RE: Fear of letting go?
June 1, 2019 at 10:50 pm
(This post was last modified: June 1, 2019 at 10:58 pm by SlowCalculations.)
(May 31, 2019 at 9:08 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: How long have you been an atheist? It can be hard to let go of all your feelers at once, mine just kind of faded away on their own. It's hard to imagine now why they ever worried me.
Sense i was seven?
even though i didn't know the word for atheist i sorta just always new the story's where bull?
Some could say around 12? at least that's when i started noticing i thought differently and why.
people keep mentioning force i don't really feel like i'm forcing myself out of anything?
(May 31, 2019 at 3:59 pm)Brian37 Wrote:to be honest i wrote this not thinking great, i'm not sure how to answer some of the questions in the best ways. I don't feel i'm forcing anything, maybe the supernatural side yes i probably feel confused about that and a little embarrassed but that's all complicated and i'm not fully willing to discuss it publicly yet. Not believing in a god is something that's just never been in existence for me i new at seven there wasn't a god.(May 31, 2019 at 3:51 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: Why don't you simply learn the science of the brain and study different psychological theories without first letting go of your beliefs? After you have educated yourself and gotten a solid scientific understanding of how the mind works, any erroneous beliefs you have will simply "show themselves out" so to speak. There is no reason to do everything at once, y'know. You don't have to force religion out of your mind before you're able to learn science.
I wouldn't say it is a process of "forcing" anything out of one's mind in as much as being open to the fact you don't need it.
Nobody forced me to ditch my religion. And I didn't force it out of my own mind. I simply questioned it over years and the more I did, the less it made sense. I finally could not logically defend my former position.
(May 31, 2019 at 3:51 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote:(May 31, 2019 at 1:02 pm)TristanJ Wrote: I want to understand psychology and our minds and i can't understand how our minds fully work if i'm also not willing to let go
Why don't you simply learn the science of the brain and study different psychological theories without first letting go of your beliefs? After you have educated yourself and gotten a solid scientific understanding of how the mind works, any erroneous beliefs you have will simply "show themselves out" so to speak. There is no reason to do everything at once, y'know. You don't have to force religion out of your mind before you're able to learn science.
Yea, that's what iv'e been doing, or trying. well, not everything somethings iv'e studied the brain a little psychology courses online ect.
