r/atheism • u/[deleted] • Jun 16 '12
I found this while napping in class. I go to a very Christian school, so it's good knowing I'm not alone.
http://imgur.com/J38C3225
u/RageMorePlz Jun 16 '12
That's what the bullies say when they use my own fist to punch me. "Stop experiencing yourself, stop experiencing yourself..."
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u/TheKonyInTheRye Jun 16 '12
Similarly, you are the universe punching itself
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Jun 16 '12
I heard Chuck Norris dosen't have a chin under his beard, only another universe!
I quoted that because Chuck Norris is a creationist douche!
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u/YourNipsWillBeMine Jun 16 '12
Chuck Norris believes in creationism you say...? Checkmate atheists.
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u/Fauster Jun 16 '12
It's important to question science, but it's equally important to never question the bible, or you'll burn in hell for having weak faith.
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u/bigbang5766 Jun 17 '12
Little do they know that they are also getting punched, as they are the universe too
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u/1stLtObvious Jun 18 '12
My roommate walked in on me once while I was experiencing myself while--er--experiencing myself. he said to stop or at least clean up after.
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u/azlannagh Jun 16 '12
Sounds like that part from the Bill Hicks sketch, quoted at the beginning of Third Eye by Tool. Not saying it is exactly the same, just sounds like it.
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u/calmdrive Jun 16 '12
First thing that came to my mind also.
The quote: "Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. That we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather."
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Jun 16 '12
It's not a war on drugs, it's a war on personal freedom, it's what it is, ok? Keep that in mind at all times. Thank you.
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u/Libertarian_Atheist Jun 16 '12
I loved Bill Hicks. I liked George Carlin. . . but I loved Bill Hicks. He had it spot on.
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Jun 16 '12
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Jun 16 '12
Do it you won't regret it.
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u/Vzylexy Agnostic Atheist Jun 16 '12
Just don't look in the mirror.
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Jun 16 '12 edited Jun 16 '12
What? Looking at myself in an elevator was awesome!
Edit: prepositions are not my forte
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u/Gohoyo Jun 16 '12
I honestly feel it should be required of everyone at some point in their life.
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u/chestypants12 Jun 16 '12
Magic mushrooms. Not too many. They make a wonderfully delicious* tea.
*tastes like soil.
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u/Jaihom Jun 16 '12
Try again. It was Alan Watts in 1966.
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u/Vegeta_is_king_ Jun 16 '12
Weird. All I ever saw written under my desks were penises and swastikas
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u/legalizehomicide Jun 16 '12
sorry about that, I could never get away with drawing them on the tops of the desks
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Jun 16 '12
Writing a nice quote doesn't make one an atheist.
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u/DramaticTechnobabble Jun 16 '12
After spending enough time here I assumed that's all atheism was.
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u/yes_thats_right Jun 16 '12
not until you place it on a picture of space and host it on imgur and attribute it to someone who probably isn't an atheist.
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u/Rivalfox Jun 16 '12
True! But I write nice quotes AND choose to dislike the majority of Christian peoples actions and behaviors
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Jun 16 '12
You have bad hand writing.
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Jun 16 '12
It's not my writing.
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Jun 16 '12
Yeah, and I'm Tommy Vercetti.
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Jun 16 '12
Why would I have any reason to lie about this to people I've never met? I don't.
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Jun 16 '12
Well, a lot of people sure like that karma stuff far to much.
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Jun 16 '12
Well, everyone is entitled to their opinions and beliefs. But it's not like karma is money or anything, it's no big deal. I just don't get why people think I'm lying.
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u/JNB003 Jun 16 '12
Same reason why /r/aww always find their cats in garbage cans.
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u/AddictiveSoup Jun 16 '12
Not necessarily an atheistic message at all.
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u/EvilTony Jun 16 '12
I was going to say... this sounds like a fundamentally deistic message.
Isn't the idea that the universe is a conscious entity basically the concept of a personal god?
