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digittante 2010-04-13 22:42
Re: Are a lot of you people religious?
 
I'm curious about recent posts inquiring about personal (perhaps non-N900 related) information. Does it matter what we drive, which operating system we use, where we work, whom we worship (or don't), or which flavor of ice-cream we like best?

If you've initiated one of these (or plan to), please share your intentions/motivations for doing so. . .

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Originally Posted by col37400 (Post 609274)
Looking through lists of applications for mobiles (on various programmes) I am often slightly surprised to see a fair number of scripture type apps on offer, and they often seem to be quite popular too.

To me, the type of person that is likely to be into computers and geek stuff seems unlikely to be the religious type. Firstly, you expect geek types (and I don't use the term "geek" pejoratively) to be quite into science and rational thought and all that. Secondly (and maybe I am making too many assumptions here) you expect them to be relatively young (mainly under 40 say) and again, I tend to expect religious types to be older rather than younger (having grown up in a time where religion was much more strongly tied into everyday life than it is now).

So for these reasons I'm always a little surprised, but I have generally assumed it is to be explained by the large number of people in the United States. I'm aware that religiosity remains rather more prevalent there (especially among younger people) than it does in most of Western Europe.

But I do notice some apps in the Maemo repository - for both Christian and Islamic scriptures - that seem to be quite popular. Yet I thought that Nokia and Maemo were virtually unheard of in the States and so I assume most Maemo users are European.

So anyway, I have made this poll out of curiosity.

cardiff-blues 2010-04-13 22:45
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Originally Posted by leetut (Post 609458)
for anyone wanting to chat about religon....
go to your doctor, tell him you were walking along and a burning bush suddenly spoke to you saying 'i am god, here are my 10 commandments'

watch how fast the doctor has you committed to your local mental asylum
Why do some people assume that you have to be mental to be a Christian? Some of the greatest minds from science have been religious. Were they all mad?

Speaking from a UK perspective, most of the biggest charities were established by Christians and so if being one makes you a mad person who wants to help others then I am proud to say that I am mad.

geneven 2010-04-13 22:58
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Originally Posted by digittante (Post 609474)
I'm curious about recent posts inquiring about personal (perhaps non-N900 related) information. Does it matter what we drive, which operating system we use, where we work, whom we worship (or don't), or which flavor of ice-cream we like best?

If you've initiated one of these (or plan to), please share your intentions/motivations for doing so. . .
I think it's quite natural to wonder about what people you associate with think on these subjects.

danx 2010-04-13 23:26
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All religion is good . its that people are bad..

Flynx 2010-04-13 23:28
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People are naturally curious about anything they don't understand. How did you learn so much about your N900? You picked at it, piece by piece, until all the parts were laid out and you could make sense of it (metaphorically speaking).

When people meet other people, its much more complicated (as history shows us). The best reaction, though not the most common, would be curiosity.

But these questions like religion, politics, etc, - they never go away. So the question is... why can't people understand other people?

Sopwith 2010-04-13 23:31
Re: Are a lot of you people religious?
 
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Originally Posted by cardiff-blues (Post 609479)
Why do some people assume that you have to be mental to be a Christian? Some of the greatest minds from science have been religious. Were they all mad?

Speaking from a UK perspective, most of the biggest charities were established by Christians and so if being one makes you a mad person who wants to help others then I am proud to say that I am mad.
Cardiff-blues, when were the greatest minds that you're talking about born? Don't you think that in the past being a scientist has already drawn unwanted attention from the church, so it has been perhaps safest to declare oneself a devoted believer, even if one doesn't give a rat's @ss about god? Plus, the people with the money that can fund science have historically been religious. I'd sign up for any (moderate) religion in a heartbeat if I knew that would ensure I got to do whatever I am passionate about in peace...

If it helps my point, here's some statistics from the "heathen" UK from Wikipedia, notice the trend in the past 30 years...

E pur si muove!

windows7 2010-04-13 23:33
Re: Are a lot of you people religious?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by cardiff-blues (Post 609479)
Why do some people assume that you have to be mental to be a Christian? Some of the greatest minds from science have been religious. Were they all mad?

Speaking from a UK perspective, most of the biggest charities were established by Christians and so if being one makes you a mad person who wants to help others then I am proud to say that I am mad.
Completly true.

Our countries fair laws have been build upon relegious christian values.

I have worked in the IT industry myself for more then 12 years and i,m a christian beleiver.

I consider myself as a strong beleiver, from believing in the power of prayer to miracles, but moderate towards others beleives in such a wide crazy spectrum of church splits, all contradicting each other. as such my beleives lie with the apostolic teachings that can be traced to when christ walked amongst us..

Religion and politics are topics that people will never fully agree.

Call me crazy if you wish, but In such a crazy world that we live in, I try to put my trust fully in my Lord who died and washed my and your sins in the cross over 2000 years ago.
some people read horoscopes, some dont walk under laders and some dont even go out on fridays the 13, well i put my trust in my Lord and saviour and i,m no longer supersticious or depressed with the world around me..

I beleive Sin pushes people away from God.

tekplay 2010-04-13 23:40
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Time to quote JD Krishnamurthy. :)

""Truth is a pathless land." Man cannot come to it through any organization, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual, not through any philosophic knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through the mirror of relationship, through the understanding of the contents of his own mind, through observation and not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection. Man has built in himself images as a fence of security -- religious, political, personal. These manifest as symbols, ideas, beliefs. The burden of these images dominates man's thinking, his relationships and his daily life. These images are the causes of our problems for they divide man from man. His perception of life is shaped by the concepts already established in his mind. The content of his consciousness is his entire existence. This content is common to all humanity. The individuality is the name, the form and superficial culture he acquires from tradition and environment. The uniqueness of man does not lie in the superficial but in complete freedom from the content of his consciousness, which is common to all mankind. So he is not an individual."

timwatt 2010-04-13 23:58
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I am seriously religious about reading this blog. As for a personal God (or gods) there is a "unified existence" in nature call it physics call it natural law, call it creation. So, until we understand who its parents are and weather or not it (he or her) speaks English or Arabic, I will remain agnostic.

As for discussing religion I was a little shocked to read today that the bible "our source of morality" supports the stoning of disablement kids, and the removal of the eyes of the defiant ones.

The whole question posed in this blog is equally distributing to me. Religion tryes to guide spirituality, my exsperiance to date has presented religious people as the ones who got lost in the letter of the law in trying to understand the spitit of teh law.

So to sum up there is Physics the language of God, there is wisdom in religious teachings, but to understand it through the lens of organized religion is to believe you are nothing but worthless dust.

mothmanex 2010-04-14 00:21
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I'm a somewhat atheist, I believe that there is at least one god, but that god isn't perfect (If god was "perfect", we would have been "perfect" to).

Right now I believe on team Maemo!


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