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Quote from: Chisnowell on April 09, 2010, 02:12:45 PM


Is there a God?

What happens when we Die?

How were we all Created?

...fuck it Dude, let's go bowling...

QuoteIs there a God?

What happens when we Die?

How were we all Created?

I think that anyone who tries to tell you they know for certain the answers to these is feeding you a line. The first question I think is only something you can answer for yourself. Don't let someone else tell you how to think. The second I think is impossible to answer until maybe after the fact. The third I personally think science has the best guess and even there is some uncertainty.

I think this is indirectly addressed in this quote: "Life is short and complicated and nobody knows what to do about it. So don?t do anything about it."

It's OK to have an answer of "I don't know". I think part of the human condition that, is at times both a blessing and a curse, is this need to have answers to our questions. 

As someone who tends to work with this sort of thing, I personally believe that everyone is right, unless they believe they are wrong to which then they are.
There have been numerous stories from what people have told me, and experiences I have had personally that leads me to believe that anything is possible.
As a wise dude once said "Nothing is true, everything is permitted" In dudist language this would be interpreted into "Don't bother figuring out shit, just do what you feel like and it'll work out man, abide"

Now according to Quantum Physics, things on a molecular level will change depending on who views something. In a spiritual way this has proven that magick works, and that people in the east have been right for thousands of years. What you want to ask yourself is, "What do I believe" and then ask yourself "What do I WANT to believe?

If you believe there is an almighty dude in the sky who resembles Jeff Bridges, and it works for you, by all means believe it. You might be granted with a fridge full of White Russians and a pocket full of bowling money.

This has been proven to work, there is a dude in India who hasn't eaten for 60 something years, and scientists have put him under tests and he hasn't even done as much as use the restroom. He believes that his god wants him to be vibrantly alive and healthy and he does not require food or water to be that way.

So yeah dudes, what works for you will work for you, believe what you want to believe. Or just don't care, this is what I think it means to be a dudeist. Take everything easy, and don't fret about it.

Quote from: perfectlykevin on May 14, 2010, 02:11:01 PM

Quote from: Chisnowell on April 09, 2010, 02:12:45 PM


Is there a God?

What happens when we Die?

How were we all Created?

...fuck it Dude, let's go bowling...

that really tied the room togeather

Quote from: Chisnowell on April 09, 2010, 02:12:45 PM
I was just looking for some Key questions people ask religion in general, so please feel free to answer them.

Is there a God?

What happens when we Die?

How were we all Created?

Pretty standard Questions Can you answer them for me? or at least give me the views a member of the Latter. Dude Church.

1) As a person, no, but there's the Universe we live in, the closest thing to a God we can experience.

2) I don't know, it doesn't really matter, I'm more concerned of what happens when I live.

3) We aren't created, we are born from our parents through a biological process that makes us part of the Great Karma, see point 1.

No god, just his son Jesus, the pederast.
when we die we get thrown off a cliff into the bosom of the pacific.
We were not created, we mutated from other life forms. I like turtles.

I have one for you, How do magnets work?

Quote from: not_exactly_a_lightweight on February 19, 2011, 07:23:03 PM

I have one for you, How do magnets work?

Magic!

From:
http://dudespaper.com/no-frame-of-reference-18.html/

Would Apathetic Agnostics sort of tie the philosophy together?
Well we just don't know dudes, and it's too exhausting trying to figure it all out...lots of ins...lots of outs, so we are just trying to keep our minds limber and like just take it easy man...can't worry about that shit man...life goes on. You know...strikes and gutters...some times you eat the bar...some times...well some times...well...is this?...what day is this? Well it's like this...dudes just like Abide.

Quote from: not_exactly_a_lightweight on February 19, 2011, 07:23:03 PM
I have one for you, How do magnets work?

Just like everything else does.

I wish there was a thumbs up button (kinda like face book) because there are a lot of comments here that i would rather thumbs up than write my own. But here goes.

