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To be fair, he was calling himself that!
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Son of a gun, he was! Sorry.
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Does Solipsism count?
Get off my lawn you figments of my imagination!
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Nihilism.
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Can I only opt for a religious tenant instead of the whole ball of wax?
If so, I’d say, “Let everyone REALLY treat others as they themselves would like to be treated.”
That would just about solve every problem I can come up with.
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I wish. One of the things that has been hardest for my mother to understand (we still need to remind her sometimes) is that “not everybody wants to be treated as YOU want to be treated.”
She wants to have everybody in the same room chatting away; all of her children have a big need for “alone time.”
I pick Discordianism.
I always liked that Bastet girl, especially in later interpretations. She can bring friends, if she likes to.
Of course, if I were asked that question when drunk, my answer would be “Hail Eris!”.
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Nihilism.
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I am asking for established religions, not philosophical positions.
Another buddism vote, Zen if you need a more detailed answer.
Having read the OP link, I have to interpret it as asking what kind of God would you create if you could. If you can pick any religion and make it a “true religion”, you are either creating God or changing the nature of God in doing so.
And atheists are screwed. Since it’s not a religion, I couldn’t choose to make it a “true religion”. Nor would I want to create a God of some other religion to subject everyone (and me) to. Which means leaving the choice to someone else. Which also pisses me off, as I have to worry that next person chosen has some batshit crazy God. So, can I pick a religion by criteria rather than name? Since I don’t know if there actually is one like I want.
I want a world without a religion. If I have to choose one I would choose one that would immediately destroy the world and leave nothing behind. No afterlife, no rewards, no punishments.
Kind of like reality, but with a deadline.
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This is a “what-if” question, so if you don’t wish to participate in good faith, please go elsewhere.
A Voice From Above tells you that you have been given the one-time power to make any already established religion reality for the rest of time. If you refuse to choose one, the power will be given to someone you do not know.
Which one do you choose?
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Buddhism - specifically, Theravada Buddhism, not the Tibetan Vajrayana style thing with the weird cosmology or Mahayana with all the stupid Bodhisattvas and Pure Land crap . It’d add souls and the transmigration of same into the universe, but otherwise, nothing much.
Stealing this, cause I couldn’t have said it better myself. Even if I personally lean more towards being Wiccan.
Rainbow serpent
So, I read the pit thread first.
I will try to give an honest answer.
Mostly, I would look around and say, “What?”
If I believed the “voice” is in fact a true manifestation of God, (which seems unlikely to me, but then it usually does) I would answer, “Thy will be done.”
This answer, or rather these answers will probably fit in with your pique about “Why cant I get. . . . Yadda Yadda.”
Your answer is: You find what you seek. It is contention, and derision that you wanted, and that is exactly what you got.
Tris
I would pick Jainism.
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I would pick Jainism.
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There’s a Jainist temple just up the hill from me, so at least I’d know where to go…
[QUOTE=Czarcasm]
I have put in nothing that wasn’t in the original question. Picking a single tenet, picking all religions, picking a fantasy religion-all of these are cheating.
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Since all religions are fantasy, I disagree. I would of course pick the “one true”, but that doesn’t exist since all are created by man anyway.
And I answered picking from the op, let a stranger do it. I’m certainly not qualified.
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So, I read the pit thread first.
I will try to give an honest answer.
Mostly, I would look around and say, “What?”
If I believed the “voice” is in fact a true manifestation of God, (which seems unlikely to me, but then it usually does) I would answer, “Thy will be done.”
This answer, or rather these answers will probably fit in with your pique about “Why cant I get. . . . Yadda Yadda.”
Your answer is: You find what you seek. It is contention, and derision that you wanted, and that is exactly what you got.
Tris
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Please see post #1, and re-read the first sentence. Nobody forced you to participate in this poll.
I’m betting that the OP has recently read a certain story about The End on a certain porno site to which I will not link.
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I’m betting that the OP has recently read a certain story about The End on a certain porno site to which I will not link.
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No, I haven’t.
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Having read the OP link, I have to interpret it as asking what kind of God would you create if you could. If you can pick any religion and make it a “true religion”, you are either creating God or changing the nature of God in doing so.
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Wait, wait, wait. I’m missing something. What pit thread? I didn’t see a link in the OP. I admit I’m not the most observant person in the world, but…link please?
'S what I’m sayin.
psst. Quartz. PM me a link?
I’m not enough of a scholar of the earth-based religions to make such an important choice off the top of my head (will the Voice give me a bit of research time?), but it seems to me the Wiccans I know are the most peaceful “do-no-harm” fun believers I know. Buddhism just seems too dour and introspective. Christianity and its monotheistic cousins (Judaism, Islam, Mormonism…) have just been responsible for too much hatred and killing. The Greek, Roman, and Norse pantheons were too random and capricious. I don’t want to die just 'cause Loki’s in a bad mood today.
So I have spoken. Let’s all get sky-clad and frolic in the moonlight. Yeah!