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Originally Posted by Pay The Line
64 years old. I play poker, but not near any kind of a professional level.
Did you pray for guidance? Are you trying to make a connection to God?
We live in The Great Mystery. They didn't resolve that mystery in the superstitious, ignorant, feverishly apocalyptic 1st Century, imo. Gnosis is a cool thing regarding this quandary, canned religion can certainly have some upsides, but is proven as wholly unreliable as literally true.
There are untold gods posited. You have presumed one. That's for you. To each their own as gods are OBVIOUSLY manufactured by humans by the thousands. You get that right? Mankind has created thousands of gods. Say that a dozen times to yourself, because it actually takes hundreds or thousands of reassessments to penetrate hypnotic, presupposed belief.
Science has posited a different type of god. Sometimes religions are posed as of 3 types: fear-based, morality-based, and cosmos-based. I'm in the cosmos-based camp. And a personal god that is nice enough to help me through my difficulties while letting 10,000 children a day starve to death, is not part of my belief system. That is incredibly myopic and egocentric.
So if we say we have a belief system that helps me with trials and tribulations of life, that's one thing. If we say that belief system is therefore the metaphysics of the universe, we are just full of shyt. BECAUSE ALL THE BELIEF SYSTEMS EXIST FOR THIS REASON. Religion can and does aid people, really, for the same reason that imaginary friends help children. It's an internal narrative support system ... NOT an entity out in the world.
The cosmos, and nature, is the god I revere. An anthropomorphized magical being that kills and judges if you don't behave is not part of that worldview.
