The thrill of experience

[naimless]

Rx Drugs do take the edge off, but they only take me so far. I need the power of Jesus.

I have often tried to raise this point with other atheists. I am an atheist but I recognise the need for a higher power to take me out of depression.

It is blatantly obvious to me that it is so often a case of faith or drugs, and the drug I need makes me a criminal here. So yeah, don't despair if they don't get you. The most intelligent guy I ever knew from school was a schizophrenic that eventually killed himself.

Most people really aren't as capable of comprehending this shit, or have more of a cognitive dissonance about it. But if there is one objective universal truth that I have learnt it is that you are never alone in feeling alone.

[Creed of Heresy]

I got nothin' against ya for that, Chad. I just am simply of the stance that you only feel you need Jesus...a lot of things that we humans do, in fact, are based on a conviction of necessity. And the power that the mind has over true free will is absolute; you think you need something to such a deep extent, you will be convinced of it. Such as, say, tarot readings. Most of the time, people go to them with a dubious mind; they doubt the power of the tarot, but they are open to the idea it could work and as such, in the cold-reading style that the cards so deftly utilize, one of open-mind will attach truths, even sometimes with extreme stretches, to what the "cards say," even though they're just cold readings with nothing to them. Such is the case with faith; one believes so strongly, so innately, that they believe it is the only thing they need for certain situations. Extreme stress and mental/emotional depressions, for example. So...as I often say...if it works for you, and it is doing nothing to hurt you...I'm not gonna deride it. I'm just going to point out where that feeling comes from, is all.