Atheists ONLY - Are you less happy now that you are an atheist?
| Poll: Are you less happy now that you are an atheist because of just loosing the belief? This poll is closed. |
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| No, I am just as happy or happier discovering reality, not withstanding any outside effects by the believers. | 36 | 97.30% | |
| Yes, I am less happy overall, ignorance is bliss. | 1 | 2.70% | |
| Total | 37 vote(s) | 100% | |
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Atheists ONLY - Are you less happy now that you are an atheist?
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Atheists, are you less happy now that you no longer believe in God, excluding any unhappiness caused by theists' nonacceptance or attacks?
I am wanting to know if just losing the god belief itself has caused you permanent unhappiness.
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Nope, made me happier because I feel like I have more control and I'm no longer worried about hell and heaven (as a theist I thought both were awful options and often worry about death).
I've never been aware of being anything else, so answering "no" makes little sense; true though it may be. Unhappiness in my life has nothing to do with atheism, mine or anyone else's. Hope there's something useful in that lot.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
I am happier, more free from the oppressive restraints of religion, now than I was as a theist.
Theism is a veritable shroud that hides reality from one's perception. Once the theistic shroud is removed, it is akin to viewing the world with the clarity of color vision rather than black and white.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter  (November 19, 2013 at 7:41 pm)Kitanetos Wrote: I am happier, more free from the oppressive restraints of religion, now than I was as a theist. That second paragraph, damn that's good! Wish I'd thought that up!
“To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?”
― Christopher Hitchens "That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject". - George Santayana "If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed". - George Carlin  RE: Atheists ONLY - Are you less happy now that you are an atheist?
November 19, 2013 at 7:56 pm
(This post was last modified: November 19, 2013 at 8:05 pm by ManMachine.)
(November 19, 2013 at 7:36 pm)Brakeman Wrote: Atheists, are you less happy now that you no longer believe in God, excluding any unhappiness caused by theists' nonacceptance or attacks? I am the same. MM (November 19, 2013 at 7:41 pm)Kitanetos Wrote: I am happier, more free from the oppressive restraints of religion, now than I was as a theist. All you did was swap one set of restraints for another set. The need to belong tethers us to compromise, any true expression of personal liberty cannot be understood by others. MM
"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions" - Leonardo da Vinci
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)  (November 19, 2013 at 7:41 pm)Kitanetos Wrote: Theism is a veritable shroud that hides reality from one's perception. Once the theistic shroud is removed, it is akin to viewing the world with the clarity of color vision rather than black and white. "I once was blind but now I see...."
Everything I needed to know about life I learned on Dagobah.
Well I have never been religious.
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful" - Edward Gibbon (Offen misattributed to Lucius Annaeus Seneca or Seneca the Younger) (Thanks to apophenia for the correction)
'I am driven by two main philosophies: Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain 
No.
In fact the opposite is true. I'm far happier now than I was when I followed a religion. In my case, Catholicism. Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni: "You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"  RE: Atheists ONLY - Are you less happy now that you are an atheist?
November 19, 2013 at 8:32 pm
I don't know how happy I'd be if I would have carried on believing in god.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them. Impersonation is treason. |
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