RE: The need to believe?
July 15, 2017 at 12:06 pm
(This post was last modified: July 15, 2017 at 12:11 pm by *Deidre*.)
(July 15, 2017 at 3:13 am)ignoramus Wrote:
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you're so silly
I feel like a weight has been lifted, that I've been carrying around for a while. I think this struggle is coming to an end, and maybe I just needed to deal with the grief of losing my grandmother. My resolve is different this time, and I've processed that what is at work is more dropping my desire to believe, than really trying to figure out ''what'' I believe. I don't really believe in a deity, and if I'm honest with myself, I haven't for some time. But, my emotions took me on highs and lows with the whole thing, and now I see all of it for what it was/is. So, anyways...thanks for discussing this with me, and I've talked about this with other atheists as well, and a few have told me that they too battle their emotions on some days, and that when times get hard, their emotions want that comfort. But, they've learned to process it and find comfort in realistic ways, and ways that aren't built around fantasies.
