Ancient Archive-for topics 5-6 mos old

[Charlotte Eve]

Born C of E, baptised but never followed religion, been raised as an independent woman who questions everything. I am agnostic, yet will never comform to a religion, I don't and will NEVER believe in them.. but I do not judge people on their beliefs.

Anything for a simplistic life huh?

[Flautapantera]

This is a great thread!

My music is mostly indie. Here are a few of my favorites:

The Killers, Armor for Sleep, Something for Rockets, ok GO, Rooney, Anberlin, Head Automatica, The Arctic Monkeys, Amber Pacific, The New Pornographers, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Panda Band, Bing Crosby...

I really love oldies (as in 50s-70s). The Beatles are amazing!

And basically anything except country or rap (bleck!).

[Callawang]

yep, that's my leg.

[Flautapantera]

yep, that's my leg.

Wow. If I could vote, this would be a very tough decision.

[starky32]

im agnostic...i was raised christian, but found some things i didnt agree with and asked some questions no one could answer

[Woo]

I'm a total atheist. I don't believe in God, and I'm a total materialist when it comes to matters of "mind and brain". My parents didn't get me (or my sister) Christened as babies because they wanted us to be able to make up our own minds, and I'm glad for that! I think I would find it difficult to be christened in a CoE church and then have no faith.

I find religion fascinating though, not so much the doctrine but how religious documents like the bible can give us so much historical information. And of course, I respect everyone else's beliefs, as long as their beliefs don't infringe on anyone else's rights.

[romanceismusic]

I am also agnostic. I won't ever conform to a specific religion. I believe that a person should worship and believe in themselves, and focus on making themselves a better person, instead of worshipping and believeing in a diety. BUT I respect every body's religion, and I don't judge people for their beliefs. I say, to each to their own.

[Nora Volkova]

Raised nominally Southern Baptist.

Partly converted (need to finish the process, which was interrupted a couple of years ago by some personal and financial issues) Jewish, and although I'm not *technically* Jewish under halacha, I consider myself Reconstructionist Jew. (Yay Rabbi Harold Kushner!)

Philosophically agnostic, western-Scientific and materialst naturalist, because what a lot of people don't realize is that it is entirely valid to be both Jewish and agnostic. Well, okay, Chabad and other Orthodox Jews would disagree, but they aren't the absolute last word.

(A lot of people don't realize that it's also possible to be both progressive Christian and agnostic, though -- I'd probably also be comfortable affiliating with a liberal Christian wing like Quaker or United Church of Christ, or the liberal wing of Episcopalianism a la Bishop Spong, or whatever denomination Marcus Borg counts himself as. Bottom line being that I don't believe Yeshua ben Yousef was either a divinity or the Messiah of Jewish folklore, any more than Simon Bar Kochba was.)

[Broken Kid]

Greystroke has sent me communication through ESP and told me to complain that not enough of the wonderful women of LG15 are posting pictures of their legs! Come on, people!

And just a reminder - the Babes of LG15 contest is going on as well. Send your submissions to me via PM.

[tannhaus]

Well, I'm quite a hodge podge.

I was raised Pentecostal Christian. I was actually a minister.

At the age of 17, I came to terms with the fact I'm bi...and left the pulpit.

I went immediately to Satanism - the christian variety because in my limited mindset at the time, I thought if the Christian god that I had been taught about didn't accept me....then I had no recourse.

Within six months I had learned about Wicca though and gravitated towards it. I began practicing Wicca.

Then, when I was 18 almost 19 I learned about Thelema and became a Thelemite. I've been a Thelemite for 16 years.

I'm also a vodouissant...someone who serves the loa and "practices" voudou. I've been one for 10 years.

I tried the hare krishna thing for 2 years recently, but had a lot of problems with them. So I left.

So now I'm just a Thelemite vodouissant

[rachelalexis]

I was raised going to a Congregational Christian church. My parents took my sister and I until we reached an old enough age to decide for ourselves based on more than just "I don't like waking up early on the weekends."
So it's been a long time since I've been a part of a church. I go to them occasionally, usually accompanying a friend to get an idea of what their church is like. I'm sure one day I'll find one that fits me, but as it stands the closest I've found is Methodist. Though Believe.net tells me I should be a liberal Quaker.
As the years have gone by, I've added a lot of things to my base faith. I take a lot of time reexamining the things I hold true, and figuring out if they feel right anymore (I believe whatever higher power is out there gives us our feelings for a reason.)
In college I took a lot of religion classes (could have had it as a minor with one more class, but most of what was left was Christianity/Islam/Judaism, and I was into learning about less covered religions than that [Native American/Hinduism/Buddhism etc etc]) so those influenced how I look at faith.
I'm a big believer that we're all trying to put a different name to the same thing, and that every belief has a grain of truth in it.


Wow, that was a lot longer than I planned it to be!

[sovietkitsch]

I'm a big believer that we're all trying to put a different name to the same thing, and that every belief has a grain of truth in it.

exactly how i feel!

[tannhaus]

I was raised going to a Congregational Christian church.

Stupid question..but what's that? Is it pentecostal?

I'm a big believer that we're all trying to put a different name to the same thing, and that every belief has a grain of truth in it.

Agreed! Some of Crowley's best work was trying to show the similarities among religions.

[cimaruta]

My entire family is a hodge podge.

My first experiences with religion were at Sunday school in a Methodist church. My first school was comprised of a daycare and eight school aged children. It was a pentecostal something or other where little five year olds ran around speaking in tongues and teachers warned us about the dangers of Hell. Of course, I now realize that I was sent to that school for reasons regarding my safety. That's cool with me.

Besides occasional appearances at a local Baptist church, or my desire to assist a friend of mine (a minister of music) with occasional cantatas and the like, I rarely went to church.

I studied Wicca for about three years and then moved on to explore other magickal traditions. I'm not certain where I belong yet. A lot has changed for me in the past few years.

As for my family?

Luciferian and LaVeyan Satanism (but the practitioners have since gone on to other things,) Chaos, Wicca, Native American, general pantheism, atheism, Roman Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses, Baptists.

And I ALMOST got a Jewish in-law. Pity that didn't work out.

The most amazing thing, is that everyone in the family gets along splendidly. And, despite being in the heart of the Bible belt, we've had no problems with the community.

[Keevy06]

I don't have an interesting story like most of you do.

I was curious about Christianity when I was younger (probably because that was the only religion I knew of. (I grew up in a very small northern town in Canada). I went to a United church for about a year with a friend and her family. I could tell right away that it didn't feel right and when I came to the conclusion that is wasn't for me I stopped going.

I've always felt that there was something going on in the universe that I could not fully comprehend so I took a 'World Religions' course my senior year of high school to familiarize myself with some of the different religions out there. It was really interesting and I did a lot of research on my own afterwards.

Basically I think that the majority of religions have similar ideas and principles. I think I can learn something from them all that will help me grow and become a better person.

Right now I am interested in Buddhism, I am not a Buddhist.. I do not and probably will never follow an organized religion. not because I think it's wrong.. I feel that if someone can find what they are looking for in something that is already laid out for them then that's amazing and wonderful - good for you... I just have a hard time devoting myself to something that has been formed by someone else's experiences (but I will open my mind and try to learn something from it). I tend to look at things on a smaller, more personal scale... I pay a lot of attention to the experiences that are brought my way and the lessons that each of them have to offer.

From everything bad comes a lesson that will bring good...

I definitely think there is something bigger, something collective that lives in and loves everything and everyone.... I also don't think that we aren't supposed to know what that thing is....

I guess that makes me agnostic or something