1. Yes there is a god. Simply because people believe there is. Santa Claus is real, because we make him real. Just as whatever your definition of god is, is also real. I think there is a god, because shits happened to me that makes me think something greater than me alone exists. But I tend to think that I myself along with everything else, pretty much sums up what "GOD" is. I like to imagine that one day 'we' were just kinda being, then suddenly we thought and dreamed to the point of self conciousness and said "whoa, this shit is heavy...I exist man!" Then after millions of years, 'we' said. "I'm thinking way too much, I think I need to dream of some other things to help dream so I can take a break from all this dreaming, so 'we' dreamed of ways to host little images of what we thought we might be like, you know...things that walk or eat and smell and bark or fly or sneeze or grow fruit and all sorts of things that dream too. And whenever something is created, it starts with a dream. You couldn't have the big lebowski without a dream, or a rug. It had to be thought of first. It all starts with thought.
Thought is the root. All we are is pure thought.

When we die, were reincarnated. Period. You can't not exist...It's impossible. Just try to think of nothing. Oops...you can't. Because nobody ever knew what nothing was, because it never existed, or if it ever did we weren't around for it or can't remember it. Even a coma is something. It's a period where you can't remember shit, and you don't do a damn thing for a long time. But it still happened. Death is a stage where your body decays and ceases to be the vessel for your 'soul'.  It's scientific fact that when you die, DMT is released from your pineal gland in excess of it's normal amount from when you dream. DMT is basically this thing that's in ever living thing, but it's responsible for your dreams specifically. It's a hallucinagenic and if you can get some, people say it's the hardest trip you can ever do. Well, congrats, you do it every night when you sleep. But you don't remember that specific DMT experience from your REM state because it's so powerful it somehow wipes the memory completely, it also is known that the deepest stage of rem is always a nightmare, which are believe by some to be natures way of preparing you for bummers. But, scientists don't really know exactly whats up. I'm pretty sure we kinda interlope in and out of alternate universes.

How were we created, well...You kinda asked the same question twice dude.  Unless your asking if mom and dad told you the stork came and your having doubts...

It's all like just our opinions dudes. If someone else has a different opinion does that make them wrong? No it's like just another opinion is all....Am I wrong?

I mean do dudes really want to get into dogma and all that shit? Isn't that why we are drawn to Dudeism? No fuckin' dogma to get us all uptight and shit.
What difference does it make anyway? Shit still happens, life still goes on and we still need to learn to abide it all whether it be strikes or gutters.
Dogma is very undude dudes.

Quote from: Chisnowell on April 09, 2010, 02:12:45 PM
I was just looking for some Key questions people ask religion in general, so please feel free to answer them.

Is there a God?

What happens when we Die?

How were we all Created?

As Ayn Rand once said:

Quote from: Ayn Rand

When I die the universe will cease to exist.

And from Manfred F. Schieder on Richard Dawkins book:

Quote from: Manfred F. Schieder

Richard Dawkins wrote an excellent book named "Unweaving the Rainbow" where he hails, in moving words, the unique existence of us living thinking beings. We didn't exist before we were born - I wrote about this in my article "Gustave Courbet and 'The Origin of the World'" - and Dawkins states that we are the only animal that knows that it will die. The universe will continue to exist, of course, for it has always existed and will never cease to exist, but each of us will never be again. In this brief moment of our existence, we had the opportunity to see the universe, to see existence in its entire marvel, to know about it, but then it will be over, for all the infinite eternity of the universe.

Basically taking the Buddhist line that everything comes from within and is projected outwards, what you believe the universe (Multiverse etc) to be is what the universe (Multiverse etc) is to you.

The more time you spend worrying about such things the more screwed up you get.

My opinion is my opinion, your opinion is your opinion, mine works for me.

Quote from: perfectlykevin on May 14, 2010, 02:11:01 PM

...fuck it Dude, let's go bowling...

Been looking into Biocentrism.

And yeah opinions are personal, but there are truths that negate some opinions. It's one thing to not be constrained by dogma, but it is another not to be discerning at all. There are things we just don't know man, then there is bullshit, one should try and know the difference. The no dogma thing about Dudeism should keep most of the BS away, but it doesn't mean a free for all, Dudeism can not be stretched over everything. Take the Thuggee murder cult, I don't think one could assimilate that ethos into Dudeism.

Quote from: revgms on February 21, 2011, 09:04:01 AM
Take the Thuggee murder cult, I don't think one could assimilate that ethos into Dudeism.

And they would not wish to be dudes now would they?
Well maybe they would? You know...see the light of being dude and just taking it easy man? After all...all that murder and looting and what have you MUST be exhausting man.
Would and of us turn away a convert? Shit dudes, we even take ex-Christians!