Creating Your Own Religion

  • Geist

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    Albert Einstein created his own religion, except he was the only believer in it and he had never given his religion a name or started a church or anything like that.
    February 17th, 2010 at 12:55am
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    Geist:
    Albert Einstein created his own religion, except he was the only believer in it and he had never given his religion a name or started a church or anything like that.
    I'm pretty sure a religion has to has followers to be classified as a religion... meaning, more than one follower.
    February 17th, 2010 at 01:09am
  • Xsoteria

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    ^Maybe he meant that he made his own belief system. At least, that's the spirit of the thread as I interpret it. People choose what they believe in, and even though they classify themselves in groups with plenty of others, such as Christians or Buddhists or whatever, they all (or most) have slight inconsistencies or interpretations with the genuine "code" of the religion they're a part of. So they don't go and actually make a new religion but stay with the one they are already a part of, and believe things they want to. /ramble&point_lost
    February 17th, 2010 at 01:48am
  • Geist

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    Now that I think about it, Humanism is pretty much creating your own belief system, or at least for the most part anyway.
    February 17th, 2010 at 02:12am
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    I agree with your part where you say what you believe will ahppen to you, happen to you.
    February 26th, 2010 at 04:46am
  • daisyfairy

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    I have 'made' a religion in the past with my best friends. Nothing serious. We called it ChadDasium (he's Chadd, I'm Daisy) and Georgie is the creator of Gods. It was part of our Three Islands plan we started when we were 12. Jeez, I was a sad preteen.
    February 28th, 2010 at 08:41pm
  • Billy Michealangelo

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    I think creating your own religion is a load of bull.
    but hey, that's my own opinion.
    March 5th, 2010 at 02:04am
  • ThePiesEndure

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    Katrina Amanda:
    I think creating your own religion is a load of bull.
    but hey, that's my own opinion.
    No need to put it so bluntly then.
    March 6th, 2010 at 07:55am
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    And Sing:
    No need to put it so bluntly then.
    opinions are usually very blunt, it takes a lot of "sharpening" through thought to make an effective edge of a good argument. xD

    In all seriousness though, all the religions practiced today were started by just one person or a small group of people. Start your own, and if it ever rises above the status of "cult" then you'll have quite a following on your hands.

    As for me, I prefer not to trust the saftey of the universe with anyone, especially not myself.
    March 8th, 2010 at 10:20am
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    Katrina Amanda:
    I think creating your own religion is a load of bull.
    but hey, that's my own opinion.
    Weren't all religions created way back at some point though? I mean they can't have just... been.
    March 8th, 2010 at 07:33pm
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    The Doctor:
    I think that if only one person believes in a religion, ithey could be called schizophrenic.

    If I was to make up a religion, I'd keep the people very very scared and squeeze as much money out of them as possible.

    I think I'd be a very ruthless cult leader.
    Anyone claiming to be a prophet these days would be called schizophrenic.

    So you'd be a Catholic priest?

    Just believing in a God with no strings attached would be Deism. As for your religion, I'm rather curious what made you believe in these things, like the "6 Saints." Dream, vision, what?
    March 10th, 2010 at 02:12am
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    Alexface.:
    Weren't all religions created way back at some point though? I mean they can't have just... been.
    They came from "visions" and whatnot. Which is sort of ridiculous, if you think about it. Worshipping something you saw in a dream?
    March 10th, 2010 at 02:14am
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    Alexface.:
    Weren't all religions created way back at some point though? I mean they can't have just... been.
    They came from "visions" and whatnot. Which is sort of ridiculous, if you think about it. Worshipping something you saw in a dream?
    March 10th, 2010 at 02:14am
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    I have my own special beliefs, but I never thought of them as a religion. It's a weird christian--agnostic--sci-fi--fantasy mix. I intend to write it down and make sense of it one day.
    June 6th, 2010 at 06:21pm
  • Calico Jack

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    Back when I went to church, the pastor had a sermon about mixing religions. He said that some actor (I think it was Johnny Depp) likes to take bits and pieces from other religions and mix them together to form his on sort of religion. The pastor explained that it would end up being a disasterous mix, and demonstrated it by mixing together different things- ketchup, chocolate sauce, eggs, etc.

    I always thought it was a bit unfair. Who says that bits of Buddhism would be like ketchup while bits of Christianity were like chocolate? What if Buddhism was peanut butter, Christianity was chocolate, Islam was caramel, and Hinduism was vanilla? I think that would be rather delicious.

    Now, I kind of agree with the pastor, but then again, I also think all religions are just mythical.
    June 6th, 2010 at 06:49pm
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    Calico Jack:
    Back when I went to church, the pastor had a sermon about mixing religions. He said that some actor (I think it was Johnny Depp) likes to take bits and pieces from other religions and mix them together to form his on sort of religion. The pastor explained that it would end up being a disasterous mix, and demonstrated it by mixing together different things- ketchup, chocolate sauce, eggs, etc.

    I always thought it was a bit unfair. Who says that bits of Buddhism would be like ketchup while bits of Christianity were like chocolate? What if Buddhism was peanut butter, Christianity was chocolate, Islam was caramel, and Hinduism was vanilla? I think that would be rather delicious.

    Now, I kind of agree with the pastor, but then again, I also think all religions are just mythical.
    Most religions overlap each other anyway, so when you mix them, you get mostly the same general idea. It's just like mixing chocolate, dark chocolate, and milk chocolate. They're different, but they're still chocolate.
    June 6th, 2010 at 07:11pm
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    Taptapspindrown:
    They came from "visions" and whatnot. Which is sort of ridiculous, if you think about it. Worshipping something you saw in a dream?
    Sometimes dreams come true. Is that ridiculous?
    June 7th, 2010 at 03:40am
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    ^I think that's just a coincidence. I once had a dream that my dog died. 2 months later, she was hit by a car and killed. Does it mean that I had a vision, or was it simply something I was thinking about subconsciously after having just finished Where the Red Fern Grows?
    June 7th, 2010 at 04:37am
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    Calico Jack:
    ^I think that's just a coincidence. I once had a dream that my dog died. 2 months later, she was hit by a car and killed. Does it mean that I had a vision, or was it simply something I was thinking about subconsciously after having just finished Where the Red Fern Grows?
    Yeh well maybe that's a coincidence. But my dad's had this recurring dream of a house in the country which up until recently he had NEVER seen in his life, EVER. Then we saw it on one of our forays into the country. Up north of Perth. Freaky.

    /offtopic.
    June 7th, 2010 at 06:49am
  • Calico Jack

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    ^Chances are your dad doesn't remember every single detail, and he found a house that resembles it. I've had that happen to me before to. It's just something your mind is creating, and if it's something fairly normal, chances are there's a house like it.

    It'd be much more believable if the house in your dad's dream looked weird, like this:
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    June 7th, 2010 at 06:22pm