I’m a fucking DEIST!
March 24th, 2006http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/farrell_till/myth.html
And so were the founding fathers of the US. FUCK YOU GEORGE BUSH, FUCK YOU ORGANIZED RELIGION, FUCK YOU CHRISTIANITY! FUCK YOU CONGRESS! FUCK YOU SUPREME COURT! FUCK EACH AND EVERY GOVERNMENTAL AND PUBLIC-FUNDED INSTITUTION WHICH HAS THE FUCKING 10 COMMANDMENTS POSTED FOR DISPLAY! FUCK YOU!
Such a view of American history is completely contrary to known facts. The primary leaders of the so-called founding fathers of our nation were not Bible-believing Christians; they were deists. Deism was a philosophical belief that was widely accepted by the colonial intelligentsia at the time of the American Revolution. Its major tenets included belief in human reason as a reliable means of solving social and political problems and belief in a supreme deity who created the universe to operate solely by natural laws. The supreme God of the Deists removed himself entirely from the universe after creating it. They believed that he assumed no control over it, exerted no influence on natural phenomena, and gave no supernatural revelation to man. A necessary consequence of these beliefs was a rejection of many doctrines central to the Christian religion. Deists did not believe in the virgin birth, divinity, or resurrection of Jesus, the efficacy of prayer, the miracles of the Bible, or even the divine inspiration of the Bible.
I don’t believe in god on a day-to-day level, but I’ve seriously contemplated the universe, and tried to reason my way behind time. Imagine time, it seems fluid and continuous. But, ‘what’ is inifinity? What came before the universe? No matter how far back you go, there is always a before. I find this a very creepy concept. NO MATTER HOW FAR BACK. Before the big bang. Before whatever was before the big bang. Before. This is, of course, if you take the easy way out and say ‘ok, this is a big logic puzzle which I can’t figure out, rather than go crazy worrying about it, I’ll say god made it’…well, what was before god? Before!!! So, when I am not thinking about eternity, infinity and ‘before’, I am a Deist…and when I am thinking about it, I am worrying that I am going to logically prove myself out of existance, taking the rest of the universe with me…
Please, spend some time considering before, and let me know what you come up with. Just keep working it. Imagine. Think. Consider. Creepy, isn’t it?
Well…isn’t this a deep one.
What was before the universe? That’s sort of like asking what’s after forever. After Forever for you folks out there that don’t know, is a good Black Sabbath song as well as an interesting question.
I’ve never really considered myself a religious man. My parents didn’t force it upon me and I in return will not force it on my child. I have sat through church on Sunday’s years ago. I take two things from it. One, the collection plate always comes around. Two, if you’re a child and decide you would like to leave, there will be some INSANE crazy person (in my case, crazy bitch) there to crab you and try to stop you. Deism sounds like a good way to look at life. Sound, down to earth, reasoning behind everything. Well except for your question of what was BEFORE.
My guess is as good as yours as to what was before. Its just one of those things no one will ever know. How could they? For example: Say someday someone finds something and says, “This is it, the very first piece to the puzzle of life.” Then 100 years later someone else finds something, a different piece. Not only a different piece, a different corner piece. You know when putting a puzzle together you can never forget the corner pieces…
I can’t say that I’ve ever really wondered a whole lot about what was before. I have spent more time gazing at the stars and wondered what else. What else is out there. It looks so big. There’s something out there. Maybe even, the answer you’re looking for.
Crab=Grab
I say FUCK RELIGION also!!!
I’ve tried to think about ‘before’ but I can’t seem to make any headway with it so I just don’t think about it at all. I also sometimes find myself thinking about ‘after’ (on a personal level)…same thing, I have no answer, no guess…no heaven waiting for me, no hell as well. My best guess is that there is no ‘after’. Nothing at all. I won’t even know that I ever existed.
This is depressing. This is why I don’t think of these things very often.
I don’t have any answers and so far I haven’t been given any answers I feel good about believing.
I’m not really searching for answers but I’m keeping my mind open…and I think I’ll know when I come across the answer that’s right for me.