/x/ - Paranormal

the same way anyone can be unshakeable in their beliefs, cognitive biases and arrogance

>>16765

This anon has the right idea.

It is a scientific fact that once someone has a very strongly grounded belief in something that also has ties to their core beliefs, chances of changing it through rationality or moral thought are little to none. This is why people convert into or out of religions after or during traumatic events.

In terms of modern religions and even systems of thought away from religions, they bring in the audience with positive messages or other attractive topics such as eternal life (an unproveable subject) for instance, and once the belief is firm enough they include other more cancerous forms of thought such as exclusion of certain types of people from their same way of thought based on very simple very stupid classifications (like having sex, eating pork or being black(**with no regard to intelligence of the individual in that specific case(because we are mostly aware race exists and most blacks are less intelligent because niggers)))

Which is what fully get them. Attractive/popular idea > supporting ideas that are less popular > unpopular ideas > irrational belief. In very popular religions such as Catholic Christianity it is a core concept and is the perfect way to make people think a certain way, the best way to control a population with little personal investment by the planner.

I'm a Christian Orthodox, but I have many interests in Gnosticism. That's the most summarized version of my beliefs.

You could also tell that I'm a firm believer in Jesus Christ as our lord and savior.

>>16758

I'm Roman Catholic

I'm a daoist and Erisian whom also ascribes to a hinduic belief in the afterlife. I like to call myself a chaoist.

started out orthodox Christian.

OP needs to fnord more

>>16758

Deist here who's really into shinto and esoteric stuff.I think there's a mastermind behind our creation and more than one life.I also agree that religion sometimes turns into totalitarianism that's why I try to look for spirits and God/s on my own

>>16765

>>16827

Both are named >God

Samefag

>>16758

I've actually seen what would count as miracles, so for me to doubt m y faith I would be committing intellectual dishonesty

All anyone ever needs is within OP.

Reincarnation is a thing.

Thus, we wouldn't repeat lives.

There's always been sects of religions appealing to a multitude of lifestyles. Maybe you need to reconnect with the environment, then in that incarnation you may find animism or Shinto to best suit your life lesson. We have varied views of the world, I don't feel there is a "right" and "wrong" it's all the same in the end.

>>16758

I am religious. Most people don't know it, because I just don't talk about it much. I believe in God, but I don't believe in evangelization (because that would mean that God needs my help to accomplish something, a conflict with the entire concept of God).

Lol I made this thread a few months ago and never check up on it, I'm surprised its still up (then again /x/ is really slow)

I was going through an insanely rough time when I made this thread and i was searching for something to bring me out of a slump I was in.

Johnny Cash's spirituals helped a fuck ton, they may just be songs but that man sung them with so much conviction. It may sound a bit childish but Johnny made it alright for me to believe.

>>20273

>>20276

That song is definitely one of them. Even his songs that don't have a somber tone get me, like his version of this tune. So simple but so so much belief in the words he's saying.

That's another thing I admired about Cash, although he was seen as this kinda lone wolf tough guy he never ever hid his faith. He definitely helped me i'll tell you that.

i'd say i learn more towards christianity, i don't believe it word for word but i do believe that it holds some truths. i don't carry a cross but i do keep an abnormal pendent on me; from my experiences of trying to understand more about the unknown i have seen, heard, and done some scary things. at first i approached everything as a skeptic wanting to believe, the more you look the more you'll experience. it all stopped when i stopped looking. these experiences made me a believer.

>>16916

You know how you sound.

>I am orthodox.

>I am most interested in the first heresy orthodox church had to fight with.

>>20359

>you can't find something interesting without believing in it

>>20359

Well, as far as I know the main problem with medieval Gnosticist cults was similar to the vulgar eclecticism of neo-paganism, New Age esotericism and post-Crowleyan chaos magick. They were trying to weld together a bunch of pre-Christian bits and pieces, and – more often than not – failed horribly… I mean, look at the retarded shit Wicca is, imagine that much of pleb factor with a higher level toolkit! What survived the purge got integrated and became the Templars and Christian Hermeticism.

>>20117

Jesus's "raising from the dead / ascending to heaven" was metaphorical.

>>16827

What a fucking bunch of lies, people doubt his faith every minute, if they really had some faith they wouldnt be like that and i am christian from my studies (i am not exactly another 12 years old). Lies and hate against christianity coming from jew academics and showed like true facts made me doubt my "skeptic" point of view. You have some books talking about some leaders, in some cases coins, then you have a gorillion of reported tortured people that keep in his faith even under torture because they witnessed miracles, everything from the same people, technically if you doubt Jesus Christ Caesar is just a fictional figure.

Fedoras are called fedoras for a reason and you dont need to know a bunch of geopilitics to figure that christianity is being replaced, academics have two faces and the ones showing "new facts" come always from the sale blood lines, you can check it for yourself in every wikipedia article before shitposting.

>>20495

Fucking corrector, well, if you dont get it check your autism please.

>>16758

I believe that, with mass psychology, ideas can become real. We recently called this phenomenon "Meme Magic" but I feel that this is how religions begin, perpetuate and survive.

>>20639

Dude, it seriously was a catholic school or you are just a troll, or maybe you talked to a protestant, maybe a troll?

You have from limbo to if they were ok they are saved anyways.

Only idiots have invisible friends.

>>20660

And air isnt real…

Daily reminder that autism is retardation.

>>16758

Im buddhist op, mostly from the theravada branch, i got my believes from meditating and reading, i guess doing peyote every once a a while also affects. if you got any specific question ask away.

>>20685

The books of Indigo and Iron pill need an update, that image has 'decent' taste but it can be better.

>>16758

I would give you an answer, but then you would claim I am deluded, have several mental illnesses and that I hallucinate.

So, why bother