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Agnostic and want a pillow to rest my head?

I believe, tho I subscribe to no religion. I feel lost as I know there to be a higher power. Is it possible to just believe that we are just meant to be? Or should I search for a religion? Science has me dubious of most I've learned of. I would love to subscribe to a faith with the verve I've seen if many believers, but I know what makes life and I know science. So where to from here?

Update:

semantics ppl, i DON'T KNOW what i believe in, tho at this point atheism seems to be the smart choice and as one person answered, i might do well to to find peace and happiness within than to find some fake Deity to subscribe to!

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  • 8 years ago
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    You are yet another illustration that most people would rather be wrong and feel good about it, than be right and feel bad about it.

    You KNOW that supernatural beings do not exist, you KNOW science is the only human construct that will ever provide explanations for what we do not yet understand, yet you WANT to believe in something for which you have no proof or evidence.

    I'm not saying this to offend or insult you. It's a very human trait, probably bred into us through evolution, that as we became aware of our own mortality, so we also had to invent an outside reason to go on with life despite the apparent futility of it all.

    Maybe at some point we will all come to recognize that if we each give our own lives meaning, we won't need to spend all our time searching for something or someone else to give it meaning for us.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Then go to Walmart and buy a pillow. They don't cost that much.

  • 8 years ago

    My comment:

    Be Muslim to feel happy and satisfied.

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    Allah Says:

    Surely, the true religion with Allah is Islam (complete submission). And those who were given the Book did not disagree but after knowledge had come to them, out of mutual envy. And whoso denies the Signs of Allah, then surely, Allah is quick at reckoning.

    Aal-e-`Imran Chapter 3 : Verse 20

  • 8 years ago

    You might try liberal Christianity. There's no conflict between science and religion unless you take things literally that were meant as figurative.

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