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Is God real or something we make up to reassure ourselves?
Question: Do you think a greater power exists?
Created by: joemarks at
06:06:13 PM, Wednesday, June 21, 2000 EDT
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of course a Greater power exists. God made us....unfortunately he also made the Devil so greater POWERS do exist.
AnonymousJul 24 2000 7:20pm God is a wanker
JesusJul 24 2000 7:20pm Sarah...I know that is your opinion...but, how can you sit there and say people need to grow up and get a life? Believing in God makes some one immature, is that how it works? I do believe in God, although I don't spend my whole life praying, and bible-thumping. There are just things people have experienced that there are no explenations for. What makes you high and mighty because you don't believe in God, and anybody who does "pathetic"? They are people's beliefs, each and everyone of them different. I'm not gonna try and tell you why I think God does exist, because it will get me nowhere. But, I will tell you that it is a load of bullpoo to have you telling everyone else they are pathetic for what they believe in. Of course it is VERY hard to believe in something you've never ever seen...but there are things that you know are there and you've maybe never seen. I'm sure you've been in a history class (eh hem..DMBry) that book is filled with things A BUNCH OF MEN WROTE DOWN!! How do you know those aren't lies. If it's because there were other people around to witness it..there were people around to witness things that happened in the Bible too. But, they are deceased, same goes for the history books. Sorry I typed so much, but it's a very touchy thing to me, when people try telling other people they're "immature" or "pathetic" for believing in what they do.
AnonymousJul 24 2000 7:20pm Exactly I totally agree with you Sarah. But you know that's what they have been told is right their whole lives. Plus they need to be in the majority and it makes them feel like they are good and better than everyone else by being in the majority and loving this imaginary characeter. Praying makes them feel responsable for things they really had nothing to do with. And I think God is really the wrong thing to live for. And we all know the theists aren't going to even consider trying to see it from the other point of view. They probably think the devil possesed me and is making me write this or something. Anyway they'll never grow up unless they decide to accept the facts not just what a bunch of MEN wrote down.
DMBryJul 24 2000 7:20pm "God" is something made up by pathetic individuals, who are scared of living life and who cannot accept responsibility for there own actions, because they are so immature. They need to get a life, before they realise they have spent this life looking up to someone who does not exist. Grow up you sad people.
SarahJul 24 2000 7:20pm As for me, I believe it's the Goddess, but She is a higher power. :^) So, that counts for me. Blessed Be.
RandomJul 24 2000 7:20pm Dear Anonymous, I'd like to point out that 1st the devil was an angel and then he decided his way was better than God's and that is why there are problems. He was hurled down with the demons to clean up heaven for when the annointed came [which most people agree happened in 1914] and I don't think it is fair to say "he also made the Devil" since the angel chose it's course. God gave us the choice of choosing the perfect life and love God offers, and that he sent his son and that his son wanted to pay his life as ransom for man[human]kind after Adam ruined life for mankind by disobeying God is really hard to describe. God's love is truly amazing. It might look like God is causing problems to some people, but if you really ponder, think, study and such, then you know the truth.
SoumynonaJul 24 2000 7:20pm I agree with you totally Soumynona. God works in mysterious ways. For awhile in my life i thought he had forsaken me and my friends families when within 2 years 7 of my friends were gone from suicides. I now know, that i had to go through that pain to help others when it happened to then. Since then i've saved 15 of my other friends countless times. i believe there was a reason for what he did, so i could help others. There is no doubt in my life that god exists. Just look at nature. If your a Darwinist, then explain this, if we all came from an ameoba...why didnt we all develop the same? If we came from monkeys...why are there still monkeys? Why didnt they "evolve"? wheres your missing link? Why are you so afraid of God? You know, if you dont believe in god, well...you better be right. ~*~15~*~
ItzJustMeJul 24 2000 7:20pm Hey, stop talking about me behind my back!
The Dancing Panda in a God disguise!Jul 24 2000 7:20pm Why do you wanna make Jesus sad by using his name in such a way?
JonJul 24 2000 7:20pm sarah needs help bow on ur knees before u get struck down
anti dancing pandaJul 24 2000 7:20pm If believing in a higher power brings people together and keeps them happy or "morally sufficient", then I think it's fine. However, the idea that it's necessary to dress up to get together in a church on Sunday morning or don random religious apparel baffles me. Using religion as an excuse to kill, write Christian rock, or feel sorry for yourself to a point where it affects others is as lame as the writers for Full House.