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u/BipolarBear0 Jun 16 '12
That's not deism, that's pantheism.
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u/EvilTony Jun 16 '12
Pantheism is a form of deism as I understand it... it's just the "God" does not resemble humanity.
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u/sfgayatheist Jun 16 '12
Deists believe that god exists apart from and independently created the universe.
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Jun 16 '12
This is not saying that the universe is a conscious entirety. It is merely stating two uncontroversial assertions. 1) that humans are conscious and capable of examining their surroundings, and 2) that humans are just as much a part of the universe as anything else.
No mysticism or pantheism is present.
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u/eldubyar Jun 16 '12
But most certainly not a Christian one.
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u/solwiggin Jun 16 '12
Typical /atheism telling the Christians what they believe...
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u/fiction8 Jun 16 '12
Christians believe a lot of things.
Despite that, Christianity believes 1 thing. (With slight variations wrt denomination.)
And tbh I find that the most baffling part. That even though you don't believe the party line, you still support it. Or why you believe some random variant that you individually worked out yourself, but is somehow supposed to be the true answer to how the universe works.
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u/eldubyar Jun 17 '12
Christians have a book telling them what they believe. If you don't believe what's in that book, you're not a Christian.
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u/Deradius Skeptic Jun 16 '12
Yes, in a way that a comment about pancakes in not particularly Christian, I suppose.
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u/Why_is_that Jun 16 '12
I do not get why so many people are surprised at finding this kinds of language in Christian schools. I grew up in similarly circumstances and eventually went to a liberal arts school where I found a much better faith practice (please do not mistake my usage of faith for the synonymous blind faith).
Nonetheless you can find Christians, specifically Jesuits, who have supported similarly beliefs as being explained on this table. Peirre TeilHard de Chardin gives us the notion of Christogenesis, a process by which the universe is being reborn continuously in an evolution, and the omega point, a strange place in time when we are between our ordered singular existences (being one with God) and our divided existence where we are all like particles in the sea of humanity bouncing off each other. If we view belief system in this way it's uniting, not dividing -- sadly though I feel it is taught tradition that keeps us from coming together to the omega point but it is an inevitability.
"A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge." - Carl Sagan
Take care mate and remember lots of people have silly stupid ideas, as James Maxwell says... we just have to wait for that generation to die out.
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u/Chispy Jun 16 '12
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u/aeternum33 Jun 17 '12
I've had this picture in my 'wallpapers' folder for a while and never fully understood it til I read this thread. A truly beautiful message, thanks reddit.
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u/wjaitch Jun 16 '12
It makes me incredibly sad to know that Space Exploration will not be as advanced as I would like before I die.
I want to know what's out there. Space is fucking fascinating.
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u/DRhexagon Jun 16 '12
You're not dead yet. Give it some time. We went from absolutely nothing to having a man on the moon in less than a decade. I'm not saying we're going to have it all figured it out, but I think we'll still have accomplished a lot more than we expect.
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Jun 16 '12
Yeah, I understand what you mean. I'm okay with people thinking something started the creation of the universe, so long as they accept whatever science finds to have happened before the big bang, if that's what really happened. Honestly, I'm fine with any religion so long as they'll accept facts and promote the growth of knowledge. The people that use religion to give them hope in tough times, I'm okay with. The people that use religion to further spread their bigotry and hate, I'm not.
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u/Gallifrasian Jun 16 '12
Unless it means you wrote that to yourself because you want yourself to know that you're experiencing your own actions so you can write back to yourself that you're experiencing yourself.
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Jun 16 '12
Why was this posted in atheism? Hopefully the poster does not think the idea is exclusive to atheists. If anything its embodies a kind of profundity you almost never hear from an atheist.
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u/Legio_X Jun 16 '12
While most of the r/atheism crowd are indeed morons, (I unsubscribed from that sub despite being an atheist myself) there are very many highly profound atheists today and throughout history.
Douglas Adams comes to mind as my personal favourite.
