RE: If you're an Atheist, what comforts you?
November 5, 2018 at 11:45 pm
(This post was last modified: November 6, 2018 at 12:01 am by Dragonfly.)
(November 5, 2018 at 10:06 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote: Everything you liked and found comfort in before, is still available to you now.
You don't have to give up anything.
Eventually you will come to see that it wasn't the religious element that you liked ...
If you liked the music, that is still there. Art, literature, communities, meditation, .... everything.
It's still there and available ... just a different way of looking at it, and some of it in a different place. Some not. .
I don't know about not having to give up anything. Having a 24/7 intervening Sky Daddy that I could call up (and did) throughout the day is pretty hard to beat. He's been my go-to for 50 years. It's the comforting parental figure I'm missing, knowing he's always there for no matter what I need. When I think of worst case scenarios--serious accident, serious diagnosis, loved ones dying--I'm wanting to know there's something I'll be able to lean on and cling to. I keep finding myself praying before remembering there's nothing to pray to, and then I just feel very empty and like I don't have enough resources. Even if he was never there, it was a coping mechanism I heavily relied on.
I said to the sun, tell me about the Big Bang.
The sun said, 'It hurts to become.'
~Andrea Gibson
The sun said, 'It hurts to become.'
~Andrea Gibson
