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Why do you follow your religion?
- Thread starter Starlight
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Spice
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Different Omnist may choose differently or find the question irrelevant. I can't speak for @Starlight, but I, too, am an Ominist and I'm Unitarian.
Starlight
Spiritual but not religious, new age and omnist
Yes you are correct, different omnists believe differently
i also believe God is only one. Strict monotheism
Spice
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I'm Ominist with Christian foundation (it's what I know) and strong eastern leanings (it's what I'm discovering that "fits")
Starlight
Spiritual but not religious, new age and omnist
i am abrahamic omnist
I appreciate the open-mindedness you've displayed on this forum in your time here. Don't think for a second that it's gone unnoticed. It's quite refreshing.
Spice
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Spiritually cannot be about logic only. It's more about the mystery. It's about being humble, about knowing we know nothing in the big picture.
Does that qualification really make you an omnist, though?
firedragon
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But one cannot escape logic. If logic is out, we cannot have a discussion. So end of discussion. Cheers.
Starlight
Spiritual but not religious, new age and omnist
yes i believe that
It's adorable how you quoted what @Spice said out of context to give the appearance that you're flexing that intellectual muscle. You would do well to take this time away from this discussion to hone those debate tactics so you might come across as sincere.
Buh bye.
osgart
Nothing my eye, Something for sure
Virtues are my religion plus the eternal foundational reality of pure infinite non living and living intelligence. I follow my religion because I find it to be true. I'm an individual drop in this ocean. So is every life form. Reality is an illusion bound to the ultimate reality. Illusions are persistent and real and are derivative of the ultimate.
Without virtues there is no justice and no worthwhile relationship. Every positive character trait is a virtue, and every negative is a destructive vice.
Qualities have existence that do not translate totally into the physical. Virtues have existence in those that choose to be so.
I follow this because it makes the most sense to me and jibes with how I experience existence.
Without virtues there is no justice and no worthwhile relationship. Every positive character trait is a virtue, and every negative is a destructive vice.
Qualities have existence that do not translate totally into the physical. Virtues have existence in those that choose to be so.
I follow this because it makes the most sense to me and jibes with how I experience existence.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
I don't follow religion. Just ride alongside for the moment until it isn't needed anymore and discarded.Why do you follow your religion?
I answer my question first
My religion is new age and omnism. I follow new age because I believe it is logical. I also follow new age because I think all religions have something beautiful and holy about them. I can't choose between the different religions, I can't do it. I love songs and worship from different religions. I feel belonging to many religions.
New age beliefs is that God's presense is everywere, that God's presense is also in the soul. Both the souls to human and souls to animals is divine because we are God's children. All souls is from the same source, who is God. And God are love. Because of that our souls is also love. Because of that all people are one. New age belief is also in reincarnation. I believe strongly in reincarnation. New age belief is that God has no religion. God is beyond religion
New age beliefs is also the belief in omnism. Omnism the belief that no religion is the only truth, but that truth is found within them all.
Omnists do not believe one spesific religion, if that was the case then it is not logical.
An analogy that support omnism is this:
Four blind men who discover an elephant.
Since the men have never encountered an elephant, they grope about, seeking to understand and describe this new phenomenon.
One grasps the trunk and concludes it is a snake.
Another explores one of the elephant's legs and describes it as a tree. A third finds the elephant's tail and announces that it is a rope.
And the fourth blind man, after discovering the elephant's side, concludes that it is, after all, a wall.
Each, in his blindness, is describing the same thing: an elephant. Yet each describes the same thing in a radically different way.
This was written by David Horner The Blind Men and the Elephant
Also almost all religions share this: belief in God, hell/heaven/reincarnation, holy souls or prophets, to be loving to others, prayers, ethical rules
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firedragon
Veteran Member
Ad hominem.
firedragon
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Well, with no logic, there is no valid conversation. That's why I said it's the end of conversation.
Cheers.
Spice
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I wish you had been around 40 years ago to tell my husband that. He CLEARLY disagreed.
firedragon
Veteran Member
If someone cheats on another while being married, he is a cheater, not a bachelor. But I am sorry that happened to you.
Speaks to behavior, not character...
...though...
...your choice to call it ad hominem is telling.
Spice
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That's what Omnism is about. We're open to what our hearts are drawn to as truth, for us, at that time, knowing it may change, just as we know everyone is on their own journey and having faith that the Higher Power, by whatever name or definition, will meet us where we are.