What are you most grateful for?

[NorthernRaider]

I'm grateful for my fabulous good looks, superb talent, great love make skills my simple modesty and my vivid imagination

[bigpaul]

(23 February 2013, 10:30)NorthernRaider Wrote: I'm grateful for my fabulous good looks, superb talent, great love make skills my simple modesty and my vivid imagination

especially the imagination!!

[Metroyeti]

Im in the same boat as bp im a heathen but i dont mind people talking religion, just dont knock on my door trying to sell it to me

[Scythe13]

Sorry BP, just answering what H&S asked of MB. Since MB is US based, thought my answer would give an ample response and save MB the time.

I'm okay with keeping religion out of the forum. No mention of muslims taking over is allowed, in that case haha.

When have I ever pushed my faith on anyone on this forum? Never. So, when a question comes up, I thought it only right to give another perspective of faith. I don't ask people to pray. I don't ask my wife to say grace before we sit down for a meal. My wife is an atheist, and I am okay with that. I don't force Christianity on her, and I never will. I know you're a pagan, as are many on this forum. Considering I've never said anything negative about being a Pagan, I find it quite telling, the reaction about how my mention of faith, in response to a question, is received.

I believe faith's will be a HUGE part of post SHTF life. SOOOO many people will be looking as to why the situation has occurred. People will be looking for a 'greater meaning' towards the collapse. Clearly, there will be one side that say it's 'God's Revenge', while others, like myself, will simply say 'It's our own fault.' However you look toward your faith or mine, at no point have I, or will I, attack your belief and perspective.

After TSHTF, I think religious movements will boost ten fold!!! Ignoring that is to ignore the very nature of humanity itself, the search for a higher meaning.

[NorthernRaider]

(23 February 2013, 11:43)Metroyeti Wrote: Im in the same boat as bp im a heathen but i dont mind people talking religion, just dont knock on my door trying to sell it to me

It is for me why I stopped reading so many American authors like James Wesley Rawles they cannot stop trying to ram religous idiology down peoples thoats, his last book was ruined by constant sad and pathetic references to the bible.

[bigpaul]

(23 February 2013, 11:55)Scythe13 Wrote: After TSHTF, I think religious movements will boost ten fold!!! Ignoring that is to ignore the very nature of humanity itself, the search for a higher meaning.

i think you right about religious groups post SHTF, i grew up in a COE household-thats probably why i am now a Pagan! i suppose after any event people that survive some cataclysmic event will look for a reason why it happened and will cling to these cults, personally i stay the heck away from any such people, wife's sister used to be JW thats another story!i want no part of organised religion, personally i think its all mumbo jumbo to control the masses especially back along when only priests could read and write- i dont believe its relevant in the 21st Century. still i'll leave it there, i dont want to get into a theological discussion with anyone.

[NorthernRaider]

Yes people look for a cause or idol or hero to focus on during times of adversity, its amazing how many new prophets and messiahs arrive during major disasters or civil unrest.

[BeardyMan]

I'm beginning to think I may very well be a deity. Every time I walk into the room the wife says "oh god"

[bigpaul]

(23 February 2013, 16:29)BeardyMan Wrote: I'm beginning to think I may very well be a deity. Every time I walk into the room the wife says "oh god"

[Luci_ferson]

(21 February 2013, 10:56)bigpaul Wrote: i'm grateful for being me! an individual not a sheeple who believes everything they are told as gospel.

im gratefull for all the people like him, cos without them id still be sat looking at an insane world wondering why no-one else was noticing.

but most of all im gratefull for being born when i was, I would never have seen the things I have or the things Im going to if I was born in any other time.

the birth of mainstreem computing.
the internet.
comercialised flight
space travel etc.
and still to have known a world where none of it existed.
a world a lot of younger people can never even imagine, and may soon find themselves in.

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forgot to mention mobile phones, lol

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i still remember chernobyl ( the day the earth stood stilll) like it was yesterday.
I have never been that afraid ever since.
but i was only a child.

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as for god and religion.
its a love hate relationship.
I love god and hate religion.
but i dont think that has much to do with what im gratefull for .
maybe it does.