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**debdodd** · 04-12-2008, 04:17 PM

I believe that I do not know and until I die I will not know and then I doubt if I find out anything ....

I do think it is silly for us to believe that we are the only sentient beings in the big picture ... how presumptious of mankind to think that earth is the only place that sustains a life form that has beliefs in some type of higher being.

Do you guys believe that if there wasn't any religion to guide us that we would be a lawless society? That people only do what is "right" because of a fear of going to hell?

I'd love to believe that people could care about each other without having a god demand that we do so .... I'm sure that this total delusional thinking.

04-12-2008, 04:17 PM	#8 (permalink)
debdodd Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Indianapolis, Indiana Posts: 1,802	I believe that I do not know and until I die I will not know and then I doubt if I find out anything .... I do think it is silly for us to believe that we are the only sentient beings in the big picture ... how presumptious of mankind to think that earth is the only place that sustains a life form that has beliefs in some type of higher being. Do you guys believe that if there wasn't any religion to guide us that we would be a lawless society? That people only do what is "right" because of a fear of going to hell? I'd love to believe that people could care about each other without having a god demand that we do so .... I'm sure that this total delusional thinking. __________________ "Ubi dubium ibi libertas." "We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And indeed, we seem a species prone to that delusion, again and ever again ....."