DUDE UR DUMB ITS NOT A GAME KID !

Never be a follower. Be a student. No matter what path you choose.:)

beware of organized religions. Islam, Christianity both are having their own business empire and hidden agenda. look out for open religions which will never get into your life.

No, I am not in any similar predicament. I choose not to follow any religion, not simply because I don't wish to be a follower, but because rigid belief systems have flaws and usually demand unquestioning belief. I have a serious problem with unquestioning belief.

I used to be in that predicament. I spent about 2 years intensively researching world religions after my mother died. It was fascinating, and I think a very helpful use of my time. I ended up practicing Zen... I did that for 5 years, and for a time I thought of myself as Buddhist. But one day all that sort of dried up and blew away... when I realized something that had been previously mysterious and difficult: I am the container of all the roads. Wherever I go, there I am, so to speak. The true self transcends all content, you can't arrive at it and you can't leave it, and while it's legitimate to walk a path in search of the truth, when you find the truth you'll see that you always had it in the first place. Religions are -- if you strip them of their mythical cruft and baggage -- ways to help one come to clarity about the nature of oneself and life, some place from which you can have a basis for values, purpose, meaning, etc. A place that's whole and complete, rather than fragmented, desperate, or yearning. They go about it in different ways, and most do a fair job of helping someone make progress. But in the end, you have to leave the beaten track to really have it all snap into place... nobody can tell you "the truth", at best they can help you to reduce the amount of time you waste looking where it aint.

First decide why you want to follow a religion. What do you expect to get out of it? Why do you need to find a belief which you do not have now? What is the point?

Step right up, right this way. We're having a closeout sale on the 2009 religions to make way on our showroom floor for the all-new 2010 models. I have an out-of-the box Orthodox Judaism on sale for half price, oy! And several completely clean Roman Catholic religions, with full warranty--an eternal warranty! (We can even get you a classic Latin Mass Catholicism that's in perfect condition, but you need to know that if it needs service, the laboris est rarus: it's hard to find someone who still knows how to work on this baby.) I have any number of fundamentalist Christian religions; they're cheap, at a dime a dozen. And we can get you your Asian, African, Caribbean and Australian religions, anything you want. If you prefer manufactured stuff instead of the organics, we've got your Scientology (full price only, but if you're buying that then you don't really care, do you?), Unification Church, and we can even design and build one to fit. Come on down!