Creating Your Own Religion

  • folie a dru.

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    @ maylene.
    I think it was, but if you consider it your 'religion' it still is, even if your religion is just a mocking of other religions, yes?
    June 19th, 2012 at 07:10pm
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    That's just the point though. What someone who believes in a certain thing would see as evidence of the truth of it, might be seen by someone else as being absolutely insufficient; and that's okay but it doesn't necessarily mean that the first person shouldn't believe. To one person it all may be balderdash but to another it may be their life.
    June 26th, 2012 at 08:25pm
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    I have my own religion. I don't know if anyone share it. I didn't "create" it. I build my belief system. I believe there is a metaphorical book that has every live that ever has and ever will be and you pick your live. I picked my life, knowing I would develop an eating disorder, that my mother would die at a young age and that I would choose to go bigger and better places on no money. I chose this because I wanted to achieve it, overcome it because my life can be amazing. And when I die, I will choose again.
    June 26th, 2012 at 10:50pm
  • PUNK_KILLJOY

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    i dont have my own religion but as far as it goes my gods are the wolf gods and i shall never stray from them =]
    June 28th, 2012 at 06:04am
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    I don't know what I am anymore. I think I'm some combination of a lot of things. This is copied from a blog I wrote on the subject.

    I do not believe in one true faith or one true god. I believe there is something out there, bigger than any of the gods we currently worship on earth, bigger than planets, bigger than the universe. It is an entity without being one and made up of the energy that makes up us, our galaxy, our universe, and the gods we worship on earth.

    I believe the gods we worship are real, if only because our belief in them created them through this energy. I believe Allah is as real as Jesus, that the Eastern gods exist, that they all exist. I believe they are all a part of this bigger thing I believe in. Because of that, there can be no wrong or right religion, only wrong and right actions (which can still be relative).

    I believe when you die, you ascend. Where do you ascend to?

    If you're a Christian who isn't a bad person, most likely to heaven. If you believe in reincarnation and you aren't a jerk, that will most likely happen to you. But for those of us who know there is more and crave it, we get to ascend (maybe not in the next life, but in a few down the line) to the next dimension.

    I believe our souls are us and always will be, but this body is just the vessel for our soul in this life. In our next life, our soul will have a different vessel. And eventually, perhaps, souls are just souls and we are these not quite concrete beings with so much more to do and be and feel and explore.
    June 30th, 2012 at 02:20am
  • IAmNotAProfessional

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    Okay, I don't know what religions this is all from, but here's what I think...
    There is some sort of higher power, not the Christian god though. I believe in a life after death, but not heaven and hell or reincarnation. Just something after. I believe in evolution and the whole "big bang" theory.
    This Is a bit of the pegan belief. Do no harm to yourself, others or nature (present or future) and you'll be alright. Also, the law of three (everything, good or bad, comes back 3 fold). Idk thats the basics I guess.
    August 4th, 2012 at 07:12am
  • GeekyKitty

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    The area of religion is a very grey area. That's why it's called a 'belief'. You can't completely prove it nor can you completely disprove it. That's why there's so many. If you don't agree completely with a religion, you break off of it, keep similar beliefs with that religion, and edit a few of the details to suit yourself. That's just my brain popping out some kids there. As far as my religion goes, yes I've edited a few parts of religion. I believe there can be an afterlife and reincarnation. The after life is completely psychological...or in other words, I don't think there is one specific look to it, considering multiple people have different ideas of a type of 'heaven' if you will. But, I think everyone pays for their crimes, and in due time, is reborn back into a new creature.

    I'm still studying the religions, seeing if a few ideas of one make even more sense. I have yet to figure out how we became to be.

