(October 14, 2015 at 3:15 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote:(October 14, 2015 at 3:09 pm)jenny1972 Wrote: i definately think people should live in truth and be honest and speak what they really believe i just think to close your mind due to frustration isnt going to advance truth and personal growth
Respectfully, I have no idea what you just said.
Close my mind due to frustration? What frustration? Why would frustration close my mind? And who said my mind is closed?
Has it occurred to you the amount of knowledge I had to gain to understand why my mind did what it did, in the first place, when I deluded myself into religious thinking?
What's frustrating is to be told that I'm only an atheist because I refuse to believe, or that my only basis for rejecting this claim, Claim #4,285 that I have heard in my lifetime, is because I am closed-minded?
Can you imagine how frustrating it must be, to have learned why people believe the millions of silly things they do (and you think most of the mystical beliefs of others are silly, too, if you really stopped to think about it, and were honest with yourself about it), yet be told every time I won't accept the beliefs of someone telling me their "personal story" that the reason I won't agree with them is because my "mind is closed"?
im sorry if you got offended i did not mean to offend and i wasnt directing my comments to you personally or to anyone else personally i just believe that to remain openminded to the idea that God could exist is the only way to eventually connect with God after proof is given to you and no proof can even be acknowledged if any have a closed mind to the idea.
Imagine there's no heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people Living for today 
Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you will join us And the world will be as one - John Lennon
The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also - Mark Twain
Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you will join us And the world will be as one - John LennonThe easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also - Mark Twain
