(July 9, 2017 at 2:27 pm)Khemikal Wrote:(July 9, 2017 at 1:07 pm)*Deidre* Wrote: First, thanks to you all for offering your advice and some reassurance that I'm not crazy. Well, at least I think i'm not. lol I don't carry this on my shoulders every day, it's not something that is in the forefront of my mind every day. But, it's been creeping back in here and there, and I don't want to rug sweep it anymore, because I want to be authentic with my thoughts and emotions. I want them to 'agree.' I will come back later to reply to your posts, have to run some errands right now.
They may never agree..regardless of whether or not you count yourself among the believing. I've never met a person, personally, in all of my life...and I've never seen a person on these boards....and I've never even heard of a -story- of a person who...by believing, brought accord between those two. We believe, and still feel conflicted. We do not believe, and still feel conflicted. We -disbelieve-....and still feel conflicted.
This. You have no idea how this ^^^ has helped me. You disbelieve, yet also at times, are conflicted. My atheist friends offline don't share their conflicts, so I assume that they have none with their position. But, while I'm not happy that you and others experience this, I'm grateful that this might just be a human thing, and I'm not all that out there for feeling this.
