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Hi Im new and very interested in religous debate

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lornamason

New Member
Hello everyone my name is Lorna, and Im 48 years old this is my story.

I was baptised and raised Catholic, attended all religous events during all the Religious calendar events such as Stations of the Cross during Easter, as well as at my Convent School, for those of you who dont know that this is, it is when you kneel down and do the rosary every day during Easter, as well as stop and pray at various markers which give a dipiction of Christ's journey at his crucifixion.

So its safe to say Religion as been apart of my life for a very long time...... saying this at the same time I could see spirt and angels from a very young age too.... so what does this mean? In a religious context am I considered evil or part of Gods wonderful creation... I know the answer to this... Im interested to hear your thoughts?
 
Revoltingest

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Greetings! You don't seem evil to me.

Some anagrams for you....
Noon's alarm
Loan ransom
Anal morons
Salon manor
Alas, no Norm
 
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Gjallarhorn

Gjallarhorn

N'yog-Sothep
lornamason said:
So its safe to say Religion as been apart of my life for a very long time...... saying this at the same time I could see spirt and angels from a very young age too.... so what does this mean? In a religious context am I considered evil or part of Gods wonderful creation... I know the answer to this... Im interested to hear your thoughts?
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It would be unwise to equate "religion" with seeing spirits. Religion has much much more baggage than simply acknowledging the supernatural.
 
Core

Core

Guardian
Hi Lorna!
I was thinking of making an introductory thread, but I'd like to hop on yours because like you, I've had a similar experience in being raised as Christian, but ending up falling away. In addition to being exposed to three Christian sects growing up, I've explored other Christian denominations, Eastern religions such as Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism (my favorite), as well as ancient and modern philosophy.

I would like to introduce my idea of entities existing outside or beyond our three dimensions (or 4, counting time). I will give full detail in a more appropriate forum, but briefly, having identified as atheist for a while, it always troubled me where the finite energy and matter of our universe came from in the first place. Everything we know is time-dependent, and thus an energy not time-dependent must have created it, or a phenomenon in higher dimensions triggered the creation of the four dimensions that we exist in. Whether or not these "higher" dimensions overlap with ours is unknown, or at least I can't think of a probably explanation on either end. However, my idea is that there is something more out there, and although it is speculation on my part, I feel that it is by far more presumptuous to assume that there is nothing, and that the higher dimensions science has proven to exist cannot possibly contain entities or forces that triggered the origin of our universe. As string theorist Michio Kaku said in his book Parallel Dimensions (I think it was that one, correct me if I'm wrong), we are like fish in a pond; all we know is the pond in which we swim in, unable to even conceive of the universe beyond the surface of the water.
 
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