If
believing makes you feel better, that's great for you... but it in no way makes it real.
If believing in whatever you wish to
believe make you feel better about yourself, please continue.
If
believing that makes you feel better... Of course your lunatic base feels affirmed when you post endless lists of quotes.
It isn't going to hurt and I certainly
believe it makes them feel better.
Not exact matches
The man who
made Las Vegas what it is today knows people will pay for anything they
believe is «the
best,» anything that
makes them
feel special, unique or important, anything that
makes them stand out from the crowd.
This is the most straightforward approach, in which a contribution is
made to a project or cause, and the donor doesn't receive anything in exchange other than a
good feeling for supporting something in which they
believe (and perhaps a tax write - off).
People do this for many reasons, whether it's because playing victim
makes them
feel good or because they
believe it's their duty to crusade against injustice, and then they take it way too far.
Murray said he
believes employees could be
better educated about their insurance and benefits plan, specifically
felt their flexible spending plans, which allow employees to deduct a certain amount of pretax money from their paychecks to
make medically related payments.
You can
make yourself
feel better by imagining other suffering for not
believing in your bogus god, but it doesn't change the fact that you have no facts to back up anything you
believe in.
John, did you really just say that if you try to convince me your god is real, your god will detect that I don't want to
believe and your god will
make sure that I don't get the message but I will
feel good about not getting the message?
Some of the
good theological quotes did
make it into the closing scene but no sooner had the credits started to roll than viewers were assaulted by «There's A Place For Us» by Carrie Underwood about «faith» and «love» and the line «we can be the kings and queens of anything if we
believe» to
make sure viewers walked out
feeling good about themselves.
In other words, you admit you
believe BECAUSE it
makes you
feel better.
But I guess
believing anything is true,
makes some people
feel better than admitting they truly do not know.
are people so simple they crave the misguided beliefs of others to
feel better about themselves or are we triing to understand the lunacy of our citizens to
believe something as pathic as a 3000 year old IDEA in order to act properly when voting in those who will run this country for the next 4 years a.k.a. voting in one who using rational thinking and logic to
make choices!
Those of us who don't
believe shouldn't be required to act like we do just to
make you
feel good for
believing in fairy tales.
If
believing in God
makes people
feel less overwhelmed, great,
good for them, but, like prayer, it doesn't change a thing in the real world.
I used to do the same thing becasue it
felt like it
made me look
better cause they would interpet it as «He
believes in god, but he is questioning.»
Nobody cares (or should care) what you
believe, so what's the point in gathering up a group of like - minded people unless it's to
make you
feel better about your beliefs?
i do nt understand what religous people really
believe is waiting for them in an afterlife when we know for a fact that the body doesn't go there and the fact that animals apparently cant go to heaven because they have no soul is
well thats just
good old conceited man
made rubbish that is everywhere in the bible and before i get attacked i was raised religious and got very religious for a few years till i actually thought about it and applyed logic to it after that the whole concept of religion
made me
feel sick
People choose to
believe in and invisible super hero in the sky because it
makes them
feel better.
He's going way beyond just
believing in something because it
makes you
feel good.
@Mark, I
feel like the world would be a much
better place, if instead of hoping that they had
believed in the right afterlife, people hoped that they had lead a
good life, and tried to
make sure that they did.
I know that votes like these can
make Christian women
feel like less - than, but I
believe, deep in my bones, that things will get
better for women in the Church.
This is what I
believe, it
makes good sense to me and yes it
makes me
feel better.
So if
believing the universe is somehow god's rotting corpse
makes you
feel better — have at it.
Hi my name is Lindsey and I'm recovering heroin addict and my mother is a very devoted rightous Christian her favorite saying is I am the head and not the tail meaning she is the head is far
better than me and I am the tail and because the way Christians have treated me recently through my struggle I have
felt that I should convert to Hinduism when I brought this up to my mother she told me I will go to hell because Jesus is the only God which I do
believe to an extent but I also
believe in having peace within your own life and treating others equally fairly with love respect and dignity which my mother and my sister do not do the act as though they are
better than anyone they do not sin they do not
make mistakes and they are perfect in every way another one of her favorite sayings I'm not perfect but I'm going to try to be BC Jesus loves me that much.
Not because it was knowable, or even verifiable, but because it
made them
feel better to
believe it.
I personally would love it if this religion stuff were true but I can not «
make» myself
believe just to
make myself
feel better about reality.
You do know that by your definition of proof, anyone can be convinced to
believe in anything just cause it
makes them
feel good (you could now be worshiping LSD if that is what you tested and wanted to have faith in)
Why do you want to
believe something that can not be proven just to
make you
feel good.
There is nothing honorable, courageous or defensible about
believing what
makes you
feel good, as opposed to what is true.