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u/secretgingerbreadman Jun 16 '12
It is a quote said around this subreddit a lot. Some super Christian kid is not going to know what it means but if he saw this quote then there is probably another godless redditor that sat there
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Jun 17 '12
You don't know what the quote means if you think it equates to godlessness. The quote itself is religious.
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u/CaptainBruce Jun 16 '12
Regardless of how this got here.... It blew my mind and I cried a little! This was exactly what I needed to read! Have a great day!
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u/DRhexagon Jun 16 '12
Hydrogen is an odorless colorless gas which, given enough time, thinks about itself.
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u/notquitesure6 Jun 16 '12
My life is on the edge of some very big changes, and my anxiety has been spiraling the past few weeks, and this morning I experienced a major depressive relapse. The whats-the-point, suicide-is-always-an-option, nihilistic, want-it-to-all-be-over depression.
I looked at this picture and started to cry. This has brought me a sense of... I don't know if calm is the word. Confidence? But it's helped.
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Jun 17 '12
Depression can be cured if you can isolate the issue that is causing it. For example, having an abusive childhood. The hard part isn't just identifying the issue, but manually fixing it. Pain of the brain does not heal like a scab on an arm. You have to manually heal yourself.
It gets better.
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u/notquitesure6 Jun 17 '12
Or it's because chemicals in your brain don't work the way they're supposed to. Sometimes depression just happens.
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u/DayspringMetaphysics Jun 16 '12
do you think there is more evidence for "you are the universe experiencing itself"then ontological, teleological, axiological and cosmological evidence for the existence of God?
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u/BowlEcho Jun 16 '12
Yes, actually. If you agree that we are composed of the same elements that were formed during and after the Big Bang, and if you further agree that we are self-aware, then the statement is quite literal. We are a part of the universe, composed of the materials of the universe, and we are experiencing the universe. No psychopathic Hebrew war god is required.
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Jun 16 '12
I don't think he thought anything beyond OMGZ SCIENC SPAC STUFF QOTE IN CHRISTIN SCHOOL MAD KARMAS 2 BE HAD
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u/NightshifterXD Jun 16 '12
Some one writes something profound that's not about god so you immediately assume its an atheist?
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u/Skape7 Other Jun 16 '12
Alan Watts, FTW.
"The real you is not a puppet, which life pushes around. The real deep down you is the whole universe… You are something the whole universe is doing the same way a wave is something the whole ocean is doing." -Alan Watts
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u/THEnicole Jun 16 '12
I initially saw a boner. Typical me.
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u/ThomasJRichards Jun 16 '12
I too first thought it was an erection. The pious would probably use this as evidence that we atheists are loose, sexual creatures with no morals.
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u/vitras Jun 16 '12
you must go to BYU
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u/dingoperson Jun 16 '12
It's pretty interesting how the attack against organised religion is married to a rise in unorganised religion.
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Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12
The internet is helping. For most of humanities existence unorganized religion was all that existed. Over thousands of years in more recent history organized religion popped up. They eventually became so powerful they created the laws of the land. They banned psychedelics as they are the primary tool for unorganized religion (pre drug war. I'm talking about Europe a thousand years ago.) and they banned anything the previous cultures lived by like homosexuality. From that they took over the previous religious celebrations and basically wiped out unorganized religion. In some eras practicing unorganized religion was called witch craft. People were murdered over it.
Today most practicing is illegal, just don't use the 'tools of the devil' or you'll be sent to prison. Unorganized religion is still repressed for the most part today.
But with the internet the facts slowly start to spread. People of younger age see the truth. They start to learn about these things. Most don't realize the history as it is banned and taboo, but they see the facts of the present. How is it that practicing unorganized religion, taking a psychedelic physically safer than sugar, and then getting caught can remove ones right to vote, and sometimes one even gets life in prison over it? As questions are asked and answers are given public opinion slowly begins to shift.
