thanks for you post IS, so your a very treat me as i treat you kinda guy whom follows the rule the right to extend your fist ends at my nose.
to clarify i'm kinda looking or the -isms like deism, naturalism, nihilism, theism or things like wicca and New Age or any religous view the forum members hold, or any views the forum members might hold religiously.
I am not too keen on describing my religious beleif systems as it is more or less created by my own observations and what not. It ends up sounding kinds of blah because of it. I'll try though, breifly.
I concider myself new age. I would refer you to the wikipedia article on new age beleif systems as it describes it pretty well, and explains a lot of core things I follow. I follow astrology a lot as it explains many many things to me, and has proven to be amazingly accurate through out my whole life. I believe in many psychic phenomon. Ghosts, spirits, and in particular, energy. I sense energy very easily and use it to make many judgements, decisions, ect. Energy effects everything. I read tarot cards, and that in itself is rather broad. I also know of other advance card reading techiques and they can make things even more direct and accurate. I will participate in rituals, energy work, reiki ect. I believe in a higher power. I concider "god" to be a collective source, not a actual being. More or less the supreme judge if you will. I believe very much in past lives, and that spirits have the potential to be eternal. I believe that everyone creates their own reality. What you believe, what you think, what you feel, and what you put out there, will become the sort of things that you encounter in life. For this reason, I do not see most relgions as right or wrong.
This is a very rough overview.
I strongly believe in the interdependence of humans over independence, I don't think we are adapted to living in large populations, I think a small community is our ideal environment.
"...it refers to the framework of ideas and beliefs through which an individual interprets the world and interacts with it."Dragon said:What do you mean by world view?
Based on your description Quinlan I bet you'd be really interested in this.Basically the only thing I'm certain of is the uncertainty and complexity of the universe.
I love nature and I often like to think of all living things and natural systems and how they are all influenced by each other, the complexity of it all. How the ebb and flow of nature moves towards an equilibrium it never quite reaches.
I strongly believe in the interdependence of humans over independenc
It's an overwhelming question that I can't really answer because I don't feel I have any set worldviews or answers. I'm constantly arriving at points and then moving on, dissatisfied with what I've settled on.World view is an exhaustingly massive thing to define, and especially to describe. You are what you believe, it defines you.
I believe in reality and in that we should try to discover it.
I also believe that the attempt is futile in an extremely fundamental way.
I believe in love and deem it the most valuable thing a person can ever find.
I believe values to be impossible and all humans to be socially inept, selfish and, by nature, solipsistic.
I believe in the grace and intelligence of man.
I also believe in his destructive stupidity.
I believe in contradictions. I believe in circular realities. I believe we will be wrong no matter what we believe. And I believe that's fine.
My beliefs are kind of bewildering to me in all their vagueness, moreso as time passes and they keep gradually changing towards gray.
I'm an empiricism kind of guy. It doesn't work until you try it. And then, it still might not work.