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Search results for query: imaginary friends,

  1. F

    A Christian becomes a nonbeliever

    Then you have learned you have no use or need for a useless God. Yet you believe.... why? Scared of the alternative? Just as God caused. Do your messengers tell you how to cope? If not, then how useful are they? Baha'i messengers are less useful than friends and members of RF. But you...
  2. DNB

    Who is God?

    Not sure where you construe the condescension? If it makes a difference, I wasn't calling you the 10 year old, I was remarking how you were describing theists as 10 year olds, claiming that they require imaginary friends or entities in order to cope. Again, that does not fit the profile of the...
  3. Heyo

    How many of you on here had an imaginary friend?When you were younger?

    Never had an imaginary friend. Nor did I know of any imaginary friends my friends had - until I realized that some really believed the stories the pastor told.
  4. mikkel_the_dane

    How many of you on here had an imaginary friend?When you were younger?

    I still do it as a philosophical technique. They are not friends as such as they are debate positions, but I act as if they are real, when I do it. But that is just me.
  5. JustGeorge

    How many of you on here had an imaginary friend?When you were younger?

    I didn't have an imaginary friend until middle school. And then, to make up for lost time, I overdid it. I had an imaginary twin brother. He had an imaginary friend(I didn't want my brother to be lonely). I would talk of him and his friend, go on and invent scenarios that had happened...
  6. Stonetree

    How many of you on here had an imaginary friend?When you were younger?

    In high school ?
  7. The Sum of Awe

    How many of you on here had an imaginary friend?When you were younger?

    Yes, I had an imaginary friend named Gombie who was ghost shaped and a couple of squirrel shaped imaginary friends who I forgot their names. I wonder how Gombie is doing these days.
  8. F

    Atheists: what do you think about all things spiritual/religious? Religious people: what about atheists?

    Immediately it indicates that you are a product of some social influence. Most everyone on the planet is exposed to some religious ideas and how individuals process these ideas and the social pressure differs. As we know from the Ashe experiments the average person will conform to the beliefs...
  9. F

    Why do Christians accuse other religions of believing in false prophets?

    How can it be truth if they are honest that they can't know it's actually truth? You are gambling that you got it right. Maybe Islam is a fraud afterall, and Christians are correct. Which form of Christianity? They don't know, either. I suggest the best option is agnoticism. With so many...
  10. The Sum of Awe

    Game: People are strange

    When I was a kid I had an imaginary friend named Gombie. His form as I visualized it was of a ghost. One of those simple, round body and pointy bottom ghosts like a floating bed sheet. There was also two squirrels I had as imaginary friends, person-sized and colored purple and green.
  11. loverofhumanity

    Is Christ superior to other Prophets/Founders

    I liked your comment about a unity view of reality instead of a view that divides us. There’s so much truth in that. We can choose to see each other as opponents or friends. The competition mindset when applied to religion has had ugly results. Just to see the good in each other and the world...
  12. Exaltist Ethan

    The Exclusivity of Christianity

    Well, it makes it a lot easier to agree with someone about theology if you have the same theological view points, does it not? In theocratic nations you can be killed for not having the 'correct' beliefs about God. I am not saying that is a good thing, in fact, it's terrible, but when people say...
  13. F

    The Exclusivity of Christianity

    I worked in my grandmothers church food kitchen as an atheist. No one ever mentioned Jesus or any religious belief. The women did their duty for their fellow citizens. To my mind this is more of what a Christian is than worshippers with a head full of irrational concepts that are designed to...
  14. samtonga43

    Convince me that God is loving

    Hmm, this is very telling, in my opinion. Here is someone who asks posters on an internet forum to convince her that God is loving. Then she says that she did not expect any of us to be able to do this. So why did she ask us? It would, she says, be fun to watch us try. But what has happened now...
  15. nPeace

    Convince me that God is loving

    Heeey. :) I'm glad to hear that. I thought the long haul I saw you going through on these threads couldn't be anything more... or less. :D
  16. Trailblazer

    Convince me that God is loving

    I'd be careful with the psychoanalysis. I do not have any emotional pain that has been bottled up for years just because I question whether God is loving. There is no logical connection between the two. I have had counselors to talk to for years, whenever I need them. I did not expect anyone...
  17. Brian2

    Abiogenisis

    Does that mean that you don't believe people had or have (these days) experiences with God because you can make up something in your head that you see as a more reasonable explanation than the one about having an experience with God? Accepting only verifiable evidence leads to saying there is...
  18. F

    Abiogenisis

    Why do you believe people actually had experiences with Gods versus are embellishing? It is implausible that any of the many claims about gods are true because many of these claims are contrary to fact and knowledge. The extraordinatry claims themselves have no extraordinary evidence, so they...
  19. joelr

    Legitimate reasons not to believe in God

    I disagree but the only thing I would comment on is it's actually not hard at all to be a saint. Unless you have unrealistic expectations from some book by an imaginary deity that forbids too many things it isn't hard at all to live life, get along with people, settle disputes in a mature way...
  20. lewisnotmiller

    How many people think they would like a tulpa?

    It sounds actively unhealthy to deliberately try and disassociate aspects of your thoughts and personality like this to me.
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