Religion (or lack thereof) and Autism/Asperger's?

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@aghogaday

I'm always open to exploring new ideas. I just got home from work and need to decompress, but I will read it later.

Thanks, that is probably a good idea, because it is a little riveting, in parts. As a note, all of the designs in poetry were not planned, they flowed from creativity. It was interesting to me to see the shapes of the chalices, crosses, and bells, as an after effect. All archetypes of religion since many years before our current day religions.

I still consider myself a classical Pantheist, even with the specific "christian" analogies.

I have never written anything close to poetry until the last four months. My communication has been described as computer like, or research paper-like in analogy more often than any other description.

The poll is setup to reflect NT-typical religious beliefs and practises, and as such says nothing about Aspie specific religious beliefs (superstition and privat (non-social) religious beliefs), By setting up biased polls it is possible to prove anything.

I wrote poetry for years when I was growing up. I tried to keep a traditional diary, but I hated writing the entries. I started writing poems instead. They don't always address the specific events occurring at that time, but they remind me of the emotions I was experiencing and help me recapture the memories.

I think that's a bit of a straw man. I'm not denying there are poorly reasoned "atheists" who say "god doesn't exist in the absence of evidence".

Most "atheists" are in fact "agnostic atheists" though. Richard Dawkins is an example. I can't post a video or link but "You Tube" Dawkins and agnosticism. He calls himself a 6.9 out of 7 on his "there is a god" to "there in no god" scale. In other words, he thinks it's extremely unlikely the universe was created by some god. However, he operates as if there is no god.

I do find the question of is there or isn't there a god a bit dubious though. If there is a god there is a way to prove that god in a way that everybody, to the exclusion of perhaps the severely mentally handicapped, could understand.

Let's suppose for a second, god doesn't exist. How would you prove god doesn't exist if "he" doesn't exist? In other words, how do you prove a negative? What test would you devise? What evidence would you cite?

I find the fact that there are hundreds if not thousands of theistic creation type stories telling. Many of these creation type stories are mutually exclusive.

How does the Christian god coexist with the Hindu gods? Can Vishnu and Brahma the creators explain why we're here? Why does the Christian story make more sense than the Hindu one? What evidence would we cite, aside from self-referential religious texts, to justify one belief over another?

I suppose it's possible the Christian god created our universe. However, I also know the "space" that Christian god could occupy is rapidly shrinking.

The kicker for me was discovering evolution at school at around age 11, realising that all the stuff I'd been fed up to that point about a god creating the Earth and Adam and Eve etc was just mythology. Since God didn't create mankind or any other living creatures on the planet the idea of a god became redundant and irrelevant so consequently I'm atheist. The slight twist is that I'm actually Zen Buddhist / Atheist... but that is a whole different topic.

When I told my therapist I was doing poetry they were amazed because they said it was evidence that I was connecting language to emotions again, after not doing it for 5 years.

It's not even something they imagined suggesting I do to help me with Alexithymia. It has made a huge difference in the way I view the world, as a feeling rather than stale place.

I'm pretty sure that most of the stories of the bible and other religious text is a symbolic search of an inner journey to find a soul, linked backed to emotion, as a start, and then spread to others as a message.

There is a consistent conflict of mind and emotion with human beings, that increases as time goes by, as a result of collective intelligence new byproducts of culture.

Language is a Universe of expression. It starts with the stars, 4 digits. a prehensile thumb. and people sketching angles in sand reflecting connections of stars.

As with the expression of emotion and differing cultural 'artifacts', across cultures, the end result is not always the same, but the start is the same beginning.

People describe it differently and label it differently. That is All.

No one paints the same picture except for One.

Suggesting that God does not exist, is a 'silly' rhetorical argument.

If there was a whole that could communicate. it would laugh back at ya.

Keeping in mind, I Am a classical pantheist...

This is not a personal comment directed at anyone here; it is poetry of how I view IT.

There is a whole that can communicate. It's called us.

To quote Carl Sagan, "we are made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."

Pantheism, eh? Based on a cursory search of Wikipedia pantheism is the belief that everything is god. Okay, fine, but then why do we need the concept of god? If everything is god what purpose does it serve?

That is what I mean by rhetorical question.

It doesn't take language to see it.
All it takes is perception.

Humans likely do not experience anything of
what some other animals do,

as they are 'blinded' byproducts
of collective intelligence.

I have a good memory
and can still perceive
part of that experience

before I gained
the ability to speak
as a non-verbal child.

That deficit in language
was a gift beyond
my 'wildest' imagination...

It is the beauty of poetry
that lets one see
a larger part of it,

if one is able to listen,
and hear the messages...

By the way, I use a clip from the movie 'Contact', inspired by Carl Sagan, to express this feeling of whole, in my blog over and over. It is my all time favorite 'thought', that expresses what I am saying, in a simple 10 minute video.

It is easier to visit that place than to live there...

That stuff that 'Jesus' and others (the combined effort of the folks that wrote the stories) was talking about that was not 'adulterated'; commercialized out to patriarchs; is a Universal truth... NO ONE can change... it is just a matter of 'tapping' into it... that is the challenge....

There are no two paths that are the same...
and there are no two paths that are separate...

It is 'questions' like that...
that can take one there...

In a "Twitter-Verse",
the Camel is bigger
than ever before...

and eye of needle is closing in...to closed...

The only escape now is language,

most ironically...

Hippocrates is quoted as saying "The soul is the same in all living creatures although the body of each is different."

It's easier to see that without clothes...:)

The furry, feathery and scaley among us are better off without clothes. Yesh.

Working physicist here.

There's no evidence for anything from Genesis. It didn't happen.

Sorry

Atheist here. I try to respect other people who are religious, but sometimes find they try to make me 'convert'. Actually I'm not sure it's called 'trying to make me convert' as they some say they're not trying to, but they say things like 'having a religion makes you feel better and you'll suffer less issues such as anxiety'. My thoughts on this is that it's not going to help, sure perhaps it's psychological but there's other ways of thinking I can use to feel better psychologically with issues without religion.

Aghoday wrote:

This is beautiful...

and also this:

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