    I've heard from a sociology professor who says he has visited the West Bank. He said Jewish and Muslim neighbors are generally friendly towards each other. Most people get along fine in these areas. Though this was before the current hostilities.
  17. Nakosis

    God is Everything?

    I'm not angry, I'm just curious about how folks go about it. The forums and the internet have plenty of folks making claims about God.
  18. Nakosis

    God is Everything?

    Here's hoping someone will express that different way.
  19. Nakosis

    God is Everything?

    Yes, but especially if you're hoping to hit the divine.
  20. Nakosis

    God is Everything?

    Ok, maybe fodder for a different thread. In this case I'm simply asking why do people believe they possess such knowledge.
Top