Hello (from Australia)

Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 11:58 am

Welcome, Kurdistan. Hoping that you enjoy it here. Smile

Confident Learner Joined: Sep 02, 2010 Posts: 67

thanks DigitalAtheist: well so far from reading the posts its nice, I do enjoy it, I like the quote you have: careful what you put nto your head. hhhlol

Just Arrived Joined: Oct 07, 2002 Posts: 4 Location: USA

Hello everyone,

It's been a long time since I've posted here. I joined Infidelguy years ago, but then I just went wayward. Soon I plan on becoming once again a Goldmember. I try to have my head screwed on straight, but I sometimes faulter. Suffering from various mental problems and dealing with such problems makes it especially difficult to make up my mind about reality.

It is hard enough for otherwise sane folks to decide what they wholeheartedly believe, but even more so when you have to deal with severe mental issues. I have studied so many different avenues over the years that it is hard to say for sure who is right and who is wrong about certain topics. I agree with our Australian friend about how it may be difficult to say who is actually 100% right about anything. I mean, there are so many different ways of percieving the world.

I've meddled in theism and atheism. Each time I enter my theistic mode of thought I feel mentally out of it and somewhat insane. Then my brainstate changes like New England weather and I come back to the sanity of Atheism. That's the trouble with mental illness. Being a brain disease it is hard to get the brain to function right so that I can maintain a belief system for any leangth of time.

I'm sure no one here believes in possession by spirits, but I can tell you that not having complete control of your mind very much feels like being possessed by something out of your control. That "possession" is actually the problematic malfunctioning of the brain itself, but subjectively speaking it feels like someone else is often at the controls. Currently I am back to Atheism. I left the insanity of Theism behind once again, to my ultimate happiness and continued search for sanity is this often insane world.

Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 12:37 am

Welcome back Savanthar Exclamation

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I'm sure no one here believes in possession by spirits, but I can tell you that not having complete control of your mind very much feels like being possessed by something out of your control.

Nope, but it's obvious, due to superstitions, people believe they're possessed. Like so many real human experiences, we tend to misinterpret the cause.

Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 10:27 am

Welcome (back) to IG, Savanthar. Very Happy

Savanthar wrote:

I agree with our Australian friend about how it may be difficult to say who is actually 100% right about anything.

Usually the guy holding the whip is wrong. That is why he is holding the whip.

Savanthar wrote:

Each time I enter my theistic mode of thought I feel mentally out of it and somewhat insane. Then my brainstate changes like New England weather and I come back to the sanity of Atheism. That's the trouble with mental illness. Being a brain disease it is hard to get the brain to function right so that I can maintain a belief system for any leangth of time.

I have been meaning to start a thread on this idea for some time.

Just Arrived Joined: Oct 07, 2002 Posts: 4 Location: USA

Thank you everyone for welcoming me back to IG. I plan on listening to the radio show and some of the archives as soon as I become a Gold Member again.

I once listened to an IG show with guest Michio Kaku. That was an excellent show! As for science, I believe that even in science a theory is never really thought of as 100% correct. Science always leaves a little wiggle room for possible error, so the best it can do is about 99.9%. I had a DNA paternal test one time and the results obtained were 99.9% positive.

I believe this is because often science has to make adjustments to even the best theories. For instance, the fact that Einstein's theories toppled some of what Newton believed about physics. Then of course there is the great differences between quantum physics and classical physics that have yet to be reconcilled.

Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 5:42 am

Hi, names michael, just joined today and read your introduction, can I ask, would you still classify yourself as cautiously optimistic agnostic? or has your view point changed since then?

Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 7:15 pm

Welcome to the forums Shand Very Happy

Sad to say, I don't believe Imaginaryshouting is still posting here. It's too bad, I really enjoyed her input Sad

We had some hacking issues with the website, which brought it down for several weeks. This, I think, caused a number of people to loose interest.

Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 10:49 pm

DigitalAtheist wrote:

Usually the guy holding the whip is wrong. That is why he is holding the whip.

Or the M-16, the AK-47, or the fatwa... or the briefcase nuke (is that a movie fiction?)... Sad


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