| Harmon |
12-22-2012 10:44 AM |
Actually, I am NOT a believer in a God. Well, kind of on the fence. Let me explain...
Religion is not in it's entirety a bad thing. May it be true or false, that is another story all together. That being said, it creates structure. It creates conscience.
I grew up Christian... Baptismal, Sunday School, etc. It wasn't a fanatical church, no born again shit. Just be good to one another type of stuff.
I can't speak for all religions, but as far as I was taught, the bible is a pretty decent guide to life in general. Not everything in it should be take literal, just like if you play Call of Duty that does not mean you should go around shooting people.
It's just a guideline that you follow. It creates fellowship. As a non-believer that has since attended various churches for family/friend functions, holidays, etc. I can honestly say that I have not once left unhappy. People are nice to one another, nobody looks at you cross eyed.
Say what you want about it, because believe it or not I am on your side (if you are atheist). But it's not such a bad thing unless taken to the extreme. It creates the framework of a good society.
Society has become so desensitized, and I honestly blame the internet. Some of which I blame on pornography believe it or not. I shall go on...
I am like 60% for/40% against the web and here is why.
My 60% is for because the internet is a HUGE information source. It allows you access to things that at one time you would have had to go to a library for, sit there for hours going through card catalogs, old newspaper article, microfilm, etc in order to find out whatever it was you wanted to know. Not to mention the fact that inter-connectivity is so fucking awesome I do not even know where to begin. If you need it? Most likely it is there; right at your fingertips.
The 40% against: Pornography. Yes, I have made quite a lucrative living selling it. I started in early 1998. It was a humongous cash cow. So stupid it's, erm.... stupid. Some of you were there, some not. If you were? You know what I mean.
The same reasoning stated above in my FOR argument I will use in this instance. The fact that ANYTHING you need is accessible is part of the downfall. There was a day and age (for you younger guys) that in order to get some porn, you had to put on your largest brimmed hat, drive to a store where you didn't know anybody or have a chance of getting seen, muster up the courage, go in and buy it and then get it home. In my case, being very young, I also had the duty of having to hide it so my mother didn't find it when cleaning.
This created a problem. It was "taboo". But that was the beauty of it. Society as a whole saw it as WRONG, so that is where the mystery came in. And then one day, along comes the internet.
Here we are in 2013, and I can venture to guess that about 70-80% of all kids 12 or older have seen some sort of pornography online. What's happening is we are breeding a new society of kids/young adults that are insensitive to porn, gore, calling a woman a cunt, etc. There are really no real life ramifications to anything you do online (sans getting investigated or caught doing something horrible).
TL;DR? I'm a guy that does not believe in God, sells porno, but still thinks there is some validity in some sort of normalized, peaceful and structured religion to the point I may one day actually find my self communing with these people in order to find solace.
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