belief questionnaire

Do you believe:

In god? Yes; not the god of any particular religion (although I'm more sympathetic towards Christianity than any other faith) but I believe in a life-force that pervades everything that is, a force that is coherent and benevolent and without which we would not be alive in the same way, which is conscious, sentient, and vastly more than the sum of its parts. It is the universe; the universe would not exist without it, and vice versa, but it simultaneously transcends the universe. In the same way: it is the life in us, and yet is also far greater and more mysterious and wonderful than we can ever hope to comprehend.
In ghosts? I'm not sure. I tend to be skeptical when people report sightings of one and I've never seen one myself, but I don't see any reason why they shouldn't exist. I think it's more likely that places can absorb emotion from humans than that an actual spirit exists there; I've had strong emotional reactions to places before finding out something had happened there.
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