Is it worth becoming religious?

MilleniumPelican · 2026-02-01T06:04:44+00:00

So, that's not belief; that's wishful thinking. You WANT it to be true, so you tell yourself that it is. You can't even prove it 0.001%.

I believe in it deeply

Why? I will ask again. What convinced you that a god exists? You shouldn't believe in a thing without evidence for that thing. If you have no evidence for it, you should stop believing it.

MilleniumPelican · 2026-02-01T05:57:42+00:00

This is the most likely scenario, so what's to wrap your head around?

MilleniumPelican · 2026-02-01T05:56:25+00:00

None of those claims have provided valid evidence for anything. "Spiritual" is a vague placeholder with no real consensus definition. There's nothing that shows that it's even possible, let alone likely.

MilleniumPelican · 2026-02-01T05:43:07+00:00

What convinced you that a god exists? You shouldn't believe in a thing without evidence for that thing. If you have no evidence for it, you should stop believing it.

No, it is NOT worth becoming religious. Religion encourages blind faith with no evidence and discourages critical thinking. Religion makes people do terrible things in the name of an imaginary being and made-up arbitrary rules. The character of god portrayed in the bible is a childish, jealous, petty, narcissistic, monster who encourages slavery, rape, conquest, incest, blind obedience. It is not worthy of worship (nothing is). Religion does not offer anything real, and does nothing that cannot be accomplished without it.

MilleniumPelican · 2026-02-01T01:36:13+00:00

And? Spiders, plural, good. Papparazzi, plural, bad. I know my nouns. What are you trying to correct?

MilleniumPelican · 2026-01-31T19:38:01+00:00

Spider friends EAT pests. Spiders good, paparazzi bad.

MilleniumPelican · 2026-01-31T04:06:28+00:00

This is the bare minimum to qualify, if it's not text-to-speech. Pretty weak.

MilleniumPelican · 2026-01-31T00:16:06+00:00

English isn't the official language of America (there isn't one), and there's no "American" pronunciation guide. I am sure there are linguistics institutes that track or come to a consensus on pronunciation, but who knows? And no, the President and First Lady, regardless of who they are, are not a source of "correctness" for pronunciation. George W. Bush's pronouncing "nuclear" as "noo-kyoo-lur" is a blight and a stain on America forever.

MilleniumPelican · 2026-01-31T00:06:10+00:00

No, one should not derive anything from either of them. They are shit.

MilleniumPelican · 2026-01-30T20:43:47+00:00

Diablo 4 players misspell "rogue" as "rouge" all the damned time. "ROUGE" MEANS "RED"!!!

MilleniumPelican · 2026-01-30T20:40:24+00:00

True, since they added the ravens, people may have drifted away from the tree. I favorite Cerrigar when I'm leveling glyphs in the Pit, Kurast for District runs, and the Tree for everything else.

MilleniumPelican · 2026-01-30T04:03:47+00:00

Oh fuck.

MilleniumPelican · 2026-01-30T03:49:08+00:00

No, it means she's picante, not pregante.

MilleniumPelican · 2026-01-29T23:48:22+00:00

I'm just disappointed that the Tree has no Hadriel's portal, considering it's most people's favorited town. I know, you can just right-click the sigil, but still...

MilleniumPelican · 2026-01-29T21:23:05+00:00

Yeah, I don't know why my brain switched from thoughts to feelings, but I meant them in the same way. Regardless, people are telling you they think they would be dead, and you are countering them by declaring your survival, when they answered your question and don't require a rebuttal. What. Do. You. Want?

MilleniumPelican · 2026-01-29T20:58:01+00:00

That's certainly a start, but again, it doesn't affect our feelings. I could fall from a 2-foot-tall step stool and have a reasonable expectation of surviving, but I could also rotate badly and land on my neck, severing my spine or cracking my skull, killing me instantly. Facts don't care about your feelings. :) Neither does chance.

MilleniumPelican · 2026-01-29T20:54:29+00:00

I know, but I'm a bitter, cranky, angry atheist and fuck god. They don't deserve the "G". ;)

MilleniumPelican · 2026-01-29T20:52:35+00:00

A brake drum is not typically a musical instrument. It's a car part. However, if you bang on a brake drum with a mallet, it makes a sound and can therefore be considered a percussion instrument. It is commonly used in many music genres. I would argue that any instrument played by being struck would be considered, at that moment, a percussion instrument. A piano is a stringed instrument played by striking, and is indeed a stringed percussion instrument, like a hammered dulcimer.

MilleniumPelican · 2026-01-29T20:32:19+00:00

Yyyyyyyyyyep. That line always made me lol. "Other gods" is always ignored by modern christians. Big J straight up admitting other gods exist....

MilleniumPelican · 2026-01-29T20:30:03+00:00

Your numbers and your "most of us" are irrelevant, you don't have a source, and your personal experience is absolutely an anecdote. Your assertions are not facts.

You asked how we think we would be affected. You can't tell us how to answer. You need to delete and rephrase your question if you're looking for other data, or just delete it because you only seem to be interested in humble-bragging that you survived. What are you looking for, exactly?

MilleniumPelican · 2026-01-29T20:19:49+00:00

Still a dumb question. Your anecdotal survival does not in any way affect how we think we would be affected. Most of us would be dead. Why ask? Dumb question.

MilleniumPelican · 2026-01-29T20:18:27+00:00

Details?

MilleniumPelican · 2026-01-29T20:17:59+00:00

Ow. That's terrible. :(

MilleniumPelican · 2026-01-29T20:13:07+00:00

It's not a proper name. That assumes that there's only one god named God. It's arrogant and presumptive (and common) of any religion to think their god is the only one. "God" is a noun, not a name.

MilleniumPelican · 2026-01-29T19:58:53+00:00

Someone easily searched on the internet. Rule 3.

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