"There are no atheist in fox holes."
I was raised catholic but I am not religious as an adult. I never go to church. I would however say I am a spiritualist. I pray a lot. I meditate a lot. I believe in a power greater than myself that I cannot understand. I don't believe there is this god that looks down on us and intervenes in our lives and says ok you get depression and you don't. Or that directly answers our prayers. I do however believe there is a power that we can tap into. All that it takes is willingness.
I have read some of Dawkins books on evolutionary biology and he is certainly one of the best in his field. I am on the totally opposite side of him on the god question. The debate between the materialist and spiritualist is a fascinating debate but I am clearly in the camp of the spiritualist. Look at some of the discoveries in quantum physics and string theory and it will blow your mind.
It seems Dawkins and his "God Delusion" and the materialist have gotten much more publicity than the spiritualist. I think this is because Dawkins argument is much easier to make. It is more in line with human perception and more logical. I believe that human perception is very very limited. There is a whole lot more to the story than we perceive. We get glimpses. There is much more that is unknown than is known.
We will probably get in trouble for discussing this in this section. Hopefully the mods will leave it here.
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The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be." -- Richard Feynman
Major Depressive Disorder
Anxiety Disorder with some paranoid delusions thrown in for fun.
Recovering Alcoholic and Addict
Possibly on low end of bi polar spectrum...trying to decide.
Male, 50
Fetzima 80mg
Lamictal 100mg
Remeron 30mg for sleep
Klonopin .5mg twice a day, cutting this back
Last edited by Altered Moment; Apr 03, 2014 at 11:36 AM.
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