If you don't believe in "God", if you are man, make it a woman that will be your god (what you value most) and if you are a woman, make it a man. Finding meaning in that. Please them and seek to be pleased by them.

If there is no supernatural God, then the gods that exist are us but orienting towards yourself is boring (you always have yourself) and you will be bored and begin to hate yourself, so seek to get married and make your partner your god, the one you value most, even a lot more then yourself.

That is my suggestion.

(November 5, 2017 at 4:40 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: If you don't believe in "God", if you are man, make it a woman that will be your god (what you value most) and if you are a woman, make it a man.  Finding meaning in that.  Please them and seek to be pleased by them.

If there is no supernatural God, then the gods that exist are us but orienting towards yourself is boring (you always have yourself) and you will be bored and begin to hate yourself, so seek to get married and make your partner your god, the one you value most, even a lot more then yourself.

That is my suggestion.

Did you know that it is possible to maintain humility even without belief in any god?  True fact.  I actually conceptualize a 'totality of myself' of which I can only ever be a part.  What's more I think this part of consciousness is still consciousness, it just isn't subservient to me.  (The situation is actually reversed.)  I can look to this inner resource for inspiration and understanding with respect and appreciation.  However it cannot offer me (or it) the lie of eternal life.  It does judge my actions, which I apprehend by feeling as my moral sense or conscience.  (Those things aren't consciously constructed, only discovered.)

So you see there is very little lost by abandoning the objective, external, eternal, yada yada yada god.  Just the lie that the rain drop is not reabsorbed by the river in the end. Give up the illusion of your separateness and there is actually nothing lost.

(November 5, 2017 at 4:40 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: If you don't believe in "God", if you are man, make it a woman that will be your god (what you value most) and if you are a woman, make it a man.  Finding meaning in that.  Please them and seek to be pleased by them.

If there is no supernatural God, then the gods that exist are us but orienting towards yourself is boring (you always have yourself) and you will be bored and begin to hate yourself, so seek to get married and make your partner your god, the one you value most, even a lot more then yourself.

That is my suggestion.

In Islam, that would be blasphemy.

Once again MK stupid notion of limiting people to one thing and calling that god . It's stupid as it was the first time he proposed it .

The thing about atheism is that it's a non belief in deities.

It promises nothing. Not happiness. Not fulfilment. Not a better life. You have to make the most of your life as best you can. Personally I'm a lot happier since I gave up on the superstition.

Hi, I'm Beccs and I'm an ex-Catholic. 20 years clean.

Hi Beccs and welcome!

(November 5, 2017 at 6:30 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: The thing about atheism is that it's a non belief in deities.

It promises nothing. Not happiness.  Not fulfilment.  Not a better life. You have to make the most of your life as best you can.  Personally I'm a lot happier since I gave up on the superstition.

Hi, I'm Beccs and I'm an ex-Catholic.  20 years clean.

Welcome

MK, what makes you think any of us want to have, or be, a stand in for your imaginary friend?

(November 3, 2017 at 12:47 am)Rayden_Greywolf Wrote: So, I've been denying my atheism for years, but man, I just can't do it anymore. That said, there's a reason I've been avoiding it. I'm terrified right now. I don't get how anyone's supposed to be happy like this.

I feel like...all I can do is cope with life now. I don't see what there is to look forward to, or to take reassurance in. Everything just seems empty.

(Why yes, I'm on meds and seeing a counselor. Doesn't help much.)

Have you considered Pastafarianism? Our afterlife reward is an endless buffet, mansions for everyone, strippers, a beer volcano and the best tv reception ever.

(November 5, 2017 at 6:30 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: The thing about atheism is that it's a non belief in deities.

It promises nothing. Not happiness.  Not fulfilment.  Not a better life. You have to make the most of your life as best you can.  Personally I'm a lot happier since I gave up on the superstition.

Hi, I'm Beccs and I'm an ex-Catholic.  20 years clean.

Yay. I was raised RCC. Welcome to the club Beccs.

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(November 5, 2017 at 8:02 pm)Nay_Sayer Wrote:

(November 3, 2017 at 12:47 am)Rayden_Greywolf Wrote: So, I've been denying my atheism for years, but man, I just can't do it anymore. That said, there's a reason I've been avoiding it. I'm terrified right now. I don't get how anyone's supposed to be happy like this.

I feel like...all I can do is cope with life now. I don't see what there is to look forward to, or to take reassurance in. Everything just seems empty.

(Why yes, I'm on meds and seeing a counselor. Doesn't help much.)

Have you considered Pastafarianism? Our afterlife reward is an endless buffet, mansions for everyone, strippers, a beer volcano and the best tv reception ever.

Bless his noodly appendage.