07-Dec-2011, 08:46 PM
Hi, all. I've been lurking the Nirmukta forums awhile, and finally joined this forum.
Initially Hindu brahmin, but hopefully that's all now in the past. Was never very religious. I rejected the idea of a god/gods (as the cheaply human-like being) quite at the start itself (I didn't understand what all the gung-ho was about) but concocted a scientific definition; that god is "chance" or something like the unknown in the Schrödinger's cat experiment, I've forgotten what, it was crap anyway. And also something similar to Dan Brown's Lost Symbol.
I could never understand how people got their "religious sentiments" offended, and not could I judge for myself when something was or wasn't religiously offensive.
Anyway lost faith in god generally after an experience with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect and unrelated reading of Islamic scripture. The former made me realize that people are generally retarded and unwilling to think for themselves and the latter made me realize how dangerous these unformed minds, when indoctrinated, can be. I subsequently extrapolated these to Hinduism and the rest is history.
Particularly like Ajita Kamal's debating style which brought the logical fallacies, when dealing with religion, to my attention.
Initially Hindu brahmin, but hopefully that's all now in the past. Was never very religious. I rejected the idea of a god/gods (as the cheaply human-like being) quite at the start itself (I didn't understand what all the gung-ho was about) but concocted a scientific definition; that god is "chance" or something like the unknown in the Schrödinger's cat experiment, I've forgotten what, it was crap anyway. And also something similar to Dan Brown's Lost Symbol.
I could never understand how people got their "religious sentiments" offended, and not could I judge for myself when something was or wasn't religiously offensive.
Anyway lost faith in god generally after an experience with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect and unrelated reading of Islamic scripture. The former made me realize that people are generally retarded and unwilling to think for themselves and the latter made me realize how dangerous these unformed minds, when indoctrinated, can be. I subsequently extrapolated these to Hinduism and the rest is history.
Particularly like Ajita Kamal's debating style which brought the logical fallacies, when dealing with religion, to my attention.