Cosmonaut AerostiltskinJul 25 2000 12:17am I also belive in a higher power. Wheither the power is GOD i don't think so. Just like the bible. How many of you can tell me who actually wrote it????? But I think that you belive in what you do and thats what makes you happy then go for it! Peace and Love!!!
NikkiJul 31 2000 4:42pm
Well, I'm one of those people who clikced on 'don't know'... let's look at it from the two main points: 'God doesn't exist' and 'God does exist'
God Doesn't Exist Well, for me personally, I refuse to worsship a God that has forsaken me because of what I am. On a wider scale, if you were all powerful and ever merciful, would you just sit around and let all the pain and suffering continue in this world? ( If you would, you are a sick and twisted individual)
God does exist Well, if you're a sciencey person (like me) and you believe in that the universe wasn't dreated at some point, that would make it infinitely old Right? Now, some law of thermodynamics I forgot which one (Give me some credit, I'm only 14) states that enthalpy ( or something that sounds like that and means 'disorder') increases with time... wouldn't that mean that the universe would be infinitely disordered? But look at it... if our planet as 2% closer of farther to the sun, all life would cease to exist.. somethings going on... Like Nikki reckons, it might not be God, but...
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MattAug 20 2000 12:18pm I believe in a Higher Power. I call It/Him/Her God. I have learned in the study of anthropology that humans are biologically driven to concieve of the concept of God. I believe that everyone has ther own personal concept and view of God. Some believe God doesn't exist. Some are terribly threatened if others do not agree with their personal beliefs of/about God. I would like to point out that Darwin was a Christian and his theories were not intended as a threat to the belief of God's creation. I think that people who feel that science threatens their concept of God would do better to expand their concept to a God who is not threatened by science, as it is, in a way, the study of physical existence and that is part of God's creation, if you believe in God.
finderSep 06 2000 7:57pm After having red all the comments that
you all posted here I can sure say
that there is at least a plurality in
the points of view.( even the answers
are +/-50% on yes.....)
We "choose" to believe (usualy)what we
have learned from home....from which many people are largely influenced
and if it is not that, it could be the exact opposite.If your parents believe in god you may choose not to, just to contradict them .But after that, comes your personal point of view.I do not believe in god because I believe that every form of "dogmatism" which includes religions are a form of spiritual emprisonment....and as we can see in this century ....the great men
and women who are sceptics and reach many times the level of philosophers
believe in nothing......
AkakoukiosSep 09 2000 4:09am You're so damn right Sara!!! There are
so many Christians (I don't say all) who will, to citate my fav band, rather
kneel down than take charge of their lives.
As for you ItzJustMe, life experiences all ways it finds, and real perfectness does not exist, but it finds different possibilities which work really good, and so there are monkeys and also monkeys who evolutionated to men. Now, you tell me, if men was really made of God and Adam and Eve were the first men, why do we find today the sceletons of Neandertalians ?????
Oh, and Soumynona I don't find no Devil around here.
DemonSep 23 2000 8:30am to all the absent minded fools writing in her, I want to let you know that god did not make us, science did. There is no god, no heaven, no hell, for all you know a person who was insane could have written the bible but yet thousands of people still read it, and to all the brainwashed christians out there, I HATE YOU ALL
The TruthJan 11 2002 8:44pm That's the dumbest question ever. There is no God. More people believe in U.F.O.'s than they do God.
AnonymousMar 25 2002 3:48pm Is democracy real? Or something we just made up to reassure ourselves. Don't underestimate creativity, its 'super' that its 'natural'.
soothsayerSep 05 2002 5:37pm YALL ARE SOME FOOLISH SOUNDING INDIVIDUALS. PROVE TO ME THAT WE CAME FROM DUST, AND TELL ME WHERE THE DUST THAT CREATED THE BIG BANG CAME FROM, AND THEN YOU WILL MAKE SENSE.
AnonymousJan 07 2003 10:23pm kk people....r we talking about jesus or G-D????
88luvvaMay 02 2003 1:48pm I THINK G-D IZ REAL, BUT I'M JEWISH SO I'M NOT SO SURE THAT JESUS IZ EVEN WITH G-D.