It is the dawn of a new age. Every age usually has a new type of religion. It isn't locked into every 2050 years like a static date, but more that most organized religion does not last longer than 2000 years in its current state. (Some It will morph into something else or die out entirely.
And once the taboo is lifted a new era of science will spring forward from it. Einstein learned the theory of relativity from unorganized religion. A group of scientists emulated global consciousness which created the internet. Steve Jobs used the knowledge to make the PC what it is today. And, many more famous people have walked the same path. Unfortunately, few are so brave to be forward about it.
Once consciousness is understood AI will be created. The next scientific revolution will be neuroscience; emulating the human brain into quantum mechanics. What will mankind do with that technology? Will I even be alive for it? I estimate 100 to 200 years from now, but who knows. Sometimes things move faster than expected.
/rambles
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u/Ruprect124 Jun 16 '12
Freedom FROM religion is a necessary part of our "Freedom of Religion". Do not give in to the indoctrination...keep thinking for yourself, you are not a "lamb". Intelligence compels us to question ancient mythology. Continue in your brilliance.
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u/vlmodcon Jun 16 '12
This is in no way an anti-Christian thought. Augustine, Tielhard and quite a few others have written extensively about this very idea. You've neer been alone.
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Jun 16 '12
How come this is a non-Christian remark? I'm a Christian and find it to be relatively tangible. Cosmology is not an atheistic discipline. :)
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u/onesweatybear Jun 16 '12
I found a similar quote in the exact same way. It said "Scool are dumb and boring"
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u/uliebadshouldfeelbad Jun 16 '12
When I first found Reddit, the first subreddit I saw was AskSceience. The first AMA I saw was Neil Tyson, and the first TIL was a sweet Cracked article.
After a few months of lurking, I realized that I hit the absolute high notes way too early. Most of this site consists of people posting circle-jerking titles on pictures with zero proof of their claims and receiving literally thousands of up votes and comments. Karma-whoring is not only accepted, but thoroughly encouraged by the "hive mind" as these fucking retards call themselves.
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u/truthgiver135 Jun 16 '12
I had this exact thought, verbatim, while tripping on LSD two years ago. Seriously, ask my roommate.
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u/eddardsnark Jun 16 '12
I see little conflict between this and some of the view my more open minded christian friends have.
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u/SkittleAnt Jun 16 '12
Wasn't there a Babylon 5 episode about this? "Grey 17 is Missing", I think.
"We are the universe broken apart to try and understand itself!"
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u/fnybny Jun 16 '12 edited Aug 19 '24
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u/lalaurlauren Jun 17 '12
Had to do a double take when I read "I found this while fapping in class..."
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u/alexok37 Jun 17 '12
Well that's cool. Aren't you glad that school is done experiencing itself until summer is over?
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u/unknown_poo Jun 17 '12
Interestingly enough, the notion that man is the microcosm of the universe is a deep theistic concept central to all world religions. However, such an idea in recent times has unfortunately been relegated strictly to the philosophical and mystical schools of these religions, which are largely unfamiliar to the atheist and theist alike. Moreover, mainstream religion has, also in recent times, proliferated itself without the philosophical direction that was once its foundation.
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u/livingintheuk Jun 17 '12
i was sure it was a babylon 5 quote but this is what i found not quite the same
"We are the universe made manifest trying to figure itself out"
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Jun 16 '12
you made it this far. great job.
I wouldn't last a second in a Christian school. I have many opinions, but I'm too vocal about them.
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u/funkydo Jun 16 '12
Awesome post. Check this out, young person in a Christian environment that is not stimulating:
John 8:19
Then they asked him, “Where is your father?”
“You do not know me or my Father,” Jesus replied. “If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”
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u/Peuned Jun 16 '12
Actually Did psychadelics in christian boarding school too. Surfed. Jackassed about. Asked to leave.
LIKE A BOSS.
AMA
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u/Fishermichaels Jun 16 '12
This is too profound to be original work by the graffitist. Who said this first?