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Quote by: PatrickHenry  Nothing you would be aware of, if you don't acknowledge God... |
I have in the past though. Via Tibetan Buddhism (weakly) and through Christianity and Islam (more strongly). So I can sympathise with your views. Currently I fid it impossible to have any kind of religious life, so my empathy is in absentia.
To get me a little better, you'll need to study details. I'm a psychiatric patient. When first hospitalised I was so scared of treatment I violently attacked a nurse and escaped from the ward. Simplifying matters I'd read an antipsychiatry website, (
The Antipsychiatry Coalition ). Now although that group doesn't have direct links with the Scientologists, I've heard that it's a part of an umberella organisation which is a Scientology "front". Scientologists don't believe in medicine, but prayer. If I'd have known about the link between the groups I would have been more sceptical of the articles I'd read (no such thing as depression, psychosis is an alternative and valid form of intelligence etc), but as it stood I felt I was trapped in a cruel and inhumane and unscientific institution. (btw at the time I was a believer and had prayed to no effect on my condition.) If I'd have had a better scientific and cultural education I wouldn't have been such a fool and would have trusted the doctors and ward staff more.
Now btw partially as a result of the drugs I'm on I'm an atheist, and like to promote that viewpoint believing it to be correct. Organisations like the church of scientology (and the Taliban) scare me, and I try to combat the mediated phenomena of internet opinions which might cause people to in my opinion err and accept their principles and beliefs either in part or in whole. In my case going along with dodgy sources lead to a gross misrepresentation of reality and consequent dangerous, antisocial and counterproductive bahaviour. I can see it happening again in other cases. People, if they're going to
vote in a safe, social and productive manner need a good education too. Therefore I try my best and post.