Or freedom from religion, but there was once an article that had Texas» Board of Education trying to
make Thomas Jefferson vanish from the history books, and was he not the one who
believed in «separation between church and state» as
well... anyone not
believing me is free to spend a few seconds to do some web searches... the articles are out there... or people can remain in ignorance, but then they still won't
feel any more blissful or happier...
Do you encourage others to
believe the very
best about themselves and God, or do you
make them
feel like they're never quite enough?
Atheism offers nothing to me, it never has and never will, it doesn't
make me
feel good or comfort me, it's not there for me when I'm sick or ill, it won't intervene in my times of need or protect me from hate, it doesn't care if I fail or succeed, it won't wipe the tears from my eyes, it does nothing when I have no where to run, it won't give me wise words or advice, it has no teaches for me to learn, it can't show me what's bad or nice, it's never inspired or excited anyone, it won't help me fulfill all my goals, it won't tell me to stop when I'm having fun, it's never saved one single soul, it doesn't take credit for everything I achieve, it won't
make me get down on bended knee, it doesn't demand that I have to
believe, it won't torture me for eternity, it won't teach me to hate or despise others, it won't tell me what's right or wrong, it can't tell nobody not to be lovers, it's told no one they don't belong, it won't
make you think life is worth living, it has nothing to offer me, that's true, but the reason Atheism offers me nothing is because I've never asked it to, Atheism offers nothing because it doesn't need to, Religion promises everything because you want it to, You don't need a Religion or to have faith, You just want it because you need to
feel safe, I want to
feel reality and nothing more, Atheism offers me everything that Religion has stolen before.
What bob is trying to say is, «I
believe what I
believe because it
makes me
feel better.»
I would like to
believe (and have operated under the assumption) that «
good» people, folks for whom I have
felt affection, admiration, or respect, whatever their philosophies or faiths,
make up such a legitimate fellowship.
«Screaming» actually
makes you
feel good, so if you think that god is the one who
made you
feel good after «yelling» at it, then you go ahead and
believe whatever
makes you
feel good.
Or, they may be
making their REQUESTS based on what
makes them
feel better about THEIR loss... and guess what: when you're grieving the loss of a loved one, you're not always thinking clearly about what the person
believed.
If
believing in something
makes someone
feel better than let them be.
Mike i have been thinking hard on this subject i hope you do nt leave the forum as i think we will get into a
good debate / discussion the Lord has shown me alot of insight into this subject that i hadnt even thought about until Jeremy proposed his point of view.The word say iron sharpens iron we need to understand what we
believe not just walk away because we
feel it is treading on our beliefs because they change as we learn and understand because we have
believed something for a long time does nt
make it right.Use this opportunity to grow to learn and to understand what the Lord is wanting us to know if we cant do this as brothers how are we supposed to do it with unbelievers.brentnz
I'm always encouraged and it always
makes me
feel good when I hear of another who is willing to come face to face with what they REALLY
feel and what they REALLY
believe.
So by all means
make up a fantasy that
makes you
feel good - or
believe the fantasies and supersti.tions of ancient Israelis.
lol, yes clay i am an atheist... i created the sun whorshipping thing to have argument against religion from a religious stand point... however, the sun
makes more sense then something you can't see or
feel — the sun also gives free energy... your god once did that for the jews, my gives it to the human race as
well as everything else on the planet, fuk even the planet is nothing without the sun... but back to your point — yes it is very hypocritical of me, AND thats the point, every religious person i have ever met has and on a constant basis broken the tenets of there faith without regard for there souls — it seems to only be the person's conscience that dictates what is right and wrong... the belief in a god figure is just because its tradition to and plus every else
believes so its always to be part of the group instead of an outsider — that is sadly human nature to be part of the group.
90 % of the time the debate ends up with the believer saying something to the effect»
Well you maybe right... but
believing in a God just
makes me
feel better» to which I reply» NOT
believing in a god
makes ME
feel better».
Just keep telling yourself that your faith
makes you superior, it
feels good to
believe yourself
better than everyone else, to have that confidence in you getting a reward when others won't.
Even if we consciously acknowledge it is an illusion, we choose to
believe it because we innately suspect this is
better for us, that it will help us
feel better, and will actually
make us happier individuals.
You stated: «Bob, curiously I
believe the search for truth is about truth and not about whatever fantasy
makes one
feel good.»
Jason, stop being so terrified of death that you have to
believe in some magic space daddy to
make you
feel better about dying.
Given RCAR's insistence that there is no unborn «child,» it would seem that they are compassionately willing to go along with what they
believe is a lie if it
makes people
feel better.
Believe it if it
makes you
feel good, I suppose (if you can stay out of trouble and cause harm), but do not claim truth, Truth or TRUTH about it.