How I Got Over

[Rhondazvous]

Rhondazvous, Hi from Australia. The only country where 99% of people don't give a shit about religion.
You sound quite intelligent, I believe it would've only been a matter of time before you called BS on it anyway...

Your signature says it all

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That is something I often wonder. If I had been indoctrinated, would I have eventually seen through it? My instinct is to say "of course" but I know that's really naive. I reckon it would depend on the severity of the indoctrination and how it was enforced. I would hope that eventually I would be able to kick out from the religious pin, but I'm all too aware how the mind can be screwed with. It would go against my inquisitive, logical and moral nature on every level, so I fear I'd go insane trying to reconcile it. But maybe I'd just have developed differently and wouldn't be that way as much.

I've seen Christians go insane. Experience enough cognitive dissonance and you'd get a visit from the men in the long white coats.

None of us knows what might have been—if our minds had been shaped by different circumstances.   There's something worth exploring in its own thread: the difference between consciousness and the things we are conscious of.  If we look at ourselves and wonder what the fuck we could be thinking about then it must be a disconnect between the self that is aware and the self that's acting..