Religion general

@tehwatever
 
There is some hope for “souls” in the traditional sense within some of the reaches of quantum mechanics. To what extent is debatable, however.
 
The concept of a “soul” is one of the areas I’m a little more liberal with in terms of spirituality. I’m much more ok with the idea, even having a few of my own, than I am with the idea that some creator god gives a fuck that I put my dick in another man.

Who’s to say the big bang never originated from an alternate dimension.
 
With the concept of worm holes, black holes or whatever other holes you can think of it seems possible.

I find it weird that Wicca is the first thing people think about when they hear the word “Pagan”.
 
Wicca’s origins actually have very little to due with any ancient pagan belief systems, it really has more to do with western esotericism and the occult. Gerald Gardener was really more influenced by a mixture of the spiritualist movement, Thelema, and ritualistic practices that he witnessed while he was in Asia.

@Lord Hypno  
I always got weird results, you need to know what you’re doing.
 
This very fandom perhaps being one of them 😐
 
 
We can only be watched for so long until someone’s crazy enough to answer.

Can anyone tell me some non-religious reasons why some people are pro-life/against-abortion/etc.?

@Random-Rambling
 
I’m generally ambivalent on the subject.
 
Brain development is often the sticking point for people when forming a non-faith based opinion. Here, the facts often get bent up a bit.
 
Neural development starts after about 4 weeks, but this just consists of a neural “tube” and progenitor cells.
 
The brain can “sense” as it were once the sensory-motor thalamocortical (TC) and corticothalamic (CT) pathways open, at around W26, around 5.5 months in. However, the associated cortexes to these pathways do not develop till sometime later.
 
The reasoning center of the brain, AKA what makes “you” you, develops roughly in the last 16 weeks of the pregnancy.
 
Everything around when/if to terminate tends to involve these milestones. Brain development starting, sensation development, and higher function development.

Trying to find a Podcast that can fill in for a sermon.

@Shepherd  
I know a couple of muslim podcasts…but I dont think you’re looking for them.  
Best of luck on your sermon.

Found a good one but it was a lot shorter than advertised.
 
And one that was actually a sermon but it wouldn’t play, ehh more music I guess.

If there is one good thing about Satanism, it’s that the aesthetics look cool.

@Lord Hypno  
You’re lucky I’m not in Florida.
 
I would have had a special cross prepared for our confrontation, Astaroth!

@Selaphiel  
 
:^)

I’ll elaborate further.
 
Anton Lavey’s “”“philosophy””” is a load of hogwash.
 
Theistic Satanism is too loosely defined, no one has a general consensus on what it is.
 
And The Satanic Temple is just cringey.
 
However, they do have cool aesthetic, and they also spawned some high quality black metal bands.
 
Pagan and viking black metal is superior to Satanic black metal of course though.

@Lord Hypno  
I wish I was a metalhead so I can respond to this rather interesting topic. Keep sharing more stuff, tho.

Maybe I’ll smack God behind the ear with my fist and fuck him up the ass.
 
I can’t have a wife,  
I can’t have my unicorn.
 
What am I suppose to have?
 
 
I’m pissed off about even living this life.
 
And I’m pissed off about all of you!
 
I’m on the hit list and nobody’s killed me yet.
 
Keep trying, motherfucker.

Man, pre-Islamic Middle East and North Africa were far more cooler than what they.ve become.  
A lot more alcohol, a lot more sex. Intricate lore.
 
If only they can return to their Sumerian roots.

@Selaphiel  
Many of those pre-Islamic religions had a lot of love deities and female sex goddesses.

@SuperPinkiePie64  
And pre-Christian deities of Europe too.
 
Ancient Egypt was especially into the stuff too.

@Selaphiel  
I wonder what it would be like to worship a female sex goddess…

@SuperPinkiePie64
 
Not as fantastical as you’d think.
 
We don’t go around having wild sex in the name of the Goddess. Set up a shrine, give a few offerings now and again, observe the holidays. Pretty much it.
 
Despite what you may hear, we don’t throw wild sex orgies.
 
Unfortunately.

@Badheart  
Um, bro. What?

@Selaphiel  

 
@SuperPinkiePie64  

 
Islam itself was pretty cool before it got extremely conservative within the last 70 or so years.
 
The Prophet Muhammad (not a Muslim, do I still put PBUH after his name?) once famously claimed that “All games man plays are futile except archery, horse-riding, and playing with one’s wife.”

@Random-Rambling  
One time I had a thought: “can I sub horses for cars and bikes, and bow and arrow for guns? I mean, they function similarly.”
 
Then I was like: hol up. Guns, bikes and women? All that’s missing is a dog and a bottle of beer.
 
Also it’s up to you if you want to say PBUH We muslims do it, but you dont have to.

Nobody knows why the lewd thread keeps breaking and OP is dead!