AnonymousMay 02 2003 1:49pm If only you knew the truth, you would LOVE GOD SO MUCH, God is always there for me. I JUST CAN'T EXPLAIN THIS JOY IN MY HEART! God is so good to me even when i sin, he loves me. Im 100% sure that God(and Jesus) exist. Its so wierd when I pray, he always answers me!
I LOVE GOD!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE GOD!!!!!!!!!!Aug 07 2003 6:15pm The Truth is that God and Jesus exist and if you deny it, well its you fault because you're missing out on the THE REAL TRUTH!! I LOVE GOD
I LOVE GOD!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE GOD!!!!!!!!!!Aug 07 2003 6:17pm GOD IS DEAD
AnonymousSep 11 2003 10:50pm He is alive. King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Lion of Judah and Lamb of Isrial. He loves you, he knows you, he wants you so much. Why can't you understand. You break his heart everytime you say a mean thing. But he loves you, just the same as before, always will. He loves you, you can not deny that. He loves you, I love you
AnonymousFeb 18 2004 10:04am If any of you ever read anything like the watchtower or something, you would see the church was made to control the herd. Religeon is used to keep the populace happy. stop us from rioting. Make us docile. How often does God's word encourage individual thinking? IT IS A LIE USED TO MAKE US THEIR SLAVES AND I AM NOT A CONSPIRACY THEORIST OR A NUTTER OR A DEVIL-WORSHIPPER. Buhddism is okay because it is a philosophy and not a religeon.
why bother?Mar 02 2004 4:29am God is a CROCK OF SHIT. Sorry but there is no such ?thing?. Thousands of years ago, life sucked! If you were lucky enough to have land to grow your food, then after you planted it, you really, really wanted it to grow, or you and your family where going to starve and die. There are many reasons why your crops would fail ? drought, flood, disease, the list goes on? but I believe that it is human nature to believe that there is some divine power i.e. god, looking after us, it gives people hope, to think that if they prey to their ?god? then he will look after him and his crops. Now this might sound cynical or even na?ve, but if you look at the hundreds of different cultures around the world, this theme can be seen everywhere. I don?t expect any religious people to accept this, because I realise that for many of you, you have been programmed from a young age, about your ?god?, and his wonderful work. But don?t get me wrong, I?m not against all religion, I realise that the Ten Commandments was a way of instilling morals in people, and getting people to not steal and eventually care about other people. But to believe in god you must have ?faith?, and the only way to get that is to deny logic and reason.
Matt I'm not going to Hell, because there is no such place.Apr 07 2004 9:34pm God is a CROCK OF SHIT. Sorry but there is no such ?thing?.
Thousands of years ago, life sucked! If you were lucky enough
to have land to grow your food, then after you planted it, you really,
really wanted it to grow, or you and your family where going to
starve and die. There are many reasons why your crops would
fail ? drought, flood, disease, the list goes on? but I believe that
it is human nature to believe that there is some divine power i.e.
god, looking after us, it gives people hope, to think that if they
prey to their ?god? then he will look after him and his crops.
Now this might sound cynical or even na?ve, but if you look at
the hundreds of different cultures around the world, this theme
can be seen everywhere. I don?t expect any religious people to
accept this, because I realise that for many of you, you have
been programmed from a young age, about your ?god?, and his
wonderful work. But don?t get me wrong, I?m not against all
religion, I realise that the Ten Commandments was a way of
instilling morals in people, and getting people to not steal and
eventually care about other people. But to believe in god you
must have ?faith?, and the only way to get that is to deny logic and reason.
Matt I'm not going to Hell, because there is no such place. (EasApr 07 2004 9:38pm I wonder what makes people think they can do all the things they do and ha ve all the things that they have...and still believe there is no God. I am in AWE! All I can say is WOW! Mat GOD have mercy on your souls! I believe in my heavenly father!
Feelin 2 b SweetApr 14 2004 5:18am i just say this i live, to live for god and jesus.if god did not exist.He EXIST, but if he didnt i would be the worst criminal in the world i would do anything to my own satishfaction.I fear god he is my only judge i dont let people judge over me just becuse i LIVE .god is our only judge.Fear God and God loves you all.only god makes me good.
peace trough hell muhahahahaJul 18 2004 6:46pm sorry if i offend anyone, but i dont think theres a god, there isnt any proof that he excists, so until i get proof, he doesnt!!
nopeApr 02 2005 12:34pm f*ck that sh |