No.250753
me on the left
No.250774
>>250773ruteto drop some gore pics for this nigga
No.250781
Anyhooze I think the reality of religion is kind of besides the point. It's not provable or disprovable in any case so who really cares, I think if it makes people happy and gives them purpose that's a good thing and I think religion has been a net positive on society, even for all the evils it's caused (which are in any case the result of the abuse of religious structures, power structures, or intertwining religious fundamentalism with political movements; in short, the weaponization of the religion is how we get things like the evils of the Catholic church, Islamic militants, Hindu nationalism, and so on, rather than the religion itself.)
I think religion is a healthy part of any functioning society and any evils one may attribute to religion are more properly laid at the feet of, again, power structures and institutions than the religion itself. Some religions (Islam, for example) have a higher baseline level of intolerance, belligerence, and assimilationism than others, but there are still ways to practice those religions that are proper for modern society. Most Muslims aren't ISIS members.
>But doesn't that mean they aren't following their religion???
I guess, technically, but we all kind of pick and choose anyways. If you're a real tradcath warrior or whatever, start stoning people for wearing mixed fabrics.
The point is the above is a pretty pessimistic take imo. At the risk of nitpicking I also think it's kind of intellectually dishonest to completely rule out the idea of a higher power. You can doubt it and I have no issue with that, neither am I denying evolution as a phenomenon, but none of us know the true origin of species. Everything is theoretical, because we weren't around to witness it, and in any case, there's no unit of measurement for the divine, and thusly no way to measure its absence. I'm not gonna debate this because religious debates become autistic very fast but I just think it's food for thought, and in any case, I don't think Suigintou is the kind of person whose mind can be changed on topics like these
Oh well.
TLDR religion good, religious power structures bad; as for existence of god, no proof for it against so who gaf
No.250783
>>250779>people are becoming more irreligious nowthey're still spiritual, that's why astrology became popular
believing in a greater force makes the world less heavy
No.250787
high serotonin -> you believe the world is good -> it's easier to believe (I will go to heaven, everything I do has a meaning)
low serotonin -> you believe the world is bad -> it's easier to not believe (it takes off the burden of trying to figure out the meaning of life, if you were to have faith you will come to realization that the world is a torture machine and afterlife will be even worse)
No.250807
the world is bad
No.250835
>>250783there is nothing spiritual about astrology
astrology is becoming popular because physicism has been exposed as fraudulent
No.250842
>>250819Yeah I kinda put the egg before the chicken on these things by default but the vastness cannot be understated
No.250845
what's even the point of pursuing truth when what you accept as true depends on which neuron in your brain fires
No.250847
>>250845We don't even have a scientific explanation for where thoughts come from or what thoughts are
We also have virtually zero progress on the creation of life
No.250853
now imagine two guys
one is a fatso with joint in one hand and burger in the other watching a 2h sfm futa compilation in a dark room
while the other is a nobel prize winning physicist who wants to discover the secrets of the universe
who is more logical considering we will never know the truth
No.250854
>>250851The material world is Satan's property anyway
That's why usury is at the core of societal function
No.250858
>>250855christianity is what created today's moral values, without it we would be sacrificing enemy tribe to a god of thunder and see it as morally correct today
No.250859
remember that "do not kill" had to be hammered into people's heads because they didn't see killing as bad by default
No.250863
>>250855Humanity without their religions is just rape and murder
Even the barbarians we descend from had orderly and civil societies thanks to their culture and spirituality
No.250866
>>250863people still rape pillage and murder even with religion
every major war in the anglosphere and europe in the past 200 years is an example of this
No.250870
>>250866That's war and the most obvious example of an army which raped and pillaged were the Soviets who were a braibwashed jewish slave army
Any consequences of a war that you dislike would've been orders of magnitude worse without European culture and religion
The nazis even fed their pows and attempted to prevent the spread of typhus with zyklon until the supply lines were destroyed because they were Christians
No.250894
>>250863not my problem, I am without religion and I won't be raping and murdering anyone
if I were in control of the world I'd simply make examples out of rapists, murderers and others who show that they are monsters, not rely on some imaginary power to punish them in the afterlife
No.250897
>>250750it'd offer you advice about how about worship, religion and spirituality in an abo context to help you on you journey, bit the words don't have equivalent english words and a lot of ideas don't even have verbal expressions. it's usually based off of unspoken understandings.
No.250904
>>250894This doesn't apply to the 90%
>>250897That sounds awesome
No.250906
>>250902bullabahga buddjul-tha
No.250915
>>250897Having a language with words/phrases/concepts untranslateable to English is a sign it's kino
No.251000
>>250787Serotonin makes you depressed and mentally ill and human beings have more serotonin than ever before