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[I Am Hugh]

Hello, everyone, I am an independent sociopolitical researcher with an emphasis on spirituality and religion with a special proclivity for Bible research. I'm irreligious and apolitical. I have a particular interest in why people think what they think.

I've been digging deep in the forum for several months and decided to try personal participation. Although I do have my own interpretations and enjoy discussing those with anyone willing to listen, I am also interested in learning different perceptions and so developing my own unique perspectives.

 

[Jimmy]

Resistance is futile

 

[Eddi]

Hello Hugh

And welcome to RF

 

[Revoltingest]

Greetings!

Please join us in the staff banquet hall
for civil & sophisticated discussion of
the issues facing us.

 

[libre]

Welcome to the forum Hugh

 

[I Am Hugh]

Resistance is futile

Resistance is not futile.

 

[ChristineM]

Welcome Hugh, enjoy and learn.

 

[PureX]

Hello, everyone, I am an independent sociopolitical researcher with an emphasis on spirituality and religion with a special proclivity for Bible research. I'm irreligious and apolitical. I have a particular interest in why people think what they think.

Question: if you are irreligious and apolitical, why would you be at all interested in what other people are thinking, and why?

I've been digging deep in the forum for several months and decided to try personal participation. Although I do have my own interpretations and enjoy discussing those with anyone willing to listen, I am also interested in learning different perceptions and so developing my own unique perspectives.

Welcome. What is it, specifically, that you would like to know more about?

 

[anotherneil]

LOL at first I thought your name said "I Am High" & along with the title...well, welcome aboard!

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

Question: if you are irreligious and apolitical, why would you be at all interested in what other people are thinking, and why?

Odd question. People are endlessly interesting. I'm irrigeligious, and still very interested in why people believe what they believe, especially when it seems incredible (in the true sense of that word).

And welcome @I Am Hugh. I have to warn you, you may be surprised at what you learn about people from the crew on this Forum. But it won't be uninteresting, I promise you that.

 

[Tamino]

Welcome!

I'm irreligious and apolitical.

I get the irreligious... but why are you apolitical? Do you not live in a society and do you not have a personal interest in how that society functions?

 

[PureX]

Odd question. People are endlessly intersting. I'm irrigeligious, and still very interested in why people believe what they believe, especially when it seems incredible (in the true sense of that word).

And welcome @I Am Hugh. I have to warn you, you may be surprised at what you learn about people from the crew on this Forum. But it won't be uninteresting, I promise you that.

Being anti-religious is not the same as being irreligious. Nor is being an anarchist or a libertarian being apolitical. These are misconceptions people often put forth when they want to pretend to themselves and others that they have no bias because they have taken no position. But of course they have both a position and a bias in favor of it.

Just sayin.

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

Being anti-religious is not the same as being irreligious. Nor is being an anarchist or a libertarian being apolitical. These are misconceptions people often put forth when they want to pretend to themselves and others that they have no bias because they have taken no position. But of course they have both a position and a bias in favor of it.

Just sayin.

I'm not anti-religious, I'm only anti-religious interference in secular life. I am not, for example, at all bothered by the Society of Friends (Quakers) -- I went to a private boarding school run by them -- nor anti-Buddhist or anti-Hindu. They do not attempt to force their beliefs on anyone, and I am quite content to leave them alone, too.

But being a gay person, growing up before many RF members were even born, I can tell you about what Christians, Jews and Muslims had to say to me -- and it wasn't nice. I think, since a lot of Christians and Muslims are still doing it, I have a right to object. No matter your religious beliefs, you do not possess the right to interfere in the lives and beliefs of others. And to suppose that you do is, in my view, a failure of your religious views.

 

[Stevicus]

Welcome to Religious Forums!

 

[The Hammer]

Hello, everyone, I am an independent sociopolitical researcher with an emphasis on spirituality and religion with a special proclivity for Bible research. I'm irreligious and apolitical. I have a particular interest in why people think what they think.

I've been digging deep in the forum for several months and decided to try personal participation. Although I do have my own interpretations and enjoy discussing those with anyone willing to listen, I am also interested in learning different perceptions and so developing my own unique perspectives.

Join us under the trees. Welcome

 

[VoidCat]

Welcome to RF

 

[sun rise]

Welcome to RF.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

Shalom and welcome.

 

[I Am Hugh]

Question: if you are irreligious and apolitical, why would you be at all interested in what other people are thinking, and why?

That's a fair question. Let's say you were an archaeologist digging through the ancient ruins or if life were discovered elsewhere. I mentioned spirituality, perception and perspective. Words are more important than any other aspect of my research. They are tools to be used, specifically but with various and evolving applications. Spirituality, for example, Biblically, is an unseen active force producing visible results. From the Greek pneuma (pneumatic, pneumonia) and can be translated as breath, wind, breeze, impelled mental inclination. In a broad sense art, music, poetry, pathogens, culture, tradition, religion can have profound effects on our emotions, behavior and thinking without our being aware of them.

I also used the words perception and perspective. The former being personal and the later empathetic. The objective is what we want. Motivation is why we want it. Often science, religion, politics are ideological fixations used, misused and abused either intentionally or even subconsciously. Ideology, the science of ideas.

YouTube: Perception & Perspective

YouTube: Conditioning by Mythological Presupposition

YouTube: Ideology Disguised as Settled Science

Welcome. What is it, specifically, that you would like to know more about?

Loosely speaking, everything. Specifically, the Bible.

 

[I Am Hugh]

Welcome!

I get the irreligious... but why are you apolitical? Do you not live in a society and do you not have a personal interest in how that society functions?

Setting aside strict adherence to the common definition of religion, my personal observation leads me to believe that religion, in its most basic sense, is "pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance." (Oxford) I respect all religions and ideological or world views thereof as well as without. There are atheistic and theistic religions, for example. By irreligious I mean, personally, not a participant in any religious, political or ideological paradigm. I see religion and politics as the same basic thing.

I have an interest in politics and religion and how they have affected the cosmos. Uh - world, worldview, "reality," zeitgeist. Age.