Posts from philosophy

Personally, I don't believe that our lives are predetermined. Every person forges their own destiny, although only God (or something higher, or whatever you want to call it) knows this in advance. As for having a great purpose, I recommend the Japanese anime "Berserk"; it provides good food for thought.

Ah, this... :) Well, death doesn't end with the grave. To be more precise, death is just the beginning (by the way, this is written in the Necromancer's signature).

I believe that we are presented with choices; if you make the right choice, you get closer to your goal, and if not, you move away from it. The choices don't depend on us; their resolution and, consequently, the next set of choices do. :) What I've said before. :)

Hell seems a bit too harsh for an all-forgiving God.

It wasn't God who came up with it. It's the devil's idea.

I have a similar story (I was baptized but remained a convinced atheist until the 11th grade) - all my prayers, in which I ask for something (but I never ask for the impossible!), come true... And in general, I can say that prayer greatly improves my mental state...
But I can also say that if it weren't for these and some other, which I will refrain from mentioning, religious experiences - I would be an atheist. So I perfectly understand and respect your position,

P.S. - and luck really is a mystery! There's this game - Sacred, and I always get great items, but never runes, while my younger brother gets the opposite: he always gets runes. It's always very strange to play together:)

Well, everyone has the right to their opinion and to express it, and I respect that, so I respect your hypothesis too... but I'm a pragmatist, and to believe in God (by the way, I'm Orthodox, baptized), I need to see Him (not to understand!!!, but to see!!) or at least touch Him... although I can't deny that something higher definitely exists... otherwise, I simply can't explain things like talent and luck...

You're exaggerating! Even the HOLY are BLINDED by just a glimpse of God! Throughout history, only Moses was allowed to SPEAK with Him personally. And when he returned, he radiated such light that it was impossible to look at him!!! Even ANGELS cannot look at God! Seraphim are an exception, but it's unclear how they endure this... this... this... (it can't be expressed in words - just emotions). But there is plenty of evidence! I won't write about it now (I want to sleep:)), but Silvanis, I think, understands what I mean...;)

I don't understand... you, being an atheist, were praying?

No, as an atheist, I didn't pray... it's just that some events happened first, which I simply feel uncomfortable talking about to people I don't know well, and then I started to pray. Also, at that time, Lewis's treatises pushed me towards religion; and in short, all of this changed me... For the better, I think :)