Most atheists follow flyentology, where they go about there lives then look to God only when the shit hits the fan.

To be fair, 'internet-everyone' sucks.

That just reeks of Pascal.

OP, instead of joining a dangerous cult no one in their right mind would join, or becoming a Buddhist because it sounds cool, why not just come to terms with the idea that there's no real reason why things happen and that you really shouldn't worry about dying because if you do die, you won't notice or care because you won't exist.

this thread is only going bitter angry internet athiest directions so yeah dont bother.

real-life atheists seem like sensible normal people. internet ones are SO GOD DAMN BITTER and angry its annoying as fuck

A "free to play" one sure

...so i guess what you're saying is scientology is an mmo. makes sense.

You can be spiritual without being religious. Shop around the different religions and pick and choose the aspects you think are cool. Maybe drop the parts which tell you to hate others.

Except that the "RPG" element of scientology, as you call it, also involves you paying a shit-ton of money to "access" the next levels of information.

If your reason is really just to fall back on something when you need it, don't. Just don't start getting into things you don't actually believe in. If you want to get informed and read up on it, sure, but don't fall down that hole.

Also, who cares about death, you're living now aren't you? Make the most of it and enjoy what you have, end of story.

Why not, I'll take this moderately seriously, and say why not just read about religions? even if they're mostly archaic BS they're still very interesting from a historical and often comedic stand point. A lot of human history revolves around them.

Also Atheism is way to strict, I say go agnostic, even if there is a supreme being (or at least something powerful enough to create worlds) we don't know, probably never will, and really it shouldn't matter either way, if you're a good person you'll behave in a good way with or without angry penis snipping cloud man.

Fuck.

If no other cult, you should consider the Cult of Cthulu. I saw them at PAX East, they were pretty cool... ironically at the Rock Band stage playing "Tribute" by Tenacious D.

A little more on-topic, I didn't know Buddhism was considered a "cult"?

There is nothing wrong with seeking spirituality. Buddhists on the one hand do not require you to give their organization much more but your time and attention while Scientology are much much much more dubious.

I've always thought of it like this, even if you don't believe in God or whatever omniscient deity, you can still take positive messages from a lot of religions. I mean really, what have you got to lose? Right?

Time for a random comment! KITTEHS!

As an Atheist the prospect of death used to terrify me when I was younger. But it has something I learnt to deal with over time. Hey the end is the end, nothing I can do about it. To me the universe is something that is well beyond our comprehension, seeking a religion just comes across trying to find a quick and easy answer to everything.

Note: Scientology can just fuck off. Buddism is ok.

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Sorry about the Buddhism=cult thing. I started off thinking I was only going to write about Scientology, then I got on a different track.

That's pretty much all you needed to say.

I'd wait for a few months and then join the inevitable Giant Bomb cult.

At least then you'll already know all the major figures and texts.

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But we haven't established if Buddhism is a religion.

all religions are cults

Wait, Buddhism is a cult? I've seen people argue that it's not even a religion!

....sigh