Fair enough, each to their own.
Personally, things are always a shit load more mundane than anything quite so magnificent as a God.

I always thought a belief in the almighty was a way of sticking ones head in the sand or shouting LALALALALALA to the possibility that this is all just a random existence, there is no point and your life is essentially completely futile and you might just as well climb back up a tree and groom a chimp.

Mind you, what the fuck would I know, I work in finance.
( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Thu 6 Oct 2011, 0:38, archived)

Not believing in God is not a synonym for seeing no purpose to life.
Keats argued that Newton had destroyed the beauty of a rainbow by explaining it's colours. I believe it just makes it that bit more wondrous. I suppose it comes down to which side of the fence you sit on with regards science and belief.
( mike woz ere 7442200 & 7696970 getter, Thu 6 Oct 2011, 0:45, archived)

I'm with Feynman on this,
but Newton was no atheist. He only explained phenomena in terms of more fundamental phenomena, but we still need a source for phenomena as such.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Thu 6 Oct 2011, 0:49, archived)

Belief is pointless I'd say.
Things either exist or they don't. If you squeeze your eyes shut and tell yourself cars don't exist, won't stop you getting fucked up walking across a motorway. God as a concept or ideal I can accept to a degree but as a physical being? Not at all.

It does all boil down to belief at the end of the day, after the full 90 mins etc... but faith means dick really, it's just telling yourself something over and over again for the sake of it, regardless of it being true or not. There is as much evidence for the existence of Batman as there is for a God.

Mankind has looked at a deity for answers to tough questions many many thousands of years before the deity of Judaism/Christianity/Islam. I personally think we might just not need the crutch anymore.

Again, I live in Glasgow, what the fuck would I know.
( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Thu 6 Oct 2011, 0:57, archived)

You're the first one to mention "faith",
and you have defined it peculiarly, from my perspective.

I believe only what makes sense to me, knowing that we do not have direct experience of reality, but only have access to sense impressions from which the truth must be deduced as best we can.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Thu 6 Oct 2011, 1:13, archived)

Faith is to believe in something despite a complete lack of evidence, or indeed evidence to the contrary.
Religion is built on faith. Essentially you either have it or you don't and I don't.

May father is a priest in the Scottish Episcopal church and this is essentially how he'd define it. You're with it or you're out, you accept all the stupid hocus pocus stuff and just ride with it or you don't.

Getting hooked up on "what is reality" is essentially self defeating.
( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Thu 6 Oct 2011, 1:27, archived)