    In my opinion though, it's much better to create your own belief system and have your own opinion on religion and how things work than just follow another religion completely, unless of course you really agree with EVERYTHING that religion offers and has to say.
    August 5th, 2012 at 04:41am
  • shattered soul;

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    Creating your own religion is wrong. End of.
    August 14th, 2012 at 01:50pm
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    tacobellangel:
    Creating your own religion is wrong. End of.
    Why's that?
    August 14th, 2012 at 02:58pm
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    @ Alex; periphery.
    It's making fun of religion. Plus, if you're making it up, you know it's not true.
    August 14th, 2012 at 03:00pm
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    tacobellangel:
    It's making fun of religion.
    How? The only religion I can think of that is designed to parody/criticise organised religion is Pastafarianism. What makes you think all other 'self-created' religions are the same?
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    Plus, if you're making it up, you know it's not true.
    How so? Creating your own religion isn't necessarily the same as "making it up". For one thing, a religion isn't just composed of things that are perceived by the believer to be absolute facts; it's also made up of moral codes, rules, dogma, etc.; things to live one's life by. So if someone formulated a religion based on specifically being kind to, say, mice, then the "truth" element wouldn't come into it; it's simply a belief system that advocates being kind to mice. Secondly, even if someone's own created religion does have its views about absolute truth, then as far as the person is concerned, it's still not "making it up", because it's based upon what they believe to be true.

    Essentially, not all self-made religions are the result of a person sitting down and knowingly writing complete and utter lies.
    August 14th, 2012 at 03:10pm
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    @ Alex; periphery.
    What is exactly Pastafariansm? I've heard of it but I'm not exactly sure what it is.
    August 14th, 2012 at 03:23pm
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    This will explain it better than I can. XD
    August 14th, 2012 at 04:57pm
  • folie a dru.

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    I think 99.9% of religions are the same. I think they are all different interpretations of the same thing. I don't think God is actually the human way we perceive him, just that we're limited by our capacity of thinking and as humans we personalize God as a sort of Man thing. But really, God is the father/mother of everything and is just the pure energy, but who says that energy isn't capable of actually thinking and feeling and creating life in the universe? I mean, it's all the same thing. It really is. And it plays out by the laws of nature, but it's more than that. It's so simple to understand and so incredibly hard to explain. I identify as a New Age Christian now, but it'll evolve and change because I'm always understanding it more.

    Oh, and angels are aliens, but not vice versa all the time. Angels/aliens. Yes.
    September 28th, 2012 at 05:28pm
  • The Master

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    I still want to create Doctorism.

    Nothing says religion than a morally grey, practically unkillable, time travelling alien dude.
    September 28th, 2012 at 06:33pm
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    I believe in my own religion because it's not truly believing if you're just following what your parents told you. I try to think more rather than to just accept something that makes little to no sense. I am agnostic, but I also have my own different believes that are probably far too broad and detailed to be posting on here. :-/
    October 19th, 2012 at 08:10pm
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    dahoo dores dru.:
    I don't know what I am anymore. I think I'm some combination of a lot of things. This is copied from a blog I wrote on the subject.

    I do not believe in one true faith or one true god. I believe there is something out there, bigger than any of the gods we currently worship on earth, bigger than planets, bigger than the universe. It is an entity without being one and made up of the energy that makes up us, our galaxy, our universe, and the gods we worship on earth.
    That almost sounds like the Tao in Taoism, and the rest almost reminds me of Samsara from a bunch of other religions (Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism, I think). It's pretty interesting.
    December 6th, 2012 at 03:02am
  • folie a dru.

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    @ Thylacine
    I've heard that before. It seems like what I believe draws from a lot of different faiths and I'm cool with that. I mean, I think they're all really the same when it comes down to the core. I think, in the pure core of all faiths, there is simply a belief in something greater than yourself and a desire to understand that belief. I think the reason we have so many religions is there are so many interpretations of that one thing. I really, truly believe at least 90% of religions are all talking about the same world events, referring to a lot of the same people/stories, etc.
    December 6th, 2012 at 05:55pm
  • Lucasluc

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    I would not necessarily create an entire religion but a type of moral and philosophical guideline system!
    February 12th, 2014 at 12:48am
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    I'm not truly religious or non-religious at all. I believe fact holds firm over fiction, as always it has, and that clearly the Universe had to have started somehow, because from where would an infinitely expanding conglomeration of primitive matter come if not somewhere? What we imply when we say god or gods is bigger than we realise. It's bigger than the Universe, bigger than all time. Something big enough to have created from a timeless void this Universe in which we live... I don't think human minds are geared to think in such proportion.

    That is why we have religion. It's our small, personal or nonpersonal way of accepting into our minute brains that something created the almost infinite Universe. Be it a God or many gods, every little stream eventually trickles back into the same, neverending river.
    February 12th, 2014 at 08:13am