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The reason I don't see the purpose of religion, is because we are given this life, we are here to live. We have to learn the rules of this life and how to best operate in this life, being our honest selves is the best way to do that. Whatever the feeling is, the emotion, the mood, and be honest with ourselves without living up to any standard, or the role society says we should play according to our sex,age,economic background, career, etc.

Religion adds rules and these rules can cause you not to express your true self when your emotions are the opposite of these rules. These rules cause you to conform to be the best Christian,Muslim,Jew,etc. swaying you away from being the best you. Your focus then changes to the religion, sometimes resulting in losing yourself in a particular religion.

If you have an emotion, or if you have a feeling express it. I personally will not allow a belief system to control my emotions, it happened once and the result, I regret to this day. But I don't live in that regret I have learned from it and am understand what I did wrong on my part. May you find what works for you. It may be many things, it may be few... no matter what works HONESTY had better be apart of that.

.onelove

RE:ligious DISScussSHUN(Z)

Man, i knew there was a reason i stayed away from these once leaving an environment heavily filled with religion. These are tiring. They are useless, and a waste of time when at the end of it no progression has occurred, and both sides are only saying what they believe in 19 different ways.

The problem i see is when someone is talking to you about what they believe and go from informing to convincing(or trying to convince) you to do as they do. whether they stand on the religious side or not! Its annoying to watch, and boring to hear after 15minutes.

I stand where I stand and you stand where you stand. If you want to talk about anything;lets discuss how our views are impacting the world; how are they benefiting our personal world. How are they helping and how are they hurting. How we have doubts about the same/different things!
Not sitting,standing,yelling,straining to get each other to see our views as right and wrong.
Personally;as far as beliefs...to each his own. If you want to try something new to improve your life do it, if it works stick with it if not go on. But personal life experiences, and the principals you come up with based on those experiences are what will determine what you believe in flat out!

Expand the mind. take down the walls of comfort and convention, what you've always been told vs.what you actually believe. what makes sense and what does not. and see that nude individual and work on them! Work on that person, because that person is you What do you really believe;and why?

if you want to know what i believe;talk with me, lets dialogue. but not just about religion and beliefs,but about ways to improve your life and mine because that is what we live,what we have,what we each know,and what we should learn about. To improve ourselves.