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Oops, miscommunication! I'm not searching any more. I'm just keeping an open mind in case something happens to make the existence of God a more natural assumption. My searching didn't find any religions that didn't set off a Human-Invented Baloney warning. Of course that doesn't mean I...

I finally reread your posts, AgnosticBoy. I like that you thought about what I said, but don't have much to say. I'm in kind of a "phooey with philosophy, I'm going to read my book/get a snack/look at LOLcats" phase.

You're right, of course, and AgnosticBoy has said the same thing. Religion is just my current fascination, or was until I gave up (again.) The difficulty of knowing anything about anything, oddly enough, doesn't bother or interest me as much. Maybe it's because it just is that way, and only...

I'm back, after another period of trying to have a religion. I just can't do it. I try, because I think life is better with a belief in the good things about religion, and you have a ready-made social group, and other things, but it just fails. I think it's being surrounded by everydayness...

Another one of my information-hunting discoveries: Pyrrhonism. Lifted from a Wikipedia article that I keep a link to: "As with Epicureanism, Pyrrhonism places the attainment of ataraxia (a state of equanimity) as the way to achieve eudaimonia. To bring the mind to ataraxia Pyrrhonism uses...

:) I hear teachers hatehatehate the day after Halloween.

Agnosticboy, you said: " Let us also know if you've found anything that is true or seems reasonable, even from an experience standpoint. " There were some things. Some of the religious people's arguments (1 and 2 below), which I had also come up with on my own, are good. 1. The world is...

Another subject. AgnosticBoy, you were talking about things I've been thinking about a lot, in trying to understand how the firm believers get that way. The subject I came up with to analyze was written history. I believe that what's in any good history book is largely true. Why? I wasn't...

There's so much to say... I haven't discovered the one true religion, sorry. That's unless it's whatever religion you can follow, that's in your nature, because I don't think you can fight your nature. Some people are easy believers, and some people are just skeptics, as I see it now. I'm...

Hmm... I thought I saw something about this site being closed on weekends but I can't find it now. Is that because it's changed? Anyway, I'll limit myself to one post per day on the weekend, if any, until I know. But speaking of knowing: Do we really know anything for certain? I once...

Well, I've been off looking at religions, looking for one I could follow, and keep hitting brick walls. They all (the major ones anyway) say something that makes me think they haven't really been talking to God. So I guess it's back to agnosticism for me. Darn it. That doesn't in any way...

Something I recently found while searching around the internet: The state of not knowing but thinking there must be "something out there": https://www.24oranges.nl/2013/12/22/ietsism-or-how-the-dutch-invented-a-new-belief-system/

Does anybody else do this? I've mainly tried Christianity, over and over. I can sort of get into it, partly because you get promised that if you do, if you read the Bible and pray, faith will be given to you. I don't want to miss out. But it's never worked for long. The Bible, for...

... because we aren't jumping into any religion that we can't prove is right, but waiting for the definitive answer from God Himself. We're keeping our minds open for the one we can't doubt, that doesn't seem suspiciously like mere human invention in places. Asking us for money; declaring that...

I totally understand that this website is not mine and it has a purpose for which the owner/creator works hard. However... when I was searching for an agnostic forum, I almost passed this one by because it sounded as though anything but formal debate wouldn't be welcomed. Maybe that was...