RE: Happiness level after embracing atheism
February 11, 2016 at 7:50 pm
(This post was last modified: February 11, 2016 at 9:43 pm by Excited Penguin.)
I'm not depressed because I "lost God". I'm depressed because I'm a lazy fuck with a plethora of issues entirely of my own making, to a certain extent.
If you want meaning, you'll find plenty of it by preoccupying yourself with something to the point that it becomes an all-consuming passion. But this takes serious perseverance and extensive reserves of willpower.
Religion can purportedly alleviate some of the existential angst bearing on each and everyone of us, however obscurely, but at what cost does it apply its anesthetic properties? How advised is it to prefer a taste of insanity over an -admittedly- sisyphean struggle against time?
If you want meaning, you'll find plenty of it by preoccupying yourself with something to the point that it becomes an all-consuming passion. But this takes serious perseverance and extensive reserves of willpower.
Religion can purportedly alleviate some of the existential angst bearing on each and everyone of us, however obscurely, but at what cost does it apply its anesthetic properties? How advised is it to prefer a taste of insanity over an -admittedly- sisyphean struggle against time?
