balupton
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10 years ago Until November 2014
Bio
Up for anything, night of dancing, skinny dipping, loving, random play, whatever is fun. I am a rather confident and a easy going guy. I try to be the clown of the group, as I love seeing peoples faces light up. I am a realist, so I think logically and won't hide what I think. I go for the smart, fun (a bit crazy), and cute girl (usually european looks). I try to go out as much as possible, be it dancing in a club, sharing a drink at a pub, catching a movie, or just having mates over.
Until March 2015
Religious Views
Including; Existentialist, Pantheist, New Thought, Evolutionist, Critical Thought, Vegan. I feel the existence of only one god, and the non-existence of any god can not be proven (impossible due to the problem of induction). As such, I feel the decision of religion is one of subjective choice in relation to personal values, rather than an objective one in relation to evidence. Which to me perfectly explains why their can even be many one-true-god religions in the first place. This makes me agnostic. I'm an advocate of critical thinking, and will take scientific proof as fact always. As such, I am an evolutionist and believe a literal interpretation of the garden of eden and most of the bible to be factually incorrect. Personally, I align with pantheism which states that god and the universe are exactly the same (not separate forces or entities, but identical). As such, I feel that all religions (including atheism) are all worshipping the same god, with just different values and personal needs providing different interpretations of the same god. I also enjoy New Thought teachings (there are many), and personally align with the following: - Ourselves, the universe (including everything else in it), as well as god, are all one, the same, and connected - The divinity of god refers to the collective consciousness (also called oneness) of this combined entity. - Our perception of self and separation from everything else, is merely an intellect construct of a particular state of mind (that of course can be changed like any state) - That I can use this knowledge, and gain more knowledge, to be able to utilise these forces to mould the universe (or rather myself) accordingly for the universes (my own) wishes Other than that, I've also come to the following beliefs: - That any "sacred text" should be taken metaphorically and with a lot of salt, as anything that old suffers the same issues as chinese whispers. - That the garden of eden is a beautiful testament of man's desire to be free willed and control our own destiny (which is our humanity). - That genesis is the documentation of the birth of the first intelligent humans, albiet incredibly loosely and very metaphorical. - That satin and god are just part of ourselves (human nature - the good and bad) and entirely personal, and not some special external spirit being. - That morality and values are completely subjective, with the only objective truth coming from rationalised arguments within particular communities - in which case objective truth is just a large subjective truth of more people. As such, I will never judge another adversely on what I consider wrong, instead I will try and understand their motivations, and compare the values behind the motivations with my own values, so I can undertand where they are coming from, as everyone is good, they just go about it in different ways I feel.
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2014-11-11
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2017-01-19
Sometime in 2018